it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

Merry Christmas to Global News (and if someone did it on purpose, the first round is on me).

Kathryn May: Mark Carney’s sweeping deputy minister shuffle signals a strategic reset policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/12/carn...

DHS will have to be disbanded as well as ICE when Democracy is restored. Both ICE and DHS were overreactions to 9/11. Time to undo that bit of madness.

In Quebec, there's often a lament that we don't produce hockey players like we used to. It's worse in Montreal, where we go outside the city and get clobbered systematically. Today hockey activities at one Montreal rink are cancelled because the city can't staff it. Happy first day of winter!

Somehow I missed the memo when JD replaced LLB.

Everything is just fine in Jetsland.

Trump’s meandering primetime address raises new questions about Joe Biden’s press conferences.

The Quebec Liberal leadership race lasted about four times longer than Rodriguez’s leadership.

One year from now, if we’re in the leadup to a Quebec independence referendum, this news today of minimal interest outside Quebec might wind up being a consequential development in Canadian history.

Apparently Hellebuyck DOES make goals.

Literally anyone who has spent like one day in a newsroom could have predicted this. I'm just some guy and I predicted it a couple of days ago. How are these people running the Washington Post!? www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time. The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.

I was honoured and humbled to be invested into the Order of Canada by Her Excellency, Governor-General Mary Simon in the company of so many outstanding people. www.gg.ca/en/citations via @theglobeandmail.com #journalism

Les photos incontournables de Jacques Nadeau www.ledevoir.com/actualites/s...

Jacques Nadeau was one of the great news photographers in Quebec. The article about his death highlights this iconic shot...

This is a great idea.

A friend is trying to give me his Victoire tickets and I'm finally starting to understand why people hate TIcketmaster so much. (I don't get out a lot.)

IYKYK: Richard Mailey: Homer Simpson’s gun and the notwithstanding clause policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/home...

Jeffery A. Tobin: Redefining sovereignty in the critical minerals era policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/sove...

Your must read of the day. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2e9d3fb...

Doug Cuthand, the Indigenous affairs columnist for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post, is retiring after 35 years. Impossible to overstate what an important voice he has been in Saskatchewan. thestarphoenix.com/opinion/colu...

Danny Parys: Keeping Canadian companies in Canadian hands policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/cana...

"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves... this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment." Oof, this bleakly fascinating story from @nickhunebrown.bsky.social is today's media industry must-read, and with a hell of a kicker:

Firms reporting terrible ROI for GenAI bodes ill for PM Carney with his all-in focus on GenAI, as @bhaggart.bsky.social & I explain in this oped for @policyoptions.irpp.org policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ai-r...

Valérie Lapointe, Charles Breton: Unlocking growth through interprovincial trade reform policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/comm...

Jared Wesley, Mireille Lalancette, Alex Marland: How to tamp down hyperpartisanship in Canadian politics policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/part...

Natasha Tusikov, Blayne Haggart: Canada’s AI strategy risks democracy and digital sovereignty policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ai-r...

Clément Gagnon: Souveraineté numérique : le Canada doit protéger ses intérêts policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2025/11/s...

Joshua Langston, Shawn Harmon & Janice E. Graham: On ostriches, polarizing politics and buried heads. Why CFIA needed to act decisively to enforce public health safety regulations in the controversial B.C. case. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ostr...

Rachel Samson: La capacité du budget à remplir ses promesses reste à démontrer. Pour réussir, la fonction publique devra exceller dans l’exécution, alors que son personnel et son financement réduits. policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2025/11/b... @policyoptions.irpp.org @rsamson.bsky.social

Somebody should mobiliZe to buy Mark Carney a CANADIAN Oxford Dictionary.

This is going to be a fantastic event and I can’t wait to come up to Ottawa for it. See you there 💫

I stopped covering muncipal campaigns a few years ago and had to start reading up like a regular citizen before I vote. As I was perusing the CBC promise tracker, I was amused to find this on one of the biggest city challenges. (Yes, the details behind the promises are different, but still.)

Montreal has managed to go 12 years without a mayor resigning in disgrace. Thank you Valerie Plante and may new mayor Martinez Ferrada extend the streak to 16. (It’s a low bar I know but you should have seen the place before.)

There will be the usual lectures about turnout in the Montreal municipal election but in 34 years of voting I’ve never come closer to not bothering.

Pity the Sunday news reporters in Toronto who thought they’d be covering a victory party today but are instead chasing the red-head kid.

I thought the Jays were good at things like not falling asleep on bases.

There are a lot of Torontonians in this Montreal bar.

Shohei wearing those New Balances, like a dad

If Canadian PM Carney manages a “reset” with China, it will be the fifth reset in 20 years under three Prime Ministers. Two of those resets have required their own reset, by the same PM, after they went south. Heavy lies the hand on the China Reset button www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

My 11-year-old officially works harder to accommodate people at his birthday parties than the Quebec state.

My longstanding unpopular stance is that the beginning of the end was comment sections on news stories. The day we created this false narrative that everyone is entitled to "weigh in" on literal facts, we created the conditions for this BS where you have to "hear people out" or you're censoring.

Join us on Nov 18 for our annual Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, one of North America’s top voices on health & science misinformation. He'll unpack the forces shaping our “information chaos” & what it takes to separate fact from fiction in today’s world. 🎟️Register now: irpp.org?p=20841

En tout cas, c'est pas le moment de se déguiser en Bob L'Éponge.

An amazing obituary with an unexpected appearance by the Raelian movement, a cult known for UFO belief and sexual libertinism.

Every once in a while I discover a hole in my news knowledge because I didn't get past the ragey internet discussion.

Michael M. Atkinson & Haizhen Mou: "Creating an independent fiscal council charged with designing fiscal rules and monitoring compliance would help restore discipline to Canada’s fiscal governance." policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/fede...

Et voila: The English version of Luc Godbout and Suzie St-Cerny on where Quebec has made progress and where it is falling back economically and fiscally since the 1995 referendum. policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/socio...

Tonight’s hockey opinion is they should eliminate the first and third TV timeout and just play ads between whistles since most stoppages are 25 seconds anyway. (Yes my hidden agenda is to make my DVR skip-ahead more efficient.)