Category: news
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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,… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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I love Mark. He really is awesome.
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There’s an image you get when someone says “prime time address to the country.” A leader, seated at a desk, talking directly into the camera. It’s U.S.-style governing, where a presidential address happens only for select, highly notable moments (or highly political ones). So when there were rumblings that Mark Carney would today speak to… Read more
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So, Mark, how’s it going?
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My guess is that Mark thought negotiating with he-who-shall-not-be-named was going to be much easier. Perhaps he didn’t count on the fact that HWSNBN is stuck in his tariff-loving ways, doesn’t really care much about Canada, and plays loose and fast with the truth. Mark probably figured the Great New Deal with America would be… Read more
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You’re not entitled to a cabinet post, Nate Erskine-Smith
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This post was going to be about getting momentarily triggered by hearing “Gregor Robertson” and “Housing Minister” in the same sentence earlier today. But it’s been superceded — or supplemented — by the tone deaf post made by Nate Erskine-Smith, current podcaster and former Housing Minister. In response to the cabinet (or “ministry” as Mark… Read more
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It’s about enhancing our relationship with others
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He-who-shall-not-be-named (hereafter “**”) is an awful person. This should be obvious. And I guess it is. But it struck me when I got home yesterday and watched the 30 minutes or so of the oval office scrum between ** and Prime Minister Mark Carney. It’s not that I’ve never seen ** before or heard his… Read more
