Dr. Chris Murray 🇨🇦

Allowing others to come to harm to avoid the risk of a potential harm to one’s self is an immoral act. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

More government secrecy, this time in British Columbia. B.C. information rights are at risk. A new bill would water down the government’s requirement to respond promptly to freedom-of-information requests,. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/… via @VancouverSun

No Canadian flag. But a flag of a non existent state that is the raison d’être of banned terror groups like Hamas. But they regard Canada as an “illegitimate settler state” characterized by white supremacy and genocide. Tommy Douglas must be rolling over in his grave.

Canada’s march towards institutionalized censorship carries on unabated, writes Amy Hamm nationalpost.com/opinion/oh-gre…

@KnightLegg So much of this is in our own head, fed by a dislike for Trump and a refusal to admit that most of the American criticisms we are hearing are bipartisan (little to nothing to do with Trump) and are entirely of our own making. defencereport.com/no-dr-lennox-c…

The desire of Canadian politicians presiding over failing economies to run against cartoonish versions of what’s happening in America is unbounded. Time for the entire Canadian political class to stop being snarky spectators on global affairs we have no contribution to - and start building the energy assets and global infrastructure the world needs.

Jonathan Haidt dropped a pretty blunt warning about giving young kids iPads or phones. He says we’ve all discovered how incredibly effective they are as pacifiers — they work almost instantly. But that’s exactly the problem. 40% of American two-year-olds already have their own iPad. Once a child gets used to constant stimulation, they basically never learn how to be bored. The moment they have even 30 seconds of downtime, they start screaming for the device. Haidt’s advice is straightforward: If you haven’t started, don’t. If you already have, take it away. It might take 3–4 weeks for the brain to readjust, but it’s worth it. He’s even hearing stories of preschoolers crying at drop-off — not because mom is leaving, but because the iPad is staying in the car. It’s a sobering reminder of how quickly these devices rewire young brains and create real addiction patterns. Have you noticed this with kids in your life, or are you trying to hold the line on screens with little ones?

“Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus and the feeling that whatever you think, you’re bound to be ok because your in the safely moral majority.” - Christopher Hitchens

To understand the situation in Serbia, you must first understand the Serbian median voter. He wants European democracy, European investments, visa-free travel, and free education at European universities, but he also wants Russia to conquer Ukraine and dictate terms to Europe, Iran to sink all American aircraft carriers, and to once more put the Kosovo Albanians in their place. You see, it’s not an either/or situation. Serbia’s European future is attainable; its revanchist wet dreams are not. But until the median voter accepts this reality, there will never be democracy in Serbia, there will never be a decent standard of living, and there will never be a future.

I’ve just got back from a week in Washington DC, where Iran War main topic of discussion. I was struck by how the weakness of the administration means that it is ill equipped to deal south a crisis of this magnitude. samf.substack.com/p/trump-runs-o…

@acoyne So much of this is in our own head, fed by a dislike for Trump and a refusal to admit that most of the American criticisms we are hearing are bipartisan (little to nothing to do with Trump) and are entirely of our own making. defencereport.com/no-dr-lennox-c…

The Ontario budget lays bare Ford’s Trudeauian fiscal policy More than a decade ago, Canadian conservatives rightly criticized Justin Trudeau’s now-infamous claim that “budgets will balance themselves” as an expression of fiscal irresponsibility. It reflected a self-evidently wrong belief that governments could avoid difficult choices and rely on economic growth to close the gap. Yet the Ford government’s latest Ontario budget is a version of that same false logic in practice. The fiscal facts are straightforward. Ontario has moved from a near-balanced position to a sizeable deficit in a single year. Revenues are essentially flat while year-over-year spending is rising by roughly 3 percent. The result is a deficit that has increased by an order of magnitude. This point must be underscored: the province’s deteriorating balance sheet isn’t so much a consequence of worsening economic conditions outside of the government’s control as it is a direct result of its own budgetary choices. Although the budget still commits to a return to balance over the medium term, the path that it sets out doesn’t rest on obvious policy changes. Instead, it depends on stronger economic growth and a future slowdown in spending that’s neither specified nor demonstrated. In effect, the government has relinquished its agency over balancing the budget. It has outsourced it to economic growth and to rosy assumptions about future restraint. There’s good reason to be doubtful that either will eventually come to pass—especially since as the Fraser Institute reminds us, this is the fourth time in a row that the Ford government has pushed off surpluses that were projected in previous budgets. This is, to put it bluntly, a Trudeauian fiscal policy. And the problem, of course, is that as the Trudeau era reminded us, budgets don’t balance themselves. They ultimately reflect choices. That’s the biggest takeaway from this week’s Ontario budget. Whatever the premier or finance minister claim, the Ford government has abdicated its responsibility to balance the budget.

I could not agree more!

Getting access to RCMP 'Native extremism' files took 4-year fight. 'National security' cited in 42-month delay by Library and Archives Canada cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

A year ago Mark Carney called China "the biggest threat to Canada's security". 3 months ago @MarkJCarney signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China on "intelligence sharing". Until today he refuses to show a copy of the Memorandum. Why?

Viktor Orban wants Hungarians to re-elect him, even though he has turned Hungary into the most corrupt and one of the poorest countries in the EU. To do so, he is telling Hungarians to fear sabotage, thievery, or even a military attack from … Ukraine theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

@TristinHopper I would point out they still seem unable to confront that they and their kind are why everything sucks.

I'll be frank; it's *very* funny to me to constantly see columns in the Globe or the Star where writers are like "heeeyy; literally everything sucks now. Was anyone else aware of this?"

So US is going to break-up Canada through covertly aiding secessionists. As if the US wants instability and chaos on their border. This is in our own head, fed by a dislike for Trump and a refusal to admit that most of the American criticisms are bipartisan and legitimate.

My latest: MAGA’s plan for Canada —not annexation, but dismemberment theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

If you can't appreciate why avoiding principled stances on contentious issue in order to skirt controversy and win votes is corrosive to democracy and our socio-political discourse, I'm not going to be able to do anything to help you in 280 characters.

Taking Kharg Island will be America’s Mistake defencereport.com/taking-kharg-i… #IranWar‌ #KhargIsland #PersianGulf #StraitofHormuz