AI-driven killer-submersibles will change naval warfare. Yet Canada is planning to spend more than $100 billion on 15 large surface ships. My latest op-ed, as a gift article:

Donald Trump gets played, again:

Canada Post is losing money! But so is the Canadian military. Most Canadians don't use the post or the military very much, but they're both still essential services.

Le Collège de France, where I'm speaking at a conference on property rights (or not!) in Outer Space.

Check out the timely and important contributions from Steven Freeland, Robin J. Frank, Kiran Mohan Vazhapully and Ashna Lazatin in this new co-publication by the Outer Space Institute and Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

My commute comes with a view.

I'm flying home after a wonderful conference with the @esil-sedi.bsky.social (European Society of International Law). With many thanks to hosts @heikekrieger.bsky.social and Helmut Aust and their amazing team at the Free University of Berlin.

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Next up at the Salt Spring Forum: Ginger Gosnell-Myers, Chair of Greenpeace Canada!

I was delighted to speak with Katharina Glaab, @jfmorin.bsky.social , Adam Bower, Xiao-Shan Yap and the rest of the NordSpace research team at their workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland, this morning!

"Judith Gradwell, 80, who ... held a sign that read, 'I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action', is unafraid of being arrested. 'It doesn’t matter, I’ve got my sandwiches in my backpack,' she said."

"People don't understand how someone who has championed climate issues for 15 years can suddenly become prime minister of a G7 country and stop talking about climate change. Not a word about it. What's going on?"

Tagging a military institution, "Department of War," doesn't sound very Nobel Peace Prize'ish...

I can't decide which is worse: either our government doesn't understand that these guys are Nazis, or they think it's a good idea to invite Nazis to their cabinet retreat.

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

I'll be in Ottawa next month, speaking at this timely conference. Registration is free for both on-line and in-person attendees.

The Salt Spring Forum welcomes John Vaillant, author of The Golden Spruce and Fire Weather, tomorrow night at ArtSpring. The event is sold-out, but please check our website for other events this Fall! www.saltspringforum.com

Zip lines stretch on hot days. This results in more people being stranded halfway, leading to fear, panic and, ultimately, an embarrassing rescue. So, you ask, how do I know?

Will Canada be next?

Dalhousie, the Air Canada of Canadian universities.

Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in return for a security guarantee - provided by Russia, the US and UK in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, and violated by Vladimir Putin in 2014 and 2022.

Canadian Labour Congress throws its support behind the striking Air Canada flight attendents, putting Prime Minister Mark Carney in a very tough spot.

It is as if Canada was asked if the right to strike extended to a largely female workforce, and answered not really. Good for CUPE for holding fast on this one. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-canada-flights-sunday-1.7611078

The Carney government should make payment for all work, including during boarding and deplaning, a necessary outcome of the binding abitration.

U.S. foreign policy is directed by whoever spoke with Donald Trump last.

The Truth North Strong and ... complicit? Great reporting by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social @thetyee.ca

Giulia Foscari and I had a great conversation on the Voice of Commons podcast!

Here's my interview with E-International Relations, on everything from teaching the Gaza War to co-authoring with an astrophysicist!

If you missed my controversial take on the consequences of the ICJ advisory opinion on climate change for Canada, here's a gift article:

We've been super-busy at the Outer Space Institute!

Reposting this for folks on the West Coast.

"Two now-clear risks – large compensation payments and a wave of court cases – have changed the parameters of viable public and corporate policy overnight." My latest, as a gift article:

"U.N. aid delivery system, which Israel derided and undermined, was largely effective in providing food to Gaza’s desperate and hungry population."

"Relations with China continue to be strained and Byers said statements that are 'potentially escalatory' about what the Chinese are — and are not — doing in the Arctic need to be examined carefully."

“If you believe, as corporations or as networks, you can make yourself so innocuous, that you can serve a gruel so flavourless, that you will never again be on the boy king's radar … you are fucking wrong." www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/m...

“Earth is not a sacrifice zone for Elon Musk’s ego trip to Mars”. - Lynda Williams

The UK is allowing voting from the age of 16. Canada should do likewise. It's not as if old folks have been doing a great job running our countries, let alone the planet.

"Nobody has ever campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize like Donald J. Trump, and seeing his naked ambition, sycophants everywhere are rushing to nominate him." My latest, as a gift article:

"Nobody has ever campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize like Donald J. Trump, and seeing his naked ambition, sycophants everywhere are rushing to nominate him." My latest, as a gift article:

Wieder in Deutschland!

"You will never be disappointed by the United States of America" - Donald Trump, in a letter to Mark Carney yesterday. Wanna bet?

Tony Blair and Boston Consulting Group: Vultures over carrion.

Channelling my inner Prussian during a workshop at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

“[P]oliticians and pundits often escalate the concern: ‘Oh my God, the Russians are coming,’ or ‘The Chinese are coming.’ I see no evidence of that. The Russians already own half of the Arctic. They don’t need any more.”

“There’s a role here for national governments to perhaps require controlled re-entries or, at a minimum, to only contract for launches that include controlled re-entries.”

Beatriz Soeiro, the Outer Space Institute's Research Coordinator, read a statement - on the need for a broad interpretation of the duty to assist persons in distress - at the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space this week. Meanwhile, I did my best to look serious.

Everyone looks bad here, including federal Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland who sharply criticized the purchase.

NATO Chief Mark Rutte claims he didn't mean to call Trump "daddy". I met him at NATO in February. He will say anything to ingratiate himself with the gangster regime. What a contrast with the clear messaging coming from the EU and Mark Carney on a new direction. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

"Defense Intelligence Agency report indicates that the sites were not damaged as much as some administration officials had hoped, and that Iran retains control of almost all of its nuclear material, meaning if it decides to make a nuclear weapon it might still be able to do so relatively quickly."