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Konrad Yakabuski, writing in today's Globe and Mail, says that, as an old Chinese curse suggests, we are going to be living in interesting times: ---------- Whether it’s Trump or Harris, U.S. foreign policy is headed into uncharted territory KONRAD YAKABUSKI PUBLISHED 2 HOURS AGO FOR...

Robyn Urback, writing in today's Globe and Mail, say that the takes in next week's elections may never have. been higher for Canada: ---------- Canada’s next relationship with the U.S. could be our most vulnerable ROBYN URBACK PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO UPDATED 46 MINUTES AGO FOR SUBSCRIBERS Prime...

The PBO weighs in:

When my father was KIA, Feb 1943, someone in Ottawa - Percy Nelles' puzzle palace - decided that someone should write letters to the mothers and widows of the others KIA. That was the "standard thing," after all. It was, normally, the job of the captain, but he was dead and the XO was somewhere...

The Globe and Mail's editorial board says that the Trudeau regime has made a good choice. We must hope that the next (Poilievre) government follows through and expands on it: ---------- There is no Charter right to intimidation THE EDITORIAL BOARD PUBLISHED 4 HOURS AGO The federal government’s...

Our, Canadian Army, soldier apprentice programme which ran in the 1950s and '60s, was great: 16 year old school leavers spent two years in a mix of trade and academic training in, as I recall Arty, Engrs, Sigs and RCEME; it produced a lot of excellent NCOs and a few generals, too.

Campbell Park, writing in yesterday's Globe and Mail, weighs in on the issue: ---------- Trudeau seeks to dodge the verdict of his own party CAMPBELL CLARK PUBLISHED YESTERDAY It’s obvious why Justin Trudeau doesn’t want Liberal MPs to hold a secret-ballot vote on his leadership: He might not...

Robyn Urback, writing in today's Globe and Mail, says that Prime Minister Trudeau is ready to destroy his own party rather than back away from a fight with Pierre Poilievre: ---------- Justin Trudeau is spoiling for a fight, even if it means taking his party down with him ROBYN URBACK PUBLISHED...

This, by the eminent American political scientist Walter Russell Mead, its worth a watch for those interested in Israel and America historically and today.

The AP reports, in the Globe and Mail, that Israel has struck back against UNRWA: ---------- Israel passes two laws to restrict the work of a UN agency that is a lifeline for Gaza SAMY MAGDY AND MELANIE LIDMAN JERUSALEM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED YESTERDAY Israeli lawmakers passed two laws...

John Ibbitson, writing in the Globe and Mail, gives us a history lesson: ---------- What past party revolts can teach us about the internal Liberal rebellion targeting Justin Trudeau JOHN IBBITSON PUBLISHED YESTERDAY On Sunday Feb. 3, 1963, cabinet ministers filed into the dining room at the...

I suspect there has been, since ancient times, two "classes" of soldiers: the 'warriors' (and the 'gentlemen warriors' who led them into close combat) and the "professionals." I'm sure that every Roman centurion knew, roughly, how deep and wide each layer of a road had to be, but the big roads...

Wrong place, sorry.

I haven't heard about that, but, until 1919, Canadians celebrated Paardeberg Day (27 February) "to commemorate the country’s war dead."

I encourage all to read Slim's 'Unofficial History,' which tell us a lot about how he got from being a junior officer in the Indian Army to one of the allies best field commanders.

Davis Colette of Abacus data says: ---------- 57% of Canadians Living in Liberal Held Ridings Want Their MP to Encourage Trudeau to Resign Good morning! If it’s Sunday, it’s a new Abacus Data Canadian politics poll release day. Here’s the latest intel from our October 17 to 22 survey of 1,500...

Just a reminder: History and geography blessed Canada with French culture, American know how and British political wisdom; How come we ended up with American culture, British know how and French political wisdom?

The folks in charge of our National War Memorial accord it, (and Korea and South Africa) with the same status as World Wars 1 and 2: