Wither Pierre, Wither Canada?

Good morning to all Stroock's Books readers except the Canadians. 

Sales of War Night: Stories of the Great Nuclear War of 1975 are off a bit. But it's still in the top 20 of its Amazon category. 

Related...the great James L. Young sent us our complimentary author's copy of Thin Red Tales and also some swag. Well done, sir. 

Canada... Up north Pierre Poilievre got 41.3 percent of the vote, which is better than Stephen Harper or Brian Mulroney ever did. Ezra Levant* argues that Pierre lost because the NDP and Greens stood down. The hard left in Canada voted for the globalist central banker with three passports. That said, we admit we don't understand Trump's berating the moose eaters up north. 

More Canada...At Breitbart, the great John Nolte points out that Canada has chosen socialism 23 out of the last 32 years. Indeed, when we first started thinking about Canada in the mid-2000s thanks to Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant, we considered it a socialist basket case run by buffoon kleptocrats. See the old Gomery scandal and this colossal national flag blunder. There's also this classic:

And so the 'whiney and weak anti-Americanism' has returned.

Yet more Canada...Via Small Dead Animals, The Western Standard reports Primier Danielle Smith is preparing an independence referendum. Alberta is basically snow-Texas, loathed by Ontario and Quebec. Also at SDA, see this fascinating piece on the very tenuous physical links between eastern Canada and western Canada, ' There is just 1 narrow 2 lane road through 1,000 miles of wilderness connecting all of Western Canada with Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces...' Holy crap. We had no idea. One two lane road? You know, Americans would have built a six lane interstate through the wilderness with rest stops every 75 miles. Canada, we are not the same.

2015 so Mean...It was ten years ago today that we inquired of the adjunct coordinator about our class preferences for the autumn semester. This person replied...well we considered their reply a personal afront. And that is when we went nuclear. What would possess someone to write something so insulting to a professional and a colleague? They've published one book, a bit of academic minutiae that has one review [You've kept track?-Ed]. You're goddamn right we've kept track. We've been exercising literary revenge ever since. **

DOGE report: The World War 1990: Thatcher's War readthrough continues apace. The first SAS raid chapter feels sudden (the SAS is raiding an IRA stash-house? Who ordered that? How long has that been in the works?...Okay I guess) and will need more work today. The chapter intro is all wrong. Also the all-Irish reaction chapter to the attempt on Thatcher's life feels choppy. 

*Who should flee Canada before Carney has him locked up.

**We've published this exchange before, but at 51 years, age and caution are getting the better of us.