Doug Saunders
@dougsaunders
International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc.
I particularly like how he’s had the AI portray Canada as pristine wilderness and his country as a denuded wasteland of terrible urbanism, crowded sprawl, deprived housing, absent privacy and roads that literally go nowhere
It’s mistaken to read the nuke deal as about the kingdom trying to get WMDs. It could always just buy them from Pakistan. Instead, it’s the kingdom frantically trying to diversify now that its trillion-dollar be-like-Dubai plan has gone up in flames Still, this is hilarious
Trump’s most aggressive campaigns of persecution and litigation have not been directed at left-wing or Democratic Party-linked bodies, but those most respected for neutrality and impartiality — 60 Minutes, the BBC, CNN, the NYT, Harvard, the federal reserve, the freaking Smithsonian Institution…
Gaaa! If you’re going to make one of them permanent it should be standard time not DST! This way, it’ll be 2 or 3 hours between waking up and the sun rising in northern cities
The failure here is lack of realization that collective defence is its own national interest. Middle countries didn’t join NATO for US protection, but to make it unnecessary for any one country to need that level of armament. Non-US NATO is collectively better armed than USA
What, on top of the entire world of anxieties and pressures and demands on my attention, now I need to worry about THIS?
2010: Blockchain is going to change the world! It will be the entirety of our economy! 2026: Blockchain’s main function is to operate gambling tokens that are used only to evade taxes and to massively bribe the president of the United States without detection
Main streets in Tbilisi and Pristina are named after George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Respectively. There are major roads named after Kennedy in Toronto Montreal Paris Istanbul Amsterdam Frankfurt and Beirut. After George Washington in Paris and Milan. I could go on
All right then, so it’s Assless Chaps Night at Lumen Field on Friday. For the actual people of Iran and Egypt.
Blaming supermarkets for rising food prices and gas stations for rising fuel prices is a populist tactic based on a fallacy that unites several parts of the political spectrum, including the craziest
A year ago this month, Wazhma was imprisoned in Pakistan and shipped through the Khyber Pass to be deported to the Taliban, after four years hiding with her 3 child siblings. Yesterday I attended her graduation from a bridging program that lets her enter full-time undergrad studies this fall
Three years ago today I became a hyper-enthusiastic booster for the backstreets of Brussels
Even this was uncrowded enough that I could get a nice picture of @lizrenzetti.bsky.social taking me on a Father’s Day jaunt through The Tunnel
The last year and a half has decisively destroyed the concept of nuclear weapons as deterrence or protection against major military attacks by neighbouring countries. Russia, Pakistan, India and Iran have learned this the hard way. Certain Canadians should take note
Sadly I couldn’t get tickets while in London but an all-female mounting of Glengarry is an absolutely epic idea
I was having a good day until I saw this air conditioning company’s slogan
Everyone having Wednesday afternoon pints at the foot of Christopher Wren’s monument to the fire that destroyed their city is the most timelessly London thing
Reasons to fear Trump might sell out Taiwan, part 812. The man really likes left-wing dictators. Kim, Lukashenko, Delcy Rodríguez, and in many ways Xi — and wants his office and hierarchy to be like theirs
I’m the very MAGA vision of a Venezuela viceroy I always tell the president he couldn’t be a nicer boy I’ve extracted every vegetable, animal and mineral So nothing will convince him that my oversight is criminal
Little Pye is inspired by the weather to go all Henri Rousseau (Pic by @lizrenzetti.bsky.social)
An excellent photo of the Hantavirus victims finally departing their cruise ship and landing in… does that say Nebraska? What part of Nebraska is that tugboat landing in? Is there something I don’t know about Nebraska?
This was the subject of my new years essay: We believe things will be terrible for the next generation for the same reasons people thought the same in 1946: Path dependency, and unawareness that the recovery project will create growth and prosperity
Something rather eloquent about an AI product-review summarizer trying to grapple with a bilingual country