Brian Busby

"Sometimes 66%," but more often zero.

What is the perimeter?

Move them all to Canada and Mexico. It will be safer for all involved.

Margaret Millar is deserving of three volumes, just like her husband.

I'm sixty-three myself. Must have something to do with that commie socialized medicine we have up here in Canada.

Hard to believe that Brendan Carr is just 46.

Don't mean to alarm, but Montreal's unseasonably cold and gloomy weather makes me wonder whether we're on the path to full Quintet.

The most beautiful subway system in the world.

The sad fact is that Trump was reelected AFTER voters had seem the chaos of the first term and the storming of the Capitol. Even more people cast ballots for him. That country is forever changed. It's unlikely I'll ever set foot in it again.

For fuck's sake, Donald. Your wife won't even let you hold her hand.

"She's smart, she said 'yes.'"

Full disclosure. I am Ricochet's Series Editor.

The Long November first appeared in 1946 as a Dutton hardcover. In the next decade, five paperback editions followed, culminating in a pirated edition. After 67 years, it was returned to press by the Véhicule Press Ricochet imprint. Given the title, it seems almost the poster child for #Noirvember.

The Great War and Its Discontents The Magpie Douglas Durkin Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974 351 pages Craig Forrester has received a telephone call from Mrs Gilber...

A gift from a reader who considers this the best post-Great War Canadian novel. I think he's right.

Here's to @invisibooks.bsky.social for returning the novel to print.

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Long may he run.

Here's an idea. Why not get Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and China to cut those checks - 'cause, you know, tariffs are paid by foreign countries.

This Canadian paid $5 before leaving Women's College Hospital, Toronto with our newborn daughter, but that was only because I wanted to keep the beaded ankle that had her name.

My idea is to call the British and Canadians in to set the ballroom ablaze, just as they did the White House in 1814.

The rest of the world is laughing.

My bad. You're correct, Canada declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939.

Captain Bone Spurs would not understand, nor would his father, nor would his draft-dodging grandfather.

Ignoring the obvious fact you didn't win everything that came before the First World War, you had some formidable allies in both world wars. Hell, Canada (population 11 million) sent one of the four armies that landed on D-Day. Canadians had been in the war since its beginning, September 1, 1939.

In Canada, we have the Department of National Defence. It was established in 1922 by the National Defence Act, which merged the Department of Militia and Defence, the Department of Naval Services (RCN), and the Air Board (RCAF).

Guess they were woke back then.

This Canadian thanks you for your service. We remain firm allies. The racket coming from the White House means nothing. Today I remember my father (who served in the RCAF), his father (an army surgeon in the Great War), and my mother's father (a British machine gunner in the trenches). All survived.

Remembrance Day The son of William and Ellen Dixon, Frank Percival Dixon was born on 16 April 1898 in Elkhorn, Manitoba, not far from the Saskatchewan borde...

Remembering Signaller Frank P. Dixon (1898-1918), farmer and poet, this Remembrance Day.

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But isn't it true that Trump's deals mean nothing? He'll rip them up on a whim.

A distant view from Ottawa made by someone who isn't American: I cannot understand why any Democrat would defect when Party Trump was taking such a drubbing.

So much of what I appreciated and thought I understood about the United States has been called into question these past ten years.

It was fifty years ago this evening.

More than ever, this Canadian wonders whether he ever understood your country at all.

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.