Friday, June 19, 2026

Ten years later. MAID in Canada is still strongly supported

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At the ten-year anniversary of Canada's Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) law, there has been a flurry of articles about how successful...

Anti-immigrant sentiment does not extend to soccer

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If the World Cup has done nothing else, it has drawn attention to immigration, and, for once, no-one seems keen on criticizing and protestin...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Trump? Isolated? Say it ain't true!

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Here's Mr. Trump at the G7 meeting .  Everyone else seems vey animated and engaged. But does no-one want to speak to Trump? Say it ain...
Monday, June 15, 2026

What has America achieved in Iran?

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It's taken four months, and not a "few days" as advertised, but Donald Trump finally has his Iran Deal (or, rather, a memoran...

Trump outdoes himself in the vulgarity stakes

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It's hard to keep up with candidates for peak idiocy in Trump World, but yesterday's mixed martial arts (MMA) extravaganza on the Wh...

Kash Patel is the archetypical chud

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My new favourite word is "chud", although I confess I have never used it IRL (in real life). The word "chud"  supposedly...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

I'm OK with Canada's modest AI ambitions

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Call me a Luddite, but I can't help but be extremely suspicious of the whole world's reckless infatuation with Artificial Intelligen...

Canada's most important draw ever?

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It's kind of pathetic, but kind of cute in a way. All of Canada is celebrating the one point it won agaist lowly Bosnia and Herzegovina ...