Please don’t open this door. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

I get why Canadian politicians feel the need to say this stuff to American audiences, but I really don’t think Canada currently agrees with the U.S. on 90% of things, nor that we’re currently like family at the dinner table having the odd squabble. x.com/politico/sta...

Not that those of us outside the U.S. needed any further invitation to not travel there, but just in case…

The “experts” on whose opinions this news story is based are primarily someone from an organization that opposes government regulation in general, and a lobbyist for ticket resellers. nationalnewswatch.com/2026/03/20/o...

Presumably/hopefully, the timing issue is that their opportunity for a White House visit comes at a time when Donald Trump is President. www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

The art of the deal!

I want pro sports to be a distraction from awful turns the world is taking, and instead they seem determined to be part of the problem.

You read this sort of thing, and “nerd alert” takes on a much more sinister meaning. People who spent the early parts of their lives (sometimes quite cruelly) feeling weak, getting the chance to live out weird fantasies of what it means to be powerful. www.businessinsider.com/palantir-gui...

ok, we have to accept that the Trump team has noticed how riled up everyone in Canada gets when they say Mexico is doing better in the trade talks and they are now doing it just to fuck with us. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

This is good:

Sad news. The Real Jerk is one my favourite institutions in our part of town, and a tiny bit of his legacy is that it got my kids obsessed with Jamaican food. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Doug Ford was pretty much the chaotic populist everyone expected for his first year as Premier, and (to his political benefit) much less so subsequently. I feel like there have been stories almost daily lately that suggest he might be going back to the future. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The obvious snarky answer to this is, gee, why hadn’t anyone in Canada thought of restoring tariff-free automotive trade between us and the U.S. before? www.conservative.ca/save-our-aut...

I’m not sure when this clip is from. But it does bring to mind speculation I’ve heard recently about whether the Alberta NDP remains the Alberta NDP, or breaks the affiliation and renames itself, if/when Avi Lewis becomes federal leader.

I feel like the Raptors were harder to play against when they had the now-injured CMB in the starting lineup, instead of the then-injured Poeltl. Which I guess is better than the other way around, in terms of future upside.

I'm a fan of Billy Bishop, in its current form at least, but Doug Ford's weird obsession with showing dominance over Toronto is one of the more unattractive aspects of his premiership. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Hard to think of a more opportune time to launch this particular technology. www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd...

Remember when there was this idea that we’d have a post-COVID Roaring ‘20s?

This sounds like hell. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

In fairness, by his own past accounts, he likely thought they were losers for getting killed.

I’m not inside the heads of any oil sands executives choosing not to rush ahead with new projects. But if, say, you weren’t totally sold on a project’s economics anyway (and more keen on maximizing existing operations), blaming Ottawa for the choice to slow-roll would certainly be politically savvy.

It continues to surprise me, having covered the Ontario Liberal Party during its McGuinty/Wynne-era dominance, how resistible its leadership race is proving to would-be candidates. Mike Crawley, who seemed to have some (relative) buzz, is the latest to take a pass. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States

I would normally rush to see a new Safdie movie, but I haven’t been able to bring myself to sit through this guy on the big screen. I think I might be able to get past it if not for his role in the 51st state stuff. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

From Poilievre's speech today: "Net-zero policies drove energy and food costs up and paycheques down, all to fill the pockets of green grifters."

I chafed at the Bills promo game with the Argos, but at least that purportedly had a purpose around growing football (and celebrating Doug Flutie). Why is MLSE forcing an American team down the throats of Canadian fans of a different sport?

Take 2, I guess. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Yeah, I can never understand why people get worked up about the clock changing by an hour a couple of times a year. But this would really bother me.

Any country that doesn’t produce its own oil keeps getting more and more incentive to accelerate the shift to renewables, even if it couldn’t care less about climate change.

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

Canada’s immediate support for the Iran attack, and the surprise with which I think many are responding to it, is kind of a reminder that despite our Prime Minister’s oratory prowess, the philosophy behind our foreign policy is still rather hard to pinpoint.

I continue to struggle with how anyone can be gung-ho on prioritizing trade over human rights/foreign interference worries with India and against doing so with China (or vice versa).

Interesting (if testy) interview. I thought Kenney was on solid ground arguing it's not either/or between underfunding and over-migration to explain program strains; weaker on Alberta rapidly going from blanket calls for more migrants to complaining about too many. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

I’ve been unable to convince myself that I have sufficient professional obligation to sit through Trump tonight. And life is too short.

Not the most important aspect of what’s happened in Mexico the past few days, but it’s an unfortunately timed blow to that country in terms of tourism from Canada, which has been surging as fewer Canadians travel to the U.S.

Danielle Smith didn’t wait for one set of grievances with Ottawa to be fully resolved before already setting up the next. My column on why that’s something Mark Carney should keep in mind as negotiations following up on the MOU continue. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

I might add to this: With emergency tariffs out but sectoral tariffs still in, it probably no longer holds that while Canada and Mexico have it bad from Trump's tariffs, we have it relatively good compared to other countries. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

This seems an important point. Trump will still be a chaos agent, but the fear of waking up in the morning to some completely new form of economic terrorism on your country maybe goes down a little.

Shocking that the Ottawa-Alberta MOU did not lead to a peaceful new era in which Danielle Smith was willing/able to go a few months without grievances. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

It feels like we’re simultaneously living next to a dangerous superpower and a sad little kleptocracy.

Felt great watching Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie in a packed theatre last night. Highly recommend going out and seeing it, both to Buy Canadian in an industry dominated by Americans, and because there aren’t enough opportunities to watch good comedies in a crowd anymore.

It's always a bit funny to me when centralization in PMO is treated as a recent phenomenon, since there have been complaints about it for as long as I can remember. That said, my impression is Carney's government might be the most centralized yet. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

It bums me out that Jesse Jackson died seeing this version of his country.

A look at Canada’s trade mission to Mexico, which start tomorrow. It seems to be a serious effort to lay groundwork for greater exports there, not a bunch of pre-arranged announcements as we’ve seen on some trade missions past. We’ll see what comes of it. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Aaand there you go: Trump’s sudden about-face on the most important Canada-US border crossing came after meeting with the billionaire family that owns the rival bridge. Nice scoop, confirming suspicions of everyone who has followed this file and is familiar with Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

With the ZEV mandate dead, the federal Conservatives seem to have shifted to just opposing any policy related to EVs. E.g. they just sent out a release lambasting some spending on charging infrastructure as unaffordable subsidization.

Joined The Decibel to talk about the demise of the ZEV mandate, and what comes next. Kind of croaked my way through it, as I'm losing my voice to some sort of bug I've been getting over, but at least that was motivation to try to keep my answers concise. www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

Does Greer think *all* of Canada’s GDP relies on exports? Does he know how to calculate GDP? Historically, 75% of our *exports* have gone to the U.S. but that only ever translated into 17% of GDP. And Canadian businesses are actively pursuing other markets. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28...

This whole bridge thing is confusing, since Trump just told Jamil Jivani that he loves us.

Jason Kenney had a pretty good statement on Xitter: