New Public Safety Doctrine: How to Drain a Bathtub

  

Or run an immigration dept  (Hint: pull the plug)

Kafka would have loved Mondays in Ottawa — burnt coffee, flickering LEDs, absent-minded bureaucrats drifting through hallways like ghosts waiting for instructions from machines that no longer need to give them. 

Kafka would stand in the doorway of some federal cubicle, cigarette smoldering, watching a mid‑level comms staffer — half replaced by automation, wholly replaced by despair — seeking a gleeful moment by preparing to drop a “bathtub crisis” into the national bloodstream.

Alberta: A Comedy of Manners on the Prairies

The Long Road from Dissociation to Détente 

Alberta’s latest plot twist reads like a national comedy of manners: a province long cast as the brooding outsider suddenly finds the spotlight turning warm, the thermostat fixed, and the country behaving as though it remembers who keeps the lights on. All in the past few days.

Whispers About the Nuclear World Order

For the noise in 2026 — the shouting, the slogans, the moral theatrics — the real question humming beneath the floorboards of every major capital is disarmingly simple. . .

Is the internal environment stable enough to guarantee command‑and‑control integrity?

That’s it.  You better believe that’s the whole show.  Everything else is commentary, press releases, fake media, and the usual diplomatic yoga by a lot of phoney, chicken-leg politicians.

The nuclear age was built on the assumption that states were stable, institutions were coherent, and the chain of command was something more than a polite suggestion. That assumption held for a while. It holds less strong now.

So we arrive at the four pressure points shaping the quiet realpolitik of the moment — the ones no one campaigns on, but everyone in the back rooms understands.

Number One:  Nuclear Stewardship Assumes Domestic Coherence