Prince Edward Icy

— 03.30.2025 07:48 PM

I’m in Toronto shooting the documentary, but one of my neighbors just sent me this. She thought it was me. Nature is beautiful but sometimes ominous!


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Some murders are more equal than others

— 03.29.2025 05:37 PM

I was here, at a Toronto “pro-Palestine” protest today. There were a lot of chants about genocide and killing, but there was not one word – not one – said about Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai, a Palestinian boy who was murdered by Hamas for protesting against them.

Not one.


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My latest: now what? What next?

— 03.29.2025 11:15 AM

Mark Carney looks grave.

“The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over,” the Prime Minister of Canada says, and his words hang in the air like static. He pauses.

“It’s clear the US is no longer a reliable partner. It is possible that with comprehensive negotiations, we could reestablish an element of confidence but there will be no going backwards.”

And with that, a unique relationship that has endured for 158 years – a relationship that has survived war and pandemics and terror attacks – came to an ignoble end. With a whimper, not a bang, at a hurriedly-convened press conference in Ottawa. Called to answer to Donald Trump’s destructive and reckless tariffs on the auto industry.

Carney’s words went around the world. “Canada PM Mark Carney says old relationship with US ‘is over’,” BBC headlined their report. “Old US-Canada relationship is ‘over,’ warns Canadian prime minister,” said CNN’s bulletin. “Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says ‘old relationship’ with US ‘is over’ amid tension over Trump tariffs,” said Fox News.

Partisan Liberals gleefully celebrated Carney’s statement, posting online that he looked and sounded Prime Ministerial. And that much was true: Carney did look and sound like Prime Minister, for the first time in the very short time he has been in the job.

But it wasn’t anything to celebrate. It was deeply, profoundly sad. And, importantly, Carney’s declaration will be difficult – verging on impossible – to walk back. For him or a successor.

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