UNESCO is probably seen as a subversive "woke" organization by the Trump Regime. Perhaps that is why Israel is now recklessly striking Lebanese targets near UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Echos of ISIS cultural cleansing in Syria. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Making America Great Again, one scam after another. www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

Visibility 80 kilometres in rain-washed evening air above the Salish Sea.

Serious question: Is the Iranian regime now imitating the American regime by pumping and dumping oil and stock markets so as to magnify their surreptitious foreign investments. Beginning to see a pattern here. Plying the markets with well-timed press releases. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

"Whadda ya say we go down to the beach today." "You know, the beach you can see at super-super-low tide."

Sadly, every word is true. The American experiment is over. Killed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one in power blinked an eye to stop it.

Frustration is not the right word. Try angry. Which leads to defiance. Which leads to rupture. Which leads to finding new friends elsewhere. Which leads to satisfaction. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Turns out the "deal" was just another pump and dump after all. Anyone think Trump can actually keep this scam going till the end of his second term? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Is this a pump? Or a dump? I'm very sorry but I took my eye off the ball and now I've lost track. www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...

First, there was "Divorce Italian Style", starring Marcello Mastroianni (1961) Now, we have "Ceasefire, Israeli Style", starting Benjamin Netanyahu www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Today's Alberta separatism is not about creating an independent country. It's all about Trump's obsession with oil (Venezuela, Greenland, Iran). Why did Alberta's premier rush to kiss Trump's ring in Mar-a-Lago? Oil. Annexation is a more likely goal than independence. share.google/ggvemaZhMtdl...

A little mermaid of the Salish Sea.

Corruption is like an iceberg. Typically only 1/10th is visible on the surface. So Trump's $1.8 billion gift to his J6 insurrectionists probably means at least $18 billion of taxpayer money is being diverted. share.google/faPe00SuhbQ1...

There will come a day of reckoning. www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...

Alberta will hold a referendum to vote on whether to hold a referendum on whether to self-isolate and become a landlocked small nation entirely dependent on its oil industry but with no access to the sea. Think a sort of North American version of South America's Bolivia. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Once European NATO countries spend as much money on their military as the USA, will they too be permitted to invade or threaten to annex other countries like the USA does? Thinking here of Venezuela, Greenland, Panama, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, Gaza, Colombia. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The United States on Wednesday lifted sanctions imposed on UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, a sharp critic of Israel, following a court order. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260521-us-...

All this mess because Trump cannot rise to the occasion any more. Desperate to prove his virility in time for the next season of South Park. So Trump, Hegseth and Little Marco must be off to war again. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

IDF glee. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Barbarians at the Dock.

Imagine screaming “stay out of politics” at the Pope, literally the head of a global faith, while you stage Christian nationalist rallies, televise Bible readings like state propaganda, and hold government worship services to “rededicate” the country. ‘Stay out of religion,’ you hypocrites!

Life goes on in the big city.

Somebody told Trump that Canada will not be buying F-35s. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A little closer than necessary.

Simple solution to avoid being sued by those organized rich guys who are looking to extract billions of dollars from sports fans for the 3-country games in June. Call it the Beatlejuice rule. Do not say their name for any reason, at any time, to anyone. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Well-known portable toilet company "Trump Dump Inc." has reportedly been awarded a no-bid contract for the Salute to America event in Washington DC on July 4. White House has vigorously denied rumours the familiar gold-colored "Trump Dumps" are made in China. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Light chop on the afternoon of Saturday, May 16, 2026 west of the Point Atkinson Lighthouse.

USA comes clean and notifies world that its foreign policy is actually cooked up and implemented by CIA. Next up: CIA will begin issuing press releases re pending covert action to overturn foreign governments, hack computer systems, bribe foreign officials. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

May 14 2026 1730: Canada's largest West Coast port witnesses another peaceful departure of a foreign-flagged cruise ship heading for the protected waters of the Salish Sea.

1987: Ronald Reagan: Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall 2026: Donald Trump: Mr. Carney, Tear Down This Bridge www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Goodby fellows. It was nice knowing you - or seemed to be on the surface - until January 20 2017. Our only regret was sending our troops to Afghanistan to die or suffer catastrophic wounds in battle because USA triggered NATO article 5. Sorry, one other regret: Trump bad mouthing our war dead.

How does Trump love Xi? Let me count the ways. Trump loves Xi for his depth and breadth and 6'5" height (apologies to E.B.B.)

"Trump …who has shown authoritarian yearnings in his own country ...was far better behaved in one of the world’s most repressive regimes than when he shows up in Europe’s democracies like a human wrecking ball - a strange, uncharacteristic deference". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Bed head heron.

Why do Americans spend fortunes on "poison" smuggled from Mexico? Why are Wall Street addicts never charged? Why are police ineffective? Intensifying grievances against USA's neighbours is not a good look; reeks of deflection and serious domestic rot. Very sad. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Watch. The federal trial courts will be the next to be doged. And that is coming sooner than you think.

I’m not saying the person on the right deserves the same fate as the person on the left, but maybe you are?

Canada Goose chick foraging at low tide on the Dundarave shore. A gentle soul, luminescent with life, unscarred by grievance or hate. May 9 , 2026 14:00.

One more for desert.

Dining "al fresco" in the shallow waters of the Salish Sea on the evening of May 7, 2026

There's your answer pumpers and dumpers. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

FIFA springs to mind for some reason. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

come on folks! Just 20.1 cents to go and we can break TEN DOLLARS A GALLON WE CAN DO THIS!!!

An authentic cease-fire has been in effect in these Pacific coast waters since 1945. Let's keep it that way.

The noun "cease-fire" no longer means "a suspension of active hostilities" in English dictionaries published in the USA. "Cease-fire" now means either "war" or "peace" depending on whether it is spoken before or after the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange. (P and D Words & Phrases)