I hadn't realized so much was happening in the first few days of May:
Carney is in Armenia
Carney's speech:
TL,DW: DRM News reports "Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the European Political Community Summit in Armenia, highlighting Canada-Europe strategic ties, support for Ukraine, and a shifting global order. He emphasizes “strategic autonomy,” critical minerals, and defense cooperation, while warning that the international system is being reshaped by geopolitical and economic disruptions."
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Carney's speech:
TL,DW: DRM News reports "Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the European Political Community Summit in Armenia, highlighting Canada-Europe strategic ties, support for Ukraine, and a shifting global order. He emphasizes “strategic autonomy,” critical minerals, and defense cooperation, while warning that the international system is being reshaped by geopolitical and economic disruptions."
Carney's press conference:
TL,DW: press questions about Ukraine; linkages with Europe for security, economics; trade, etc.
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The US has to realize that Canada is gone and we aren't coming back.
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The PBO has released an assessment of the Spring Economic Update 2026
I first refer you all to Dale Smith discussing a social media exchange this weekend, because it touches on the same issues:
...The Carney government doesn’t like to give a lot of details, and relies an awful lot on saying “just trust me” to a whole lot of things, which it really shouldn’t do. And then for everyone to get upset because they we can’t read minds or scry into the future is a problem in trying to communicate to the public. We’re not getting good information out of this government, and that needs to change, and these exchanges are a perfect encapsulation of that.So today the newly-appointed Parliamentary Budget Officer released her reviews of the Spring Economic Update, and Paul Wells gives us an interesting analysis. He concludes:
...If Champagne or whoever’s finance minister this fall provides detailed updates on progress building homes and ports and pink-slipping civil servants and ramping up military spending; if his colleagues can pass up the temptation to spend every dollar good fortune frees up; — well, actually, even if all of that happens, it’ll still be tremendously difficult to hold the fiscal line in a tariff hurricane. While adding tens of billions to defence spending. While propelling Canada into a new multilateral world. It would have been hard for anyone. Thanks to the new PBO for pointing out the fault lines.
ICE Gestapo are collecting Canadian records? Come at me, bro!
If the ICE Gestapo are collecting records of all the Canadians who hate Trump, they must have millions by now. Including mine.
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Iran War starts up again
Or, as Trump now calls it, a "mini-war" - where people only die a little?
After CNN's report last week about American bases across the Middle East being hit by Iran, I guess Trump and Hegseth decided it was time to start up the war again, by using American warships to (try to) escort commercial ships through the Strait.
Just to show Iran who's boss?
Oh, It's not going to go very well.
As Churchill said in Ottawa in 1941 - some chicken, some neck.
In his Rest of the World Report on Monday night, Rudy Martinez writes:
The Met Gala
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In his Rest of the World Report on Monday night, Rudy Martinez writes:
....The ceasefire that both sides nominally observed since April 7 is now, in any practical sense, over. Neither side has formally declared it. Neither side needs to. Both sides say they fired. Both sides say the other started it. A South Korean vessel was struck — that much has independent confirmation. The UAE was attacked — Emirati authorities confirmed it. The question for Tuesday — when Defense Secretary Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine hold a press conference — is not whether the ceasefire survived Monday. It is what comes next.
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: The international framing of today’s events differs sharply from Washington’s. Al Jazeera leads with the UAE attack and the Fujairah oil infrastructure strike — the regional consequences for US allies — not the American military achievement. Euronews notes that Macron’s refusal to participate in Project Freedom, announced this morning in Yerevan, now looks prescient: France declined to join a unilateral operation that Iran treated as an act of war and that drew fire onto a third-party nation within hours. The Financial Times’ live blog frames the day’s core question in economic rather than military terms: whether Tuesday’s Hegseth-Caine press conference signals escalation or a path back to negotiations. The South China Morning Post leads with the South Korean vessel strike and Tokyo’s reaction — Japan’s prime minister said the oil crisis is having “an enormous impact” across Asia Pacific. The story the rest of the world is reading is not the story of American military achievement. It is the story of a strait that remains effectively closed, a regional ally under fire, and an energy crisis that is now weeks into its acute phase.
WHAT AMERICAN READERS NEED TO KNOW: Brent crude closed the day at roughly $114 a barrel — up from $109.70 this morning. The national gas average ticked up another penny to $4.46. The UAE, home to the world’s busiest international airport and a critical US military partner, spent Monday in missile shelters with flights turning around midair. Two ships got through the strait. The ceasefire is functionally over. The Hegseth-Caine press conference tomorrow morning will be the first official US accounting of what happened today and what comes next. That accounting will matter — because the rest of the world is watching Washington’s next move as closely as it watched Iran’s.
The Met Gala
The Met Gala was Monday night. Here is the Vogue coverage. As well, I expect Tom and Lorenzo will soon have their analysis of all the "looks"
But in the meantime, lets just agree that its a ridiculous Fin de Siècle spectacle, isn't it.
May the Force Be With You
May 4th is Star Wars Day, of course. Here's a Canadian connection to Star Wars and The Force:
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Frank Grimes stuns at Met Gala
— Dennis B. Hooper (@dennisbhooper.bsky.social) May 4, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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May the Force Be With You
May 4th is Star Wars Day, of course. Here's a Canadian connection to Star Wars and The Force:
-Kent State - May 4, 1971
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I have never forgotten this sign either, which went up at another US campus and codified the whole protest era:
-Gordon Lightfoot - died May 1, 2023
I always thought Railroad Trilogy was the best song I had ever heard about our country
"When the green dark forest was too silent to be real.
"When the green dark forest was too silent to be real.
"And many are the dead men, too silent to be real."
Habs Rule!
May 1 . 2023 We lost the great Canadian Gordon Lightfoot on this day 3 years ago. Gordon was an incredible singer and songwriter. Bob Dylan said whenever he heard a Lightfoot song - he wished it would last forever. Me too Bob. Sundown #gordonlightfoot #vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #vinylsky
— Trev (@trevor1972.bsky.social) May 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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Habs Rule!
Well, the Raptor's season was over too soon.
But the Habs made it to the next round. It was a heart-stopping game on Sunday - the kind where I had to go clean up the kitchen for the last 30 seconds because I just couldn't watch...
But the Habs made it to the next round. It was a heart-stopping game on Sunday - the kind where I had to go clean up the kitchen for the last 30 seconds because I just couldn't watch...
quick check of @hockey-reference.com This is tied for the fewest shots on goal EVER in an NHL win and a new record for fewest shots in an NHL playoff win and it came in a Game 7
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) May 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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The bracket has been set for the second round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs! 🏆
— TSN (@tsnofficial.bsky.social) May 3, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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