Here's what I'm thinking about today:Homelessness in Saskatoon With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix has published three excellent articles this week about homelessness in our city.…
My wife and I raised three sons, with reasonably successful results. Today, in our early dotage, we are witnessing the raising of our first grandchild, Johnny. I thought it wouldn’t…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Simone Zhenting Mao discusses how inequality and concentration of wealth are at the root of Canada's economic stagnation. And Robert P. Beschel Jr.…
H/t MoudakisAbraham Lincoln, in a famous address, borrowed a biblical phrase and said, A house divided against itself cannot stand. It warned of the ultimate toll when a nation is…
What a great game! I was doubting all the pitching changes, but Schneider knew what he was doing. At The Globe and Mail, Cathal Kelly describes the game: On Wednesday,…
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth meets with the National Guard at the Washington DC Armory, August 22, 2025. Photo courtesy Pete Hegseth/X. “We became the woke department, but not any…
Fears that Russia’s actions in Ukraine will inevitably trigger a wider European conflict often exaggerate the real threat, writes Richard Sakwa. Photo by Kurt S/Wikimedia Commons. Is Europe real...
Photo by Andreas Lehner/Flickr In his very public campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize, US President Donald Trump has frequently boasted, not only that he has ended so many “un-endable…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Kelly Hayes writes that the only emergency that's developed under the Trump regime is the atmosphere of fear being imposed by a gratuitously violent…
Dissecting an excuse
So the 5 conservative premiers have sent a letter to Carney demanding that the Attorney General of Canada (AGC) withdraw its filing with the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) regarding…
Mark Carney's latest visit to Washington yielded some fine bon mots.“Pretty fancy entrance, eh?” Trump told Carney, after the prime minister drove up to the White House, with the driveway…
This article from The Verge talks about how disastrous it would be if developers are forced to ask content creators’ permission to use their Intellectual Property – eg. their WORK…
Donald Trump twice referred to annexing Canada into the United States during a half-hour press conference from the White House yesterday, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sitting right there…
Rats! So Tuesday was NOT a magical day after all.First, Carney won't be coming home from Washington with new trade deals for steel, aluminium, or vehicles: "You are a transformative…
Pillowy cat.
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tom Engelhardt notes that Donald Trump's approach to the world at large has turned into one of seeking to exercise arbitrary power abroad…
I can't imagine how Carney stands it. But on Tuesday he's doing it again. Meeting with Trump about tariffs. So on the one hand Carney has to listen to Trump's…
Police have become the default first responders to mental health crises, a role that links assumptions about mental illness with risk and danger, often with harmful consequences for people in…
On LinkedIn today the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat published a short slide deck entitled 'Navigating Social Media as a Public Servant'. It appears to be available only on LinkedIn…
