Doug Saunders
@dougsaunders.bsky.social
International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net
I'm proud to have contributed a migration-governance strategy to this important plan for building new economic and political relations between Canada and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the absence of the United States. Some details...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm proud to have contributed a migration-governance strategy to this important plan for building new economic and political relations between Canada and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the absence of the United States. Some details...
www.ccacanada.com
www.ccacanada.com
Everyone in Caracas get in your basement
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Everyone in Caracas get in your basement
Cartel de Los Soles is the new Antifa
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Cartel de Los Soles is the new Antifa
At the National Press Club in Washington, where the wallpaper is old linos. Love it.
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
At the National Press Club in Washington, where the wallpaper is old linos. Love it.
A reader found this passage from my book MAXIMUM CANADA suddenly ripe with relevance
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A reader found this passage from my book MAXIMUM CANADA suddenly ripe with relevance
Lost in the tumult is the fact that he put a sign on the door of the Oval Office. Not that it is poorly gilded plastic with a typeface last used for drag-queen wedding invitations in 1983. That he felt it needed a sign. Like the Eiffel Tower needing a 30-meter neon sign reading “The Eiffel Tower”
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Lost in the tumult is the fact that he put a sign on the door of the Oval Office. Not that it is poorly gilded plastic with a typeface last used for drag-queen wedding invitations in 1983. That he felt it needed a sign. Like the Eiffel Tower needing a 30-meter neon sign reading “The Eiffel Tower”
“We’re sorry we edited the part of your speech where you incited an insurrectionary riot with the other part of your speech where you incited an insurrectionary riot, and focused on the insurrectionary riot rather than the minor and irrelevant edit”
(Is still more than necessary)
(Is still more than necessary)
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“We’re sorry we edited the part of your speech where you incited an insurrectionary riot with the other part of your speech where you incited an insurrectionary riot, and focused on the insurrectionary riot rather than the minor and irrelevant edit”
(Is still more than necessary)
(Is still more than necessary)
Required illustration
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Required illustration
I decided to press on, because its utter inability to edit interested me. I proposed it code a bash script to use spellcheck software such as aspell, taking LLM out of the equation. It then fabricated MORE text!
It was honest about this being a case of context rot. But it couldn't remedy it.
It was honest about this being a case of context rot. But it couldn't remedy it.
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I decided to press on, because its utter inability to edit interested me. I proposed it code a bash script to use spellcheck software such as aspell, taking LLM out of the equation. It then fabricated MORE text!
It was honest about this being a case of context rot. But it couldn't remedy it.
It was honest about this being a case of context rot. But it couldn't remedy it.
Over the summer, I asked it to copy-edit a 20,000-word document (not related to my newspaper work). "Only spelling and basic grammar errors." Within a few hundred words, it had fabricated entire cheeseball sentences about "liminal zones" and then copy-edited those WRONGLY. It couldn't do the job.
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Over the summer, I asked it to copy-edit a 20,000-word document (not related to my newspaper work). "Only spelling and basic grammar errors." Within a few hundred words, it had fabricated entire cheeseball sentences about "liminal zones" and then copy-edited those WRONGLY. It couldn't do the job.
While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response.
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response.
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
I’d love to hear about the Upper West Side / Upper East Side split
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I’d love to hear about the Upper West Side / Upper East Side split
A hypothetical I never would have considered was “Imagine if the American with the very worst record of managing construction projects were singularly responsible for the building most symbolic of democracy and decided to do his thing with both it and what it symbolizes”
October 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A hypothetical I never would have considered was “Imagine if the American with the very worst record of managing construction projects were singularly responsible for the building most symbolic of democracy and decided to do his thing with both it and what it symbolizes”
Given that Wayne Gretzky’s wines should be infra dig for any self-respecting Canadian on both political and oenological grounds, it’s refreshing to see this development (from the usually excellent Tawse winery)
October 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Given that Wayne Gretzky’s wines should be infra dig for any self-respecting Canadian on both political and oenological grounds, it’s refreshing to see this development (from the usually excellent Tawse winery)
Time will either have to pay a billion dollars or agree to this fix
October 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Time will either have to pay a billion dollars or agree to this fix
I don’t think they ever tried saying the name of this restaurant out loud. At least not to virologists
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I don’t think they ever tried saying the name of this restaurant out loud. At least not to virologists
This art work on display at Schönleinstaße U-Bahn in Berlin is titled “Deconstructing Narratives” and it literally runs pages of scripts continuously through a shredder.
Art on public transit is to be encouraged, but this one leaves no forehead unsmitten
Art on public transit is to be encouraged, but this one leaves no forehead unsmitten
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This art work on display at Schönleinstaße U-Bahn in Berlin is titled “Deconstructing Narratives” and it literally runs pages of scripts continuously through a shredder.
Art on public transit is to be encouraged, but this one leaves no forehead unsmitten
Art on public transit is to be encouraged, but this one leaves no forehead unsmitten
Who do Canadians regard as an “enemy”? This comes from a new Angus Reid report on India, but get a look at the redder end of that list
(Red = enemy/threat; pink = maybe so)
(Red = enemy/threat; pink = maybe so)
October 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Who do Canadians regard as an “enemy”? This comes from a new Angus Reid report on India, but get a look at the redder end of that list
(Red = enemy/threat; pink = maybe so)
(Red = enemy/threat; pink = maybe so)
What‘s amazing is that their article about this annoying suffix introduced only four never-printed-before-in-the-NYT neologisms
October 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
What‘s amazing is that their article about this annoying suffix introduced only four never-printed-before-in-the-NYT neologisms
Trump Ed Balls’d the Comey persecution
October 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Trump Ed Balls’d the Comey persecution
Defence Secretary: "We don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our war fighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill"
President: "We should use some [American] cities as training grounds for our military"
President: "We should use some [American] cities as training grounds for our military"
September 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Defence Secretary: "We don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our war fighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill"
President: "We should use some [American] cities as training grounds for our military"
President: "We should use some [American] cities as training grounds for our military"
I hadn’t realized, until my friends brought me the sample ballot, that the California redistricting referendum question is literally going to ask if you want to get back at Texas for trying to throw things to Trump
September 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I hadn’t realized, until my friends brought me the sample ballot, that the California redistricting referendum question is literally going to ask if you want to get back at Texas for trying to throw things to Trump
I’m filing a complaint against this DM for its grievous and deeply offensive act of “your/you’re” confusion
September 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I’m filing a complaint against this DM for its grievous and deeply offensive act of “your/you’re” confusion
It wasn't exactly the Gettysburg Address
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It wasn't exactly the Gettysburg Address
Prior to the Trump-negotiated peace, the scene of an earlier ceasefire and hostage release in the Canada-Chad war, iycyk
September 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Prior to the Trump-negotiated peace, the scene of an earlier ceasefire and hostage release in the Canada-Chad war, iycyk