One night, over cheap port from the local grocery, we got to talking about World War II. Haldane, who said, “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” War, my roommate was implying, is so horrible that just about nobody dares look it in the face. A rough consensus among Canadians who’d stayed home during the war was that no good could come from knowing. The news this week is that Chrystia Freeland’s maternal grandfather worked on a Nazi-operated newspaper in Krakow during the war. Canadians should indeed be prepared for Russia to lead efforts to destabilize Canada’s political leadership.

Source: thestar March 10, 2017 00:33 UTC