The Jays roster patch job is not only holding it’s made the team stronger. As of this writing the Jays have a 91.9 percent chance of making the postseason, five percent of winning the World Series. Which would create euphoria elsewhere. Not in Toronto.

Not in Toronto.

With a single Crown witness-- who only came forward at the urging of her mother,  a puzzling video from the incident itself and contradictory evidence from the five players and others on the team— police knew it would not stand the scrutiny of a public trail with skilled defence lawyers. And that’s how it played out.

Because he has nothing else on his plate president Donald Trump has decided to revisit the Woke name change of the Washington NFL club from Redskins to Commanders and the Cleveland MLB name from Indians to Guardians. If that wasn’t enough, Trump decided to leverage funding for a new stadium in DC on a name change.

From its earliest days the Stampede has been a model of cooperation between the organizers and the indigenous. Guy Weadick, the founder of the modern Stampede in the 1920s saw the rodeo as a competition between white and “Indian” cowboys. He used his political connections within the Indian Affairs Department to allow indigenous tribes off their reserves to participate. It was estimated 1,800 Treaty 7 individuals participated in the first Stampede. 

And so the game of climate liar’s poker has more winners. It’s like awarding the captain of the Titanic the Nobel Prize for his work on floatation. As we now know these two— and the other WHO finger puppets in Canada— made the Covid 19 episode worse, not better, with their prescription for panic, positives and punishment. But they get a prize.

While attempts to amend O Canada have had mixed outcomes it appears it’s just a matter of time till singer Jully Black’s class-conscious culling of the words is accepted. Being generous we here at IDLM thought we’d short-circuit piecemeal attempts to create a throughly Woke version of the anthem that would last till the latest fad come along.

Such is the Elbows Up trance in Canada that few have any idea of Carney’s true agenda, because it’s not what his paid wordsmiths in the media are pitching. For them it’s all fighting Trump, all the time. (Aided by his Robin, Doug Ford.) But here are three major policies we will talk about five years from now, saying “Wha’ happened?”

Across the nation far-left big-city mayors— elected by vote splitting in many cases— are now protected by anti-hate speech laws that translate public criticism into hate crime. The people who called cops “pigs” in the past generation  are now content to use cops to suppress their perceived enemies. 

The problem was that Greg Gutfeld, Colbert’s competition on FOX News, was getting 3.289 M a night. But this is still a business, and Colbert’s act was getting tired with advertisers as DEI, CRT and ESG hurt the bottom line. When Colbert ripped CBS last week for settling a libel suit with Trump it was over-and-out for Colbert. 

The CCP has turned peaceful PEI into a forward operating base. On a recent trip to PEI we were told by local sources about the Buddhist monasteries being allowed under the not-so-watchful eye of various layers of government and the paid-for Media Party. Using bags full of dirty cash, the Bliss & Wisdom Buddhists have bought up large tracts of PEI farmland and replaced it with a front for the CCP to launder dirty money and infiltrate its people into the community.

Like all people addicted, CDN Boomers don't want the truth. They want performance theatre, T-shirts and hockey games. They blame Trump for their predicament, caught between grim realities. Will they take the 12 steps? Or will their kids have to tell them the facts as they escort them to the home?” 

Rick Mercer. Don Cherry. Both brilliant masters of the craft of holding eyeballs. But they represented polar opposites. Mercer was the glib political voice of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. There was never any doubt in CBC’s upper reaches about whose side he was on in the culture war. Cherry was the unpredictable voice of Hockey Night in Canada. Who scared CBC/ Rogers to death.

Mercer was worshipped by the folks in the C suite.

Four dynamic poetic voices— each with distinct perspectives on spiritual enlightenment, trauma, pastoral beauty and the joys of the physical body— were highlighted at McClelland & Stewart’s 2025 spring poetry night held earlier this month.

Stephanie Cesca is a strong and capable storyteller. Her passion for detail and vivid imagination creates an authentic fictional world. Readers can see her characters in their mind’s eye. They can relate to their pain.

Throughout the book’s 384 pages, readers are kept guessing as to the killer’s motives. Could such rampaging violence be  a professional hit or a random act of madness? Or was the victim bludgeoned out of existence due to his shady business dealings and abusive, violent past?

Clewes is a sensory, effusive poet. Her lyrical words reflect a deep musical sense. In the third section, Calle Obispo, the poem of the same title, references Nobel Prize-winning poet and Polish-Lithuanian  author Czeslaw Milosz. The first stanza turns a plane trip into a spiritual experience.

Green’s complex, colloquial whimsy is grounded in a strong academic backbone and a broad knowledge base that references Wordsworth, Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath. And how she loves wordplay and puns,

Winning a literary award hikes a book’s profile, as the books are put on course curriculums, book club reading lists, and are listed as library best staff picks. This creates more profits for publishers, which is a boon for authors because it increases a book’s promotions budget.