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Carney’s Euro-vision: could everybody please calm down
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (353+ words) I don’t usually write posts this short, but some people are losing their minds and I think it’s important that everyone touch grass. The Wall Street Journal has an article saying Mark Carney is seeking “associate membership” in the EU....
Dave Cournoyer: Alberta separatists want “a sandbox for conspiratorial quackery”
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (689+ words) Dave Cournoyer writes the popular Daveberta Substack and has been blogging and podcasting about Alberta politics for more than 20 years. This is the second of two posts I’ve requested from Alberta observers about the coming referendum on whether to hold…...
Derek Fildebrandt: Bertasplaining independence to the Rest of Canada
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (798+ words) This ought to be interesting. I have old-fashioned ideas about what’s come to be called “platforming.” Where I come from — Montreal in the early 1990s — letting readers hear from various sides of big public debates was part of our work. Since…...
Get along great
1+ week, 5+ day ago (118+ words) Paul Wells | Substack Gee, he sure sounds like he wants a deal. “I don’t want Canadian cars, I don’t want Canadian parts, I don’t want Canadian anything,” Donald J. Trump wrote on Sunday afternoon on his janky social-media site. “I…...
God, that was strange to see you again
2+ week, 1+ day ago (932+ words) [Metric, Broken Social Scene and Stars, three iconic bands from the early-2000s music scene in Toronto and Montreal, have been touring for months. Calgary and Edmonton in June; Toronto in August, with US and European stops in between. This All…...
On falling in line
2+ week, 4+ day ago (193+ words) At the end of this post I’ll invite some readers to come to an orchestra concert with me at the National Arts Centre. Details at the bottom, after the heavy stuff. — pw “In the end the Party would announce that…...
The Q&A: “We are looking at several other things that could be of this scale or larger”
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1225+ words) Paul Wells: The Prime Minister said the biggest news this week is the Churchill Falls announcement. But meanwhile, there’s this avalanche of other news out of Washington. Why on earth would Churchill Falls be a bigger deal than the suspense…...