F or over a thousand days, starting in December 2018, China’s government held me hostage in an attempt to blackmail Canada into releasing Meng Wanzhou, […]
Category: Current Affairs
As Trump Pushes Tariff War, Ford’s Electricity Bluff Loses Voltage
In the summer of 2003, a single software bug in an Ohio power plant cascaded into one of the largest blackouts in North American history, […]
RCMP Uncovers Domestic Terror Plot with Military Links
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, following a lengthy investigation, deployed an emergency response team to arrest four individuals, accused of terrorism and other offences, on […]
Why Mark Carney Is Talking like It’s 1939
P rime Minister Mark Carney is busy navigating the choppy waters of international diplomacy, including hosting the G7 leaders’ summit, with a full cast including […]
The US Badly Needs Rare Minerals and Fresh Water. Guess Who Has Them?
Rain fell for the first time on the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet in August 2021, seen by scientists as a foreboding precedent […]
Is Jordan Peterson Just Making It Up as He Goes?
Jordan Peterson’s marketability has always been a bit surprising given his weirdness. He speaks exclusively in a glottal cadence that sounds like Kermit the Frog […]
What King Charles’s Historic Speech Means
In 1957, Queen Elizabeth II came to Canada with the glow of a young reign and the promise of a rising global order. Her speech […]
Bilingual, Educated, Qualified—and Still Not Welcome in Quebec
As a federal administrative judge with the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada since 2022, Nour Farhat hears asylum claims and renders decisions daily on […]