Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Bad news just keeps coming...

I am sure that taking away pre-clearance for Canadians flying to the US will do WONDERS for the 25% drop in tourism. So much genius at work here. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Big Aspirin must be behind all this.

Well said Flavio Volpe

SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.

If you need an interesting dog story to distract from the doom scrolling…

The fake crocodile tears of this guy is amazing…like his master, he has no shame. The only other option is he knows little or nothing about Canada and Canadians.

Donald Trump’s Tariff Dealmaker-in-Chief I came across a long read article in The New Yorker (a bit dated...it's from July) that paints a vivid picture of Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce. I have to say it confirms many of my previously held views of the man, and of the administration he…

USTR has opened the comment period for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report re: foreign trade barriers, deadline October 30 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17782.pdf

Mexico trip kicks off globe-hopping travel season for PM Carney nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/15/m...

how britain will be welcoming trump this week “trump loves making history, so on wednesday channel 4 will do just that.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/c...

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Top Trump officials used Charlie Kirk’s death to threaten liberal groups, making unsubstantiated claims about a “domestic terror” movement.

Stephen Miller was directly involved in one of the largest acts of organized domestic political violence the United States has seen in modern times, the Jan 6 insurrection. Any news org that doesn't make this fact central is helping Miller deceive its customers.

More horseshit MAID coverage by National Post. You read the headline, designed to make you horrified. Then you read the details of the cases and you realize: these people had incurable conditions and made decisions that anti-MAID moralists personally disagree with. nationalpost.com/news/maid-re...

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... “Canadian climate scientists are stunned that McKitrick and the report’s other co-authors have been given such a huge U.S. government platform to spread fringe climate denial views to the public and decision-makers.”

Carney surprises many with appearance at long-distance trail race nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/07/c...

Unfortunately, the US will not recover from this dumbing down. The damage has already been done.

Hegseth doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Summary executions without due process are illegal according to international law.

The world going mad…

The Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, like Donald Trump, is on the wrong side of history.

What an disingenuous con man …unwinding…actually smashing trade deals is what he has been doing since inauguration.

Finally…

Graham Greene has died. A Canadian acting icon, he earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. He also won a Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen Award, along with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award. He also earned a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

"The Economist finds that foreign arrivals at American airports are down by 3.8% compared with 2024, or 1.3m fewer people. .. Canadian entries at American airports are down by 7.4% so far this year, and by 13.2% over the summer. Car crossings have dropped by more"

UN considers bigger security force as gangs extend grip on Haiti reut.rs/3HV4sz7

I'm reading the US Appellate Court ruling. www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord... How's your Friday evening doing? I'm not ready to pull out the bubbly up here in Canada. On the one hand, the Court ruled that the "Trafficking" tariffs against Canada are NOT authorized under IEEPA.

“Among other things, most of the seaborne drug trade travels to the United States via the Pacific, not the Atlantic, where the U.S. forces are, and much of what arrives via the Caribbean comes on clandestine flights” www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...