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Here is the Globe and Mail's John Ibbitson on the impact of suburbs on the next election: ---------- What Surrey’s shift to the Conservatives may mean for Toronto in the next federal election JOHN IBBITSON PUBLISHED YESTERDAY In this past Saturday’s British Columbia election, voters in the...

See Harold Laski and his influence on PM Justin Trudeau's political hero and father, Pierre.

The best transit systems in the world, in my (limited, I admit) experience are all private: Hong Kong, which I regard as the best transit anywhere; Tokyo and Singapore. The worst, including London, New York, Paris, Toronto and Ottawa are all public. My 2 cents about 🚈

Right, I'd forgotten the details. Thanks.

The Economist takes look at China's global dilemma with a particular emphasis on the Middle East: ---------- Does China welcome—or dread—an Iran-Israel war? It wants American interests to suffer, but not at any price Last month, as tensions escalated between Iran and Israel, China helped...

Most Palestinians, from the West Bank and Gaza, who need complex medical care get it in Israel, even now, after 7 October. Palestine simply does not have the advanced medical infrastructure while Israel is something of a medical powerhouse.

I believe that Sinwar had surgery in Israel a few years ago and they kept his DNA on file as a matter of routine. That's how they were able to run na DNA test so quickly.

I suspect we are seeing the cumulative effects of sustained barracking by allied leaders and some of the Canadian media and increased support, amongst many Canadians for another Trump presidency.

It isn't 🇮🇱 's job to "put Iran back I it's place." Unless I've lost the ability to read and reason, that job belongs to the entire United Nations, as stated in the Preamble to its Charter. It is the duty of e.g. 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪 and 🇨🇦 to send a "peacekeeping" force to the region, to occupy 🇮🇷...

Just as 🇺🇸 had a right, in December 1941, to respond in a calibrated and proportionate way to 🇯🇵's attack: ☢️!

Mark MacKinnon and Eric Reguly, writing in today's Globe and Mail, warn that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatens more attacks on 🇮🇱 : ---------- Khamenei defends Iran’s attack and hints at more reprisals as Israel continues pounding Lebanon MARK MACKINNON SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT ERIC...

Is there some good, military reason why any 🇨🇦 Navy members need to serve under sail as part of their training for war in the 21st century?

I've raised this issue before, it's a provincial and local matter but there is, very likely, an enabling role for the national government and fiscal support will certainly be needed: ---------- My Toronto transit ride shows why it’s not wrong to consider involuntary care for the mentally ill...

Konrad Yakabuski, writing in today's Globe and Mail, joins the worry about Pierre Poilievre winning without Québec ... ... ho hum, I reply: ---------- Why Pierre Poilievre can’t crack the Quebec code KONRAD YAKABUSKI MONTREAL PUBLISHED 9 HOURS AGO Quebec Premier François Legault denied he was...

Don't forget that the reason for 'Pearsonian Peacekeeping' in 1956 was to rescue the West from Ike's fury. Eisenhower was flaming mad at 🇬🇧 , 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇱 because they invaded Egypt in 1956 and threatened to upset years of 🇺🇸 strategy/diplomacy. He reportedly considered expelling 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷 from...

The first "large"UN peacekeeping mission: UNEF in 1956, was based on the same "tripwire" theory that Eisenhower advocated for the infant NATO circa 1949. The notion was that the belligerents would be unwilling to pay the political/military price that attacking a very lightly armed. UN force...

No need to apologize, my friend, I post Opinion pieces because I think we all need to think more and react less.

So, Coyne does his job ... he provokes discussion. Here, in Army.ca and in other similar fora, someone expresses an opinion and one or two people either nod or say, "I call BS," but thousands of people read Coyne and many nod, in agreement, and many others disagree but think a bit. It's why...

I think that Andrew Coyne, writing in today's Globe and Mail, in the Opinion section, is correct: ---------- The unity crisis that awaits us on the other side of the next election ANDREW COYNE PUBLISHED 9 HOURS AGO In the election of 1958, the Conservatives under John Diefenbaker swept the...

As Eliza Dolittle sang, "words, words words .." If anyone has some useful ideas or just an informed opinion then tell the putative next Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, AND the team that hopes to elect a Conservative MP in your riding. Otherwise, as she sang, "is that all you...