Cestui Que Takes

Catholic. Lawyer. Formerly of the Alberta bar, now in Toronto.

[Cestui Que Takes @CestuiQueTakes]

"I've been trying to think of a metaphor to explain this concept. It's a bit like the Matt Damon movie coming out next year, the Odyssey. It's like a long journey on a ship..."

[Peter McCaffrey @peteremcc]

This has nothing to do with healthcare or social supports.

It’s entirely caused by artificially inflated property prices that have made Canadians who own a home “rich”, but only on paper.

If you exclude primary residences, median wealth in the US is 68% higher than in Canada.

[José Antonio Rodríguez @joosearodriguez]

Un millón y medio de personas en el centro de Madrid acompañando al Papa León XIV.

0 contenedores quemados, 0 cargas policiales, 0 pintadas en comercios.

España, hay esperanza.

[Holy Rosary Parish Toronto @HolyRosary_TO]

What a wonderful day for a procession of the Eucharistic Lord. May conversion graces descend upon us all!

[Cestui Que Takes @CestuiQueTakes]

@Anthony__Koch I simply don't visit those parts of Toronto. We have an admin at the office who knows to code switch into English when speaking with me.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

We haven't talked enough about how cooked Canada is

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Sheldon Whitehouse is the same guy who accused Brett Kavanaugh of being a rapist because he wrote "boofing" in his yearbook.

[St. Michael's C.S. @SMCS1852]

#ICYMI Frederic Ho, Gr. 12, recently received an honourable mention in the Classical Association of Canada's National Latin Sight Translation contest! Contestants had to translate a passage from the Roman historian Sallust, without the aid of a dictionary.

[Cestui Que Takes @CestuiQueTakes]

Everything I hear about Carney makes me like him more and more.

[Althia Raj @althiaraj]

My latest column. https://t.co/yjj2BeS9rk

[Cestui Que Takes @CestuiQueTakes]

Doesn't everyone know this?

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

Breaking: Former Senator Ben Sasse reveals the real reason for the rise of public schooling:

It was an attempt to destroy Catholic culture in America.

[Cestui Que Takes @CestuiQueTakes]

The past is a different world.

[NPR @NPR]

Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests.

"White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19," they wrote.
https://t.co/EewPNgDSu3

[𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 @EudaimoniaEsq]

Very happy to see the Right’s advice for young people shifting away from “go live in the woods” and into something that can actually meet the moment.

Go to college, go to professional/grad school. Become a lawyer or an entrepreneur. Get into politics—even at (especially at!) the state and local levels.

Politics is patronage, it’s client services. Much of the Right’s discontent arises from the fact that our patronage networks have largely evaporated and very few of our elected officials are actually serving our needs (that is, their clients’ needs). This needs to change, and it won’t change by telling our smart, motivated young people to go into the trades and/or go live in the woods “off the grid, man.”

Go to the best college you can and get into the rooms where decisions are made and where you can actually make change—either with money you make, your professional knowledge, your political connections, etc. You are smart and capable—smarter and more capable than the people currently in these positions. Trust me.

Get involved. Look out for aligned individuals and promote each other, support each other. Find people at church, political orgs (that are actually aligned, not just nominally aligned). No man is an island. Network with these people and support each other. It’s absolutely necessary. The Left’s various patronage networks already do this. We’re behind because we have been too atomized to do the same.

The word “idiot” comes from the Greek idiōtēs, derived from idios, meaning “one’s own” or “private.” According to Plato and the ancient Greeks generally, a idiōtēs was simply a private person—someone who minded only their own affairs and took no part in public or civic life. Don’t listen to people who tell you to be a Platonic idiot.

If your ancestors fought and died for this country, the least you can do is go to college, make friends, and support those who actually care about making a better tomorrow for their children.

[𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 @EudaimoniaEsq]

The people who take issue with my belt comment are admitting they’ve never actually worked in a business professional environment. Go into a law firm with a suit and no belt and the partners will notice.

Of course suspenders (button, not clips) are great as well. Better, even.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

110% cosign. And people in the "urban planning is my passion" world need to realize that not every human being is a childless 30 year old who works in a downtown tech tower

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

If somebody is actually brought to trial on charges of "residential school denialism", it means all the evidence is going to get brought out, tested in court, and published.

Advocates of this law may not like the results when that happens.

https://t.co/gCXvbI4Dhz

[Jon Fraser @JonFraserTF]

The halt of the Spadina Expressway doomed Toronto to decades of increased congestion. It was a good idea just like the island airport expansion.

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

Globe editorial: Why Chief Justice Richard Wagner should recuse himself
https://t.co/kWqjl457dj

[Lisa Bildy @LDBildy]

Wow — has there been a mutiny on the Globe and Mail’s editorial board that has put the sensible people back in charge?

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

Globe editorial: There is no reconciliation without truth
https://t.co/b91oixz23z

[Cestui Que Takes @CestuiQueTakes]

@fr_geckle @fsspna Okay schismatic 👍