The truth will out?

We have greater access to information, but it’s also an era in which the cacophony of different noises can overwhelm our thinking.

The truth won’t come out unless we persist in watching for that lighthouse of facts on the shore, writes Andrew Caddell. Pexels photograph by Alex Tapia

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

March 25, 2026

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—In the summer of 1993, I was in an old churchyard outside Galway, Ireland. There I found the grave of my ancestor, Henry Moore Persse, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and mayor of Galway. Nearby was the grave of his relative, Lady Gregory, playwright and pat...

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