Asher Honickman

Wake me up when they bring back the gray gradient. If Sidney Crosby isn't in one of these before retirement its a whiff.

One year ago today, Danielle Smith and the UCP stripped 51,000 teachers of their fundamental human rights. We’ve heard that the problems they were fighting to fix — underfunding, overcrowding and a lack of support for complexity — have not improved. The Alberta NDP stands with every educator, parent and student in this province who’s demanding better education.

Mark Carney on constitutional change: "There's one approach which is to say, let's just park that [issue] unless we have constitutional change or let's work together, let's find common solutions now, and then if it were to become necessary."

'The anti-Canadian left has long scorned colonial history as an era of foreign occupation by the British. They treat the arrival of European colonists in the 16th century as the point at which Canadian history was put on hold, only to resume in the late 20th century. It is regrettable, but not unexpected, that they are being joined by an amusing brigade of alleged “conservatives” and their fellow-travellers. They insist that because Canada’s founding document was signed in 1867, nothing that came before can be claimed by Canadians today. A fascinating thesis. The notion that national histories are entirely determined by legal and political documents has no bearing on this continent. Neither that Charter of Rights of Freedoms here, nor America’s Declaration of Independence, the New Deal or the Civil Rights Act wiped the slate clean'. My latest in the @nationalpost, on nonsense regarding 1812 from last week. nationalpost.com/opinion/geo…

New: Toronto mayoral candidate @BradMBradford greeted by crowd at Maple Leafs game.

“Freedom” requires public order in order to exist in any meaningful capacity. As such, in the hierarchy of political goods, order is by definition more important than freedom. Conservatives of all people should know this.

One of the strange misconceptions of Quebec nationalism is the myth of domination by "les anglais." The truth is that the dominant strains of British Canadian culture were Celtic, i.e. Scots and Irish, the bulk of whom were hardscrabble people who had survived the Highland Clearances or the Irish Famine, both of them underdogs with no great love for the English. The most poignant example: Wolfe's shock troops at the Plains of Abraham were the Fraser Highlanders, almost all of them descendants of families who fought on the Stuart side during the last Jacobite uprising. After the British victory in 1759, many of them settled on farms throughout Lower Canada, and were integrated into French Canadian culture (easily, as they were generally Catholic.) Highland Scots worked closely with French Canadian voyageurs in the vast fur trade operations of the HBC and NWC, together building the first European communities across much of North America, often with nary an Englishman in sight! Famine Irish were a huge part of the Quebec population after the great emigration, again integrating well into Quebec society given their common religious sentiments. Thomas D'Arcy McGee was the personification of their experience, moving from Fenian rage towards the English to seeing Canada as a new beginning, rooted in a more benign and pluralistic British Imperialism. There are countless similarities between the traditional culture of the Highland Scots, Irish, and French Canadians. Tough people who lived closed to the land, were deeply motivated by their faith, and were determined not to let the English suppress their folkways.

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Breaking news: A plane flying from Dubai to Israel was diverted after an altercation between the pilot and co-pilot, Israeli officials said. nyti.ms/4rHOvin

Grateful for the support, Geddy.

In its first four seasons, “Fauda” made an effort to be fair. The Palestinian characters, like the Israelis, had griefs and grievances, families and team frictions. The fifth season is different economist.com/culture/2026/0…