LONG-TERM CARE: Will 2025 be the year we fix it?
This is a wonderful opinion piece from Ottawa (Canada) caregiver and writer, Lise Cloutier-Steele. It's a call to action to reform long term care everywhere for the good of those…
LONG-TERM CARE: Will 2025 be the year we fix it?
This is a wonderful opinion piece from Ottawa (Canada) caregiver and writer, Lise Cloutier-Steele. It's a call to action to reform long term care everywhere for the good of those…
Trudeau government gets failing grade on tax fairness
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo by Lea-Kim Chateauneuf/Wikimedia Commons. Justin Trudeau’s international reputation once gave the impression that he was a progressive champion leadi...
Insanity From The White House
American voters foolishly chose a fascist dictator for their President, and now everyone is going to suffer. The Orange Menace is attacking Canada, and others, so we’ll have to retaliate.…
Today’s News: American Tune – "…We lived so well so long…. I wonder what’s gone wrong"
Does anyone still remember Paul Simon's American Tune? ...And I don't know a soul who's not been battered I don't have a friend who feels at ease I don't know…
Danielle Smith declares victory in tariff imbroglio, despite her abject failure to influence Donald Trump
In the face of the abject failure of Danielle Smith’s appeasement tour of Mar-a-Lago and Washington D.C. last month, Alberta’s premier has declared victory with the fatuous claim the Trump…
Unconventional approaches
Has anyone suggested movie night at the White House? I suggest Ferris Bueller’s day off for the first movie.
After a record in 2024, 2025 starts with temperatures in new record territory
January 2025 beat the prior record set in January 2024 by a sizable margin... An unexpected record to start things off may presage higher temperatures this year than many of…
Trump’s Tariffs: “What Does He Want?”
“I know Canadians are famous for being nice. Thoughtful. Decent. Those are great qualities in human beings. But in a knife fight with Donald Trump, none of them matters”—Bradley Tusk,…
Buy Canada
Now more than ever is a great time to buy Canadian. The post Buy Canada first appeared on Excited Delirium.
With Trump’s tariffs, it’s time for a more self-reliant Canada
President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hold a joint press conference on February 13, 2017, in the White House. Photo by Benjamin D. Applebaum/Wikimedia Commons. Donald...
Trump tariff thoughts
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Hey, Tim Cook…
Last week I bought that new M4 Mac Mini. Love the products. Needed more memory. Thought getting the purchase in before the Trump’s new Golden
Saturday Photo: Down the Rapids toward a New Book…
Okay, the next step is taken! Friday morning I sent off the completed (but unedited) manuscript of my next book Thanks to the Memories: How Remembering Will Get Us through…
UPDATED: In Light Of The Insanity From Our Southern ‘Neighbours’
.... this seems particularly apt. Thanks to my friend Gary for passing it along.And there's this:Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.socialFollowMessage to the grifter king from Canada: "We will have no parley with you,…
The US Is No Longer A Safe Third Country
For more than 20 years, Canada and the United States have had the “Safe Third Country Agreement” which operates on the principle that a person claiming refugee status must do…
Responding to Donald Trump with a popular democratic project for Canada
Photo by Dru!/Flickr The fractured and contradictory reaction by Canadian political and economic elites to Donald Trump’s decision to impose a 25 percent tariff on Canadian impor...
Sign the Pledge for Canada
Previous generations have fought to protect our democracy and made sacrifices to build the Canada we inherited. This now our time.