🔒 Hold off on the cheering: A Trump drubbing in the midterms could make things worse
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Next week is Budget Week in Canada, with the actual day landing next Thursday, so get ready in the next few days for all the leaks that float some of the likely budget proposals.
I want to see if there will be anything in the document that’s similar to the British budget which landed in the past week. Central to British thinking these days is being ready for war, and that means big defence spending. So, where’s the money coming from? Cuts. Cuts from every other department. Cuts now. Over to the BBC:
Healey tells departments to make 1% cuts to fund defence
Seinfeld and Question Period.
Those two thoughts don't seem to go together, but they did this week.
Darren Major of the CBC told us why.
What's the deal with question period? Poilievre, MacKinnon trade Seinfeld-related barbs
Everyone knows Donald Trump lies, right?
Well, if everyone knows that, why bother saying it? That apparently is what a Fox News analysis of stories is concluding. That’s right, Fox. The network that is not just a little bit pro Trump, but a lot pro Trump. It’s a shocking conclusion and good for Fox for exposing it. According to the Fox people, the fact-checking of Trump has slowed down simply because telling people he’s speaking untruths is just wasting everyone’s time. Amazing:
Why most journalists are tired of fact-checking Donald Trump
It’s starting to look like Bibi has done it again.
Like so many times in the past, the Israeli prime minister was being counted out as Israelis headed to the polls earlier this week. But win or lose, it will be a while before the verdict is declared.
Netanyahu’s party claims election ‘stolen’ as results show him losing majority
Time to promote this week’s Bridge YouTube podcasts. Starting with yesterday’s Good Talk with Bruce Anderson and Chantal Hebert, which you can find here.
Tuesday’s Moore-Butts conversation is available right here.
I’ve been around journalism long enough to actually remember Watergate.
I was working the overnight shift in the Winnipeg newsroom when the story was breaking in the months through 1972 and 1973. I remember when the bulldog edition of the Washington Post would come out in the middle of the night, and the latest Woodward/Bernstein story would have the world talking. I’ve spent time with both men, and I’ve been honoured to have done so. That’s why I’m excited to read Woodward’s latest book — which tells us the inside story of some of his exclusives:
🔒 Bob Woodward spills his 'Secrets'
I think we all know there is far too much money in the hands of a powerful few.
Billions and billions of dollars, even trillions, controlled by as few as four guys. That should be enough to scare us, but if you consider that editors at The Walrus think the plan is to end democracy, then that should take it to a whole new level:
Billionaire Nerds Want to End Democracy
So how should Pierre Poilievre look at the Conservatives’ win in British Columbia?
Good news, or news worthy of a pause? Veteran Conservative organizer Tim Powers has some thoughts:
🔒 Why Doerkson’s B.C. win should give Poilievre pause
What goes around comes around, they say.
Guess what has come around again? After years of relative peace between Ottawa and Quebec City, the sniping has started again. It's over what they call the war of the flags. Check out this in Policy:
Mark Carney, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, and the New ‘Guerre des Drapeaux’
What’s in an hour?
Quite a bit if you’re a pilot. Pilots and those who oversee their workload are very particular about how many hours they work each week, and what actually constitutes an hour. Especially if those hours are in remote areas, like Canada’s north.
When I worked in the airline business in Northern Manitoba in the 1960’s there was a kind of bush pilot attitude to work; pilots went where they had to go whenever they were asked, no matter the conditions. The dedication is the same today, but the rules are different:
