Saturday, November 22, 2025

JD Vance picks some Canadian cherries

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US Vice-President JD Vance felt the need to weigh in on Canada's standard of living on X the other day. While I have little to no confid...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Does eveyone hate the USA?

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I started with the question, "Do Amercians know or care that most of the rest of the world hates them?" I still don't really k...

Little Curaçao qualifies for the 2026 World Cup

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The tiny country of Curaçao has become the smallest country to ever qualify for the World Cup . With a total population of about 156,000 sou...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Trump's latest flip-flop comes with the usual nonsense

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Most things Donald Trump says are ridiculous, and a great many of them are deliberately misleading or just plain wrong.  It's no great s...

Fun and games in the Canadian Parliament

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Another major test in Parliament for the minority Liberal government yielded a show of faux brinkmanship.  Today's vote on the 2025 fede...
Monday, November 10, 2025

African names

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We are currently on a swing through Botswana and Zimbabwe - safaris, guided walks dug-out canoe trips, that kind of thing - and, amid all th...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Is the US back in the business of regime change?

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As the Trump administration continues to blow up fishing vessels in the Caribbean (at least ten so far), vessels that it maintains, without...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

How come tariffs are affecting the price of coffee in Canada?

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Coffee prices are on the rise , and suppliers are blaming ... US tariffs. Hold on, you say, the USA doesn't produce any coffee (well, a ...