Category Politics
Meet The Press
Turns out being blonde and female are not sufficient qualifications. Donald Trump has dumped his press secretary, after five days on the job. As someone who went to law school she should have known better than o misrepresent herself to the media. Has she never heard of fact checking? I suppose she could have lied. […]
How To Lose An Election
Politicians are human. That means sometimes they do stupid things. (And many of you are reading that and asking “sometimes?”) Taking advantage of a leaderless opposition, British Columbia Premier David Eby called a snap election. The idea was to kick his opponents while they were down and secure a majority government. Now that may backfire, […]
Reading The Polls
Cleaning up my email this week I found this from November 2024, right after Donald Trump recaptured the White House, that I forgot to post. Life happens sometimes. There’s a certain timeless relevance to the message, so I am going with it today, with updates in italics. One of the regulars here asked about finding […]
Diesel Prices
Donald Trump has made his deal with the devil in the hopes of lowering American diesel prices. It remains to be seen whether Vladimir Putin’s promise brings lower prices at the pump before the American midterm elections. Is this a cynical move on Trump’s part just weeks after expanding sanctions against Russia’s oil and gas […]
Scary AI
The CEO of American high tech firm Palantir thinks the US government should nationalize the artificial intelligence industry. His rationale is that the industry is about to be crippled by lawsuits and that being government controlled would somehow prevent that. It is true that every day seems to bring another news story about some company’s […]
Monday’s Smile
I borrowed this from a friend’s Facebook page. I found it amusing, though not accurate. It does though express the Canadian mood. There are 15 locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Together they allow commercial ships from the Atlantic Ocean to travel as far west as Thunder Bay. It is a much more efficient/cheaper way […]
Canadian Democracy
There are aspects of Canadian democracy that baffle outsiders. Independence referenda probably top the list. Twice residents of Quebec have been asked whether they want the province to become an independent country. Twice the voters have chosen to stay, through in 1995 it was a pretty narrow margin. Next month voters in Alberta will go […]
Lunatic Republic
Apparently Canada is not allowed to make an agreement with the European Union to have closer ties. Donald Trump will not permit it. trump says such a deal would be “laughable. But he doesn’t appear to be laughing. Such an agreement, he said, would be a “hostile act.” If it comes to pass, Trump says […]
Now I Am Scared
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” – U.S. President Donald J. Trump, writing on Truth Social. Somewhere an AI model is laughing, or doing whatever the machine equivalent is. Maybe they all are.
The Bribe
In a democracy it is illegal to offer cash to someone to buy their vote. That is probably also true in the pseudo democracy called the United States of America. Of course, the law doesn’t always apply when it it the government offering the bribe. Canadians are used to new government programs, including some with […]
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