Never mind leading the free world, if Donald Trump were your ageing father, when would you take away his car keys?

This story is so lovely and human. I clicked on the headline with no idea who they were or what this was about. “I hope we are teaching people to be more kind. My whole life, as a child and a teen, I was bullied for my weight, and now people love us for what we do." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/t...

Algorithms are stupid, obsessive weirdos. YOU CLICKED ON THAT THING MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE NOTHING BUT THAT THING FOREVER NOW. It’s like going to someone’s house for dinner and saying yes to soup, so they shove a hose in your mouth and pump in 40 litres of bisque until you explode.

I would like everyone outside of Ottawa to know that we have a business called “D.T.S.M. Driving Schools.” And what does D.T.S.M. stand for? Driving Test School of Motoring. So it’s the Driving Test School of Motoring Driving Schools. The place so nice they named it thrice!

I was asked if I wanted an AI summary of a three word text.

Anyone heard anyone talking about the Epstein Files lately? No? Cool. Coolcoolcool.

I want a universal extension for my phone and computer that gets rid of all these garbage idiot AI "tools" I did not ask for and want no part of. No, I do not need you to summarize a four-page PDF for me, eff off! God help us all if we can't process such things with our own mushy, wet human brains.

"For a middle power prone to insecurity – after a year of being told by the thug next door that we aren’t a real country – Carney commanding that global spotlight tickled an erogenous zone Canada might not have realized it had." 😂 From @sproudfoot.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

I think if question period was more functional, a story like this would have prompted a question or two for the government this week.

This is a terrific profile of Gregory Bovino written with admirable restraint given the colourful and odious nature of the subject. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Laughed so hard I almost threw up. 10/10, no notes.

This is such a beautiful and wise first-person essay, and a reminder that the small, quotidian moments we share with people we love are everything in this life. Don DeWolfe on countless cups of tea with his wife Kate, even as her life was coming to an end: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-p...

I’m delighted to be a National Newspaper Award finalist in the long feature category, for the Mark Carney profile I wrote last spring. Here’s all the amazing work nominated: nna-ccj.ca/2025-finalis... And here’s my Carney profile: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/fed...

Here’s my take on Pierre Poilievre’s appearance on Joe Rogan. For starters, two hours and 23 minutes is…a lot. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

I really think that Trump’s corruption, dishonesty, cruelty, immaturity, spite, selfishness and greed have distracted everyone from the screamingly obvious fact that he is really not a smart man. It’s like forgetting your headache when you smash your thumb with a hammer.

This from Anne Applebaum is such a clear-eyed summary. It’s remarkable that people spent so long trying to slap coherent philosophical framing on Trump’s behaviour when the empty, immature, obtuse reality is so obvious. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Truer with every hour that goes by - except now the horse never goes quiet and no one is sure that it will all be okay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZ...

If I understand correctly, European leaders would like Donald Trump to look very carefully at this chart.

I don't know if this is a sign that someone should definitely or *definitely not* put me in charge of a publication, but if I was, I would have my best writer Taber-bound immediately to give this the full-dress treatment.

“But in his candid responses, there’s a translucence that’s unexpected given how controlled, adept and ego-driven he is. Surely a #centralbanker has the skills for a casino, but this one has no poker face.” #MarkCarney as #depicted by #ShannonProudfoot www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

A fantastic piece of writing by @sproudfoot.bsky.social. #cdnpoli

Also published today, an investigation by Kathryn Blaze Baum and me into what happened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in between the board of trustees hiring Canadian Sasha Suda to run the renowned museum and firing her for cause last fall. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

“Carney apparently strolling around Parliament Hill with his pockets full of delicious Floor-Crosser Snausages.” 🤣

New from me: Year One of Carney. He offered himself up as useful in a crisis, but he’s also spent the past year doing something no other PM has ever done: learn politics in real time, in front of us all. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

This report is horrifying because it’s indistinguishable from a dim-witted 14-year-old being in charge. Trump hasn’t thought through any of this (of course he hasn’t) and transparently does not care, outside of whatever will directly affect Donald J. Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Timothy Snyder: "...the U.S. government is using military force against a common enemy of the countries that have enriched Mr. Trump....This administration’s stupefyingly overt corruption raises the question of whether the U.S. armed forces are now for hire." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Ah, here’s a more recent story…still with maddeningly not-great news.

See? Even the part of the system that they’re still building has been designed for failure.

Oc Transpo has extra suckitude this week. Waited 25 minutes for a bus yesterday and today when there should have been half a dozen of them, and now Tunneys is so backed up that people are packed onto the platform and all the way up the stairs because of the half-trains.

Always interesting when a political story escapes containment and ends up in People. Today: Trump's nasty-looking neck rash and the absurd excuses the White House offers about the state of his health. The handshake explanation is laughable. people.com/donald-trump...

Anyway, if everything is going to hell, here’s a void in a black shopping bag definitely knowing how cute she is.

Getting really tired of having absolutely no idea what the worst-case scenario is for what comes next.

I’m reading Superfudge to my eight-year-old and it’s still a terrific book, but Peter Hatcher’s parents should really have been arrested for calling their kids Fudge and Tootsie.

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Cathal Kelly: "They talk about sea-doos, watches and stick tape. A lot of them went to college, but none of them actually *went* to college. They went to hockey. I’d be shocked if more than a handful of them had ever read a book that wasn’t Harry Potter." www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

Still very true, and very weird.

My god, this man is boring. Even when he’s being banana sandwiches, he is just so boring.

really remarkable how trump seems to relish sharing this lurid stories about the terrible pain people have experienced, and he does it exclusively to score some partisan points

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

Talk about the corruption plundering America

I still stand by this argument: if someone just gives him another game show, it will save everyone else a lot of trouble. Look at how sad and thirsty he is - big fella just wants another game show. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

You can see JD Vance’s remaining soul leaking out of his ears as he sits up there chortling obediently at Papa.

I only wish the women’s team had said “we can’t, we’re washing our hair.” Otherwise 10/10

That constant erosion of normalcy strikes me as one of the most dangerous and corrosive things right now. As appalling as Trump's behaviour is, we're all reacting to it at 30% volume because of how much we've been forcibly habituated to. Of course Trump operates like Tony Soprano, are you new here?

Two things leap out in this discussion on Trump's tariff meltdown: Canada is not mentioned - a reminder of the asymmetry of it all - and everyone talks casually about companies and countries deciding their next moves based on fear of White House retribution. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/p...

You can smell loser energy from a mile away here. And it‘s not the goose.

My most hockey-obsessed kid has retired to the basement for mini sticks because he can’t take the tension. I am administering a therapeutic breakfast beer to myself.

Weeping through the opening montage, this is going well.

I feel like I’m going to barf with nervous nationalism. GO CANADA GO! 🇨🇦❤️🏒