Thursday, March 20, 2025

Is Mark Carney at risk of conflicts of interest?

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The Conservative Party of Canada, rattled by their precipitate slide in the polls , and with a federal election pending (widely expected on ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Trumpism as a cult

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What are we to make of the way in which Donald Trump's supporters support him?  I don't mean that I am surprised that they support h...

Poilievre is running out of ideas

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Pierre Poilievre is rattled. After months - nay, years! - of Conservative poll leads, the rejuvenated Liberals under new leader Mark Carney ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Doug Ford burns his fingers playing with the big boys

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has tried his level best to insert himself forcibly into the conversation around US tariffs ever since Trump was e...

Don't like Musk? Disguise your Tesla

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This is hilarious. You may have been reading about stickers on Tesla cars saying "I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy" an...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

A timeline of US tariffs (and their reversals

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If you are losing track of all the various announcements of US tariffs on Canada and their subsequent reversals, you're not alone. But A...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Why Trump is so wrong on Canadian dairy tariffs

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I'm already a bit bored with explaining just how wrong Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on Canada are, but here's just one more w...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Who cares any more whem Spacex rockets blow up?

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A second consecutive SpaceX rocket has blown up soon after launch  (technically a "rapid uncheduled disassembly"!), with debris ca...