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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Quebec’s Quiet March Toward Oct.5: A Subterranean Election Primer


When a province whispers its future under its breath and nobody outside hears a word

 Quebec’s 2026 election unfolds quietly underground 

The Quiet Contest
This election will be decided by frames, not slogans: – Public safety as civic order (CAQ) – Cultural continuity as political identity (PQ) – Individual rights as civic foundation (Liberals)  And when the PQ softens its referendum posture and the Liberals fail to seize the moment, the CAQ doesn’t surge — it settles. Like gravity. Like a custodian flicking on the lights in a room everyone forgot they were standing in.

Thursday, September 3, 2026

How Long can Canada Survive a Massive Trade Disruption? Is Canada Living on Borrowed Time?

A Fictional STORM OF THE CENTURY 

Canada imports 75% of its fruit and 50% of its vegetables,

 Worst‑Case Scenario: Pretend you live in a subarctic nation suddenly living  under leaders who believe in neither winter nor survival 

Originally Published Jan. 25, 2026

This isn’t about blaming a President for wanting to enforce law and order within his nation's borders. That is his responsibility. The concern lies closer to home.

Canada imports 75% of its fruit and 50% of its vegetables, so it is patently reckless for Canada's own leadership to posture and provoke without concept of the consequences. We are not the United States which can feed itself.

We cannot feed ourselves. We cannot even come close. We fall 50 percent or more short of feeding ourselves all year long.


Wednesday, September 2, 2026

The BC Right: A Riddle Wrapped in a Rupture Inside a Caucus Meeting


 Why the Opposition Keeps Collapsing Faster Than a Government Can Drift 

Who can make hide nor hair of the BC right? Eby, who inherited the NDP from the late John Horgan, didn’t exactly scrape past John Rustad; he won a majority while the right fractured into competing factions. In the political storms of the moment, the feeling of a close margin had lingered because Rustad’s Conservatives surged in the polls and briefly looked capable of replacing the NDP government.

The illusion of power forming on the right shattered again today.  The 
MLA who crossed today was Elena Lawson — Conservative to Independent, citing Findlay's leadership.

 The BC Legislature’s current standings tell the story: 

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