The importance of coolness

And right now we see lots of coolness in the latest candidate to join the federal NDP leadership race, Jagmeet Singh.

'I came, I saw, I conquered.' That simple six-word sentence, first coined by Julius Caesar more than 2,000 years ago, is not only one of history’s most memorable lines, it’s also one of its coolest, writes Gerry Nicholls. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

May 29, 2017

OAKVILLE, ONT.–“I came, I saw, I conquered.” That simple six-word sentence, first coined by Julius Caesar more than 2,000 years ago, is not only one of history’s most memorable lines, it’s also one of its coolest. And, of course, the coolness was intentional. An astute politician, Caesa...

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