Doug Saunders
International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net
- By his logic — such as it is — he will now have to place punitive sanctions on his own country for his having said this
- Not all THAT different from Jeffrey Lewis’s 2018 novel “The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States”
- Since this issue seems to have reared its head, here’s my column from last week on why nuclear weapons wouldn’t help Canada at all, and in general don’t protect countries from invasion by adjoining countries www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
- There is an echo-chamber problem. But it is only one side of the political spectrum who are climbing into echo chambers. The rest of us consume media for information and to shape our opinions with diverse voices. The right consumes stuff that affirms pre-existing affinities and validates prejudices
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- In hyper-local news, I see Toronto's transit commission still refuses to make riders aware of the most useful rapid-transit line in its system, the UP Express, because even though it's fully part of the system it's run by some other authority. So it's not even on the map www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- What the hell. How can this keep getting worse?
- This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D. Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate." I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
- Ostensibly interesting things I won’t be reading
- The Dominican Republic has fewer than 12 million people, and eliminating birthright citizenship there a decade ago created 150,000 stateless people — that is, citizens of no country who can’t legally reside anywhere. Imagine if a country of 400 million did it.
- Reposted by Doug Saunders“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”
- In the past, they’d think twice about releasing highly classified stuff to congressional committees because figures like Rep. Gabbard couldn’t be trusted with it. Now…
- As fell Kennedy, so falls the Kennedy Center: Taken down by a babbling conspiracy theorist, besotted then humiliated by Russia, standing alone at a window, oblivious to any wider context
- This may be the most unethical thug I’ve ever heard from an academic, on about eight different levels, and that’s before you even consider exactly who he’s asking for advice and why
- USA and Europe. One is an economically declining place of violence and no-go streets, restricted freedoms and censored media, immigration crises and a non-growing population whose choices threaten the ruin of a great civilization. And then there’s Europe
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- The fact that he refers to the product as “I Cannot Believe It Is Not Butter” should have been a huge red flag in itself
- I’m all about STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS
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- RIP Lola Heatherton. “You’re so beautiful, it’s SCARY!” youtu.be/dDU5l4ewaRc?...