Whose With Me?

 

When Regina Heard a Call to Prayer: Canada’s Uneven Metabolism of Change

 

A prairie city built for quiet confronts an unexpected sound, revealing how Canada absorbs — or resists — the world arriving at its doorstep

I’ve been coast to coast in this country — from Baffin Island’s hard light to Halifax’s salt air, from Inuvik’s midnight sun to Toronto’s steamy newsroom clatter — and Regina remains the one place where change tries to knock before entering. I spent a decade there back when the city believed its own myth of Bible Belt permanence. 

Carney Lowers the Lantern: Ottawa Backs Away from MAID Expansion

The Technocrat Arrives at Dusk

Canadians woke this week to the soft thump of Mark Carney lowering a lantern onto the MAID file and announcing, with the calm of a man reading a weather report, that “the direction is clear.” Translation: the federal government will not be expanding MAID to include mental‑illness‑only cases — not now, and not in any politically imaginable future. 

This is not a revelation. It is a confirmation that Ottawa has finally read the room.