Dominic LeBlanc: "President Trump's administration will be in office for two more years. And a great deal of the authority that he's using to apply these tariffs, of course, is executive authority, which won't be changed by the midterms."

This is how you write a headline.

Canada should be building up massive greenhouse capacity, relying on geothermal energy, across the country to grow our own food. Sovereignty means getting things right, and getting the hell away from reliance on the US for ALL THINGS.

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

This isn’t surprising. Trump is anti-Ukraine and he has always hated Zelensky. But he has been constrained by something (public opinion? GOP behind the scenes? Bureaucracy?) from fully throwing US power behind Putin. Can this change now? Tbh, I don’t know. What I do know is that…

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

Six months ago:

The Trump administration pressured diplomatic officials from the EU, Canada and Lithuania to pull out of an international conference on disinformation after organizers announced panels warning of the threat posed by American government officials

This has been talked 2 death over the yrs, but the PQ promise of free trade w/ CDA (or US or EU) post-separation seems especially crazy in the geopolitical moment / desperate scramble for private investment. More likely to be a Brexit-style shock/isolation for QC, if on a smaller scale.

I've been thinking over and over about what a colleague told me in the hall this week... she's older, Black, used to talking to people who disagree with her, indeed, she has sort of made intergroup dialogue her "other job" on campus. She is also pretty much entirely off-line.