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Something else from the Good Grey Globe (my emphasis aded) that Pierre Poilievre would consider: ---------- How to secure continental free trade THE EDITORIAL BOARD PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 The current North American free trade agreement is a strange beast. For one thing, each country...

There are two big issues in Aaron Gunn's film and I'm going to ignore the clusterf__k that is DVA: The key moment for Canada is circa 1968. The Liberal Party had polled carefully and they had decided that appearance mattered more than policy and so they pushed aside the fiery Québec labour...

Part 2 of 2 MENDING TIES Once the civil-military relationship begins to break down, the problems are compounded. The tenth lawful but awful order would feel different than the first because Americans would become desensitized to controversial uses of the military and might be less willing to...

Part 1 of 2 Peter D. Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and the author of Thanks for Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the U.S. Military and Heidi Urban, Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University and the author of...

Part 2 of 2 That’s in part why several say the Montreal by-election result on Monday will be so important. Another bad result can’t be discounted in the same way, with one former minister describing it as a referendum on Mr. Trudeau. Another minister said they expect the party will be on track...

Part 1 of 2 Marieke Walsh and Robert Fife, writing in the Globe and Mail, say that Justin Trudeau is staying on: ---------- Defiant and unbowed: Why Justin Trudeau isn’t going anywhere With at most one year left for the Prime Minister to turn things around, The Globe spoke with 22 senior...

I did the old Advanced Winter Warfare/Winter Warfare Instructor course back circa 1965. Most of our training was on the Churchill Plain, plus a week+ was in the very high Arctic. We examined and tried American, Brit and Norwegian kit - none of it was anywhere near as good as what we had, some...

Putin does some serious sabre rattling according to this story published in the Globe and Mail: ---------- If Ukraine hits Russia with Western missiles, it will spell war with NATO, Putin says MARK MACKINNON SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT ADRIAN MORROW U.S. CORRESPONDENT KYIV Russian...

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I hope this visit is successful and I hope that Mr Poilievre meets with Mt Fadden and his team, publicly, when they return: ---------- Former Canadian security and defence officials headed to meet Taiwan government STEVEN CHASE SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER ROBERT FIFE OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF...

According to the Globe and Mail's Editorial Board, Mark Carney, who is a pretty smart guy, has offered the current Liberal government some good, but likely unwelcome economic advice. I hope Pierre Poilievre takes note of it, too: ---------- The hard truth the Trudeau Liberals need to hear from...

Back in the 1970s and again in the 1990s CSE issued formal warnings to DND and Industry Canada, at least, about a NATO ally, with its own Canadian subsidiary out in Kanata, who was actively spying on Nortel's BNR facilities. I know with 100% certainty that warning was passed, unredacted, at a...

This is why one of my former junior colleagues, who is now a senior PS executive, is pressing very, very hard to have PS workers back in the office 5 days a week with "work from home" an option only for some established employees - see my NorTel story, just above. She says that mentoring and...

Actually we're in NORAD mainly because of an indisputable geographic fact. Both president Eisenhower and Prime Minister St Laurent were very aware of the Soviet maned bomber and ballistic missile threat and they recognized the need for a series of radar "chains" all across Canada: the far North...

Back in the old, old days, when NorTel was still a company, and a very successful one at that, they were one of the remote working pioneers at their Toronto facility. Even "junior" VPs didn't have assigned offices. Most permanent employees were encouraged to come to the office when it was...

This, from today's Globe and Mail; is one of the policies I expect Mr Poilievre to reverse very, very quickly when he becomes PM: ---------- Joly says Canada will block U.S.-bound ammunition sale destined for Israel STEVEN CHASE SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie...

You're right. Mulroney introduced the GST in 1991. He replaced it with the HST in '97. But the impact of the WSJ article remains vital to his (and Chrétien/Martin's) efforts to address the deficit/debt issue. Many, too many Canadians need to be wakened up by the foreign media before they pay...

You're right. It took an article in early 1995 in The Wall Street Journal which described us as an "honorary member of the Third World" and our 🇨🇦 $ being the "Northern Peso" to wake enough Canadians up to our debt/deficit crisis to give Brian Mulroney the 'political room' he needed to bring...

Reminds me of an old Russian story ... almost every day Ivan Ivanovich went into his church, knelt and prayed briefly: "Holy Father," he muttered, "how is it fair that I have only one skinny cow and my neighbour, Pyotr, has three healthy ones? Please kill two of his cows."