James Moore and I talk with Peter Mansbridge about the Carney Majority, our coming robot overlords, and I stump for the Habs. Great talk as always. youtube.com/watch?v=hAOf...

Some pictures are worth a lot more than a thousand words. Congratulations to everybody in this one.

The Economist was right on the nose this week.

“A.I.’s impressive capabilities have made it easier to start a war, but they have not yet been enough to win one.” Iran Is Ending the Dream of Remote-Controlled War www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/o...

This was my favourite conversation yet with James and Peter.

Trump: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!!!” Iran: “We’re not surrendering, and here are our conditions.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The Trump Administration is easing sanctions on Russia in response to the crisis caused by the US/Israel war on Iran. 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 🇷🇺 1/2

Half of the US hates the other. Hard to solve any big American problem until they solve that one. Great to see 🇨🇦 on the right end of this list.

This was a fun conversation to support @kronellenfitsch.bsky.social’s great new pod.

This was a fun conversation. Sports and politics.

Geopolitical disruption isn’t an automatic sales opportunity for fossil fuel producers. There are too many cheap alternatives, so it’s more likely to generate demand destruction. Europe’s gas consumption post Russian invasion of Ukraine is a case in point.

The US Department of State advises all American civilians to leave Middle East North Africa region.

#AI may make a lot of jobs obsolete, but I doubt it will hold a candle to the mechanical reaper or the threshing machine.

In honour of Canadian curling Saturday, here’s a killer song about the sport by a legendary Winnipeg band. 🇨🇦 🥌 Tournament of Hearts, by The Weakerthans youtube.com/watch?v=xQF5...

James Moore and I give Jamil Jivani the treatment he deserves for acting like a diplomatic toddler wandering into traffic. youtube.com/watch?v=l70a...

America’s problems in one chart.

Jivani’s trip to Washington forced many to ask: How do you handle an MP going rogue from their party? But first, where does 🇨🇦 fit in the new global security order? James Moore & @gmbutts.bsky.social join. 🔊 on SXM Canada Talks, podcast platforms. 📺 on YouTube: youtu.be/l70aLxHMU-E

Rubio‘s remarks here at the Munich Security Conference sound like he ran Carney‘s Davos speech through ChatGPT with a command to “make it MAGA.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

You can ignore science, but science will never ignore you. Measles incidence in the United States.

Whole speech is worth watching.

Calling Trump a ‘fascist’ or ‘Nazi’ has become more commonplace given ICE, Venezuela, and Greenland. But is it correct? That’s the question for James Moore & @gmbutts.bsky.social to start their latest conversation on The Bridge. 🔊 on SXM Canada Talks & podcast platforms at noon EST.

Most countries these days are faced with an ‘affordability crisis.’ Voters want action, but what action is truly possible from government? That’s the first question in 2026 for James Moore & @gmbutts.bsky.social on The Bridge. 🔊 on SXM Canada Talks & podcast platforms at noon EST.

This our 20th annual #TopRisks report at Eurasia Group. It is a bumper crop in 2026 — the most complex and potentially consequential risk environment in memory. It informs leaders around the world in every sector. We hope it helps you make sense of things. www.eurasiagroup.net/issues/Top-R...

Six of the top 10 are either in a kinetic conflict or threatening one, with each other or a neighbour. Or they’re under blanket sanctions. Or both. Yet oil is at ~$60 a barrel.

A chart that says a lot about a lot. #AI is not going to improve this situation, to say the least.

Merry Christmas from the best gift ever. 🎄 🐶

Pure gold paragraph of political advice. Love that it’s all pronouns. It applies to everyone everywhere.

First read of Christmas is a long walk with a dear old friend. #AmReading 📚

2015 and 2025 were not for the faint of heart in Canadian politics.

A thousand times this.

America is disappointing these days, but there’s always New York City.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Catching up to where Pynchon saw the US going 50 years ago. #AmReading 📚

Carbon capture and storage remains deep in the fiction section of the climate solutions bookstore. reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...

It’ll be a weird day when pro-Palestine campus protestors in North America are carrying MBS placards. 21st century geopolitics are anything but dull. www.axios.com/2025/11/25/t...

Trigger warning: we go deep on pipelines this week. What makes them such a contentious issue in 🇨🇦 ? If you think today’s debate is fraught, wait til you hear about 1956. The end of CD Howe’s storied career, and an MP who literally died because of the stress. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Walking around the joyful Christmas market in Montreal thinking what a unique, free, and wondrous city and country.

New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson. “Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Normie America might come to the uncomfortable conclusion that QAnon was right about a few things today. #EpsteinFiles

On the upside, we can watch AI videos of wooly mammoths wrestling sabre toothed tigers on them long after they’re gone. 🦣 🐅

Who says the Antivaxx movement has accomplished nothing? www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Chart crime of the year 2025. AI could solve all problems, or extirpate all humans. 1/2

#Doha. I like the first and last photos best.

Everything is possible. Hard to argue, Doha.

Today is the 30th Anniversary of the Quebec referendum, when we came within a hair’s breadth of losing a great country. I wrote this piece last year because I was worried we are sleepwalking into another referendum, in a far more dangerous time. thewalrus.ca/the-quebec-s...

Barger with the Dave Parker strike from RF!

All this Reagan talk reminds me of a funny chart.

Eat it, Los Angeles. #BlueJays

People flock to Cape Breton in summertime, but mid-October is my favourite time on our beautiful island. 🍂 🍁

Happy Thanksgiving, folks. I’ve never been more thankful to live in this beautiful country. 🇨🇦