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Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts

Sunday, August 2, 2026

The Great Global Population Vanishing Act

A world running out of people, pretending it isn’t, and shouting “invasion” at shadows

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Why Every Nation Wants Immigrants, No Nation Can Spare Them, and Everyone Pretends Otherwise 


The great global population reversal is no longer a forecast; it’s a lived condition.

 Fertility collapse has swept across Europe, East Asia, and the Americas. Even India — the last great demographic titan — is quietly slipping below replacement in state after state. Mexico, once the perennial source of North American labour, is now entering its own decline. And China, which spent decades lecturing the world about discipline and planning, is now staring at a demographic cliff so steep it makes the Himalayas look like a curb.

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

The World's Nicest People Have Snapped


 Canada’s new comedy isn’t kind — it’s a warning label 

 Canada once wore its niceness like a national uniform. We were the peacekeepers, the polite ones, the country with the Pearson halo glowing faintly above our heads. Americans pointed north and saw a land of gentle absurdists — John Candy’s warmth, Eugene Levy's buoyant sarcasm, SCTV’s harmless lunacy. Our comedy was a soft lamp in a quiet room.

Monday, July 27, 2026

A Drone War Pretending It Isn’t a Threat of Nuclear Conflagration

Canada quietly bankrolls a battlefield revolution while the world pretends the nuclear clock isn’t ticking


Canada has always had a peculiar talent for participating in world history without ever quite admitting it. We are the polite man at the bar who quietly buys a round for the table, then pretends he wasn’t involved when the fight breaks out. But the war in Eastern Europe has made that old national habit impossible. When a country funds a drone program so effective it rewrites battlefield physics, it cannot pretend to be a bystander. It is, whether it likes it or not, a co‑author.

Monday, June 22, 2026

Absolute Zero (Kelvin) Hits Ottawa: Leader Performs at Altitude in a System With No Heights

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A Different Climate Change Hits Parliament: A Political Deep‑Freeze So Severe You’d Think Someone Would Suspend the Carbon Tax

There are cold days in Ottawa, and then there are the days when the temperature drops below the constitutional floor. Because of a hot‑mic moment in Croatia that rolled across the world this week, it seemed which wasn’t just a gaffe, but which ignited like a controlled release of political nitrogen, the kind that flash‑freezes everything it touches. 

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Carney's Cloning Curveball

EU Caution, US Cash, Canada Quiet

He learned governance in Brussels.

He cashed it in Washington.

Now he’s selling it in Ottawa.

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Synthesizing Carney’s WEF Rhetoric

The Missing Energy Chapter in Carney’s Davos Narrative


Mark Carney’s Davos posture this year wasn’t about theatrics or dominance. It was a response to a Canada–U.S. relationship that has grown strained and unpredictable: tariffs biting into steel and aluminum, Greenland and NATO tensions radiating outward, and USMCA reviews hanging over Canada like, "a sword of Damocles." 

The old alliance feels less like a stabilizing anchor and more like a variable Canada can no longer assume will tilt in its favor. But the striking thing about Carney’s January 20, 2026 speech is not what he said. It’s what he didn’t say.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Is Carney Telling the Truth?

Asking if he's gone full Pinocchio

Mark Carney says, on X.COM, 
@MarkJCarney ·  "Unemployment is down, jobs and wages are up. We’re building big and empowering more Canadians with new careers. 
Even with strong global headwinds, there is encouraging progress — and we are just getting started." 

Monday, November 24, 2025

Why Alberta Has Almost No Hydro Power


 Even Though the Peace River Is In Alberta 

Most Canadians picture the Peace River as a mighty northern Alberta waterway. So when people hear that Alberta gets only about 6–7 % of its electricity from hydroelectricity (one of the lowest shares in the country), the immediate reaction is confusion: “Wait, what about the Peace River? Isn’t that perfect for big dams?”

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The Quiet Surrender: Why Canadians Might Be Sleepwalking

. . . into Another Liberal Majority

In the chill of a Canadian winter that feels both literal and metaphorical, many voters are exhausted. Housing costs devour paycheques, groceries feel like luxury items, and the daily grind leaves little energy for the endless spectacle of federal politics. Into that fatigue steps Mark Carney—polished, credentialed, globally respected—and a Liberal machine that has learned how to campaign on competence rather than charisma. The result is something that looks less like enthusiasm and more like resignation: a slow, almost unconscious drift back to the party that promises stability, even if that stability increasingly feels like managed decline.

Monday, November 17, 2025

You Better Keep Up With the Status of MAiD


Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Canada's legal framework for euthanasia and assisted suicide, is currently available only to individuals aged 18 and older who meet specific eligibility criteria, such as having a grievous and irremediable medical condition causing intolerable suffering. As of November 17, 2025, MAiD does not apply to children or minors under 18, and there are no active legislative changes extending it to them.

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Cloned Cows, Frankenfish, and the Label That Never Was

LABEL? WHAT LABEL?

They told us cloned meat was “just like the original.”  They told us AquAdvantage salmon was “just faster.” They told us both were safe. They never told us they were already on the shelf.

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

We are in a receding ice-age

Climate May Be Changing But It's Not Anthropogenic  The people Indigenous on the west coast of Canada entered the area 6,000 years ago, as the ice was receding. It is the last place settled by homo sapiens in North America after the last ice age.

Fresh off an ice age there was soon to be civilization, including slavery, wars, atrocities, and more wars, but as far as political entities were concerned, these late-comers in raising a continent can point to profound advancements in multi-national trade and relations, and multi-lingual written language (lost), and remarkable trans-generational management of resources fostered and cultivated in the temperate rainforest of these Coastal Nations.

It is the history of the Coastal Indigenous people of North America which informs about the direction the world of nature is taking with climate. It wasn't Indigenous people causing ice to recede enough to allow formation of human settlements in coastal areas starting 6,000 years ago, when vast human developments were well underway south of these areas.

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