If you're in Geneva, please join me at the Graduate Institute on Wednesday, 11 March!

Feel like a last minute trip to Salt Spring Island? Canada's former Minister of Environment and Climate Change will be at the Salt Spring Forum tomorrow night!

I hope the U.S. men's hockey team wins their semi-final today, so that Canada can crush them on Sunday.

Hey Salt Spring! This weekend, Feb 21, I’ll be joining The Salt Spring Forum to talk about #RunLikeAGirl 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🕠 7:30–9:00 p.m. PT 📍 Salt Spring Island, BC 🎟 Details & tickets: www.saltspringforum.com/new-events/2...

Sadly, I can't see Canada achieving 70 percent domestically-sourced defence procurement without including subsidiaries of US firms, like Lockheed Martin Canada, in the accounting.

Happy Valentine's Day, Elon.

This is my country.

"We are at the table together with France, with the United Kingdom, with Germany, with Italy, with Poland. That's what makes us strong."

"What happens if the minimum lethal amount of debris from each satellite does not burn up and reaches the ground intact?" You don't want to know the answer.

"Mr. Musk’s plan has serious weaknesses." I took my concerns about 1 million data-centre satellites to the business section of Canada's national newspaper.

I testified on the topic of critical minerals before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence this morning. The video of the session is available here:

The sky is, indeed, falling. Cutting-edge research from Ewan Wright, available open access!

“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.” - Billie Eilish #Grammys #ICEout

"[I]f you value the cost of dry cleaning your clothing after inevitably upchucking all over it during the end credits, then you should stay home, cancel your Prime Video account in protest, and send hopes and prayers that 2028 arrives sooner than later." -- Barry Hertz, reviewing "Melania" in G&M.

Let's make this a global anthem:

I had a nice chat about Arctic security and sovereignty with Tyler Olsen of @thetyee.ca :

Good reporting here. Please watch and share.

Only in Canada: A news story about the government considering whether it might, perhaps, do something.

A message in 3 flags: U.S. tourists are welcome, but this is a different country.

My essay on standing up over Greenland fills a page in today's Globe and Mail. Here's another gift link:

It's been a busy week for me at the Globe and Mail, including this podcast explaining international law: what it is, why it matters, and how even superpowers pay a price for violations.

"Greenland may be our first, best, and last chance to stand up to Donald Trump" My latest, as a gift article:

This essay, published last April, could have been written yesterday:

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

CBC radio host Stephen Quinn and I had a nice chat this morning - about Donald Trump, Venezuela, and Canadian self-respect.

My latest, as a "gift article":

La dolce vita.

Tottenham lost to Liverpool on Saturday, which was bad news for my PhD student Ewan Wright. But he's a good sport, and I tried hard not to celebrate.

Can you name one good thing that Donald Trump has done? I played that game in today's Globe and Mail. Gift article here:

My latest, as a gift article:

My "fun" evening: Frantically rewriting a newspaper op-ed minutes before publication in response to a major policy announcement on social media by Donald Trump.

If you're in frigid Lethbridge tonight, let me raise your temperature with some frank thoughts on Canada and Donald Trump:

"Elbows Up, Elbows Down? Donald Trump and the future of Canada" That's the topic of my presentation in Lethbridge this Thursday night. All welcome!

I'm a serious football (soccer) fan, but Gianni Infantino has perverted himself and FIFA so very badly that I've decided to boycott the World Cup.

Angela Rasmussen gave a master class in virology to the Salt Spring Forum last night. From polio to COVID19 to bird flu -- why we should worry, and what we can all do (starting with updated vaccinations for COVID and flu).

What a coincidence! The three host countries all have easy runs through the group stage.

"Donald Trump with the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence." - Guardian photo caption says it all!

Want to see courage? Watch this short interview with Kimberly Prost, the Canadian judge on the International Criminal Court.

"It's spectacularly dangerous to conceive of putting a pipeline to northern B.C. and hauling that oil across the Gulf of Alaska to Asian markets."

The Canadian prime minister knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. This National Geographic photo is from the Great Bear Rainforest, through which Mark Carney's new pipeline for heavy oil would pass.

Steven Guilbeault is an honourable man.

I grew up with a family rumour about Indigenous ancestry. As a young adult, I checked it out with genealogical research and DNA testing. I am not Indigenous. Neither, it turns out, is Thomas King.

Minister McGuinty, what gives? Surely the Canadian military has no interest in learning IDF lessons about waging genocide. We need confirmation no Canadian soldiers took part. And if they did, a whole lot of explaining & accountability.

Mark Carney continues to distance himself from Justin Trudeau. But if there's a political calculation here, I can't see it.

Andrew Coyne is visiting the Salt Spring Forum tonight -- for a community discussion about Canadian democracy, the topic of his new book.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I hope Albertans will remember that trans kids and teens are living breathing humans who just want to be themselves, without fear of hate and discrimination. Demonizing kids merely to score political points in some weird culture war is craven and cruel.

Political appointees overruled a senior U.S. military lawyer who was concerned the strikes "could amount to extrajudicial killings."

Sloppy reporting by @theguardian.com, which should have made clear that foreign vessels are free to enter the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone, which is different from the 12 nautical mile territorial sea.

Turns out that Russian officials weren't the only ones reading my op-eds in the Globe and Mail about their war crimes and crimes against humanity. I remain in awe of the courage and perseverance of the Ukrainian people.

In 2002, political hacks in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel produced the notorious "torture memos". They're at it again now, trying to excuse extrajudicial killings on the most implausible of legal grounds.