About Canada’s sick neighbour
One of the most articulate critics of Donald Trump and his warriors is Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson. Below the separator is the text of her recent Substack post:
Globe and Mail Letter
Attention economic policy nerds! Today’s Globe and Mail contains a letter to the editor from yours truly, in which I critique a theoretical model known as the Laffer curve. To…
Carney’s Words Reverberate
I only have time for a short post, so I offer this point. While one hopes Mark Carney's words lead to lasting changes in international relations, one thing is certain.…
Bringing it all back home
Donald Trump displaying a giant map with Greenland and Canada as part of the United States to world leaders in the Oval Office. Photo courtesy Donald J. Trump/Truth Social. Before…
Today’s News: Thinking about the Unthinkable – could Trump invade Canada?
Everybody is talking about the Globe and Mail articles about planning for an American invasion.A headline like this has not appeared in a Canadian newspaper for 100 years. - Dan…
Mark Carney a Davos : si ça t’a fait vibrer, on a un problème
Le premier ministre Mark Carney prononce un discours spécial lors de la réunion annuelle 2026 du Forum économique mondial à Davos-Klosters, en Suisse, le 20 janvier 2026. Photo de Ciaran…
Mark Carney’s Rupture Address – a true emperor-has-no-clothes moment for the world!
The “rules-based international order” was always pish-posh that had very little to do with international law and boiled down to Washington making up the rules and giving the rest of…
Middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu
A friend who worked in the PMO years ago says Mark Carney was known in Ottawa as a straight-shooter who often wrote his own speeches and did so very quickly.…
Canada West Forum 1: Wealth and Inequality
Canada West Forum Society invites you to an engaging conversation about the important issue of widening wealth inequality. The wealth inequality gap has been expanding for decades, leaving more and…
Canada West Forum 2: Affordable Housing and Homelessness
Affordable housing is a major problem, with many Canadians struggling with high costs and the inadequate supply of suitable homes. These struggles can impact health, happiness, and financial stability, and…
IN-SIGHTS 2026-01-21 20:05:33
I generally avoid spending money on American publications, but The Atlantic remains indispensable. Today, staff writer David A. Graham describes a deeply dangerous individual whose towering arrogance convinces him he…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Inae Oh weighs in on the neo-royalism fueling Trump's sense of divine right. Seva Grunitsky points out that a hubristic belief that might makes…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 6, 2025
NOTE: If you regularly send packets to Casey Brezik, please stop, as he has been RELEASED. And if you send to Hridindu Roychowdhury, he is being transferred and is currently…
A Treatise For A Treaty On A New World Order
There is indeed something of a 'new world order.' We can go along for the ride, or we can take the lead in making it one in which we are…
Rethinking the ‘Indian international student crisis’
The South Asian migrant, often reduced to the label of the “international student,” has become a testing ground for the expansion of precarious and gig labour and the consolidation of…
Carney at Davos "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just. "
Carney at Davos gave a brilliant speech. Paul Wells reprints the whole speech here: The Carney doctrineAs I was listening to Carney, I was reminded again of Leonard Cohen's lines…
Naheed Nenshi’s response to Alberta separatists is still too nice, too nuanced, and too naïve
We can all agree that last Friday’s opinion piece by NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi on Alberta separatism published by CTV News had an accurate headline: The threat to our nation…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Chin-up cat.
A Masterful Speech
One cannot help but be impressed and inspired by Mark Carney's speech at Davos. I encourage you, if you have the time, to listen to it in its entirety. No…
To The World, Trump Is America
Dear Americans: don’t apologise for your president, do something about him.