Okay, bring it on, Susan, with your piece in the Toronto Star:
🔒 Opinion | If Canada is thrust into an election next week, it will be one of the strangest in living memory
Carney keeps trying to make the issue for any possible election, the economic and industrial future of the country.
He was at it again this week with his latest list of major projects. The thing about major projects is that they take major time before the economic benefits kick in, which can be frustrating for those waiting, but there’s no apparent way around that.
Candace Laing is the president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce – she has thoughts on all this, and wrote them in a column for The Globe and Mail:
🔒 Carney’s major projects patchwork leaves holes in our economic growth
If there’s going to be a Christmas-time election, it means a rematch of the Carney-Poilievre political punch-up.
No one doubts that Carney is ring-ready, but what about Poilievre? The questions persist, including in his own party. For political marketing expert Eric Blais, it often comes down to a matter of tone:
Air quotes and the politics of tone
All this talk about Poilievre and his current predicament comes from across the political spectrum, including from long-time Conservative strategists like Ottawa-based Tim Powers:
🔒 Poilievre and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
Is the way for the Liberals to get the country to a better financial position to cut back on foreign aid?
It’s a controversial position for a lot of people, including many Liberals. This week, the government got some pointed criticism from someone who knows foreign aid because she works up close on the file. Aanjalie Roane is the Director of Communications for Doctors Without Borders Canada:
🔒 Opinion | Canada: If you’re going to cut foreign aid, at least be honest about it
Lots more on the national political story in our two major podcasts this week. You can get the YouTube version of Good Talk with Chantal Hebert and Bruce Anderson right here.
And there’s a really good episode with Gerry Butts and James Moore on the Tuesday Moore Butts conversation available in its audio version right here.
If you like to see the Northern Lights and you live in a part of the country that gives you the opportunity for a good view, then these are the times for you.
There have been some spectacular viewing opportunities in places around the world lately. I spent three years living in Churchill, Manitoba, in the late sixties, and it was a prime aurora borealis watching location. In fact, the old Churchill Rocket Range was used in those days to fire Black Brandt rockets up into the northern lights to gather information to better understand the phenomenon. These days, I spend a lot of time in northern Scotland, where the sky has incredible shows almost nightly. Look at this amazing shot my wife, Cynthia Dale, took with her phone earlier this month:
So, what’s going on? The NY Times had a piece this week that’s worth checking out:
🔒 I Saw the Northern Lights Once, but This Play Took Me Deeper
Okay, some news you can use now.
Starting with this, about your credit card and how using it may be about to get a lot more complicated. It’s from the Wall Street Journal:
🔒 Using Your Credit Card at the Checkout Is Set to Get a Lot More Complicated
The latest Buzz update on AI comes from a different piece in the WSJ:
🔒 The AI Boom Is Looking More and More Fragile
Guess what they’ve found? Again.
I’m sure I’ve heard different versions of this many times over the last fifty years. And each time, it’s reported with a certain finality, even though it’s found in a different place every time. Now I’ll admit, it’s never stopped me from reading the discovery claim each time:
