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Today’s News: The Northern Lights are shining bright above Greenland tonight!

Posted January 20, 2026 by Anonymous

So this hit the news on Sunday night:
Trump. Is. Insane.[image or embed]— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) January 19, 2026 at 7:53 AM

Americans – the whole western world, really – just couldn’t believe it. And what does Norway have to do with G…

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Today’s News: Trump’s Greenland flapdoodle

Posted January 15, 2026 by Anonymous

I’ve been gathering some of the comments and posts about Greenland defending itself from Trump’s idiotic invasion plans.

For some, it is just a distraction:
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead…

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Some happy to enjoy

Posted January 2, 2026 by Anonymous

Oh, aren’t we all just tired of feeling like everything everywhere all at once is going wrong? I can hardly stand to hear Trump anymore, or Poilievre, or listen to MSNBC – or whatever they are called now.So I thought I should just post a few…

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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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2025 roundup, Part Two

Posted December 31, 2025 by Anonymous

Hey gang, I threatened to post another 2025 round up if I found more posts… and here they are!For the life of me I can’t comprehend the demand for so many Year 2025 in Review pieces. We were there, mostly conscious – why do we need reminding?— Giles …

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Sunday Funday: Comments on the passing scene, plus funny-odd and funny-ha ha, and of course Trump Watch and Animal Crackers

Posted January 11, 2026 by Anonymous

Well, our times are officially “interesting” now aren’t they, so we really need a Funday. (And does everyone get the joke in the wombat cartoon?)I still have to start with a few comments on the passing scene, because its getting crazier by the…

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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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Speaking out against Trump and his banana-pants economic “regime change” wars

Posted January 6, 2026 by Anonymous

When Trump is doing crazy stuff in the United States, Americans can take refuge in saying “well, I didn’t vote for him!”
And when it is people inside the United States who are being hurt, international relations morality doesn’t require that politician…

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Today’s News: Speaking truth to power

Posted January 9, 2026 by Anonymous

With everything that’s going on, our political cartoonists have really outdone themselves. So I thought I should share some of the ones I found yesterday and today:

I’d like to cancel my free trial of 2026.

I’ve seen enough to know this is…

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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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“I think I liked it better when Americans didn’t know where Canada was”

Posted January 10, 2026 by Anonymous

More comments today on Canada’s precarious situation as Trump continues his fantasy presidency.
When I saw this tonight on Threads, I couldn’t help but agree:

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Yeah, I know.

Here is yesterday’s “Good Talk” where Chantal Hebe…

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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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Today’s News: Canadians resetting with China, and Americans resisting fascism. #Courage

Posted January 17, 2026 by Anonymous

Canada update:
Carney’s trip to China was a resounding success (Doug Ford excepted).
“We’re recalibrating Canada’s relationship with China — strategically, pragmatically, and decisively — to the benefit of the people of both our nations.”

— Mark Carne…

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Happy New Year, I hope! Here are some funny posts, great fireworks, summaries of 2025, advice for 2026, new year’s resolutions, great dogs, Calvin & Hobbs, and Thomas Hardy

Posted January 1, 2026 by Anonymous

Some funny posts about New Year’s Eve:

Welcome To New Year’s Eve[image or embed]— Brittlestar (@brittlestar.com) December 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM

My error. I turned on the TV, and I thought he was dead.[image or embed]— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.soc…

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Sunday Funday: Canada proud, laughing at those gold “prizes”, some random funny stuff, plus TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers

Posted January 18, 2026 by Anonymous

More rumours of wars this weekend, but I think everybody needs a Sunday Funday post now.
First, yes — I’m proud of Canada
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Nothing beats the 🥅🏒⛸️🧊🧊🧊

(h/t swaggyp_63 on IG)[image or embed]— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaf…

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Today’s News: Scenarios of Doom

Posted January 7, 2026 by Anonymous

I think we are all a little frightened now. Trump has lost his mind, and so has President Miller. And they’re taking America with them. I’m reading way too many scenarios of doom tonight.

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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:
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Today’s News: “And those winds sure can blow cold way out there”

Posted January 14, 2026 by Anonymous

Hey, I’m not talking about Saskatchewan – our weather this week is great right now. But starting this weekend, its going to be 15 to 20 below (C) in Minneapolis, and the cold snap will last for the next two weeks.
For once, Minnesotans are looking fo…

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Finishing the week with a few more Good News stories

Posted January 3, 2026 by Anonymous

Following from my “good news” post yesterday, I wanted to wrap up this week with a few other stories along the same lines. First, this performance is just stunning and makes me look forward to the Olympics, just a month away now:Ilia Malinin, an…

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Today’s News: Comment Roundup on Minneapolis, disinformation, Alberta separatism, Canadian progress, Greenland, Venezuela, Mid-Terms and more

Posted January 13, 2026 by Anonymous

On days like these, where there are so many things going on around the Internets, I want to highlight a few of the comments and commentaries that help us keep up with what’s going on. First, a few shorter observations, to which I can only resp…

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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
On Dav…

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Today’s News: “He’s an idiot”

Posted January 16, 2026 by Anonymous

I just had to share these words from Ruben Gallego, senator from Arizona – “He’s an idiot”:

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Trump is mad at NATO because he didn’t get that Nobel Peace Prize – what a toddler:

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And today, Trump “was…

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1.Attack Venezuela 2.???? 3.PROFIT!

Posted January 4, 2026 by Anonymous

No Sunday-Funday post tonight – things are just too serious right now. Hopefully next Saturday night we can laugh again…
There was world-wide reaction today to Trump’s “regime change” war of choice against Venezuela. I’m focusing tonight ma…

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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: Reaching our gag limit with ICE and Trump

Posted January 8, 2026 by Anonymous

Today, we saw tragedy in Minneapolis and war-mongering by Trump and his administration. The world has reached its gag limit with Trump, and maybe even Americans are fed up too.Minneapolis
So you all know what happened in Minneapolis today:

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