Braid: Don't be duped into flipping yes-to-Canada vote to future referendum
So where does this leave Mark Carney and his attempt to keep a tight circle around the Team Canada approach to dealing with the United States?
Aaron Wherry of the CBC has thoughts on that:
Mark Carney faces the return of national unity politics
Meanwhile, if there’s one thing you can be sure of each week while all this is going on, it's that Donald Trump will keep coming up with his same one-trick-pony lines about Canada.
Like Canada is “nasty,” but who cares because it will soon be the “51st state”. He really does need a new writer – this dog just isn’t hunting anymore.
CTV News covered his latest mid-week Canada rant:
Trump says Canada will ‘end up being the 51st state’
Lots of “buzz” around this week about Chrystia Freeland’s long-anticipated new book.
It's full of anecdotes that put some validity to some long-rumoured stories – about Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney and, of course, her departure from federal politics in a move that signalled the end of Trudeau and the beginning of Carney. The Toronto Star’s Susan Delcourt wrote all about it:
🔒 Donald Trump’s original Canadian bad cop has something to say
Good moment to hype this week’s Bridge YouTube podcasts, starting with yesterday’s Good Talk with Chantal Hebert and Bruce Anderson. You can find it right here
And on Tuesday, another of the popular Moore-Butts conversations featuring James Moore and Gerald Butts, which is available here.
On the international scene, here’s a story to note.
Especially if you have been ignoring the stories coming out of Europe about fears of what Russia is up to these days. It's what MI5 is thinking, one of Britain’s super-secret spy agencies. Check this out on the BBC:
MI5 chief warns of threats to UK from Russia, Iran and AI
Remember last year when Donald Trump claimed he’d bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities back to the Stone Age?
And yet, when his war against Iran this year started going badly, he suddenly reverted to claiming Iran’s nuclear ability was just weeks away from use, and that's why he’d started bombing again.
Pick a lane, Don, and try and stick to it, say his critics. Well, this story in the Wall St. Journal is the latest attempt to write about just what the U.S. President has achieved in his Iranian misadventure:
🔒 Iran Fortifying Nuclear Sites and Rallying Its People for Return to Fighting
You gotta love Geoffrey Hinton, the U of T professor known worldwide as the “godfather of AI”.
Watching him in a battle of AI wits with Donald Trump is like watching me alone on the ice with Auston Matthews:
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
Okay, how about a missing-dog-found story to close things out for this week?
Doesn’t everyone love a missing-dog-found story? I know I do, and this one even has the same name as one of my old dogs. Meet Luna, thanks to the Associated Press:
