Will HRH cave to the Oprah Express? Fleet Street will decide if the Royals can survive another Princess Di moment. . But make no mistake, Meaghan Markle breached the walls of Windsor. More will follow. Maybe led by Winston Justice playing banjo at Balmoral.

The political reaction of Canadian media to #Covid-19 collapsing their society was “Look at how crazy those American are!” Donald Trump and the fractious cultural war waged on U.S. cable news was heaven-sent for a prime minister hiding in a cottage and facing only scripted questions from the press. Raking Donald Trump kept the media heat off the hapless man in the low cottage— while also ennobling Canadian elites to their soul mates in the globalist movement.

Though writer/ director Aaron Sorkin vilifies Republican president Richard Nixon, the Chicago 7— plus Seale— are, ironically, protesting the Democratic Party’s pursuit of the Viet Nam War and its Dixiecrat base that invented Jim Crow. That is the same Democratic Party that now venerates the Chicago rioters as part of its iconography, its sainted past as progressives.

Citizens today see the creeping dementia of president Joe Biden and the blissful incompetence of PM Justin Trudeau and ask themselves, “This is the best we can do?” Where they once chose between dynamic leaders, voters now choose between the least offensive options. Much of this is a result of the knowledge industry revolution from the internet. Seen initially as a flowering of knowledge it is now a grim carnival of censorship, polemics and hate. Democratization has morphed into demonization.

What the PM neglects to say is that his scapegoating of Snowbirds and other international travellers might have had an impact if it had been done a year ago at this time when the virus was not endemic.. But 2020 Trudeau thought shutting borders and blaming foreigners was racist and the China-run WHO said travel and masks was no big whoop.

You can’t argue the Left’s purported moral authority in a debate they’ve framed. Don’t cooperate in the farce. Go back to your home. Turn off the TV. Stop reading social media. And turn your music up loud.

Will the warnings from people such as former BMO CEO Tony Comper wake up the middle class to the impending cash grab on their retirement savings? Can the aimless Conservatives seize on Trudeau accessing retirement funds as a campaign issue? Will the progressive media even touch the story? Maybe. Who knows. And never.

If they were handing out holidays to celebrate the current African-American consciousness it would be Malcolm X Day, not MLK Day. Malcolm was the jaded realism to King’s lofty optimism espoused by the DNC. When you immerse yourself in the toxicity of Critical Race Theory you are not hearing MLK. These are the words of Malcolm X and perhaps Louis Farrakhan. And, sadly, they are winning the debate in the black community.

For all those who still think the current health crisis in Canada is about Covid-19: Fooled You. The new instructions coming from our betters is that we must help them cover their tush after a year of truly horrific case management.

Who knew that if you locked up people, told them not to have Christmas with loved ones, wear a diaper on their faces and then conduct a Venezuelan election that the public might get a bit testy?

Ronald Reagan famously said that any government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you’ve got. The power of George Orwell’s 1984’s total state submission was the theme of 2020 as governments suspended civil rights, Big Tech censored free speech and the results of the presidential election showed clear evidence of electoral shenanigans. Here’s how Usual Suspects covered a pivotal year in Canada and the U.S.

What’s most interesting about this college of Covid cardinals is that they have managed to get almost all the major calls wrong. Not once. Not twice. But at virtually all the moments of crisis they went left when they should have gone right. And then flipped those earlier commandments 180 degrees without batting an eye. The phoney death projections, flattening the curve, border closing, masks, lockdowns, the threat to children, the ability to have a vaccine in nine months. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Tragically wrong.

Let’s be honest, “What if one of the people who died was your mother or grandmother?” is the most Boomer thing ever. Awash in sentimentality, it’s supposed to stigmatize the other while advertising personal virtue. It says, “No one I know should ever die in a pandemic. And you have blood on your hands for suggesting so.” Other people? Fill yer’ boots.

The implications are unmistakable. China will be looking to leverage the Biden family’s shakedown business as soon as January 20. They will come calling to make good on the deal they’re made. In short, Biden is hopelessly compromised in the way that he and his Democrats friends falsely claimed Trump was by the Russians.

Any revival of Quebec nationalism is terrible news for Justin Trudeau. Not in the way it was for Papa Pierre. Pierre was trying to keep Quebec in Confederation. Trudeau the Younger is trying to keep other provinces in Canada. He knows Québec will do what it wants. The minute Québec heads for the exit Alberta and Saskatchewan will hold the door for them. “After you, M. Legault.”

In earlier times a chastened Andrew Cuomo might have kept a low profile to avoid criticism. But whatcha’ gonna’ do when the media people who are supposed to critique you are the ones giving you hardware? Cuomo knew that blaming Trump gave him a hall pass to do whatever he pleased.

The Reset means Belgian bureaucrats, daffy climate cultists, media virtue pigs, grifters from the first-class lounge and positively furious feminists and race hustlers will be shaping Canada’s fortunes in a global Kumbaya. Paid for by Canadians who are not allowed at the reception in Biarritz.

If there is one thing Canada still can defend it is our democracy. With simple pencil and paper, Canada is continuing the noblest traditions of citizenry at election time. Without resort to technology or intellectual frippery, Canada has a national election in six weeks. Election night is over by midnight. Citizens are assured the results are accurate. All of this simplicity seems to have escaped Americans this year.

In the public mind Big Media has given up on balanced and fair. They either couldn’t or wouldn’t find the Shy Trump vote in their polling. How these firms justify themselves in the future is a mystery. But you know they'll re-invent themselves under a different flag, especially under a Swampy Biden government. Denial is more than a river in Egypt for the consultant class.

The Justin Riddle: The same people who blithely forgive everything he’s done are the same ones whose eyeballs roll back in their heads saying, “How can anyone support Trump after what he’s done?”