Remember that, until the Super Bowl era, the big American sports events were boxing matches, the Triple Crown, the World Series and college bowl games. (In Canada it was the Grey Cup, the Stanley Cup and the Brier.) Most, if not all, have been pushed aside by the NFL marketing colossus. Why could the same not happen to the NFL ?

The latest argument for salary caps is the World Series winning L.A. Dodgers—who’ve won three of the five World Series in which they’ve appeared since 2017— signing prime free agent slugger Kyle Tucker to a four-year, $240 million contract. (He’s reported to have turned down an even larger 10-year $300 million offer from Toronto). Added to the Dodgers already formidable lineup it seems unfair to baseball fans who still think fair is a concept in sports.

Shoresy is a love note to the segment of Canada being ignored by the current fashion of faux diversity. These people are diverse as hell, but no one in authority ot the media sees them. They don’t use their diversity as a lever tho extract more power. They’re cut-throat and conniving in favour of their own interests. And viewers love it.

There are many other factors in play. Access to elite training, cost, warmer winters eliminating outdoor rinks, cultural preferences for other sports— all play some part. But as we said in 2019, “the days when Canadiens GM Sam Pollock getting the top two French Canadians as protected draftees was considered a steal are long gone.”

There’s an observation that only two things bind modern Canada. The federal equalization scheme and hockey, The past year illustrated that equalization is on tenuous ground with talk of separation in Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Hockey, conversely, drew the nation closer at the moment that Donald Trump read the riot act to Canada’s elites.

In almost every realm outside male sports and the priesthood a gay hockey movie might be ho-hum. But in men’s hockey? The NHL? The omertà on LGBTQ content is the same as it was in the days of Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe. It’s stunning, in fact, that in the 50 years since gay came out of its closet no active NHL stars have taken the opening. Nor has anyone in the LGBTQ community outed anyone famous.

The noisy nature of American democracy is the thing about America that Canada’s toffs cite to puff themselves up is . The ability for people as diverse as Donald Trump and AOC to be allowed a voice offends many protected by Canada’s airless political environment. It’s why the impertinent Truckers Convoy shocked the Laurentian establishment and necessitated Trudeau’s overreaction, unlawfully invoking the Emergency Measures Act. 

With Justin is AWOL, Mark Carney’s still grinning. Despite making deals with former “enemies” like China he knows the Laurentian Elbows Up crew has an inexhaustible appetite for abuse and kow-towing to authority. Till that is drained expect more of the same— and a nasty turf war with Trump over China at his border wearing Canadian clothes.

Jean Chretien’s Sino legacy has resulted in a stealth inversion of Canadian politics and society— all performed with casual cynicism by the Liberals. The most recent example was Carney pinching a Conservative MP of Chinese origin to cross the floor to help him get to a majority in the House. Newly minted Liberal MP Michael Ma in now joining PM Carney on a friendship visit to Beijing. Plus ca change.

The hope is that they click their heels three times and Trump will be impeached or assassinated or sent to Mars by Elon Musk— allowing Carney to bring Greta Thunberg into his cabinet for business as usual. But in their secret hearts they must know time’s up. This new geopolitics has no time for a nation that mailed it in for a decade under Trudeau the Younger (and Stupider). The bill has come due ,and Trump means to collect.

In an age of victim status, traditional religion is suddenly a cuddly TikTok puppy. Hard to imagine that the force that spread imperialism and war across the globe for centuries being a victim. But yes. Burned churches ad descrated synagfogues will do that for you. The zeal to repeal God has backfired. Faith is off the cavas and punching back. (And we are NOT talking about the Woke pope.)

People were starting to notice that Justy was a Chinese trusty, his Montreal riding campaign funded by hundreds of Chinese “businessman” from far away. The tragi-comic Trudeuapian succession hit a speed bump with Mark Carney brought in to domesticate Canada in manner satisfactory to Brookfield and the EU. Now Crney stands on the brink of a purchased majority.

Podcasts have become so ubiquitous it’s easy to forget they are relative newcomers to the digital broadcast scene. For this reason, a recently released academic work - Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory- is an important read for podcast listeners, podcast content creators and those who promote and curate this rapidly evolving medium.

Skilled satire, adroit wit and whimsy combine with engaging

prose and intriguing characters to make Canadian author

Christy Climenhage’s debut novel, The Midnight Project, an

often-exceptional read.

Four dynamic poetic voices— each with distinct perspectives on spiritual enlightenment, trauma, pastoral beauty and the joys of the physical body— were highlighted at McClelland & Stewart’s 2025 spring poetry night held earlier this month.

Stephanie Cesca is a strong and capable storyteller. Her passion for detail and vivid imagination creates an authentic fictional world. Readers can see her characters in their mind’s eye. They can relate to their pain.

Throughout the book’s 384 pages, readers are kept guessing as to the killer’s motives. Could such rampaging violence be  a professional hit or a random act of madness? Or was the victim bludgeoned out of existence due to his shady business dealings and abusive, violent past?

Clewes is a sensory, effusive poet. Her lyrical words reflect a deep musical sense. In the third section, Calle Obispo, the poem of the same title, references Nobel Prize-winning poet and Polish-Lithuanian  author Czeslaw Milosz. The first stanza turns a plane trip into a spiritual experience.