Monday, September 21, 2026

The colourful history of Saint Pierre and Miquelon

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanual Macron had a meeting the other day. It took place, not in Paris, not in Mo...
Friday, September 18, 2026

Canada looks to the east to replace the south

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Canada's - or, more specifically, Mark Carney's - push for closer relations with the European Union makes perfect sense given what i...
Thursday, September 17, 2026

Is privatizing Canada's airports a good idea?

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Mark Carney's latest announcement is about privatizing Canada's four biggest airports : Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. Un...

What Donald Trump knows about interest rates (not much)

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Just one more indication of how little Donald Trump knows (or cares) about economics: after the US Federal Reserve finally had the cojones ...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

International trade is weird

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As expected, Donald Trump has levied some more tariffs on Canada , in response to Canada's counter-tariffs to Trump's earlier tariff...
Wednesday, September 09, 2026

Clancy trial ends in a travesty of justice

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The Lindsay Clancy trial has captivated the media and the viewing public for weeks. The trial was televised - a weird concept for me; this i...

If there are more sanctions to announce, why weren't they announced before?

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Every now and then, I read about a new sanction that is being brought to bear on one of the world's pariah states. The latest such is Ca...
Sunday, September 06, 2026

What carnivore diet devotees get wrong

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I've been vegetarian for about forty-five years, as has my wife, for a bunch of different reasons, and it doesn't seem to have done ...