Doug Saunders
@dougsaunders.bsky.social
International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net
A couple blocks from our former home. You’d not see a drop of moisture there 11 months of the year. Now LA gets all the plagues
Melrose and La Brea is just a river right now.
February 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
A couple blocks from our former home. You’d not see a drop of moisture there 11 months of the year. Now LA gets all the plagues
If only they had some sort of agency to protect the environment
Trump: "There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local Democrat Leaders, particularly, Governor Wes Moore ... I cannot allow incompetent Local “Leadership” to turn the River in the Heart of Washington into a Disaster Zone."
February 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
If only they had some sort of agency to protect the environment
CAR RADIO: philosophers and ploughmen, each must know his part…
KID: what’s this right-wing screed?
ME: actually, Canadian rock from the 70s. People were into it.
RADIO: Shake your hand, share the land that they’ll be givin’ away when we all live together
KID: so this is Albanian ‘70s rock?
ME: Well
KID: what’s this right-wing screed?
ME: actually, Canadian rock from the 70s. People were into it.
RADIO: Shake your hand, share the land that they’ll be givin’ away when we all live together
KID: so this is Albanian ‘70s rock?
ME: Well
February 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
CAR RADIO: philosophers and ploughmen, each must know his part…
KID: what’s this right-wing screed?
ME: actually, Canadian rock from the 70s. People were into it.
RADIO: Shake your hand, share the land that they’ll be givin’ away when we all live together
KID: so this is Albanian ‘70s rock?
ME: Well
KID: what’s this right-wing screed?
ME: actually, Canadian rock from the 70s. People were into it.
RADIO: Shake your hand, share the land that they’ll be givin’ away when we all live together
KID: so this is Albanian ‘70s rock?
ME: Well
I had trouble understanding why any Canadians opposed a firearms buy-back plan — a simple way to have fewer weapons available to potential mass shooters without further ownership restrictions.
Now I REALLY don’t understand
Now I REALLY don’t understand
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I had trouble understanding why any Canadians opposed a firearms buy-back plan — a simple way to have fewer weapons available to potential mass shooters without further ownership restrictions.
Now I REALLY don’t understand
Now I REALLY don’t understand
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"The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:29 PM
"The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The Onion is really on form these days
February 13, 2026 at 1:02 PM
The Onion is really on form these days
So, under the proposed laws, you can’t be an American if you’re born in the United States, and you also can’t be an American if you’re born outside the United States to Americans. This, from a regime whose core figures get absolutely hysterical about population non-growth
So, not by naturalization. But also not by birthright.
Hmmmm… if a regime just wants to handpick who does or doesn’t get to belong, based on criteria they alone decide, without clear right of recourse, with (potentially violent) enforcement, I think there’s a word for that….
Hmmmm… if a regime just wants to handpick who does or doesn’t get to belong, based on criteria they alone decide, without clear right of recourse, with (potentially violent) enforcement, I think there’s a word for that….
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 13, 2026 at 3:37 AM
So, under the proposed laws, you can’t be an American if you’re born in the United States, and you also can’t be an American if you’re born outside the United States to Americans. This, from a regime whose core figures get absolutely hysterical about population non-growth
Reading Loses Out to Screen Time, says lady whose reportedly excellent books on language I haven't read but who I know intimately from watching her on any one of half a dozen British panel shows almost every week
February 12, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Reading Loses Out to Screen Time, says lady whose reportedly excellent books on language I haven't read but who I know intimately from watching her on any one of half a dozen British panel shows almost every week
Man U owner says what now
February 11, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Man U owner says what now
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one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.
holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes
February 11, 2026 at 7:07 PM
one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.
My “Letter to Generation Zed” essay was a response to exactly this kind of thing. We shouldn’t pity our children and grandchildren; we should envy the exciting and productive project of rebuilding the ecological and democratic world they’ll inherit, much as the children of 1946 did
This is what the #ClimateCrisus looks like. My youngest grandchild is 3 this year. May Gaia have mercy on her soles
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
February 11, 2026 at 4:19 PM
My “Letter to Generation Zed” essay was a response to exactly this kind of thing. We shouldn’t pity our children and grandchildren; we should envy the exciting and productive project of rebuilding the ecological and democratic world they’ll inherit, much as the children of 1946 did
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CBC BC is doing a solid job here.
