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A quadrant chart of ldnont’s election issues..
July 2026
UPDATED: Walking On Tippy Toes
When I was in Grade One, I have a distinct memory of my teacher, a nun of considerable kindness and compassion (unlike many others of her ilk in the school),…
Obviously impressed by the nice reception the NDP gave him, Sen. Lindsay Graham said Donald Trump made him ‘want to move to Canada’
In 2015, the Wildrose Party was outraged the NDP didn’t meet the late U.S. Senator at the airport with a brass band and a bouquet of roses Lest we forget,…
The high price of Ottawa’s naval ambitions
Prime Minister Mark Carney makes an announcement about Canada’s planned new submarine fleet, a procurement expected to become the largest defence purchase in Canadian history. Photo courtesy Mark Carney/Facebook. ...
Finding Covid
There's been quite a bit of Covid-related news lately. Here's a run-down. It's a lot on how we can't use standard methods for finding the markers of disease, but new…
Saturday Photo: Floral Fireworks
This is the month for shooting off fireworks, it seems. Canada Day, the Fouth of July, Bastille Day, and other holidays all seem to require pyrothenic displays. But it also…
Today’s tonic: “Lindsey knew better. He chose worse.”
The headline for this Steve Schmidt Substack piece sums it up perfectly: "Lindsey knew better. He chose worse." "Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country…
The Money Of Politics
In 2025, the Conservative Party of Canada spent $99 million, nearly twice as much as the Liberal Party’s $57 million in the same election year, and, despite their bluster about…
Sunday Funday: I’m Forswunk! So here are some good posts & funny posts, plus What an Asshole, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers, World Cup stories
Cartoon by Mick O'Hara Anyone else forswunk? It’s a gorgeous word from the 1300s, to which I have added my own riff with ‘foreswunk’: exhausted before you even begin. -…
Vacation home in south of France
Many years ago, our valued friends Jacquie and Lorne began searching for a vacation home. They explored possibilities in several parts of North America and Europe before deciding that the…
Something’s gravely wrong with how Elections Alberta torpedoed Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition
Combined with ongoing UCP electoral jiggery-pokery, this is turning into a genuine crisis of democratic legitimacy Public sentiment that something’s gravely wrong with the methodology used by Elections Alberta to…
UPDATED: It’s Happened Again
I'm sad to report that, as per my last post, I seem to have fallen victim yet again to the misremembering syndrome.Now it involves the Gordie Howe Bridge. This is…
Wrapping up the week: Canada v Poilievre, Canada v USA, ICE Gestapo v USA, Spain v Trump, plus World Cup Stories and shout out to Gaby Dabrowski
Canada v Poilievre: laugh of the week That white satin cowboy suit seemed to be the final blow to his credibility with Canadian media. Robert Fife on the latest round…
Today’s News: Carney, Trudeau, Poilievre, Trump and Count Binface. Plus World Cup Stories
I have often said that I feel smarter every time I listen to Carney explain something important. I don't agree with every position he takes, but its clear that he…
UCP’s ‘constitutional’ referendum questions push a grab-bag of right-wing policy goals intended to divide and weaken Canada
Through commission and omission, the final four questions we must deal with on Oct. 19 aim to support a provincial march into federal jurisdiction – say no to all nine!…
Some news clips and commentary….
Palm Beach International Airport’s name officially changed its name to Donald J. Trump International Airport on Thursday.....The project is expected to cost around $5.5 million, according to an estimate from…
Riding the hobby horse
Rob Flack riding a coin-op horse ride holding a bag of money
Thursday: Just some good news and a few funny posts, plus World Cup Stories
Busy day today so a shorter blog piece tonight!First, some good news and funny posts about Canada and Carney View on Threads Here's how you hold an impromptu press conference.…
Carney won’t support Cuba against US aggression, so we must
Photo by Tiago Claro/Unsplash. Mark Carney is missing in action on Cuba. While the prime minister has found time to praise the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran and bail out…
Nahla Abdo: the Nakba is not an error in curation
Arab residents being forced out of Haifa by Haganah militiamen, April 1948. Photo from the Bettmann Archive. Since the opening of Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present at the Canadian…