The National Post is owned by PostMedia, an American-controlled media conglomerate that has been pushing a hard-right, pro-Trump narrative in its many Canadian papers. None of the PostMedia owned papers is going to say anything against other PostMedia papers, and the non-PostMedia papers are just too pusillanimous to speak out. I personally think that Canadian papers should not be allowed to have non-Canadian ownership.
As everyone else here has said, this is a perfect example of FAFO. Everyone knows (except Maple MAGA types who live in their own false information bubble) that Russia is grabbing every adult male inside their borders that they can, to be sent to their deaths in Ukraine. To move to Russia shows a degree of wilful stupidity and/or ideological blindness that is beyond repair. It’s basically like a person deliberately crossing and re-crossing a very busy highway because they think they are invulnerable.
No sympathy whatsoever for the idiot, but some sympathy for the children whom I assume had no choice.
It would be absolutely HILARIOUS if Mark Carney were to win next year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Donald Trump would have a meltdown. I would not be surprised if in his temper tantrum, he ordered a military invasion of Canada. The disconnect of ordering a war for not getting the Nobel PEACE Prize would escape him.
Mark Carney is NOT getting one, he has yet to do anything worthy of one. This might change in five or ten years, if his goal to create a new international system of middle powers that stabilizes the world and reduces international conflicts, succeeds.
I once looked into whether Danielle Smith’s known instances of collusion with Donald Trump against the territorial integrity of Canada constituted literal treason, and found that it did according to the relevant laws . But it appears that the feds are unwilling to arrest and try her for treason, for fear of the backlash among the Maple MAGA crowd.
Permanent Daylight Saving Time is idiotic. It was tried before in the UK (1968-71), the USA (1973-74), Russia (2011-14) and Chile (2015). In each case, it was popular at first because it meant no more changing the clocks twice a year, but quickly became very unpopular because of early-morning traffic fatalities, children waiting for buses in pitch darkness, and general seasonal depression, made worse from it staying dark until late in the morning in winter.