Category World Affairs
Bad Timing
Joni Mitchell has become an American citizen, after living in the US since the mid 1960s. Somehow it seems like a betrayal. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada. She has an entry in The Canadian Enyclopedia. She just received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Junos (the Canadian equivalent to the Grammy […]
Dangerous Connections
It was a perfect example of the dangers of our interconnected world. A cyber attack on at least 400 French supermarkets has caused millions of dollars in damages – and should be raising questions for the rest of us. My phone, computer and television are all connected to the internet. But there are so many […]
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 […]
Friday’s Questions
Tennessee’s failure to execute Christa Pike in Wednesday raises a whole lot of questions. Can you provide answers? I am not a big fan of the death penalty, partly on theological grounds. But we won’t get into that today – and there are those with other theological positions on the subject that I concede have […]
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 […]
Fertilizer Content
The man amuses me. Or would if what he does wasn’t so bad for his country. One thing politicians try very much to avoid is making policy on the fly. For Donald Trump not thinking things through seems to be a way of life. Monday he announced that the United States was going to make […]
Pissing Match
It has been attributed to many famous people who never said it, including Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain. No matter its origins, there is a lot of truth to the idea that you should “Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.” As a publicity-seeker, you […]
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 […]
Joining the EU
Canada is on track to become an associate member of the European Union. Which sounds good, except for the fact that nobody knows what that means. To state the obvious, Canada is not part of Europe. Joining together with the 27 EU countries might raise a few challenges. Someone is bound to object. After all, […]
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