This is the first sensible thing that anyone’s said about Canada’s evident economic rut, largely because it does not reek of ambivalent defeatism: “Canada is not broken,” reads a recent guest editorial in the Toronto Star, it’s just “…failing to live up to it’s potential.”

Here’s a serious question from Bill Maher’s Real Time editorial on Friday, that anyone who consumes a high-volume of short-form video on social media should ask themselves: “…is the most important thing in my life something I hadn’t even heard about six months ago?”

Lastly, and not to be too topical, but I’d like to point out that calling a poet “tortured” is the height of redundancy. It’s like saying “track record” in reference to one’s consistency of achievement that does not literally involve track-and-field.