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...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Doug Ford tries to out-Trump Trump

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It's pretty instructive to see Ontario Premier Doug Ford's contribution to the ongoing debate on American tariffs and their perpetra...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Canada-US trade talks fall through

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Well, the Canada-USA trade talks fell apart at the eleventh-plus hour. Prime Minister Mark Carney blamed the Americans for "last-minut...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Solar energy bails out a baking Europe

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It's common sense, but still worth remarking on: Europe only got through this summer's successive heat waves and droughts due to its...