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There he is. There’s the Mark Carney I was worried about.
That title has been in my head since about Monday, when Mark was speaking to investors in Toronto. Trying to bring foreign investment into Canada and staying rather mum about how much profit and economic activity would actually flow out of the country. This was the Mark Carney who seemed ready to sell us out,…
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We know you, America. Which is why Mark Carney can continue to hold the line.
My final point is that Canada can stand up to America because we know you, America, better than any other nation in the world. America, the political and geographic entity, is not abstract to us. We know you, we get you, and we know you’re not as invincible as you seem. The idea that Canada…
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Mark Carney’s Britannia Mine story tells us more than you might think.
This post has been rolling around in my brain since last Wednesday, when Mark Carney told the Vancouver Board of Trade his maternal grandfather worked in the copper mine at Britannia Beach. I’m taking that phrase directly from the video of his speech, because it’s important. Mark Carney, who chooses his words deliberately, and corrects…
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David Eby is about to lose it.
I was home, with the noon news on, when I heard David Eby taking questions about the federal deal with Alberta on a new pipeline. Wow. He’s done. David Eby has just had it up to here, hasn’t he? There’s a lot on Eby’s plate these days, provincially, not to mention from the perpetual poking…
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Mark Carney has his majority. He can also lose it.
The idea that Christy Clark is a federal Liberal still kind of breaks my brain. Seeing her pose smiling in a photo last weekend at the party’s convention with a one-time senior member of the BC NDP was also kind of weird. Is there just one party now? Is that it? Are we all Liberals…
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If Mark can’t make this country work, I don’t know who can
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I feel like Mark’s done all he can. He went full steam ahead for a year, rustled up trade agreements, and now all we can do is wait. It’s a weird place for a Prime Minister to be in. We don’t traditionally think of PMs as folks who have to get things moving for a…
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Mark Carney in Davos makes pragmatism sound like moral authority. But I’m up for it.
When I was in high school, Václav Havel was cool. It’s hard to imagine now that he’s dead and the memory of the fall of the Eastern Bloc has largely ended with my generation. But when I was, say, 14 or 15, when the wall fell, and afterwards, Havel was a rock star. He apparently…
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The game’s still in the early stages. Time to take a pause.
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I’m not really a Catholic. I was baptized but never raised in the church and in my adult life I’ve been a bit of a religion-hopper. Often I think about exploring my Catholic roots but have been put off by much of Catholic dogma that I just can’t subscribe to. There’s no need to list…
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Mark Carney has to recover his charm pretty damn fast. Or we’re all screwed.
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We moved to 108 Mile Ranch, British Columbia, in 1981. I was seven, my older sister 15. Mark Carney would have been 16, one province over, in Edmonton, Alberta, sharpening his goalie skills and finalizing his Harvard application. He was already 10 years removed from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, and likely had little memory of…
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Mark Carney is Canada’s boyfriend… not yours, Donald Trump
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On October 27, 2025, journalist Judy Trinh asked Mark Carney a pointed question about Donald Trump. She started by noting Trump had said he didn’t want to see Carney as they were about to cross paths at APEC. The exchange begins at 17:00 in the video below, and ends with this: “Is the U.S. toying…
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