Friday, September 04, 2026

Extending gas tax relief is a cynical exercise in populism

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The Carney government, which for the longest time liked to call itself "Canada's new government" in order to distance it from ...
Thursday, September 03, 2026

You might want to boycott Chevron

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Most major oil companies are unwilling to touch Venezuelen oil with a proverbial bargepole. Not so Chevron. America's second largest oil...
Monday, August 31, 2026

What if the Democrats won Congress?

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I have been trying to figure out how, if at all, a Democrat clean sweep in November's mid-term elections would change anything. I think ...
Friday, August 28, 2026

"Your entire nation has a lower GDP than Texas"

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" Your entire nation has a lower GDP than Texas ". Not Donald Trump this time, but US Representative Brandon Gill of, well, Texas....

Canada goose 1 : American Eagle 0

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I should know better than to respond to Trump's nocturnal ramblings on social media. But worth mentioning that I already dealt with this...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Meet the ultra-cute leaf sheep

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Part 52 in my series of cute and improbable animals, meet the leaf sheep . You probably guessed that it's not a sheep at all. In fact, i...

Does Canada have any alternatives to retaliatory tariffs?

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As Canada invokes dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs on the USA , one can't help but lament how Canada is getting dragged into Trump...

Canada nonplussed by Trump's threat to change Lake Ontario name

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Family overseas are asking us how Canadians feel about Donald Trump threatening to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America . (Could he not think...