"Minister of defence procurement Stephen Fuhr" surely knows that "no decision" is in fact a decision: to purchase the F-35 planes from a country whose leader wants to take over Canada, in the name of defence.

I first read your final item as "prior tantrums" but that was probably just me remembering my childhood.

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law.
Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

Agree. The repeated framing of the American threat as "tariffs" is a complete misunderstanding and underestimation.

I have become a big fan of Ms. Lewis.

This is very good from Rita Trichur. Seems to me that the US has invoked National Security concerns to limit Canadian involvement in the US economy so it follows that the reverse is legitimate.

Not only that, but my 1990 work on Helium-ethyne intermolecular potentials did not receive the chemistry prize, again. #NobelSnub

That's really interesting. I have to admit that the measurement problem has given rise to a lot of real-world results, even as I tend to think it's a morass to be avoided in general. But then I'm no one and he is Anthony Leggett, so I'm not going to argue hard for my view.

I don't associate @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social with wishful thinking, but there's a whole lot of it here.

Searching for a trade agreement that can only yield better scraps from the US table is a fool's errand, part 482.

No, Major-General, the call is coming from inside the house.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Correct observation even if not entirely unbiased.

I felt the same.

This annexation scenario seems only too plausible. We shouldn't be buying F-35s from this country.

Gift link.

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/034a874...

Canada not seeing where the threat is coming from, more like. Defence procurement apparently does not have a clue.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Some rare good news from down south.

ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/newsom-...

Good thread.

...along with the dismissive assertion that lawmakers don't "get it" and "the Internet doesn't work like that".

Carney to "focus on shared priorities" with Trump. So a five minute meeting then. #CouldHaveBeenAnEmail

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Fortunately the AI summarizations will make each one quicker to read.

(I always appreciated your support in those days Henry. Thanks!)

... And I remember your name from CT and from reading your Jacobin pieces. Best wishes.

I couldn't agree more. And didn't know the Auden poem so thanks. In 1980 or so I met a German POW who had stayed in the UK and I was shocked that life for many Germans was just normal during the '30s -- even late. It's stuck with me. (Also "Hitler wasn't all bad" was something to hear!)

Thanks for the comment. I know you speak from experience or proximity here.