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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...

I remember taking my father-in-law back to Juno Beach on the 51st anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1995…we were unable to make it for the 50th). It was his first time back to Europe since the war. I forget the name of the beachside road that connects the various landing zones, but I remember...

Sorry, FB, that should have been addressed more to Eaglelord

I disagree with you on many things but I’m totally with you this time around. I don’t think EVs are necessarily the best way to go in the long term. I would like to see more development of hydrogen vehicles. And trains? I’m with you on that. Both regionally and nationally we need more. My...

If the CPC could shed itself of the far right elements and get closer to its originally near-centre position then it could once again be a serious political power.

I had expected that, given the amount of time Poilievre and the CPC have had to respond to the various various crises over the past few years, we would now be seeing a more comprehensive, believable platform.

The NDP used to be known for supporting workers, largely union workers and mostly on the basis of wages and benefits. Over time, as unions lost the power they once had in elections, the NDP worked at shedding its image as a socialist-type party. They began to focus increasingly on what we now...