Brookman: Canada's new year slogan should be stop talking, start building |
The cat is in with the canaries now, isn’t it? The prognosticators who forecast that 2026 would be “uncertain” and “unpredictable” had no idea that they would be proven correct by the third day of the year.
There seems to be as many commentators celebrating the removal of Venezuela’s former president Nicolas Maduro as there are condemning U.S. President Donald Trump for his unilateral actions. In the 1966 movie The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, the character “Tuco” shoots a cowboy from underneath his bathwater and says, “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”
Apparently, the president of the United States has seen this movie.
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