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 AM
CBC BC is doing a solid job here.
You just know the specific details of this story are Philip José Farmer-level creepy
February 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
You just know the specific details of this story are Philip José Farmer-level creepy
A beautifully delivered exhibition of the real United States of America in all its polyglot intensity.
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
A beautifully delivered exhibition of the real United States of America in all its polyglot intensity.
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"It's OK to Be White" has been a slogan for literal Nazis for some time now, if you want to know where the Republican Party is at the moment
February 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
"It's OK to Be White" has been a slogan for literal Nazis for some time now, if you want to know where the Republican Party is at the moment
Has anyone pointed out that Trump’s mass deportation of almost entirely Christian US residents is likely to shift the demographic balance of the United States somewhat away from Christianity?
February 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Has anyone pointed out that Trump’s mass deportation of almost entirely Christian US residents is likely to shift the demographic balance of the United States somewhat away from Christianity?
Not too hard to connect the dots here
February 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Not too hard to connect the dots here
I am beginning to think that presidential posts have changed somewhat over the years in tone and content
On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was
February 8, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I am beginning to think that presidential posts have changed somewhat over the years in tone and content
This turned out to have been a classic QTWTAIN
This weekend sees the release of a controversially funded film about the first lady, directed by a disgraced film-maker
Are people really going to see Amazon’s $75m Melania documentary?
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:37 PM
This turned out to have been a classic QTWTAIN
Friend and I got Bacon-boxed today.
That’s me in the corner…
That’s me in the corner…
February 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Friend and I got Bacon-boxed today.
That’s me in the corner…
That’s me in the corner…
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Great piece by @dougsaunders.bsky.social
“The important political message is that temporary immigrants were never a good idea, because they don’t create housing and employment-generating businesses the way permanent immigrants do”
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/41d6cf9...
“The important political message is that temporary immigrants were never a good idea, because they don’t create housing and employment-generating businesses the way permanent immigrants do”
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/41d6cf9...
Carney’s choice: Ice out illegal migrants, or treat them like the assets they are
The Canadian permits of millions of temporary residents will expire this year. It would be economically foolish to send them all back
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Great piece by @dougsaunders.bsky.social
“The important political message is that temporary immigrants were never a good idea, because they don’t create housing and employment-generating businesses the way permanent immigrants do”
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/41d6cf9...
“The important political message is that temporary immigrants were never a good idea, because they don’t create housing and employment-generating businesses the way permanent immigrants do”
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/41d6cf9...
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As Max Frisch wrote in 1965:
"We asked for workers; we got people instead"
He was referring to guest workers in Switzerland, but the sentiment is the same anywhere. We forget that they are people and want the same as people everywhere.
Great piece by @dougsaunders.bsky.social
"We asked for workers; we got people instead"
He was referring to guest workers in Switzerland, but the sentiment is the same anywhere. We forget that they are people and want the same as people everywhere.
Great piece by @dougsaunders.bsky.social
Opinion: Carney’s choice: Ice out illegal migrants, or treat them like the assets they are
The Canadian permits of millions of temporary residents will expire this year. It would be economically foolish to send them all back
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:14 PM
As Max Frisch wrote in 1965:
"We asked for workers; we got people instead"
He was referring to guest workers in Switzerland, but the sentiment is the same anywhere. We forget that they are people and want the same as people everywhere.
Great piece by @dougsaunders.bsky.social
"We asked for workers; we got people instead"
He was referring to guest workers in Switzerland, but the sentiment is the same anywhere. We forget that they are people and want the same as people everywhere.
Great piece by @dougsaunders.bsky.social
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Doug Saunders nails it. Recommended reading. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Europe on the decline? Quite the opposite
While the Trump administration targets Europe as a failed continent racked by violence, it’s actually experiencing a revival of economic, political and defence unity, and some of the lowest crime rate...
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Doug Saunders nails it. Recommended reading. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Just like Tommy.
Received this text message from my father yesterday. Panicked that he had had a stroke, or similar.
Turns out it was my iPhone trying to transcribe the Irish language.
Turns out it was my iPhone trying to transcribe the Irish language.
February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Just like Tommy.