Just bought some Stanfield’s underwear. Their website says: how proudly Canadian (“Made in Canada” liberally displayed on their website) they are (HQ in Truro NS since 1882) - however, the underwear reads “Made in Vietnam” in tiny letters on the label.
What’s up?
Stanfield’s was made in Canada in 1882. The underwear however is made in Vietnam. Easy peasy.
I just checked and my older pairs are labelled as Made in Canada, but the ones I bought a few months ago are made in Bangladesh. At least the profits are still Canadian-made.
And the worst part?
He’s playing by US rules.
I’m very unhappy with what went down last night in Toronto:
This happened 300m from my house and daughter #2 and a friend came home from it less than 20 minutes earlier.
It’s early in the investigation, but the guns used were likely smuggled in from the US. We have to crack down on both the guns and criminals.
Outside of Ford, who went from 69% approval in June 2020 to 21% Jun 2026, I cannot think of another premier who has had such a downturn as Nova Scotia’s Tim Houston. Houston went on an austerity spree slashing the province’s budget for arts and the Civil Service. In turn he has been doggedly booed at public events and followed by protestors. Today I see this.
Protesters surround Tim Houston’s car, smash glass after speech
Yikes. Not good (need I say it? violence here is clearly not warranted). Houston was once thought for a CPC contender for leader.
I have switched my evening news from Global to CTV, both local and national.
This is because of the announcement by Corus Entertainment, parent company of Global, to end locally produced news telecasts in their Edmonton/Calgary studios and move the production to Toronto.
Global was already pissing me off by producing Edmonton news in their Calgary studio on weekends.
Corus is owned by Shaw. You would think that if Shaw wanted to manage costs they would cut layers of management in Shaw/Corus/Global, but that’s not the way things work in 2026.
Lloyd Robertson has passed away:
In my opinion, one of the best anchors in the business. A very nice guy too; I met him once.
Rest well, Lloyd.
I’ve heard from many different people in many different situations how he was both a kind and intelligent person, and that his understanding of national and world events actually matched the image that CBC, and later CTV projected about him. Very much like the feelings of many USians about the late Walter Cronkite - you felt like you could trust his point of view, even though his point of view represented the collective research, writing, and editing of a large staff.
But it isn’t just Lloyd Robertson whom I miss - it’s that whole sense of trust in the news media, whether misplaced or not. The contrast to today, when the leaders are deliberately trying to sow distrust in the media, is stark. And the precarious balancing act that the mainstream media must undergo, fearing to call out false or deliberately misleading statements, when expertise is seen as a disadvantage in reporting on events, when ‘news’ is packaged as an entertainment product rather than as a solemn commitment to future historians to show the present in factual terms - all this makes me yearn for the years of my youth.
Some of you will no doubt accuse me of being naive - so be it! I currently have to carefully monitor my daily intake of news the way my doctor has me monitor my daily diet.
Interesting times ahead! I think Carney is absolutely right to walk away - ‘no deal’ is better than a ‘bad deal’.
Doesn’t mean this isn’t going to hurt, though…
Ya, I made a thread about it (since the last Carney one got closed).
Ah. I had a quick visit there. I’m sorry to say, it very quickly reminded me of why I avoid discussions in Politics & Elections…
And today is the 212th anniversary of the burning of Washington by British troops!
Major-General Robert Ross, the man who burned it down is buried in Halifax. His grave is in the cemetery on the corner Spring Garden and Barrington. Right next to Dalhousie University’s Engineering college.
It’s smack dab downtown and the gates are always open. Although the grave is less grandiose and impressive then Alexander Keith’s massive obelisk in the centre of the cemetery that’s next to Halifax Public Gardens; I’d suggest anyone who’s in town to stop by.
Now that’s a bit of Halifax history I did not know! Thank you for that!
Three byelection victories for the Liberals give them a majority government. It’s pretty hard not to take this as a sign of confidence in Carney’s leadership through the US trade war.
And speaking of the US trade war, Scott Bessent denies being at war with Canada. The rules are a lot clearer when it comes to military warfare - where, exactly, is the line in economic warfare? I ask the question honestly, as I have no idea what the diplomatic precedents for this sort of thing might be.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bessent-carney-tariffs-trade-war-9.7326851
Someone in Halifax is trying to bring the spirit of Major-General Ross back with a note and a BIC lighter. Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys would approve.
Just wondering how everyone is marking National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, and Orange Shirt Day.
I’ve been re-reading the two volumes of “The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle” by Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon, “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and “Native Peoples and Cultures of Canada” by Alan D. McMillan.
I’m also reflecting on me and my family’s connection to the residential schools - my sister’s first job when she graduated from university in 1970 with a BSc in Psychology was at the residential school in Dauphin, Manitoba. I don’t know what went on there, and she never spoke about that job. She lasted for a year. I remember my mum hated that place and that job, and was delighted when my sister left and got a job elsewhere. I visited the place once, and my chief impression was the overwhelming smell of sour milk and industrial cleaning products.
My sister died in 1991, and so I can’t ask her. I do suspect that her time there was part of why she was so determined to get the Family Resource Centre in Brandon built. That centre is now named for her.
And my other strange connection is that I grew up on an Agriculture Canada Research Station, where my dad was the superintendent. The next thing west of us along Grand Valley Road was the Brandon residential school. It closed in 1972. It’s one of the ones where there is a confirmed cemetery, with newspaper clippings and marked crosses. There is also an area where they suspect there are unmarked graves. The government of the province has just purchased the land, and there will be a respectful investigation of the site.
We never went there much - it was a pretty creepy place when it was open, and it didn’t improve any once it closed. I don’t know much about what went on there. I do know that when asked what they would like to do about the site, the local Indigenous peoples asked that the building be razed.
So the Ottawa Redblacks have set a record: 0-15 the start the season. Brought this record home from the US too! Previous record holders were the Shreveport Pirates during the brief US expansion in the early 90s.
A record is a record!
I still think it was really petty of the Saskatchewan Roughriders to make Ottawa change the name when they came back…