Managing editor, editorial writer, sometimes photographer for The Brandon Sun daily newspaper. Tweets are my own.
Brandon, Manitoba
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We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
ALT Image description: A packed, sparkling starfield captured by our Hubble telescope — with strange new worlds potentially awaiting. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
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Ramstad: The Great Wrecking of Minnesota still underway, 10 months later startribune.com/operation-me…
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For most Manitoba municipalities, election day is today, Wednesday, October 28, 2026. While Elections Manitoba is not involved in these local election events, we encourage all Manitobans to get out and vote.
ALT Woman placing a ballot into a clear box, promoting local elections with banners saying "Today!" and "Local elections — Are you ready to vote?" plus "Local election date: Oct. 28, 2026" and the Elections Manitoba logo.
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Germany's largest news magazine has a new title for Canadian PM @MarkJCarney
Der Spiegel cover calls Mark Carney "Der bessere Amerikaner," the better American, and the hope of the free world. 💯
A look at the two men running for mayor in #Brandon — my editorial in today’s @thebrandonsun #mbpoli #Bdnmb
EDITORIAL: For the past several weeks, Brandon voters have watched a rare kind of political campaign unfold. It has been a race notably devoid of the personal mudslinging that defines modern politics. buff.ly/ffI4OoN #bdnmb #mbpoli #Brandon
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Jared Kushner asked for a bribe and received billions to sell U.S. foreign policy. That includes payments from UAE ruler Mohamed bin Zayed, who favored blowing up the JCPOA and funded the genocide in Sudan, and from bone-saw MBS. If he did it here, he’s doing it with Ukraine too.
This is the worst, most catastrophic corruption in American history period. We are in a period of immorality and horror that hasn’t been seen since slavery. The price for that was immense. And there will be a price to pay for this, as well. The Iran War is a part of this.
I would bet the house on this corrupt money somehow driving the foreign policy towards Iran that led to where we are today. Americans are dead. Iranian children are dead. Our bases are shattered. Our munitions are spent. Our Patriots are gone. We have increased the risk of a wider conflagration to a maximal degree. And for what?
To make Trump and Kushner money. Families with zero identifiable military service as far as I can tell. Appalling.
“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet.
Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed.
Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…
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BREAKING: In a stunning and rare political moment, former President Bill Clinton just HUMILIATED Donald Trump for trying to turn our allies like Canada into our enemies. We need more of this energy.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Une dernière lecture avant d'aller dormir, mais celle-ci est importante. Les révélations se multiplient sur les décisions américaines concernant l'Ukraine, et ce que rapporte ce soir le Wall Street Journal mérite toute notre attention.
Selon le journal, Elon Musk aurait personnellement ordonné, le 14 octobre, de limiter les capacités de Starlink utilisées par l'armée ukrainienne, affectant non seulement les drones offensifs, mais aussi ceux chargés d'intercepter les attaques russes.
Cette décision intervient quelques jours après les critiques de Trump contre les frappes ukrainiennes sur les raffineries russes, qu'il accuse de contribuer à la hausse du diesel, à deux semaines des midterms. Musk avait lui-même déclaré que Zelensky était « allé trop loin ».
Plus troublant encore : Musk et Trump auraient discuté de ces restrictions, possiblement avant leur mise en œuvre selon une source du journal. Trump nie avoir donné l'ordre, tandis que la Maison-Blanche aurait elle-même cherché à comprendre qui avait pris cette décision.
Au-delà des responsabilités exactes, une question majeure se pose : comment un acteur privé peut-il disposer d'un tel pouvoir sur les capacités militaires et défensives d'un pays en guerre ?
Et pendant ce temps, ce sont les Ukrainiens qui en subissent les conséquences.
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Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy.
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“.. seventh person in Texas to die while detained by ICE this year.”
@TexasTribune
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David Frum: "The amount of Canadian diesel it would take to make up for this Russian deal is a 4% increase in what Canadians sell to the United States. It's a few hours of American production. It's almost literally nothing."
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BREAKING: In a horrifying moment, Donald Trump congratulates Vladimir Putin. Trump has long sided with Russia and Putin, but congratulating him at a campaign rally is as anti-American and repulsive as it gets. Retweet so all Americans see this.
Good call by @WabKinew. I don't like residential school denialism, but making it illegal isn't right either: Residential school denialism is detestable but not illegal, and that shouldn't change, says Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew. cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/…
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I am angry tonight.
Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.
ICE makes this city less safe.
We want them out. Now.
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So, Trump has called on Iran to bomb California. If anything ever happens to California, with the 4th largest economy in the WORLD all you co-dependent red states, who rely on California’s financial generosity, will end up spending the winter on welfare and food stamp assistance.
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We’ve always known, but now it’s confirmed, that Danielle Smith’s separatist friends, including a sitting UCP president, have been conspiring to hand over Alberta’s land, oil and water to Donald Trump.
Yet she refuses to kick them out of her party and instead changes the laws to give them everything they want.
Albertans deserve so much better than this weak leadership that hurts us all.
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Naheed Nenshi on Danielle Smith: "The Premier claims to be a proud Canadian, a fiercely proud Canadian, but she's put us in this position. She's created this referendum because the separatists got her in power, and now they're the ones threatening to take her out."
