Enough! Expel Hoekstra From Canada Already
At what point do we say ‘enough is enough’ and declare American ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra persona non grata?
Wednesday Wit: some good comments about Poilievre and Trump and Carney and US-Canada relations and living your dreams, plus World Cup Stories
So Poilievre went to Calgary and it didn't go very well: The Canadian media is constantly, desperately trying to prop Poilievre up at this serious policy thinker but fortunately he…
UCP referendum questions on immigration are illogical, deceptively worded and tainted by racism
The ballot questions on immigration aim to create conditions that would allow human rights violations and intrusions into federal jurisdiction Let’s take a look today at some of the “referendum…
Buying unsellable luxury condos better than building affordable housing for just-plain-folks
A comment on my last article is too good to not feature as a separate post. It was submitted by Loopholes Uber Alles, which I suspect just might be a…
The Future of 24 Sussex Drive and the Canadian Prime Minister’s Residence
So Mark Carney has a plan, or an idea, but first we need a fund and donors and a contest to choose a design so it is not too late…
Red Scare Number Three
The USA is going through yet another Red Scare — its third in barely a century — according to the paranoid, hyperbolic statements made by the Deranged Dictator Donald Trump…
Today’s News: World Cup stories – Everything Trump Touches Dies. Plus, Carney get Subs, and checking in on Canada’s far-right
The world is laughing at Trump And at FIFAWorld Cup Stories - #ETTD Everything Trump Touches Dies Incredible to watch Monday's US v Belgium game and realize Trump has done…
Danielle Smith and Doug Ford, each facing criticism at home, announce performative pre-election pipeline pact
A northern route to Sarnia for Alberta heavy crude might have potential, but don’t bet the farm at Hardisty yet Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s announcement in Calgary yesterday of a…
Government housing policy wrong again
Erick Villagomez teaches architecture and urban design at UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning. His work examines how cities are shaped by often-invisible systems that influence power, equity, and…
Cat in chair imagined
So much wrong with this. Should actually have looked at a cat. After a day pushing into it, layers of layers, burying the delicate and
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 6, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 6, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump-led challenge against mail-in ballots U.S. Supreme Court rules…
The war on the poor is escalating
A homeless man in Toronto. Photo by Ashton Emanuel/Flickr. We are now living in a period when poverty, homelessness, and social abandonment have reached crisis levels and the need for…
Saturday Photo: A Beautiful Library!
Been traipsing around and visited this lovely library last week. It's the Bibliothèque Lucy-Faris in Aylmer, QC, jus across the river from Ottawa. The Friday afternoon I was there it…
How Trump Saved Canada, For Now
In an alternate universe, Joe Biden won re-election for president, failing to shock the west out of its ‘moderate’ slumber.
Canada ends its World Cup journey. Plus Sunday Funday posts, Getting Old(er), Animal Crackers
Our World Cup journey is over— Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 (@jmcelroy.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM The boys did good Canada’s World Cup Journey Ends in Houston. What a Ride…
There’s no need to worry about plans to build a huge electricity plant and AI data centre near Edmonton, Danielle Smith insists
Alberta’s premier claims it’ll probably reduce electricity costs; don’t count on that, though, says the Pembina Institute But what about that other Alberta Government announcement on Thursday? Thursday afternoon at…
Musical interlude
Blue Rodeo - Try
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Hamilton Nolan writes about the inherent conflict between the politics of centrist inaction and the serious and urgent problems which require courageous and immediate…
Corb Lund expresses ‘grave concerns’ about how Elections Alberta rejected his ‘Water Not Coal’ petition
‘This has been an unreasonable and opaque process from the beginning,’ musician and reluctant environmentalist says After learning that 35,000 signatures on Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition…
They Will Destroy All That Is Holy
You probably think that the only thing destroying America is the authoritarianism it has embraced, led by an unhinged man and his cadre of opportunistic enablers. And you can be…