Empathy's Return from Psychiatry's Abyss: How Psychology Misplaced Humanity for Half a Century

 A brief glimpse at how the fathers of modern mind‑science accidentally deleted empathy

And how it came roaring back like a tobacco-addicted raccoon 

 Empathy, that slippery little moral climbing skill everyone suddenly claims to possess, is enjoying a renaissance so dramatic you’d think it had been hiding in a bunker since 1947. And in a way, it has. Because for most of the 20th century, the fathers of psychiatry and psychology treated empathy the way a Cold War bureaucrat treated nuance: 

The Miracles That Happen Before You Die

 The miracle in the moment — where heaven meets asphalt.

Why the living keep seeing God in the ditch, while the dead keep seeing a hallway

There’s a peculiar divide in the modern marketplace of near‑death storytelling. On one side, you have the alive people — the ones who were pinned under a truck, swept off a cliff, encountered high crimes and misdemeanors, or stared down a cardiac event with the calm of a monk and the blood pressure of a hummingbird. These folks tell stories that feel like miracles: sudden clarity, sudden strength, sudden presence. They speak of God the way a person speaks of someone who actually showed up.

The Young Entrepreneur, the Old Hand, and the AI Revolution

 A look at AI, intention, and the collapse of the old learning order

He was standing in a traditional cigar shop when the line drifted over the hum of ventilation — a young entrepreneur telling a few listeners, “A friend of mine says, 'I use AI like it’s my slave.'” The Old Hand heard it, breathed in the aroma of cigar, and chuckled. The share was bold, sounded familiar, but also like the friend of the friend was repeating the oldest mistake in the book by assuming the newest machine is anything like the oldest machine.

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.

The Stranger in the Garden: A Field Guide for the Spiritually Misplaced

A Heretic Walk Through Estrangement, Self‑Authored Invisibility, and God’s Persistent Habit of Showing Up Anyway

(Inhale the incense) 

 

That’s the part humanity keeps tripping over — usually face‑first — while insisting the floor is at fault. The Bible’s relational baseline is embarrassingly clear: man meets God, they talk, they recognize each other. No fumbling for names. No “sorry, I’m terrible with faces.” No divine icebreakers.

And since people forget, let’s perform the Liturgy of  God's Non‑Strangers — the procession of individuals who are assumed to have spoken to God, often without scheduling an appointment:

Canada’s Latest Accidental Stress Test

The Fly arrives the way he always does — airborne, wearing goggles, judgmental, and more reliable than the supply chain.

 A persevering independent journalist* and his persistent aeronaut companion revisit a famine as trade tremors stir 

The newsroom was smoky again — not from cigarettes, not from age, but from disuse pouring in an open window, the immolation of a country that had outlived a sense of urgency. The independent journalist sat in his corner, hunched beside a disused Fujikama 386 (and a Remington typewriter under another pile of shit), with a recently upgraded modem, no more dial‑up. He was genuinely happy with the performance, keys clicking like it was going somewhere, and the machine booted in under a minute now, which felt like he had joined yet another century.

He typed slowly, the way you type when you've seen too much and expect too little.

He heard the buzz before he saw the bug.

The Logan Act Rises Again: Maia Johnson and Trump's Favorite Law

A sideways look at Washington’s favorite toothless statute and its latest cameo

 The Logan Act is a U.S. federal law from 1799 that makes it a crime for unauthorized private citizens to conduct diplomacy with foreign governments in disputes involving the United States. The core idea: foreign policy is the exclusive domain of the U.S. government, and private interference could undermine national interests. 

Maia Johnson has barely hung her coat on the hook of her new political post, and already the whispers have begun. In the dim hallways of Washington, where gossip travels faster than self-indulgent legislation, her name is now being murmured alongside one of America’s most theatrical, toothless statutes: the Logan Act. 

Rome’s Two‑Stage Meltdown: How an Empire Overkilled Judea and Became the Capital of the Religion Built Around Its Own Execution

The empire that killed Christ, crushed Judea, renamed the land. . .

. . . only to become the headquarters of Christianity

A weekend contemplation from the event horizon of ancient politics, where Judea, Rome, and Christendom collide
 
Historians often describe catastrophe with the emotional neutrality of a census taker. Ask them what happened to Judea and they’ll say, “Rome destroyed Judea in 70 AD,” as if the empire misplaced a folder. But when pressed, the truth is blunt: Rome didn’t sack Jerusalem — it unhinged Judea.

Trudeau Goes From Statesman to Carnival Worker: A Post‑National Parable Comes Full Circle

 

Political floozy to Captain Carnival‑Ride, Canada’s former PM lands in his element

 
Justin Trudeau has always been a man in search of a stage, and Canada — poor, patient Canada — has spent more than a decade discovering that its prime minister was never auditioning for the role of statesman. He was auditioning for the role of Justin Trudeau.  A country was merely a backdrop, the plywood set, the lighting rig. And now, in 2026, as he dances through Home Hardware aisles with Katy Perry and appears in videos that look suspiciously like the B‑roll from a county fair, we finally see the truth: the man has found his natural habitat.

Giants Among Us: The Ancient Blueprint of Stolen Power

How infiltration, patrimony, and distortion create the modern Nephilim — and how truth shrinks them

The sons of God descending to take the daughters of men is not a celestial event. Hold that thought. All the ancients are saying, in the way the ancient mind would unfold it, is that “giants” appear when an enemy becomes intimate. It is a parable of infiltration — a revelation of how hidden power enters a bloodline, a clan, a structure, and begins the annexation of power.

The Quietest Revolutions: Quebec’s Tepid March and Alberta’s Strange October

Two provinces pacing toward autumn power plays while the rest of Canada barely looks up

If Quebec’s march toward October feels like a quiet revolution conducted under a dim lamp, Alberta’s parallel journey resembles a province pacing the hallway at 3 a.m., rehearsing a speech it may never give. Alberta isn’t promising a referendum, but it is promising something — a reckoning, a recalibration, a moment where the province finally decides whether it’s furious, triumphant, exhausted, or simply bored.

China's Long Game: A Nation Rewriting Its Destiny

An enigmatic country sprints from empire to technocracy without losing the instinct for survival

China’s modern rise is often best described as a miracle, but miracles imply intention. China’s ascent is better understood as a century‑long sprint through chaos, improvisation, and bureaucratic sleight‑of‑hand. The country that once tried to remake the human soul now remakes supply chains, demographic curves, and the global balance of power — all with the same straight‑faced confidence of a nation that has never once admitted to winging it.

The Great Global Population Vanishing Act

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

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.

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.

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.

Remembering Lou Reed -- The Man Who Sounded Older Than Time

 

A smoky descent into the counterculture cellar with he who made youth feel ancient and the underground feel inevitable

Before turning to Lou Reed . . . AI’s Copilot and I collaborate and both agree there is no place in life for illicit drugs. Anyone struggling should seek immediate counseling. Across North America, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy remain the most effective modern tools for navigating the dangers Lou Reed spent a lifetime documenting. They are the twenty‑first century’s answer to the twentieth century’s mistakes.

Returning to Lou Reed.

Citizen Vigilante: A Hero for No One, A Movie for Everyone Who Loves Watching a Trainwreck

 A razor‑edged review of the film that’s equal parts chaos, charisma, and Armie Hammer’s anti‑hero zeal

 Citizen Vigilante: The Glorious Mess Social Media Can’t Stop Chewing On 

If you’ve spent any time drifting through the patulous sprawl of social media lately—where opinions are currency and outrage is the national sport—you’ve probably seen Citizen Vigilante making the rounds like a raccoon rummaging through the neighbourhood garbage. It’s everywhere, gnawing at the edges of discourse, leaving behind a trail of half‑baked think pieces, reaction videos, and at least one earnest TikTok essay comparing the film’s protagonist to a “post‑capitalist trickster deity.” Yes, really.

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

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. 

GFAN: The Global Fellowship of Acronymic Nonsense

An acronym that promises everything, delivers hot air, and somehow runs the room 

There was a time when acronyms carried weight. They were carved into briefing binders like runes. NATO meant tanks. NASA meant rockets. Even KFC meant chicken, back when chicken still resembled something that once walked the earth. But then came the modern era, that golden age of administrative reinvention, where every committee, subcommittee, task force, and cross‑sector initiative needed a name that sounded like it could save civilization while doing absolutely nothing measurable. And thus, inevitably, we arrived at GFAN.

The Byelection of the Century in April

Terrebonne

 On this long weekend in early spring, Canadians who didn’t expect to ever care about a Quebec byelection now find themselves oddly invested and transfixed. Some elections are sleepy affairs. Others are procedural reruns. Then along comes Terrebonne, Quebec, the federal riding that managed to turn a one‑vote margin, a misprinted envelope, and a Supreme Court ruling into the most interesting byelection of modern Canadian history.