Christopher Dornan
@chrisdornan.bsky.social
Ahora, jubilado. Formerly, School of Journalism and Communication & Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 Writing on disinformation, the twilight of the news media, and politics. Click here: www.educatedguesses.ca
It’s just a coincidence that two different worrisome threats to current wellbeing go by the initials AI. One of them is Avian Influenza.
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It’s just a coincidence that two different worrisome threats to current wellbeing go by the initials AI. One of them is Avian Influenza.
If I were a student in any one of Summers’ five (!) courses at Harvard this term, I’d be sorely tempted to wear to his next class a T-shirt reading “Not interested in being a ‘mentee,’ thanks.” And to do a brisk trade selling them to my classmates on the way into the lecture theatre or seminar room.
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
If I were a student in any one of Summers’ five (!) courses at Harvard this term, I’d be sorely tempted to wear to his next class a T-shirt reading “Not interested in being a ‘mentee,’ thanks.” And to do a brisk trade selling them to my classmates on the way into the lecture theatre or seminar room.
This student newspaper story on Harvard creep Lawrence Summers contains the tidbit that Summers is teaching five courses this term, including two large enrolment undergraduate courses. Even assuming he has his grad students do most of the teaching, what the hell is the course load at Harvard?
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This student newspaper story on Harvard creep Lawrence Summers contains the tidbit that Summers is teaching five courses this term, including two large enrolment undergraduate courses. Even assuming he has his grad students do most of the teaching, what the hell is the course load at Harvard?
What’s the difference between a foreign agent and a foreign agent provocateur? Asking for Pete Hoekstra.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
What’s the difference between a foreign agent and a foreign agent provocateur? Asking for Pete Hoekstra.
I don't know which is the better plane or the better purchase for Canada's military needs. But the Gripen people (SAAB and the government of Sweden) are wiping the floor with the F-35 people (Lockheed Martin and the government of Donald Trump) on the public relations front.
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I don't know which is the better plane or the better purchase for Canada's military needs. But the Gripen people (SAAB and the government of Sweden) are wiping the floor with the F-35 people (Lockheed Martin and the government of Donald Trump) on the public relations front.
God, his aim just slightly off, smites the wrong guy.
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
God, his aim just slightly off, smites the wrong guy.
Live shot of millionaires and George Santos withdrawing from Manhattan following the election of Zohran Mamdami.
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Live shot of millionaires and George Santos withdrawing from Manhattan following the election of Zohran Mamdami.
Interesting tidbit in the federal budget: $1 million/year for Canadian Geographic. It's a perfectly fine publication (although not what it once was), but it already receives support through the Canada Periodical Fund. Why extra money for CanGeo and not, say, the Canadian Medical Association Journal?
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Interesting tidbit in the federal budget: $1 million/year for Canadian Geographic. It's a perfectly fine publication (although not what it once was), but it already receives support through the Canada Periodical Fund. Why extra money for CanGeo and not, say, the Canadian Medical Association Journal?
Why do we still use the first-past-the-post electoral system, given everything that's wrong with it? Because of elections like this. Seven names on the ballot and a write-in option. HIghest voter turnout since 1969. A meaningful difference between the front runners. And in the end, a clear outcome.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Why do we still use the first-past-the-post electoral system, given everything that's wrong with it? Because of elections like this. Seven names on the ballot and a write-in option. HIghest voter turnout since 1969. A meaningful difference between the front runners. And in the end, a clear outcome.
We're now about one Fox News story away from Trump goons Bessent, Lutnick, and Vought sidling up to any nation considering doing a trade deal with Canada and telling them that doing so would not be in their best interests, capisce?
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
We're now about one Fox News story away from Trump goons Bessent, Lutnick, and Vought sidling up to any nation considering doing a trade deal with Canada and telling them that doing so would not be in their best interests, capisce?
Here are some heroic images of Donald Trump. Which ones were made by his acolytes, admirers, and the US government, and which are parodies made in mockery? It hardly matters anymore, does it?
November 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Here are some heroic images of Donald Trump. Which ones were made by his acolytes, admirers, and the US government, and which are parodies made in mockery? It hardly matters anymore, does it?
I have watched the first 15 minutes of Apple TV's The Last Frontier and can report that wow, that thing's stupid.
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I have watched the first 15 minutes of Apple TV's The Last Frontier and can report that wow, that thing's stupid.
For his next cognitive test, see if he can point to Nigeria on a map of the world. For that matter, see if he can point to Venezuela.
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
For his next cognitive test, see if he can point to Nigeria on a map of the world. For that matter, see if he can point to Venezuela.
Am at a splendid fun Halloween performance of Rocky Horror at Ottawa’s Gladstone Theatre. Have started a rumour that Mark Carney is in the audience but unrecognizable as he’s dressed like Riff Raff.
November 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Am at a splendid fun Halloween performance of Rocky Horror at Ottawa’s Gladstone Theatre. Have started a rumour that Mark Carney is in the audience but unrecognizable as he’s dressed like Riff Raff.
He's a cinch for the Nobel Prize next year.
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
He's a cinch for the Nobel Prize next year.
Testing them on whom?
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Testing them on whom?
Would you like the roomba or the manservant?
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Would you like the roomba or the manservant?
Just thought I'd mention that I wrote this for @hilltimes.com, which published it in its print edition on January 20, 2025, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term as US president.
October 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Just thought I'd mention that I wrote this for @hilltimes.com, which published it in its print edition on January 20, 2025, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term as US president.
US president Trump punishes Americans with new 10% tariff on goods bought from Canada because Americans saw a Canadian TV ad in which a former US president disavowed tariffs as an economic instrument.
October 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
US president Trump punishes Americans with new 10% tariff on goods bought from Canada because Americans saw a Canadian TV ad in which a former US president disavowed tariffs as an economic instrument.
It is possible Donald Trump was not getting from Canada-U.S. trade negotiations what he wants to get from these negotiations.
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It is possible Donald Trump was not getting from Canada-U.S. trade negotiations what he wants to get from these negotiations.
Does he want us to pay him $75,000?
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Does he want us to pay him $75,000?
Visit the official US government website devoted to the history of the White House and discover these nuggets included in the timeline of "major events" in the building's design and renovation over the decades.
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Visit the official US government website devoted to the history of the White House and discover these nuggets included in the timeline of "major events" in the building's design and renovation over the decades.
The pleasure juice of pure power comes from doing violent things that affect the lives of so many others without having to ask permission. No matter what the courts say, or regulatory agencies, or international law, or what your opponents can't tolerate. That's where the fascism kicks in.
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The pleasure juice of pure power comes from doing violent things that affect the lives of so many others without having to ask permission. No matter what the courts say, or regulatory agencies, or international law, or what your opponents can't tolerate. That's where the fascism kicks in.