Where to start?
Let’s try this from David Graham in The Atlantic:
🔒 Elon Musk Goes Nuclear
Here at home, the focus continues to be on the new prime minister.
There’s no doubt he is fixated on trying to solve the problems the country is facing, and there are many, from Trump to the economy. His solutions are being described by some as moonshots. And moonshots don’t always work.
Here’s Robyn Urback of The Globe and Mail:
🔒 Mark Carney is making himself the moonshot Prime Minister – for better or for worse
Defence spending is part of that moonshot.
It has always been a big ticket part of Canadian budgets, but it seems it’s about to get a lot bigger. Substantially bigger.
That’s the buzz anyway. Kyle Duggan of Canadian Press walks us through the possibilities:
McGuinty: Ottawa reviewing defence spending 'top to bottom' ahead of NATO summit
Many of you know my Churchill connection.
I lived, worked and got my first break in broadcasting in the northern Manitoba port town in the late 1960s. There’s always been a part of my heart in Churchill, and I’ve always been a proponent of doing more with the Hudson Bay port than has been the case.
These days, there’s new talk and hefty backers for the idea as a warming climate makes the idea of an expanded Churchill role more likely.
Great piece in the National Observer on all this by Christopher Pollon. Enjoy:
🔒 Warming Waters Revive Port Plans in Churchill
Speaking of climate and its impact, did you see this piece out of Florida this week?
Some observers feel the media is meek and mild when discussing Donald Trump, that they’re afraid of retaliation. Not this guy. Check it out:
What’s more important: innovation or employment?
That may well be the question of our times, especially with the advent of AI. It's the question asked by National Newswatch’s Don Lenihan:
AI vs. Jobs—What Matters More: Innovation or Employment?
Here’s an AI-related story that won’t cost you your job, but it may cost you something to access it through the paywall.
But it's a good one, especially if you like reading new theories about the Dead Sea Scrolls. I’m old enough to remember when these ancient manuscripts were discovered in the 1950s, but maybe we are still learning about their history:
🔒 Dead Sea Scrolls analysis may force rethink of ancient Jewish history
I covered Marc Garneau’s flight into space in 1984, marking the first time a Canadian had been so far from home.
Then, a few years later, he sat beside me at the same Cape Kennedy launch station when Robert Bondar became the second Canadian, and first Canadian woman, in space. Marc was the perfect colour commentator, walking us through what Ms. Bondar was doing every moment of the launch.
Marc was a Canadian hero for his astronaut days, but also for his public service from a Naval commander to a federal cabinet minister. When he died this week after a sudden illness, a lot of people said some very nice things about him, including some of his political opponents. Like former Harper cabinet minister James Moore who wrote this for CTV News:
James Moore: Marc Garneau was my opposition critic, and a special kind of leader
