- Nikki Haley now says that she will be voting for Donald Trump, despite having previously called him "unstable and unhinged". Perhaps the fact that many of Trump's supporters are also unstable and unhinged, and moreover have a lot of guns, has compelled her to change her tune.
- Dan Lett argues in this article that the signs of improvement that are showing in the economy could be bad news for the Conservatives. I'd like to believe that this is true, but I seriously doubt it. The thing is, once the masses get it into their heads that it's "time for a change" (and there's no question that this government has had its fair share of disappointments, broken promises, and worse stuff like the Jody Wilson-Raybould affair) it's very hard to convince them to change course. There's a saying, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know", but most people do not apply that to politics; far too many people figure they're all devils anyway, so might as well punish the current ones. In other words, they vote not out of idealism but out of vengeance.
- The public washrooms installed at Main and Higgins in Winnipeg have gotten national attention as a success story. Keeping them staffed adequately to make them tolerable to use does not come cheap, though.
- It appears that the far right has found themselves a preferred candidate for the byelection being held by the Louis Riel School Division following the resignation of Francine Champagne. They seem to like someone by the name of Sandra Saint-Cyr. So if you live in LRSD Ward 1, you now know who not to vote for.
- Many are worried that the US is falling behind China in the development of clean energy technology. Many others are worried that the American response, slapping punitive tariffs on the imports of such technologies from China, will make climate change worse than it has to be.
- Universities in Toronto and Waterloo are losing patience with the pro-Palestinian protest encampments on their campuses, and are issuing orders to move. The protesters seem to be defiant so far.
- The president of the University of Toronto Faculty Association, Terezia Zoric, is currently being investigated for antisemitism by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. The accusation stems from a 2021 webinar in which she blamed "an entitled powerful Zionist minority" for blocking the hiring of a critic of Israel. It's an interesting grey area; if she'd singled out organizations (such as B'nai B'rith) for lobbying against the hiring I don't think any reasonable person would call that antisemitic, but the expression she used does sound like a potential dog whistle.
- New rules for bringing dogs into the US are causing alarm among some Canadians who cross the border frequently with their dogs. I'm certainly not opposed to giving snowbirds another hoop to jump through, though it gets a bit more problematic when you consider the fact that it applies to guide dogs and other service dogs.
- Two chaps at a Walmart parking lot in Nanaimo, BC got out the bear spray and tire irons in an attempt to settle the question of who was entitled to use a parking space.
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