Former Tory leader to Poilievre: forget the floor crossings, focus on policy
Meanwhile, those trade talks just keep stumbling along, no end in sight, no real deadline, and no panic to reach a finish.
However, there was a new twist, and thanks to Radio Canada, we know a bit about it:
Washington demanding 'entry fee' from Ottawa before trade talks: sources
Mark Carney seems to be approaching ropes end with the Americans trying to set all the rules about how these negotiations should play out.
Carney seemed to be as close as ever to saying “take your rules and shove them where the sun don’t shine,” but of course, he’s far more diplomatic than that. But he did sound firm, not wishy washy. Here’s how the Canadian Press put it:
Carney says the U.S. can't dictate the terms of trade talks ahead of CUSMA review
Last week on Good Talk, I wondered aloud why The King’s (remember, he’s Canada’s Head of State too, not just the UK’s) visit to the United States in a few weeks was still “on”.
Why hadn’t it been cancelled after the insults thrown at the UK’s (and Canada’s) way by Donald Trump over the lack of support for his Iran debacle? Some listeners wrote in to say that Charles 3.0 actually really likes Trump.
Not so apparently, at least according to this Tina Brown piece in her Substack:
The King, the Bling, and A Fraught State Visit
Time for my weekly plug for our YouTube podcasts.
Yesterday’s Good Talk with Chantal Hebert and Bruce Anderson can be found right here.
And Tuesday’s Reporter’s Notebook with Rob Russo and Althia Raj is available here.
The Iran debacle?
It’s crushing Trump’s approval numbers, but like a mosquito you can’t swat in the summer, Trump always seems to scoot away from danger. But it’s starting to look like this time just may be different:
The bottom could be falling out in Trump’s polls
Here’s a headline that’s bound to make you sit up. “The world is running out of people”.
Sounds like something you’d read in the National Enquirer. Can’t be true. Running out of people? Like, one day soon, the planet will be without humans? We’ve spent the last few decades being told the population was growing by a billion every few years. Now, some say it's seriously reversing that trend?
Okay, it's not coming from the National Enquirer, but the source is not to be ignored, even though it’s not where you’d normally look for this kind of headline grabber. It’s in Popular Mechanics. But it’s serious stuff and suggests the fate of humanity is hanging in the balance. Read on:
The world is running out of people—and the next 40 years could determine the fate of humanity
Is it possible to get a master’s degree in five weeks?
Remember those stories about fake universities that churned out fake degrees on request? This isn’t one of those stories. It’s the real deal, and you can thank the online world for it. But it is raising questions.
Check this out in the Washington Post:
Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators
There was a time, and really it wasn’t that long ago, when half of us smoked.
That’s right, half of us smoked. Cigarettes were everywhere; they were a thing. In homes, businesses, airplanes, buses, restaurants... everywhere. Then mounting research about nicotine finally started being believed, and the numbers dove to where they are now. Some say what happened to smoking could happen to social media. Find that hard to believe? Have a look at this piece from the Financial Times:
Will social media addiction go the way of cigarettes?
Are you still hooked on space?
There’s no doubt that Jeremy Hansen and the Artemis 2 mission got us all fixated on looking up again. Lately, something else is being seen up there. Meteors.
Sightings of Meteors Surge, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why
OMG, this is such a great piece.
It does it all. Paints a picture of our Arctic. The reality of who defends it. And the challenges in doing so. Congrats to Murray Brewster and the CBC for this one:
