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I wonder if the relatives of the Capitol police who died or those who were injured by the “friendly” crowds got much in compensation.

I remember how, back in the mid ‘70s, Postmaster General Bryce Mackesey got so frustrated with the constant alternating strikes of the two postal unions that he said “Those bastards just don’t want to work.” Very little has changed since then except for the fact that the post office is far less...

Albertans always seem to complain about not being sufficiently represented in Ottawa and they rattle their sabres with talk about separation. They scream how the Liberals have screwed them time and again and fall prey to the rantings of an occasional demagogue . Maybe…just maybe…if they...

Correct me if I’m wrong but France would not allow the newly-independent nation of Haiti to get international recognition unless it paid compensation for the financial losses of slave owners. Those payments left Haiti perpetually broke and continued until very recently for around two centuries...

Otherwise…any loss of vehicle manufacturing intended for the Canadian market should result in…wait for it…the Prime Minister announcing 25% tariffs on all Hondas imported from the U.S.

Currently?

Imagine if all of the major parties had leaders who weren’t so dogmatic about maintaining their usual platforms.

I’m also quite impressed with Kinew…despite him being in the NDP.

Case(s) in point, the two referendums that Quebec had in 1980 and 1990 were both preceded and followed by large exits of capital primarily to Toronto but also to western Canada.

AKA having one’s cake and eating it too.

I saw him on tv the other day. Although frail and with a weak voice, he seemed in pretty decent shape for someone who is 101. I hope I’m in as good a condition when I’m in my 80s.

Despite the damage that Trump has done and is continuing to do to Canada, patriotism in this country try is far greater than I’ve seen it in decades. And I’m hoping it will continue to grow. I do remember how in the late 1960s and throughout the ‘70s authors like Pierre Breton and Farley Mowat...

All this talk about invasion reminds me of a late 1970s era novel called “Ultimatum” written from a Canadian viewpoint by Gen. Richard Rohmer. It involved, of course, America’s need for oil. I never read the novel but, after checking out some of the reviews (I suspect Rohmer is not a...

A number of countries could gain from a fractured Canada. But the U.S. would gain the most from Alberta pulling out of Canada. There’s no way they could possibly exist as an independent or even semi-independent country for very long, even if they allowed rail and highway trade between British...

The CIA for one has a long history of secretly financing the destabilization of other countries, especially in Latin America. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they were in Alberta right now giving financial and strategic support to some of the separatist leaders.

In many ways the Demos are probably closer to the old Progressive Conservatives.

I agree 101%. Those bullet points are well worth remembering. My wife has a sister who moved down to the U.S. while in her early 20s and became a citizen there decades ago. She is now as pro-Trump as my surviving U.S. relatives and has basically cut off contact with us over her obsession with...

I can’t begin to fathom how Americans (which include most of my remaining U.S. relatives) can still support Trump. It was one thing for them to have elected him in the first place. But now that his derangements have become part of his administration’s policies, he is still basically riding...

My father-in-law was in the SDGs, second wave (I believe) at Juno. In the last year of his life he moved to Sunnybrook from a retirement home on Kingston Road. Once he got there he was sorry he waited so long as he was treated wonderfully by the staff and was able to talk about old times with...

We visited Bény-sur-Mer cemetery where my father-in-law was able to pay his respects to his buddies who are buried there. He told us stories about each man he knew and, in some cases, precisely how they died. Quite a humbling experience. In his last few days of life at Sunnybrook Hospital in...