#Smithsonian Institution turned over docs including photos of labels,placards & other display texts reviewed for”improper #ideology.”[Trump Order 14253’Restoring Truth and Sanity to American #History] “…professionals in museum world regard the institution restrained & mindful…David Ward Historian

Alberta Separatist voice under review & analysis "The law society panel hearing the case plans to issue its decision at a later date. Rath was reprimanded in a separate case last year and ordered to pay $10,000 in costs."Edmonton Journal #cdnpoli #ABDanielleSmith #nenshi

Greenland Trump target for Golden Dome - then Canada? SHIELD program [Golden Dome]total ceiling value of USD $151 billion over 10 yrs. Trump stated Canadian costs $61B US #cdnpoli #Greenland #markcarney #Goldenglobe open.substack.com/pub/wesleywa...

Auguries of Innocence “To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage” William Blake #poetry #insight #beauty

Extent of flaunts of power beyond accountability “US President Donald Trump referred to himself as "acting president of #Venezuela" in an image on Wikipedia page on his Truth Social account on Monday morning” EuroNews Poking the bear for reaction but destain for #democracy. #mentalhealth

Is Canada morally leaderless? “President of the USA has a personal army invading cities & murdering citizens.The rule of law lies dead next to them.Trump’s is a fascist regime”Macfarland Is Canada’s moral response collapsing? #markcarney #cdnpoli #elbowsup open.substack.com/pub/emmettma...

Transition from republic to empire Jan. 10, 49 BC Caesar crossed the Rubicon Jan. 2026 Trump threatens #Greenland Caesar saw a mysterious apparition & blew the war trumpet Trump,”My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me” “Ales iacta est”(The Die is cast)? #cdnpoli #history #mentalhealth

Authoritarian interpretation of History for misguided reasons Monroe Doctrine 1823, Manifest Destiny, now Trump’s Donroe imperialism Putin‘s Baptism of Rus 988 AD giving spiritual reason for taking Ukrainian territory #History #RuleOfLaw #sovereignty

Donald Trump asked if he was constrained by international law?” “I don’t need international law,” he said Asked if there were any limits on his global powers? “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me” NYT & Steven Beschloss #cdnpoli #law

The insanity continues: “Asked on Fox News whether he would accept Machado’s Nobel prize if she gave it to him,Trump said: "I’ve heard that she wants to do that. That’d be a great honor." World in economic turmoil,Americans shot in streets,Greenland threatened… #peace share.google/2wIfkEXSsF3x...

Snapshot in Presidential History. Trump’s war today vs on this day in 1964 LBJ announced $97.9B for war on poverty. What a different view of humanity. #justice #peace #HumanRights #minnisota #history x.com/beschlossdc/...

Analysis of video of tragic event in Minneapolis. #journalism #Minnesota #Vance #Trump x.com/charise_lee/...

PBS News reported oil $ plans: “they plan to put the money raised from their seizure of Venezuelan oil into bank accounts outside the U.S. Treasury.Desjardins clarified that “[s]ources said they understood these as similar [to] or decidedly ‘off-shore’ accounts” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye Tragedy for both American and Canada. The ending of PBS that has contributed to art, culture, science, and public discourse. A sad week! #sciene #scichat #art #democracy open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Hyde Park Declaration(1941) Integrated Canadian & U.S. war economies during WWII never formally terminated. Precursor to later trade agreements - Auto Pact, free trade, & some integration of economies. #history #cdnpoli #freetrade #markcarney share.google/2bansikpA7hl...

This is mafia-type behaviour. All the more reason for a full public inquiry. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

US National Security Strategy Canada needs to be worried - Example below - US Coast Guard & Navy to control sea lanes(Canadian Arctic)? Plus more… #cdnpoli #UN #sovereignty

Historian Patrick Boucheron illustrates how Govt can’t justify its unethical actions after the fact(Trump) “While his actions might accuse him,the results excuse him”Machiavelli Yet Boucheron clarified that the beneficial effects may not be known by breaking the law. Thus can’t excuse Trump #law

1957 Nobel Prize in Literature “Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself” Albert Camus #literature #poetry #Philosophy

Article rejects US oil interests & suggests Pentagon Security concerns?? “Pentagon planned operation around breaking Chinese resource control,eliminating Iranian manufacturing capability,& expelling Russian military presence…where China,Iran, & Russia operate… The oil narrative is theatre” #Ukraine

On a positive note: recently encouraged to revisit Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’. The difference between medieval comedy vs today is that tragedy can be redemptive & can go from hell toward heaven but there is purgatory. Have faith! - we are better together! #poetry #tragedy #comedy #resurrection

Trump rejects both Parliamentary systems & American excessive executive control “Parliamentary systems give the legislature both lawmaking and executive control, which the [American] founders saw as dangerous” #law #government #power Dictatorship!

A national disgrace.

Trump justified violating international law then saying: “…it must be judicious,that’s what we’re all about.” Judicious meaning “good judgement” not judicial. Judicious in not wanting a dictator but judicial is not by being one. Democratic transition not Trumpian #Democracy #Venezuela #cdnpoli

History & US Immigration policy has shifted back & forth. Yet the golden rule rings clear from the poem below at the Statue of Liberty. 1/2 #immigration #history open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Elbows up! Five Canadian leaders to watch for in 2026 More Canadians want some positive news about our resilience & opportunities to turn things around. #abpoli #ontpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli #elbowsup www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Washington Post sites Canada as a Trump target “The Donroe Doctrine…Trump had laid claim to Canada as the “51st state,”recast Greenland as”our land,”rebranded the Gulf of Mexico as the”Gulf of America”& reasserted U.S. control over Panama Canal” #cdnpoli #landgrab www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...

