Today’s News: Olympic Catch-up, plus Canada’s trade moves
Olympic Catch-up Canada's Day 9 results here, and our Day 10 results here. For what is coming up on Day 11, click here. Gold! Gold! Silver! Gold in sports, gold…
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Sunday Funday: Olympic Catch-up plus some funny and lovely posts, and Carney Hat-trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers
Olympic Catch-up Click here for Canada's Day 8 results and click here for what is coming up on Day 9. Bronze And some other achievements: View on Threads This isn't…
Round-up: Tumbler Ridge Vigil; commentaries from Coyne & Smith; observations about US-Canada relations; Olympic Catch-up
First, some posts about the Tumbler Ridge VigilCARNEY: "When you wake up tomorrow, and the world feels impossible, know that millions of Canadians are with you ... Because Canada is…
Weekly Wrap: Tumbler Ridge Strong, Minnesota is winning, the Trump administration is losing all over, and Olympics Catch-up
Tumbler Ridge Strong Stories of courage will be comingStories of brave students, teachers emerging after Tumbler Ridge shooting, B.C. premier says— CTV News Vancouver (@ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social) February 13, 2026 at 1:00…
Today’s News: Mourning with Tumbler Ridge, plus Olympic Catch-up
The people of Tumbler Ridge gathered to mourn together on Wednesday night.Prime Minister Carney says "All of Canada stands by you": The BC Government has set up a Condolence Book…
Today’s News: Carney deserves a medal for dealing with Trump, plus Tuesday Olympic catchup, and our tragedy at Tumbler Ridge
I think our Prime Minister Mark Carney deserves his own medal - gold, of course - for having to deal so often with Trump and his fantasies. Prime Minister Carney…
Today’s News: Olympic Catch-up, Bad Bunny and the grasses, Trump take bridge, and the Epstein Tsunami
Olympic Catch-up Megan Oldham bronze! View on Threads The family and friends reactions one of my favourite parts of the Olympics. They’ve been on this journey too. And they couldn’t…
Sunday Funday: Olympic catch-up, lots of funny posts, Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers
Congratulations Valerie Maltais - Bronze MedalCatching up with the Olympics: So say we all.— Sister Golden Bear (@sistergoldenbear.bsky.social) February 7, 2026 at 4:53 PM View on Threads View on Threads…
Friday night wrap-up: Stephen Marche on Canadians, Paul Krugman on Americans, plus Greenland, Olympic cheers & boos, ICE Gestapo, Trump racism, Minnesota brave, Ian McKellen does Shakespeare
Ken Danby - At The CreaseStarting tonight with some good news stories. In the New York Times, Stephen Marche writes a brilliant opinion piece: We Are All Canadians Now (gift…
Today’s News: The Olympics!!!
Canadian curler Brett Gallant (photo Carmen Mandato Getty Images)There was lots of actual news today -- bitcoin crashing, Trump making a fool of himself at a prayer breakfast, Poilievre desperately…
Updates: Our Teflon prime minister, some Epstein updates, Elon’s despair, and admiring American courage
Just a random bunch of updates tonight.I think we can call him Teflon Carney As Canadians get to know Prime Minister Carney, we're seeing that he is becoming one of…
Epstein files reveal the scum who think they can do whatever they like
In a comment on my post yesterday, Cap writes: Three Canadian billionaires have been accused of serial rapes of young women/girls in the last couple of years: Robert Miller, Peter…
Today’s News: Building Capacity and Resilience
1942 mapI'm reading so much lately about how Canada and other countries are building military and economic capacity and resilience to withstand hegemon pressure, so I thought I would share…
Sunday Funday: Poilievre’s win, Epstein’s pals, Melania’s movie, Trump’s blather; random funny stuff; Carney hat-trick; Trump Watch; and Animal Crackers
I can't resist sharing these funny posts about Poilievre's big win this weekend: View on Threads View on Threads View on Threads The Liberals already have a video out: Next,…
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…
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…
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…
We the North: Carney walks it forward, not back
So the Power and Politics discussion panel was complaining today that Carney hadn't produced a read-out about the conversation with Trump.And they mostly agreed that US treasury secretary Bessent got…
Today’s News: Carney shows courage, Poilievre attempts survival, Trump knuckles under, Toronto digs out
Carney's courage In the week after PM Carney's Davos speech, I think the world is responding to Carney's challenge to show courage and deal with reality. View on Threads This…
Some dark news, plus some Sunday Funday to bring the light in
*by Australian cartoonist David Pope. Oh, things are getting dark now. Trump posting crazy stuff today about Carney and tariffs, plus an ICU nurse shot by the ICE Gestapo in…