A rare ray of light from #Sudan. But the news is double-edged: the fact that some people are going home is also an indicator that the battle-lines have hardened, the warring parties are entrenched, partition looms. Meanwhile the siege by the RSF of El Fasher tightens by the day.

Offshore, as we hoke the North Coast Trail, we see Humpback whales every day. But here's evidence - a jawbone - of a larger and locally much rarer Sperm whale. Once hunted almost to local extinction, they are still hardly ever seen.

This is marking a big foreign policy shift for Canada and it’s being touted to our closest allies in Europe which means they mean it and I couldn’t be more supportive. But yes almost all our domestic policy still needs to change to make it happen!

Fox host Trey Gowdy: "We're going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. How many school shootings does it take before we're going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out of -- it's always a young white male, almost always."

The majority of Canadians that own property in the U.S. plan to sell, survey finds ctvnews.ca/business/real-…

Andrew is correct, we should absolutely be using our own natural gas to power data centres for AI. But let’s be clear the Clean Electricity Regulations are preventing us from doing that. We can attract major data centre investment or keep the Clean Electricity Regs but not both.

We are missing out on the biggest capital expenditure outlay of the decade due, in large part, to the Clean Electricity Regs and I’m apoplectic constructiondive.com/news/tech-gian…

This is one of the most important maps of the next century, if we want it to be. Canada: make yourself useful!

“Sailing from a western Philippine province, the Royal Australian Navy’s guided-missile destroyer HMAS Brisbane, Canadian navy frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec and a Philippine navy guided-missile frigate BRP Jose Rizal conducted exercises east of the shoal…”🇨🇦🇵🇭🇦🇺

This is nothing less than the most important federal government resignation letter in history, written in opposition to Trump-Kennedy policy that “will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults.”

BREAKING: Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa accuses U.S. President Donald Trump of acting as a Soviet/Russian asset in the Ukraine war, claiming the current U.S. leadership has strategically favored Russia while sidelining Ukraine and Europe in recent negotiations.

The Americans are selling Canadian natural gas to Europe at a profit nationalpost.com/opinion/the-am… “We can grow an East Coast LNG business...It won’t start out cost competitive, but with additional scale, pipeline investment, we can narrow the cost gap over time.”

“Gabbard [the Director of National Intelligence] didn’t know the CIA officer had been working undercover [when she ID’d and stripped the 20-year veteran of security clearance]… Gabbard’s office [which has one job: coordinating with intel agencies] didn’t meaningfully consult

NEW: Two weeks after Anchorage, the mysteries have only deepened What did Trump agree to? What did Putin promise Trump or Witkoff? What was lost in translation? Even Europeans allies don’t know - and their worries grow as more Russian bombs hit Ukraine theatlantic.com/national-secur…

I’m mad about this cause I was at the Canadian embassy in Berlin last year and they gaslit me and said Germany never wanted Canadian LNG in 2022 and that the whole narrative was made up by media and Scholz really came over looking for hydrogen

In the Kingston Whig Standard’s weekly look at international affairs ⁦Geoffrey P. Johnston😎😷🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦💉⁩ looks at PM Carney’s visit to Ukraine. Canada has provided the highest per capita contribution to Ukraine’s cause among G7 nations. thewhig.com/opinion/carney…

Looking for a place to hike this long weekend? Check out the Hardy Lake Trails in Muskoka muskokaregion.com/things-to-do/l…

Finally enjoying a little sunshine on the beach, on Vancouver island's North Coast Trail, when this fellow pops up from the undergrowth, 10m away...as surprised as we were 🙂

Critical minerals from Snow Lake, MB have been loaded at the Port of Churchill and are now bound for international markets. We're proud to help diversify Canada’s trade and move Canadian resources to the world. Thank you to Hudbay Minerals Inc. and, most of all - our team who

Excellent piece from David French (gift article): Trump Has Dropped an ‘Atomic Bomb’ on the Department of Justice nytimes.com/2025/08/28/opi…