Doug Saunders
@dougsaunders.bsky.social
International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net
It is Toronto's most haunted mall, and that's saying something that has the Galleria, Village by the Grange and (until recently) Cumberland Terrace. It used to be that renewing your passport was the only reason you'd ever find yourself there. I'm not sure if it even has that
February 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
It is Toronto's most haunted mall, and that's saying something that has the Galleria, Village by the Grange and (until recently) Cumberland Terrace. It used to be that renewing your passport was the only reason you'd ever find yourself there. I'm not sure if it even has that
It's like a secret superhighway with no cars on it, something out of Pynchon
February 3, 2026 at 4:23 PM
It's like a secret superhighway with no cars on it, something out of Pynchon
It's the closest thing Toronto has to NYC's express subway lines, which skip 8 or 10 stations at a go.
February 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
It's the closest thing Toronto has to NYC's express subway lines, which skip 8 or 10 stations at a go.
They've just fixed it. They finally forced the owner of the cursed mall complex next door to use it as a transit connection (imagine: customers!) It will soon be connected straight into the subway.
February 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
They've just fixed it. They finally forced the owner of the cursed mall complex next door to use it as a transit connection (imagine: customers!) It will soon be connected straight into the subway.
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"Having a Black woman in a movie about the Greek Gods sending Odysseus on a decade long hell trip fighting endless monsters en route home from the God War is not Historically Accurate" y'all are the truly dumbest motherfuckers ever born on this rock hurtling through the void.
February 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
"Having a Black woman in a movie about the Greek Gods sending Odysseus on a decade long hell trip fighting endless monsters en route home from the God War is not Historically Accurate" y'all are the truly dumbest motherfuckers ever born on this rock hurtling through the void.
I'm up to grandchildren on that bet
February 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I'm up to grandchildren on that bet
Well, it's capable of being that. They just have to let it.
February 3, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Well, it's capable of being that. They just have to let it.
I now return you to reflections on weighty matters in global affairs. Just know that while doing so, I'm standing in the subway and shouting at the map
February 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I now return you to reflections on weighty matters in global affairs. Just know that while doing so, I'm standing in the subway and shouting at the map
As a consequence, a) a visitor getting on the system at Union will be led to believe it takes 16 stops and a transfer to get to Mount Dennis while in fact it's 2 stops on one line; b) tourists may think the only way to the airport is by buses at the end of the line, not a direct fast train
February 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
As a consequence, a) a visitor getting on the system at Union will be led to believe it takes 16 stops and a transfer to get to Mount Dennis while in fact it's 2 stops on one line; b) tourists may think the only way to the airport is by buses at the end of the line, not a direct fast train
In hyper-local news, I see Toronto's transit commission still refuses to make riders aware of the most useful rapid-transit line in its system, the UP Express, because even though it's fully part of the system it's run by some other authority. So it's not even on the map
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Meet the TTC cartographer giving its map a mega makeover | CBC News
You've probably noticed the Eglinton Crosstown LRT already showing up on transit maps, even though it's not open. That's the work of the TTC's cartographer, tasked with the map's biggest upgrade in de...
www.cbc.ca
February 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
In hyper-local news, I see Toronto's transit commission still refuses to make riders aware of the most useful rapid-transit line in its system, the UP Express, because even though it's fully part of the system it's run by some other authority. So it's not even on the map
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
What the hell. How can this keep getting worse?
This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D.
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
I spent the evening outside the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis, where the feds have been releasing people they detained — often for no discernible reason — into the freezing cold... wearing whatever little clothing they had on at the time they were taken.
February 3, 2026 at 1:21 AM
What the hell. How can this keep getting worse?
No you don’t. Applying for a second citizenship does not require you to lose your first, even under Dominican constitution. The issue here is erasing the legitimate citizenship of lifelong citizens, in large numbers for no reason — almost all of whom have only ever been Dominicans, solely
February 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
No you don’t. Applying for a second citizenship does not require you to lose your first, even under Dominican constitution. The issue here is erasing the legitimate citizenship of lifelong citizens, in large numbers for no reason — almost all of whom have only ever been Dominicans, solely
Ostensibly interesting things I won’t be reading
February 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Ostensibly interesting things I won’t be reading
And yet it won’t. If done as requested, it would turn millions of American citizens into stateless people without legal residency anywhere
February 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
And yet it won’t. If done as requested, it would turn millions of American citizens into stateless people without legal residency anywhere
As you know, Haiti does not recognize them as citizens. This is not mitigated by the fact that some of them could theoretically petition for citizenship under Haiti’s constitution if they had teams of lawyers and multi-generational documentation papers and the Haitian state were functional.
