Premier Doug Ford expected the Thanksgiving weekend to occasion delight from Ontarians now freshly able to buy beer at the corner store. One Ontarian took the occasion to query the premier on a range of what struck him as more serious issues — something of a frontal challenge to Ford, who apparently regards no issue as more serious than beer sales.

Jordan Peterson, in the course of an update in these pages about his travails with the Ontario College of Psychologists, took a thousand-word detour: “I’ve also got something to say to Doug Ford.”