HALIFAX – In Ottawa, the political centre of all things, Chris d’Entremont is a super big deal.

In Nova Scotia, the province from which d’Entremont hails? Not so much, bud.

On a recent trip to Nova Scotia, precisely nobody had anything to say to this writer when they were asked about Chris d’Entremont. When prodded for something, anything, they just shrugged.

Pierre Trudeau used to say, uncharitably but not inaccurately, that most Members of Parliament are nobodies when removed from Parliament Hill. In the case of Chris d’Entremont, that status seems to extend all the way to his home province. Out here, they’d much rather talk about the Blue Jays. Or the weather.

The profound disinterest in d’Entremont’s much-analyzed decision to slink across the Commons floor from the Tories to the Grits may be a Nova Scotia thing. In this province, rapid partisan flip-flops aren’t front-page news. Snowplow jobs, advertising gigs, paving contracts: they go back and forth between the two main parties like the flicking of a light switch.

Departed Atlantic Canada Tory guru Dalton Camp, who not infrequently benefitted from such partisan political assignments, had the best line about how Nova Scotians regard all this partisan chicanery: “Politics is largely made up of irrelevancies.”

So why is Chris d’Entremont, who is mostly irrelevant, being treated as relevant by every pundit in the punditocracy?

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Here’s my Dad, age 20, at officer cadet training in Summer ’52, front centre. He joined the armoured corps but the war ended before he could go. He always regretted that, but us, not so much.

We miss him every single day. God bless him and everyone who serves.

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So much for the theory that Jews control democracy and elections, eh?

The neo-Nazis I used to interview loved to go on and on about what they called “Zionist Occupation Government,” or “ZOG,” and they liked to refer to New York City as “Jew York.”

Well, one thing is for sure: there ain’t no ZOG in the Big Apple no more, far-Right losers.

And, so, no one should attempt to minimize the results of the elections that took place in the US last night. November 4, 2025 was seismic. Tectonic political plates shifted. All that.

New York City, the most Jewish place on Earth outside of Israel, elected Zohran Mamdani, a guy who is pro-BDS, wants to “globalize the Intifada” and accuses Jews of mass murder. (The California proposition to “redistrict” its electoral map to defeat Republicans is a pretty big deal, too, but that’s a subject for another day.)

That result had been inevitable since Mamdani secured the Democratic Party nomination in June. Why? Because a dog painted blue could get elected mayor of NYC if he’s running as a Democrat, that’s why. It’s like getting a Conservative nomination in rural Alberta: all you need to do is maintain a pulse and you’re Ottawa-bound. (And that might even be the result if you lack a pulse.)

Mamdani won because of that, and:

• Andrew Cuomo was a fatally-flawed candidate – handsy, creepy and lazy.

• Beret-toting Curtis Sliwa was a loon, but he stole votes from Cuomo, splitting the anti-Mamdani coalition.

• Donald Trump has been governing like a far-Right autocrat, which – as history always shows us – prompted a predictable far-Left autocratic response. Politics is a pendulum, folks. In New York last night, the pendulum swung to the opposite extreme.

On that last bulleted point: Republicans got massacred in America last night, across the board. Full stop. It was the Alamo, for the GOP, except way worse. They lost everywhere.

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Zohran Mamdani is pro-BDS, wants to “globalize the Intifada” and accuses Jews of mass murder: for him to win, he needed a well-funded, well-organized campaign that legitimized all that.

Someone should write a book about that campaign.

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Who speaks for Canada?

Ontario’s Doug Ford does. Manitoba’s Wab Kinew does. B.C.’s David Eby does. So do many of the other provincial Premiers.

Prime Minister Mark Carney? Well, let’s ponder that.

If there is one essential job requirement for Canadian Prime Ministers, it is to fearlessly advocate for the country, and for the people who make it up.

Mark Carney repeatedly promised he would do that.

Remember the election? The Liberal leader clearly doesn’t. Here are some of the things he said back then, about Donald Trump and about tariffs.

April 2, 2025: “We are going to fight these tariffs with countermeasures….In a crisis, it’s important to come together and it’s essential to work with purpose and force.”

April 17, 2025: “The biggest risk we have to this economy is Donald Trump…what he’s trying to do to Canada — he’s trying to break us, so the U.S. can own us. They want our land, they want our resources, they want our water, they want our country…We’re all going to stand up against Donald Trump. I’m ready.”

April 29, 2025: “We are over the shock of the American betrayal but we should never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves.”

Ah, the heady days of Springtime. That was then, this is now, etc. Those “countermeasures?” Carney swiftly killed them, because they made Donald Trump cross. Using “force?” And: “standing up against Donald Trump” for his “betrayal?”

Well, our Prime Minister sure doesn’t say things like that anymore. Instead, he laughs at all of Trump’s (bad) jokes. He claps his hands in delight at whatever lunacy issues from Trump’s mouth. He and Trump “have a very good relationship,” he beams.

As a writer at the Daily Mail famously observed, Carney is reduced to “a shrieking teen at a Taylor Swift concert” when in the presence of the U.S. President.

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This is an opinion column about baseball and politics, which are two very different things.

For starters, baseball has one moral dimension. Politics, too often, has no morality at all.

So what’s the connection, you ask? It’s this: the Blue Jays – based in Toronto, of all places – were sent by a sympathetic God to heal us. To act as a balm for our psychic wounds. Specifically, those caused by Donald Trump.

When the Mango Mussolini got started with the 51st state garbage, Canadians thought it was a (bad) joke. After a while, literally nobody was laughing anymore. Trump’s ravings and rantings left us feeling angry, shocked – and, if the election results meant anything – looking for someone, anyone, to make the Cheeto Benito go away.

Canadians know that we lack the diplomatic or military clout to lash out at Trump. But we needed, and need, someone to defend our honour. To step up to the plate for us.

The jury’s still out on Mark Carney’s batting average, in that regard. Next week, his capable finance minister will table the most serious budget in decades. We should all hope that it provides a map out of the Trump-induced chaos.

But the Blue Jays? They stepped up. Big time.

It’s improbable verging on impossible: a bunch of men – mainly Yanks playing a kids game, ie., chasing a ball around a field with bits of rawhide and some wooden sticks – who have given a sad and anxious country a lift when it really, really needed it. They raised us up.

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