The Rise of Business Entertainment in the USA A New Era

If readers believe that a political realignment and the growth of National Conservatism in Canada are desirable developments, Jivani is a political figure they should be aware with. Assuming he is elected, he has the potential to be a significant voice in Canadian conservative politics. He has the ideal combination of qualifications, ideas, and popular appeal to quickly climb the political ladder and establish himself as a "thought leader" who steers the conservative movement in a more NatCon direction. He's absolutely someone to watch.More broadly, one can expect anything like National Conservatism to gain traction in Canada for a number of reasons. The first is a rising perception that liberal neutrality is insufficient to combat the left-wing identity politics that pervade public institutions such as schools and universities. The recent high-profile suicide of a Toronto District School Board principal as a result of bullying during an anti-racism workshop has highlighted both the extreme nature of this movement and its growing impact on elite society and mainstream institutions. The visceral reaction to the tragic story suggests that there may be an energized constituency for a political program that confronts identity politics more directly using state power, such as curriculum reform, implementing New Brunswick's Policy 178 on gender identity in schools, or even prohibiting public funding for anti-racism or diversity, equity, and inclusion programming.The second category is immigration. The Trudeau government's massive increase in immigration (including annual intake targets and non-permanent resident streams) is now having a series of second-order effects in the housing market and demand for public services, which risk contributing to anti-immigrant sentiment across the country. So yet, Poilievre has resisted requests to offer much of an alternative to the Trudeau government's extraordinary numbers. 

This could provide an opening for immigration 

restrictionists on his right, such as the People's Party and Maxime Bernier. Cutting immigration levels (or possibly imposing a "moratorium on immigration") is a fundamental difference between the FreeCons and the NatCons. It is feasible that a similar fault line will form here in Canada.The third possibility is the emergence of an interfaith movement opposed to the excesses of cultural liberalism in areas such as identity and sexuality. Muslims have been among the most vocal critics of progressive sex education curriculum and the spread of so-called "gender ideology" in recent years. This has sparked a rising debate about the possibilities for new cultural and political alliances based on shared religiosity and a sense of alienation from an increasingly secular culture that can be hostile to religious minorities. The NatCon's defense of public religion, which tries to defend a broad role for religious values and voices in the public square, may find common ground with other faith groups who are no longer happy that liberalism alone provides them with adequate protection.These eventualities are, of course, theoretical, but given the pervasive impact of American culture and ideals on Canadian life, they're not impossible. In recent years, we've seen both the Left and the Right in Canada adopt some American political clichés and postures. The borderlessness of the online world makes this increasingly likely.In this vein, the seemingly abstract and intellectual dispute between FreeCons and NatCons over the aim and priorities of modern conservatism is worth monitoring. It is bound to eventually permeate the 49th parallel and impact Canadian conservatism. The ramifications for our society and politics may be severe. I didn't know anything about Sinead O'Connor aside from her music. 

I knew she had a violently brutal background and that

after her son's death, she wanted to kill herself so badly that she was hospitalized. I heard there were documentaries and books about her life, but I never looked them up. I didn't need to know the facts to know she was in great pain. I'm sure some of her pain can be traced back to specific events in her life, but all you had to do was listen to her sing to know there was more to it than that A difficult life may explain her pain, but it does not explain O'Connor's courage in confronting it. That came from a deeper place, as did her experience with pain—not just her own, but the global condition. She appeared from the start, in songs like the pained personal-political hymn "This is a Rebel Song," to be one of those who felt the "tears in the nature of things." There are such persons. They can't stop looking at the world through peeled skin. You couldn't take your gaze away from her, despite her weakness, which was highlighted by her shorn head, and furious ferocity.Her voice conveyed both vulnerability and strength, ranging from whispering tenderness to savage wrath in a single syllable. This week, I heard someone describe the effect as unearthly. I imagined her as a medieval saint, similar to Catherine of Siena or Ireland's St. Íte, with passionate faith that others could only interpret as heavenly inspiration. There was nothing sentimental about her singing; everything was immediate and vital, like anguish.

Since her death, two videos have gone viral

The first is the incident that catapulted her to mainstream fame thirty years ago, when she tore a portrait of St John Paul II apart on Saturday Night Live. I was too young and irreligious at the time to recognize the outrageousness of the deed. Watching it now as a Catholic who has prayed at that pope-saint's grave is still disturbing. I physically revolt against the gesture. But she wasn't mistaken. The Church's cooperation in abuse was far more embarrassing, even sacrilegious, than her outrage.The other video is from a Bob Dylan tribute event held a few days later at Madison Square Garden. If she hadn't realized it already, her performance that night reinforced her status as a pariah. After being introduced by Kris Kristofferson, O'Connor entered the stage amid a wall of boos. Even on a shaky video, it's loud, so I can't image how unbearable it must have been on stage. It's awful to see. And she just stands there and accepts it, like a scapegoat who recognizes that this is the role she must now play, like the young sacrificial victim in Seamus Heaney's Punishment.