Allan Dow
allandow.bsky.social
Allan Dow
@allandow.bsky.social
15 years as news reporter on 3 continents for CBC BBC CTV ABC + 23 years UN agencies to spread the love. You can take the boy out of the newsroom but. I’m officially retired (whatever that means). In any case, views are my own. “Sexy” or “fund me” ignored.
Of course they’ll be “missing details”. Did anyone really think otherwise? Did anyone think “important” people - public personas - were going to be named as child abusers? The “files” will be thousands of pages - boring details and huge black lines of redactions.
December 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Frankly speaking, it’s time to get these premiers to shut up and let Carney’s team do the adult’s work.
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It was very poorly thought through by Ford. The Canadian commercial, played solely to a U.S. audience, was tantamount to telling Americans how to run their economy and the guy in charge doesn’t know what he’s doing. As true as that is, the reaction by Trump should be expected. Own goal.
October 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
What a genius. I guess the Chinese were buying the soya beans for their own consumption including cooking oil. Why would China process it into cooking oil and send it back to the U.S. when America has canola and cottonseed - and soya - lots of it!!
October 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Was he required to surrender his passport? Or will he be in the Bahamas this time next week?
October 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Like Chile. There was zero reason for US or UK to support Pinochet’s coup. The country had elected a stable populist and moderate leftist leader.
October 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Argentina has been unstable for as long as I can remember - and that’s a long time. Has its currency ever stabilized? Has its politics ever stabilized? Maybe a bit under leftist populists. But Trump focuses on this basket case, & fights Brazil and Lula of Brazil - a much more important country.
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
That’s what shadow teachers are for - to help develop IEPs for students who need them and work with them to achieve the IEP objectives. Every teacher should have some understanding of these, but a separate shadow teacher with specialized skills is needed too. If costs an issue then 1 per 2/3 classes
October 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Reminds me of the iconic Bloody Sunday photo where a priest holds a white kerchief while trying to get wounded unarmed protesters to safety.
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It was always pretentious anyway - like everyone wanted to fly to the U.S.- uh, no, and U.S. travelers to Canada can’t pre clear Canadian customs or immigration at LAX or JFK can they.
September 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Good. Shut them down. I never liked the idea of US Customs officials working out of Canadian airports. Get back onto your side of the border and do your job there where you belong.
September 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I have less problem with the CBC covering the funeral to see/hear what Trump and the other whackos say than I do with the Canadian PARLIAMENT holding a standing ovation for Kirk, the American preacher of hate. WTAF was THAT??
September 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
So let’s see. Hmm. Leak a story like that on the weekend, after shorting Tylenol stocks for Monday or Tuesday just before closing bell Friday? I smell a rat.
September 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I sympathize with your point. However Timothy McVeigh’s truck bomb was quoted by FBI at the time as worst case of “domestic terrorism”. But in legal terms, yes, the law itself might have a different definition. In any case the killing of one guy doesn’t compare to McVeigh and his conspirators
September 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
….so expect this to be just the tip of the iceberg. Nothing hold Trump back because no admin either Dem or Republican has ratified either of these core human rights labor standards in 80 years
September 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM