Doreen Wilson 🇨🇦
@gdewilson.bsky.social
Former forensic scientist (RCMP), governance expert in conflict countries (UN), devoted follower of Christ. I love righteousness, and the old Westminster values of probity, merit, professionalism and apolitical neutrality. And peanut butter and wine.
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Doreen Wilson 🇨🇦
@gdewilson.bsky.social
· Nov 15
This is Ellie, our high maintenance but highly loved West Highland Terrier. I'm here to find a community that values probity, merit, professionalism and apolitical neutrality in governance.
Sigh. The US led on the efforts to rid the world of the Mafia. How did this mafia thug get control of the White House? From a pissed off Canadian...
Trump: "Canada gets a lot of freebies from us. They should be grateful, also, but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday, he wasn't so grateful. But they should be grateful to us. Canada lives because of the United States — remember that, Mark."
January 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Sigh. The US led on the efforts to rid the world of the Mafia. How did this mafia thug get control of the White House? From a pissed off Canadian...
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech today is one of the most insightful, albeit sobering, political speeches in a long time. Carney tells it as it is: "If you're not at the table you'll be on the menu."
Well worth finding the time to watch: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...
Well worth finding the time to watch: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...
Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech today is one of the most insightful, albeit sobering, political speeches in a long time. Carney tells it as it is: "If you're not at the table you'll be on the menu."
Well worth finding the time to watch: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...
Well worth finding the time to watch: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...
Everyone should read this speech from Mark Carney. There are days when I wish I had a million followers. @josephpolitano.bsky.social @kenjennings.bsky.social @ward-hyphen.bsky.social @atticus59914029.bsky.social you may love reading this.
"The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently."
Read the whole speech here. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
Read the whole speech here. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Everyone should read this speech from Mark Carney. There are days when I wish I had a million followers. @josephpolitano.bsky.social @kenjennings.bsky.social @ward-hyphen.bsky.social @atticus59914029.bsky.social you may love reading this.
I can't believe this is our reality.
It really is mad king stuff, untethered from reality.
He tells the Norwegian leader, you did not give me a prize that you don't control, so maybe I will invade the territory of another Scandinavian country you don't lead.
He tells the Norwegian leader, you did not give me a prize that you don't control, so maybe I will invade the territory of another Scandinavian country you don't lead.
January 19, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I can't believe this is our reality.
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“As such we have taken him hostage and demand the return of the 13 colonies”
Today I welcomed Mike Johnson, US Speaker of the House of Representatives, to our UK Parliament.
We marked the 250th anniversary of American independence and the long-standing ties between our legislatures.
We marked the 250th anniversary of American independence and the long-standing ties between our legislatures.
January 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM
“As such we have taken him hostage and demand the return of the 13 colonies”
This is a level of insanity that is both breathtaking and terrifying. I can't believe it's real.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre confirmed he received this message from Trump:
![NEW: President Trump letter to Jonas Gahr Store links Nobel Prize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmte4w4x7ukciit6lci6ziau/bafkreihiddkacymmesu2re4n4nmlra6p5u5zepo3donk3p7zqs3l6xi654@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 PM
This is a level of insanity that is both breathtaking and terrifying. I can't believe it's real.
Such a powerful chart. Kind of explains why the US is such a powder keg compared to Canada.
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 19, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Such a powerful chart. Kind of explains why the US is such a powder keg compared to Canada.
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"We're going to have to end up shooting some of them"
January 18, 2026 at 7:59 PM
"We're going to have to end up shooting some of them"
Dance as a protest. Love it.
January 18, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Dance as a protest. Love it.
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We're doing what we can to mitigate the disastrous Trump administration. Proud to have a smart, experienced PM in charge here. New agreement with China.
Great job, guys. 🤡
Canada, China set for 'historic' gains from new partnership, Carney says reut.rs/3NpWNv2
January 16, 2026 at 12:52 PM
We're doing what we can to mitigate the disastrous Trump administration. Proud to have a smart, experienced PM in charge here. New agreement with China.
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For once I agree with Mike Johnson.
And this, by the way, is why ICE must be abolished.
And this, by the way, is why ICE must be abolished.
Mike Johnson: "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do"
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
For once I agree with Mike Johnson.
And this, by the way, is why ICE must be abolished.
And this, by the way, is why ICE must be abolished.
A friend reminded me of our baptism vows - "I renounce evil". So I renounce this as evil, purely evil. God, and good, will not be mocked.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 AM
A friend reminded me of our baptism vows - "I renounce evil". So I renounce this as evil, purely evil. God, and good, will not be mocked.
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The US is a Mafia state.
Q: The premier of Greenland said today, 'We prefer to stay with Denmark.'
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
The US is a Mafia state.
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’ -Percy B Shelley
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’ -Percy B Shelley
January 11, 2026 at 1:11 AM
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’ -Percy B Shelley
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’ -Percy B Shelley
@kenjennings.bsky.social our westie, Ellie, needs eye drops before 8pm each night and we watch Jeopardy until then. She's often asleep on my lap but now, when she hears the Daily Double she jumps up and runs to the grooming table. Somehow she figures it's the alarm for eyes-you've trained her!
January 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
@kenjennings.bsky.social our westie, Ellie, needs eye drops before 8pm each night and we watch Jeopardy until then. She's often asleep on my lap but now, when she hears the Daily Double she jumps up and runs to the grooming table. Somehow she figures it's the alarm for eyes-you've trained her!
Not good,not just, not trustworthy. Come on guys cry out!
It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
January 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Not good,not just, not trustworthy. Come on guys cry out!
So no rules apply anymore, except the restricted rules that allow rich insiders to get richer.
Amazeballs. But not surprising at all.
First found by @bharatkumarmd.bsky.social on the extremely bad site: yesterday at 8:20 pm, Trump tweeted out jobs numbers that included data that weren’t released until 8:30 am today. It was a copy of a presentation with CEA letterhead.
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
So no rules apply anymore, except the restricted rules that allow rich insiders to get richer.
Strikes me that too many men in the current American administration are living out the fantasy that the Roman Empire was a highwater mark of governance. They wouldn't last a second under it.
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Strikes me that too many men in the current American administration are living out the fantasy that the Roman Empire was a highwater mark of governance. They wouldn't last a second under it.
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Get vaccinated folks
In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
January 4, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Get vaccinated folks
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What the actual f**k America. Taking over a country for its resources?? We're keeping an eye on you. And our water.
January 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
What the actual f**k America. Taking over a country for its resources?? We're keeping an eye on you. And our water.