"Canadians are like hobbits"
So says Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief emeritus Matt Winkler. Well, we've been called worse...
Trump v Canada - compare and contrast
The United States is falling and it can't get up.
Those job numbers are shocking.
Trump is declining every day.
Finally, the Iran War is a generational disaster.
Phillips O'Brien writes in The Atlantic that the US munitions shortage is showing the world it can no longer count on American weapon superiority, and he writes in his substack that the US military is being forced to withdraw from the Gulf region.
In the latter article, he says:
I posted some of this clip last night but I think there is more here:
Speaking of the trade negotiations, The Globe and Mail has an article today about how "sources" are saying Carney will cave on dairy and booze. I don't care about whether American booze sits on liquor store shelves, but I hope Canadians realize if we lose our dairy industry we'll never get it back. And its not so much that Canadians can choose not to buy American milk and cheese at the grocery store. But wholesalers WILL buy the American milk and cheese, and restaurants, and food manufacturers, because the American products will be cheaper so their stockholders will demand it. Once our farmers lose those sales, they'll end up having to cut production, cull their herds, and lay off their workers. It will start a downward spiral.
So I hope these reports aren't true, and so do the dairy farmers. Here is a Toronto Star story by Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press [gift link]:
Wildfires Updates
The truest thing ever said on X:
So says Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief emeritus Matt Winkler. Well, we've been called worse...
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Trump v Canada - compare and contrast
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The United States is falling and it can't get up.
Those job numbers are shocking.
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Trump is declining every day.
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Finally, the Iran War is a generational disaster.
Phillips O'Brien writes in The Atlantic that the US munitions shortage is showing the world it can no longer count on American weapon superiority, and he writes in his substack that the US military is being forced to withdraw from the Gulf region.
In the latter article, he says:
...The USA cannot protect its forces against Iranian strike, as cheap and less advanced as that strike is compared to American capabilities. The upshot of this weakness (and indicative of why the US is running out of anti-air systems) is that the USA is already pulling its forces out of the Persian Gulf—in some cases precipitously.In comparison, here's Canada.
The Wall Street Journal five days ago wrote a detailed story about how this is effecting Kuwait. The US has made Kuwait a major base for its influence in the region since the First Gulf War in 1991, but the results of Trump’s War (if you remember the first mass casualty hit by the Iranians was on a US facility in Kuwait) has caused the US to pull many of its forces out of the country already.
Trying to sugarcoat the pill, the WSJ says the USA is “rethinking” its defensive posture in the region, but the truth is that is has been forced to pull out precipitously because it cannot protect its forces and it is struggling to protect the Kuwaitis.
This recent report comes after months of reports of withdrawals from other facilities—leaving many US bases in the Gulf supposedly empty. ...So what are the states in the region seeing? They see that the US is unable to protect its own troops, let alone them. And what does that do? It makes those states understand that being too close to the US could actually be a strategic liability.
Jordan is an interesting case in that regard. Supposedly some of the US forces that were withdrawn from the Gulf have been redeployed to Jordan—and lo and behold Iran starts attacking Jordan regularly as it did last week. Now Jordanians are starting to question the role of the USA in their lives.
...the entire security architecture that was constructed by the states in the Persian Gulf and wider Middle East, will have to be entirely remade. There are signs that they already know that. The US, is showing its weakness so dramatically and in adding to that its unreliability and fickleness, is compelling the states to think more regionally.
... Look, we need to be honest about what we have seen here. The US is already running out of weapons, it is already pulling forces back, it is already discrediting itself. The states in the region are only acting rationally in looking at a very different future, one that relies as little as possible on the whims of a declining and fickle USA...
I posted some of this clip last night but I think there is more here:
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Speaking of the trade negotiations, The Globe and Mail has an article today about how "sources" are saying Carney will cave on dairy and booze. I don't care about whether American booze sits on liquor store shelves, but I hope Canadians realize if we lose our dairy industry we'll never get it back. And its not so much that Canadians can choose not to buy American milk and cheese at the grocery store. But wholesalers WILL buy the American milk and cheese, and restaurants, and food manufacturers, because the American products will be cheaper so their stockholders will demand it. Once our farmers lose those sales, they'll end up having to cut production, cull their herds, and lay off their workers. It will start a downward spiral.
So I hope these reports aren't true, and so do the dairy farmers. Here is a Toronto Star story by Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press [gift link]:
...Dairy Farmers of Canada says it’s urging the federal government not to offer any more concessions on dairy or supply management in talks with the United States.
“Our food sovereignty is not for sale; a bad deal is not worth the cost,” the organization said in a statement to The Canadian Press.
“Canada has already made several concessions in recent months to advance CUSMA review discussions with the U.S. — only to be met each time with fresh demands. It is difficult to see how more concessions would produce a different result.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday his government is “loyal” to the supply management system.
A source who has been briefed on the ongoing negotiations but is not authorized to speak publicly about them said Ottawa has told the provinces not to expect major changes to the supply management regime.
Canada could move to broaden American market access under existing terms, the source said.
The U.S. has long demanded direct access for its dairy sector to large Canadian retailers such as Walmart or Loblaw stores, similar to the way a European Union trade deal allows cheese companies limited access to some major Canadian companies.
The source said it’s not likely Canada would provide that direct access because the scale of American imports could overwhelm the supply management system and might violate Bill C-202, which limits the extent to which trade talks can change the system...
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Wildfires Updates
The truest thing ever said on X:
Today it was Summerland's turn:
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Hillside over Summerland moments ago. Terrifying scene. @Kamscan @Okanaganscan #bcwildfire pic.twitter.com/Vm2NCfDmBC
— Mike Klassen 麥嘉信 🇨🇦 (@MikeKlassen) August 8, 2026
Multiple people being rescued by helicopter in summerland. Many accounts of having 5 minutes and then being shoved into the helicopter
— Okanagan Fire Scanner (@Okanaganscan) August 8, 2026
These two helicopters are landing in the fire zone removing people that are trapped pic.twitter.com/o6ytNHzghh
— Okanagan Fire Scanner (@Okanaganscan) August 8, 2026
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And in other areas, people are dealing with the aftermath
Having grown up in the California wine country, I can tell you that the cost of house insurance in wildfire areas has gone through the roof. www.kuow.org/climate/2026...
— Stoic Thinker (@stoicthinker2025.bsky.social) August 7, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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This is a good idea for next year, which will be even worse
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