Sunday Funday: What a crazy week, plus TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers
What a crazy week We saw Poilievre return to the Commons and the Liberals must be delighted: - Kier Atkinson 🇨🇦Read on SubstackWe saw even more examples of how Trump…
August 2025
Global Peace Index
The 19th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI) ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. It covers 99.7 per cent of the world’s population.…
The Jew hunters
Meet Davide Mastracci…Jew hunter? Mastracci is the opinion editor at something called The Maple. It publishes opinions with titles like these: “Israeli Products Should Have No Place In Canada” “Genocide…
Saturday Photo: Smoking Toilets?
A young friend went running to his mother one morning this week, shouting "Come quick, the toilet is smoking!" What she saw:
Saturday Photo: Smoking Toilets?
A young friend went running to his mother one morning this week, shouting "Come quick, the toilet is smoking!" What she saw:
Rewriting History
Carrying the self-proclaimed title of 'the greatest country in the world' must be an onerous task, yet not one Don Trump is flinching from. After all, such a country bears…
Rewriting History
Carrying the self-proclaimed title of 'the greatest country in the world' must be an onerous task, yet not one Don Trump is flinching from. After all, such a country bears…
Knee Surgery, Day 4
The other thing you lose with mobility is dignity. And that loss can affect you deeply, albeit not physically, but certainly a blow to your morale and ego. We are…
Commentary: Carney’s tariff news; Trump’s Washington takeover; and a thread about the German Military Cemetery at Normandy
About Carney's tariff news:Pragmatism in action. We’re so fortunate to have such a qualified person leading us. Imagine slimeball Poilievre bunging everything up, stumbling out of Diagalon trailers dishevelled and…
Danielle Smith to Albertans: No way can you have free COVID vaccinations like every other Canadian
If you’d hoped Danielle Smith’s flip-flop from denying free COVID-19 vaccinations to health care workers to providing them might indicate she could also have a change of heart on vaccines…
Musical interlude
Garbage - Drive You Home
Today’s News: Americans reacting to ICE Gestapo
Many seem to be shocked and horrified at how quickly and easily Trump is pushing Americans around, his masked gangs grabbing anyone brown and disappearing them. But I'm not -…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- John Harwood discusses how Donald Trump's second term in office has been more harmful than even the most dire predictions anticipated. Donald Gutstein calls…
Knee Surgery, Day 3
If you want to see just how bad the roads and streets are in the Town of Collingwood, just drive over them a few hours after knee or other surgery.…
Squaring an impossible circle of peace and insecurity in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump flanked by some of their respective delegations during the 2025 Russia–United States Summit in Anchorage, Alaska. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Now that the dust ...
Knee Surgery Day Two
Well, I’m back from the hospital following my knee surgery. It was a “Total knee arthroplasty (TKA), also known as total knee replacement,” described as a “surgical procedure that involves…
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Foolish and deadly
Defunding mRNA Vaccine Research Is a Catastrophic Mistake vs New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes.
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Hamilton Nolan discusses the multiple crises facing labor in the U.S., as a failure to organize produces particularly catastrophic results in hostile political…