Sunday, January 11, 2026

Ontario moves to a more circular economy (but how does it work?)

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As of January 1st this year, the collection of recycling in Ontario (the Blue Box Program) devolves from municipalities - Toronto in my case...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Developing Venezuela won't be as simple as Trump thinks

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Part of Donald Trump's back-of-an-envelope "plan" for Venezuela, such as it is, is that the big American oil companies like Ex...

Russia's hypersonic missile strike, and what it means for the West

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Russia has delivered another hypersonic Oreshnik missile strike on Lviv, Ukraine, which most Western countries are are calling out as an un...
Friday, January 09, 2026

Some Republicans dare to cross Trump

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It takes a fair amount of self-confidence and gumption for Republicans to vote against Donald Trump these days. So, when five GOP Senators v...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

US pulls out of dozens of international agencies

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This is rapidly turning into an American blog, it seems, but there is just so much to comment on in America these days. Every day there is s...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Citing the Monroe Doctrine does not make Trump's Venezuela stunt right or legal

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The Americans - well, let's be clearer: SOME Americans - are fond of invoking the Monroe Doctrine as a kind of all-encompassing justific...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

The complex dance of Middle Eastern politics just got even more complicated

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With Trump sucking all the oxygen out of the media room, it's easy to forget that there are other things going on around the world, some...

Trump seems to be serious about Greenland

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After Venezuela, what next? There seems no end to Trump's megalomaniac imperialist tendencies, and his administration seems completely u...