Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

The UN Charter was drafted in 1945 by people who had learned the lessons that the aggression, isolationism and tariff barriers of the 20’s and 30’s had led the world into a conflagration. Article One makes it clear: threats of annexation are illegal. So are unilateral tariffs in

We’ve picked out the Christmas tree we’re sending to Boston later this year.

Trump got Mexico to send the same 10,000 troops to the border that Biden already got them to commit. Trump got Canada to agree to the same measures to fight fentanyl that Biden already got them to agree to six weeks ago. Wow. What a dealmaker!

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I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location

How can ending the minimum price for alcohol be a priority for the government, when a grandfather died in an ER after waiting for 11 hours this week? Premier Ford won't fund the hospitals to meet demand and chides us for abusing ERs at a tour stop in SSM.

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Under the Ford Conservatives, our health spending per person was the lowest in Canada. On Feb 27, vote for a candidate that will fully fund our public health-care system. Visit ona.org/vote to learn more #NursesVote (Source: bit.ly/4gUKmk6)

The stock market is down but at least everything is more expensive and services are getting shittier. On the other hand we have more measles. To be fair, they are finally delivering the reductions in FAA and National Parks staff that people have been demanding.

Worth noting, perhaps, is a difference between Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney. Poilievre isn't qualified to do anything other than grift people in a safe, Conservative electoral district in Canada. Carney is qualified to work in every university in the world, every

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CANCER UPDATE - BIDEN When Compassion Becomes Inconvenient by Michael Whelan. Somewhere along the way, we stopped believing that pain—real, human pain—deserved reverence. I read earlier that President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. I paused, not

Rob Flaherty You have a weird thought → voice it to AI → AI builds on it convincingly → reflects it back to you. This is psychological quicksand. Your brain reads this as: “Holy shit, an external source just confirmed my intuition.” But it’s not external. It’s your own idea, processed

BREAKING NEWS. Alberta Court of King’s Bench grants injunction preventing Alberta Government from banning gender-affirmative care for minors citing “irreparable harm will be caused if the Ban comes into force.” A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️‍⚧️

A wise female friend said to me this morning that every woman knows someone who has been raped. Yet somehow no man knows a rapist. We’ve got a long way to go.

Fun fact: did you know that if you've booked a plane trip with WestJet with a reasonable one-hour layover, they can unilaterally change your ticket without explanation to make that layover twenty-one and a half hours. And then, they can refuse to provide you with any meal or

A recession is typically defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. We haven't even recorded the first one yet. This hilarious account will just put it's name to anything if it punches down on Canada and drives clicks.