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Roundup of comments on Canada’s Defense Industrial Strategy, those radical mainstream environmentalists, the Epstein conspiracy, and Olympic Catch-up
Posted February 18, 2026 by Anonymous
I found some good posts and commentary today on a random assortment of topics:Comments about Canada’s Defense Industrial Strategy
First, some background – in her February 17, 2026 newsletter on Tuesday, Heather Cox Richardson references the M…
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Today’s News: Olympic Catch-up, plus Canada’s trade moves
Posted February 17, 2026 by Anonymous
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 in politics.
Congratulations Mikael Kingsbury🇨🇦❤️🥇. – #Francesk🇨🇦Read on Subst…
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Sunday Funday: Olympic Catch-up plus some funny and lovely posts, and Carney Hat-trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers
Posted February 15, 2026 by Anonymous
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:
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This isn’t a Canadian win, but I’m posting it anyway:…
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Round-up: Tumbler Ridge Vigil; commentaries from Coyne & Smith; observations about US-Canada relations; Olympic Catch-up
Posted February 14, 2026 by Anonymous
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 a community that relies on each other’s grace. And may that grace ble…
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Weekly Wrap: Tumbler Ridge Strong, Minnesota is winning, the Trump administration is losing all over, and Olympics Catch-up
Posted February 13, 2026 by Anonymous
Tumbler Ridge Strong
Stories of courage will be comingStories of brave students, teachers emerging after Tumbler Ridge shooting, B.C. premier says[image or embed]— CTV News Vancouver (@ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social) February 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Today’s News: Mourning with Tumbler Ridge, plus Olympic Catch-up
Posted February 12, 2026 by Anonymous
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 in the Parliament Building in Victoria, with an online form posted …
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Today’s News: Carney deserves a medal for dealing with Trump, plus Tuesday Olympic catchup, and our tragedy at Tumbler Ridge
Posted February 11, 2026 by Anonymous
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 on Trump’s bridge threat: “I explained that Canada of course paid for the constru…
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Today’s News: Olympic Catch-up, Bad Bunny and the grasses, Trump take bridge, and the Epstein Tsunami
Posted February 10, 2026 by Anonymous
Olympic Catch-up
Megan Oldham bronze!
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The family and friends reactions one of my favourite parts of the Olympics.
They’ve been on this journey too.
And they couldn’t be in Beijing for Megan Oldham’s debut. But they’re here…
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Sunday Funday: Olympic catch-up, lots of funny posts, Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers
Posted February 8, 2026 by Anonymous
Congratulations Valerie Maltais – Bronze MedalCatching up with the Olympics:
So say we all.[image or embed]— Sister Golden Bear (@sistergoldenbear.bsky.social) February 7, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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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
Posted February 7, 2026 by Anonymous
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 link)
…American aggression and American decline are of a piece. As Mr. Carn…
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Today’s News: The Olympics!!!
Posted February 6, 2026 by Anonymous
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 trying to change his stripes, the CBC At Issue panel …
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Updates: Our Teflon prime minister, some Epstein updates, Elon’s despair, and admiring American courage
Posted February 5, 2026 by Anonymous
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 those Teflon politicians – negative news just doesn’t stick to him, he just shrugs it o…
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Epstein files reveal the scum who think they can do whatever they like
Posted February 4, 2026 by Anonymous
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 Nygard and Frank Stronach. How many more are revealed in the lat…
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Today’s News: Building Capacity and Resilience
Posted February 2, 2026 by Anonymous
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 a few of these tonight. And then I also found this map from eig…
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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
Posted February 1, 2026 by Anonymous
I can’t resist sharing these funny posts about Poilievre’s big win this weekend:
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The Liberals already have a video out:
Next, some posts about US politics, starting with yes…
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Today’s News: Poilievre wins, Albexit disastrous, Canada needs to toughen up, plus some short takes
Posted January 31, 2026 by Anonymous
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 won’t be finished with him until after he loses the next election.
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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
Posted January 30, 2026 by Anonymous
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 Albertans have talked to the Trump admin…
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Songs of Minnesota: ‘Singing through the bloody mist, We’ll take our stand for this land, And the stranger in our midst”
Posted January 29, 2026 by Anonymous
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 that pays tribute to the courage of the people opposing the ICE Gestapo in M…
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We the North: Carney walks it forward, not back
Posted January 28, 2026 by Anonymous
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 the jump on us when he ran to Fox News after …
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Today’s News: Carney shows courage, Poilievre attempts survival, Trump knuckles under, Toronto digs out
Posted January 27, 2026 by Anonymous
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.
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This weekend in the New York Times, Ezra Klein wrote about Ca…
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Some dark news, plus some Sunday Funday to bring the light in
Posted January 25, 2026 by Anonymous
*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 Minneapolis, and Governor Walz calling out the National Guard to protect his…
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Following up on the week – Poilievre, Canada, America
Posted January 24, 2026 by Anonymous
I have run out of time to do much of a blog tonight, so here are just a few follow-ups on this week’s many stories.
First, some good columns to ponder:
Scrimshaw Unscripted – Evan Scrimshaw
Carney’s Speeches A Political Dagger To Poilievre
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Today’s News: Suffer the little children in Minneapolis, updating that Board of Peace, and the Poilievre response to Carney’s Davos speech
Posted January 23, 2026 by Anonymous
As we watch the ICE Gestapo losing their minds in the US, I thought of these three photos that changed politics:
Alan Kurdi from Syria drowned on a Greek beach in 2015, along with his brother, when his family tried to escape Syria by boat. It tur…
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Today’s News: Thinking about the Unthinkable – could Trump invade Canada?
Posted January 22, 2026 by Anonymous
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 GardnerRead on Substack
On Tuesday, this Globe and Mail news story, by …
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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. “
Posted January 21, 2026 by Anonymous
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 – which Carney used in speaking to the UN last fall:
Ring the…
Interesting Fact of the Month
Did you know visiting Canada with a DUI is difficult? If a US citizen has a DUI or DWI they could be denied entry at the Canadian border! Even a misdemeanor for reckless driving, or a traffic ticket for impaired driving, can prevent an American from entering Canada. In order to enter Canada with DUI charges many people hire an immigration lawyer. Going to Canada from USA with other criminal convictions like theft or assault can also be challenging.
Did you know visiting Canada with a DUI is difficult? If a US citizen has a DUI or DWI they could be denied entry at the Canadian border! Even a misdemeanor for reckless driving, or a traffic ticket for impaired driving, can prevent an American from entering Canada. In order to enter Canada with DUI charges many people hire an immigration lawyer. Going to Canada from USA with other criminal convictions like theft or assault can also be challenging.