US auto under performing but tech booming. How is Canadian tech doing? “Seven tech firms joined Canada’s $100-million club in 2025 – and 2026 could bring even more” The Globe & Mail Canada’s industry trends ibisworld.com/canada/industr…#elbowsupu#cdnpolil#Technologygy

Canadian PM wants to help Ukraine. This US Admin approach: “When Zelensky arrived in Miami for his trip to Mar-a-Lago,there were no U.S. officials on hand to greet the plane…a deliberate snub…” Not the Putin Red Carpet treatment Dictators want land #Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Trump & Netanyahu press conference a mutual love in. Israel Peace Prize to be awarded for leader who blows up small boats & passengers. Palm Beach, sunny, 26C. Gaza, homeless, hunger, death, suffering. Hope for better 2026. #GazaWinterCrisis #Peace #facts #truth

300 yr old restaurant. Started with “To eat at a casa de comida,travellers would bring their own ingredients & the tavern cook would prepare a meal for them” Families worried men wouldn’t come home if taverns served food Source: Smithsonian Mag #history #food www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-o...

Forbes analysis of Trump fortune since taking office. The global issue of the wealthy dominating geo politics. The danger manipulating #journalism , #democracy, the social safety net. #cdnpoli

UCP #ABDanielleSmith ~ this is what happens when under funding public heath & supporting private health care. Source: edmontonjournal #ableg #yeg #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli Plus anti vaccination stance! edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Bezos-Owned Newspaper Bashes Medicare for All in Christmas Day Editorial “Predictably, the Post‘s editorial board—which Bezos has instructed to write”every day in support & defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets” #journalism #news www.commondreams.org/news/washing...

Watch 60 Minutes video they didn’t want you to see. #socialjustice #humanrights #journalism www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

What’s happening in Gaza? “IPC estimates that,over the next year,more than 100,000 children in Gaza will face “acute malnutrition & require treatment,”as well as some 37,000 pregnant women” Washington Post More Israeli settlements blocking Palestinian Statehood #Gaza #Peace #UN #hunger

Walt Whitman, “O me! O life! “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion…” Dead Poets Society #love #hope #gratitude #poetry #WaltWhitman youtu.be/aS1esgRV4Rc?...

Todays NewYork Times Opinion Piece by Millionaire Mitt Romney “Tax the Rich, Like Me” People with a conscience are now speaking out. This realization should also happen in Alberta Canada. #poverty #taxpayers #ableg #abpoli

A living President gets buildings renamed after him? “Most of us haven’t experienced this level of dissonant brand synergy since our first visit to a combination KFC/Taco Bell” Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post How can a Kennedy work for this man? #noclass #Narcissist #ethics

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, & this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”Edward Hopper Early Sunday Morning1930 feeling of the Great Depression by Edward Hopper, #poetry by John Stone “As important
as what is
happening is what is not”

Team Canada “Either we’re in this together,or we’re not.We’re a united country,or we’re easy pickin’s” Trump’s plan”…It’s just easier to let foreigners stand in for the villains in this little internal psychodrama…so foreigners will be the ones who suffer for it.” Jen Gerson #cdnpoli #ableg 1/2

Who owns & controls Saskatchewan #Potash & why are there plans to build & ship from US ports? Canpotex is wholly owned by 2 Shareholders: Mosaic Co. 50% USA Nutrien 50% Canada How much Belarus potash is from Russia?Trump’s new deal. #cdnpoli #saskpoli #markcarney #potash www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“While Trump bashes the E.U., other leaders want to join it” Washington Post “Kremlin officials had told reporters that Trump’s national security strategy “aligned” with their vision” TheEU ideal is exactly the antidote to ‘Trumpism’ #cdnpoli #EU #democracy #unity #solidarity

Alberta Petition game will cost taxpayers over $300k for each petition = millions! Plus now UCP (Justice Min.) will decide what petition goes forward. UCP back door separation support. Govt out of control - election needed #abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg @lukaszukab.bsky.social

Canadian Potash is tariff except under CUSMA but not under Emergency Measures Belarus (or Russian) Potash (unless now USA exempt) is subject to tariffs & transport costs USA with Belarus actions effect Canada & Ukraine. #cdnpoli #saskpoli #potash #markcarney #ukraine

What can we do to restore sanity & integrity? @ABDanielSmith use of #notwithstandingclause #Trump racist authoritarianism #Putin dictatorship etc China, India, Hungary,North Korea “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth & love have always won”MG #truth #democracy

Trump’s”National Security Strategy”all about Trumpism “…United Nations General Assembly just a few short weeks ago…Donald Trump insulted its representatives with the pronouncement,”Your countries are going to hell.” This document is an extension of that rant.”Bob Rae #cdnpoli x.com/policy_mag/s...

Trumps Canadian Fertilizer #Tariffs to help US Farmers? For USA to be #potash self sufficient requires billions over 5–10 yrs 85% imported,mostly from Canada.The weak link for U.S. self-sufficiency Canada’s deposits currently import cheaper than US #CBCNews #cdnpoli @nocanadiantariffs.bsky.social

When EU fined platform X $140M it was”an attack on all American tech platforms & the American people”Sec.of State Marco #Rubio. Wash.Post While Musk wants EU to be disbanded. Yet US Admin’s criticism of a video revealing Reagan’s non support of tariffs was called political interference. #cdnpoli?

What does this mean for Canada? “What Are America’s Available Means to Get What We Want?” “An enviable geography with abundant natural resources,no competing powers physically dominant in our Hemisphere, borders at no risk of military invasion,& other great powers separated by vast oceans” US Doc.