February 2, 2026 at 2:50 PM
As you know, Haiti does not recognize them as citizens. This is not mitigated by the fact that some of them could theoretically petition for citizenship under Haiti’s constitution if they had teams of lawyers and multi-generational documentation papers and the Haitian state were functional.
I don’t think it’s an ideal way to do citizenship (nor is full-scale jus sanguis), but suddenly cutting it off retroactively is catastrophic, and that is what washington is asking the Supreme Court to consider
February 2, 2026 at 2:36 PM
I don’t think it’s an ideal way to do citizenship (nor is full-scale jus sanguis), but suddenly cutting it off retroactively is catastrophic, and that is what washington is asking the Supreme Court to consider
Good point. Of course, if there were some supreme authority who could impose it everywhere, it would force a clear definition of “soli” and actually cause countries to stay within their legal borders…
Where do you practice?
Where do you practice?
February 2, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Good point. Of course, if there were some supreme authority who could impose it everywhere, it would force a clear definition of “soli” and actually cause countries to stay within their legal borders…
Where do you practice?
Where do you practice?
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As fell Kennedy, so falls the Kennedy Center: Taken down by a babbling conspiracy theorist, besotted then humiliated by Russia, standing alone at a window, oblivious to any wider context
February 2, 2026 at 4:20 AM
As fell Kennedy, so falls the Kennedy Center: Taken down by a babbling conspiracy theorist, besotted then humiliated by Russia, standing alone at a window, oblivious to any wider context
Well, Dominica does have an especially cruel and expulsive immigration system by any standard, because the people it defines as “illegal” or undesirable are Haitians from the other side of the island, or even legal Dominican citizens who just *look* Haitian (ie black rather than brown)
February 2, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Well, Dominica does have an especially cruel and expulsive immigration system by any standard, because the people it defines as “illegal” or undesirable are Haitians from the other side of the island, or even legal Dominican citizens who just *look* Haitian (ie black rather than brown)
Well, I’d argue that just sanguis citizenship shouldn’t ever be. Whether jus soli is the solution is questionable — I think if you created a country anew you wouldn’t go with either in their pure form
February 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Well, I’d argue that just sanguis citizenship shouldn’t ever be. Whether jus soli is the solution is questionable — I think if you created a country anew you wouldn’t go with either in their pure form
The Dominican Republic has fewer than 12 million people, and eliminating birthright citizenship there a decade ago created 150,000 stateless people — that is, citizens of no country who can’t legally reside anywhere.
Imagine if a country of 400 million did it.
Imagine if a country of 400 million did it.
February 2, 2026 at 1:49 PM
The Dominican Republic has fewer than 12 million people, and eliminating birthright citizenship there a decade ago created 150,000 stateless people — that is, citizens of no country who can’t legally reside anywhere.
Imagine if a country of 400 million did it.
Imagine if a country of 400 million did it.
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“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”
Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Don’t look away, please. We need you. It’s been a month and they’re trying to destroy us.
February 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”
In the past, they’d think twice about releasing highly classified stuff to congressional committees because figures like Rep. Gabbard couldn’t be trusted with it. Now…
Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.
Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency
Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.
on.wsj.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:33 PM
In the past, they’d think twice about releasing highly classified stuff to congressional committees because figures like Rep. Gabbard couldn’t be trusted with it. Now…
As fell Kennedy, so falls the Kennedy Center: Taken down by a babbling conspiracy theorist, besotted then humiliated by Russia, standing alone at a window, oblivious to any wider context
February 2, 2026 at 4:20 AM
As fell Kennedy, so falls the Kennedy Center: Taken down by a babbling conspiracy theorist, besotted then humiliated by Russia, standing alone at a window, oblivious to any wider context