Time to wean myself off my Trump addiction
OK, I admit it. I’m an addict. No, not to alcohol or opioids. I AM addicted to caffeine, but you’ll have to pry my Tims out of my cold, dead…
White House For Sale — Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4+ Billion
The New Yorker is one of many prestigious properties owned by the Newhouse Family. Their wealth is estimated at about C$33 billion. So if one of the most respected journalists…
Canadian Conservatives think they’re smarter than Canadians. They aren’t.
With everything else that is going on in the world – Iran reportedly slaughtering 30,000 of its own citizens, the names of dozens of Trump administration figures showing up in…
From A Reader
Soldiers from British North America (the precursor to modern Canada) were part of the military force that burned Washington DC in 1814. 2025 saw the end of a peaceful friendship…
Today’s News: Poilievre wins, Albexit disastrous, Canada needs to toughen up, plus some short takes
So we will still have Poilievre to kick around some more Poilievre's big speech was tonight. And he won the leadership vote by 87.5 per cent. Sigh. I guess Canada…
ICE is Not Law Enforcement
So why, you ask, am I writing about what is probably the most obvious thing to all sane people. The answer is: to put a reasoned argument on the record.…
So, Trump Wants To Decertify Canadian-Built Aircraft
So, the latest Trumpian temper tantrum is that the US will decertify Bombardier built aircraft. On the surface, this is as ridiculous as it seems. Ostensibly, this temper tantrum is…
The Questions We Ask About AI in Education
AI generated image, 100% human-authored text Artificial Intelligence has entered the world of education like an explosion, leaving us reeling in its wake. Everyone has questions: how could AI reshape…
Today’s News: "Albexit" sucks up to Trump, Poilievre flies to Calgary, the Premiers have a laugh, and Carney dials Heated Rivalry up to 11
Today's At Issue panel talks about Albexit and about Poilievre's leadership convention: TLDW: They talked about how the Alberta separatists compare to Quebec separatists, and this week's revelations that some…
Alberta separatists’ Washington junket – some dare call it treason, including B.C. Premier David Eby
British Columbia Premier David Eby yesterday said what a lot of Canadians have been thinking – to wit, that the Alberta separatists gallivanting off to Washington to get the Trump…
The Technology is here. When will Ottawa, Alberta and the rest of the provinces realize it?
The Premier of Alberta often says that we are not ready for electric cars. She says that the technology is just not ready; and that electric cars don’t go far…
The Illegitimacy of Donald Trump’s Regime
Is Trump's regime illegitimate? If yes, what can people do? The post The Illegitimacy of Donald Trump’s Regime first appeared on Excited Delirium.
The Power of the Powerless
Whatever one thinks of PM Mark Carney’s Davos speech, it served to resurface Vaclav Havel’s Power of the Powerless just when we most need reminding of the power of collective…
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(From my social media a month ago, but I lost it when I went to reference it, so I'm posting it here so I don't lost it again).I have written…
Honouring Our Capacity
I've had several conversations this week about how to be in a time like this when the U.S. government is so overtly corrupted. I'm just the upstairs neighbour in Canada,…
Songs of Minnesota: ‘Singing through the bloody mist, We’ll take our stand for this land, And the stranger in our midst"
One of the great things I remember about the 60s was the music of revolution, that opposed the Vietnam War and celebrated rebellion. Right now, we are again hearing music…
Letting Pierre Poilievre re-up as federal leader at this fraught moment seems like a Conservative political suicide pact
Pierre Poilievre is arguably the worst federal Canadian Conservative leader since … well, only since Andrew Scheer, actually. Still, he’s a political leader who blew a 27-point lead in public…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeremy Wallace examines China's massive - if messy - renewable energy revolution which stands to make fossil fuels obsolete in the very near future.…
Springsteen’s ‘Street of Minneapolis’
A turning point for America? The post Springsteen’s ‘Street of Minneapolis’ first appeared on Excited Delirium.