Kim Anderson
@mkimanderson
Lawyer. Equal opportunity critic. In awe of my grandchildren.
He breaks agreements he’s signed on a whim. So who’s in a hurry to sign a new agreement that he’ll break next week?
We have lost Don Duguid, great curler and great broadcaster. He and Don Chevrier were the gold standard in the booth. When I was in high school, you telegraphed your ambition by shooting up in Don Duguid Bauer shoes an Ernie Richardson sweater.
Permanent daylight time. The House adopts something Saskatchewan pioneered 60 years ago? Is universal single payor health care next?
This nonchalant breach of international law is contrary to years of US policy and is an open invitation to China to close the South China Sea.
Retaliation is a response. Maybe it’s time for the US to start acting like an ally. Although, it may be too late. The world has written off the US and I don’t consider the US a Canadian ally anymore.
More US figures have begun to call on Canada to cease reciprocal tariffs and other retaliatory actions i’m not surprised. It’s SO American to think we should roll over without any concession by the US. And if course it’s coming from Democrats as much as Republicans. Good comment from The Line:
Just what Carney called out at Davos and the US media and politicians get. The US has always bent the rules to its own advantage. This time no-one looked the other way.
When I was an athlete, I didn’t want anything to shade a victory. That’s what’s going to happen if the USA beat Belgium. And yet, the Athletic like so many other media outlets take the position. It’s OK, because the team didn’t ask for it. Rampant corruption. Shame on FIFA.
“American exceptionalism” - the idea that the United States is different from and better than every other nation - a laughable delusion at the best of times. To see a Democrat still trot it out shows that there’s a lot of denial to be dealt with about the USA’s new status as an international pariah.
The US ambassador to Canada has crossed over into direct through your teeth lies. Time to PNG ( persona non grata) him.
This guy is JD Vance‘s winger and he’s decided his next target is the pride movement. Yet another reason why the conservatives are going to lose the next election.
So the government brokers non-interference by BC, obtains commitments from pipeline companies, and delivers a path for a new pipeline. The Liberals though not perfect have delivered a completed pipeline in Transmountain and made huge headway on the second. Response from the CPC:
The CPC, more desperate by the hour had taken to manufacturing narratives to feed Poilievre’s constant rage farming. The make it up as you go party. How many more months do we have to put up with an opposition that refuses to be serious?
America Alone - Steve Schmidt on Substack. Even the somewhat enlightened in the USA still ridiculously view it as exceptional. The USA is far from the only country in the world that is populated by immigrants from the rest. They still have difficulty seeing what is in the mirror.
Target ignored a huge data breach for weeks because of in action in management, all which pain was visited on its customers. Much like its management incompetence visited a huge economic consequence on Canadians. Same unconcerned attitude. Same failure to make decisions
Had you heard nothing from US media this would be a feel good story for the winner and nod to the loser for winning the group. But the hourly noise about the “dominant”USMNT and their nearly assured ascent to the pinnacle leaves me with feeling it’s karma with more to come.
I truly doubt they’ll play the song since the US doesn’t need anything from Canada.
This pathos doesn’t even rise to the level of incompetence. It’s just the blind idiot making it up every five minutes. Is there anyone in the world left who thinks any deal with the USA is a complete waste of time.
Apparently an Olympic Gold for the women’s team is mere Chopped liver?
Axworthy’s grudge match with Carney continues. If he had cared to find out what the Prime Minister actually said, he would note that he said that the memorandum of understanding was worth it, not the war. Or, perhaps the detail didn’t matter, because Lloyd can’t find a kind word to say.
Heather Delaney Reese. Engaging in the blind optimism that seems to infest the USA. Nobody is holding a door open to let you walk back through. We are all quietly using whatever peaceful time we have to rearrange our affairs so you never have the ability to screw us over again.
Toronto Star on CBC’s Saturday night plans. Unintentionally says exactly what Sportsnet hockey is. Selling the Leafs. Without the pressure to showcase hockey from other parts of Canada, Saturday night‘s going to be Mapleleaf Central.
I’m personally ok with Edward Rogers channelling Harold Ballard. I’m a Habs fan. But pile this onto the demise of HNIC and Rogers’ insistence on astronomical hikes to subscriptions and charging forbidden mobile fees and you know the future of hockey in this country.
Kevin (Vidkun Quisling) O’Leary doesn’t get it. He’s no Steve Jobs. O’Leary doesn’t create conflict in the course of pursuing excellence. He creates conflict. He lives for constant pointless dickishness. That’s where the conflict comes from in his life.