New book alert! Here is the cover for the forthcoming translation of and commentary on the Chronicle of Seert prepared by Philip Wood and me. Out next year. Stay vigilant!

On steel & aluminum: „the EU and the US intend to collaborate to shield our economies from overcapacity in the steel and aluminium sectors. In practice, we will work together on tariff rate quota solutions to ensure security of supply in these critical industries.“ What tariff?

Turkey has offered to join Ukraine’s security guarantees.

Why is Canada’s family policy stuck in the past? I spoke with Patrick T. Brown of Ethics and Public Policy Center about child benefits, income splitting, caregiving, and why treating families like individuals in tax law is a recipe for demographic decline. Macdonald-Laurier Institute 👉 bit.ly/4mNjENs

NEW: Canada is planning to remove counter-tariffs on US goods that comply with the free trade deal, but keep them on steel, aluminum and autos. PM Mark Carney making the announcement shortly. Comes a day after he spoke with Trump by phone. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Cracker Barrel, sure Still not over this

"No other Canadian policy seems to have drifted further from its original intention. Nothing else seems more poorly understood, and no other policy seems quite as ill-suited to the present moment’s needs than official multiculturalism." macdonaldlaurier.ca/multiculturali…

Trump is a luxury concern. David Coletto 🇨🇦

لَآ إِكْرَاهَ فِى ٱلدِّينِ ۖ

I remember when people suggesting this were accused of treason.

Arrived in The City from Thessaloniki en route for Trebizond. Visited the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus and made it to the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Vespers…

Elbows down.

Update from the Emerging Democratic Majority

The rise of the Californian Ideology—the vision of tech as spontaneous, horizontal, self-organizing, etc—required the concealment of the internet’s origins as a state project. But now tech openly embraces its dependence on the state while still demanding freedom from regulation.

Mark Carney's elbows up slogan helped him win the election but less than 4 months later, he admits they're now down. Canada has dropped counter tariff on CUSMA goods, without getting anything in return from the US. Here's a wrap on PMMC dropping another Trump irritant #cdnpoli

It's just embarrassing at this point

The four books of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism are akin to the Sentences of Peter Lombard or Aquinas' Summa Theologiae for the Laurentian Elite.

Smell the Flowers