The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

Someone's making massive trades ahead of important announcements. Who is it?

Snug amid majesty: Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia

Devastation The #20 bus rolls along East Hastings Street like the Mars rover across an alien landscape. We passengers, safely behind glass, are like s...

Human devastation: a #drabble report from the scene

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Presentation at the RCMI Several weeks ago, I posted a “Save the Date” for an event at the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto in April. Today I’m providing all the details. On Wednesday, April 22, I will be the g…

I will be at the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto on April 22 to present “Imperial Ambitions and Conflict in the Pacific Northwest, 1774-1792”. The event is open to the public. If you're interested in attending, there's booking information on the link below.

Anniversary Trip For my parents’ fiftieth anniversary, we sons banded together to buy them a trip anywhere they wanted to go. They’d already travelled a lot ...

Been thinking of travel, and all the places I've yet to see. Thought I'd devote a hundred words to it.
#drabble

The Thirty Second Network Pitch “Imagine ten men in a cabin on an island. There’s a blizzard. The power goes out. All they have is duct tape, 48 beers, three cans of beans,...

I've made a lot of pitches in my time. More have failed than succeeded. I haven't yet pitched a reality TV concept. Maybe this one's a winner. Here's a New York minute in the form of a #drabble (100 word story)

Scrabble Drabble Amid the ooze of kegs, and boomèd vox, it was a nifty act. A sage heart, the quiet niece (she weds anon), drew useless vowels and blessèd X ...

At the end of a recent Scrabble game somebody said, "You should use all these words in one of those hundred word thingies you do."
Well, I managed to get every word into this #drabble, although I've bent a few rules of lexiconic usage in the process...
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Subway Encounter I glanced up and noticed the woman slathering Nivea onto her chin. The seats around her were empty. Next time I looked, she’d worked it in...

We all have encounters like this, and we don't know what to do. We make snap judgements, we assess the risk, the person, the situation. We don't want to bud in, but we wonder, are you okay?

May you and yours be okay, and safe, this holiday season.
#amwriting #drabble

Sunday Morning Inside my skull, every heartbeat strikes like a timpani mallet. Outside, it is blindingly bright. Sunlight pierces my eyeballs with the forc...

A story about the morning after
#amwriting #drabble #100words

Spotted in Ghent, Belgium.

If history has taught us anything, it is that appeasement does not create lasting peace. Slava Ukraini.

#SlavaUkraïni

Slava Ukraini, from Lille.

Across the free world, Ukraine's flag appears in recognition of a brave, embattled country. Now is the time for all democracies and people of good faith everywhere to voice their support for Ukraine.

#SlavaUkraïni

Slava Ukraini, from Bruges.

Now is the time for all democracies to support Ukraine.

#SlavaUkraïni

How they vote in France

Game Day Rituals In pursuit of sporting greatness, I could not rely on talent, of which, the evidence demonstrated, I had little. Luck, then. To attract it, ...

We ALL have our little rituals for playoffs and game days. A #100words story about that.

#amwriting #drabble

Lifelong Pals A band of rogues, were they, everything a ribald brag or pun-ish diss. Fact or fiction, it mattered not. Lewd mockery and exaggeration were ...

A story The Bard never wrote — what if the Montague gang (sans Romeo, of course) grew old? The tale in #drabble form:
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#shakespeare

Such Potential Roger often thought about the band, and what they could have been, if creative differences hadn’t derailed them. They always argued over  ev...

The moral of the #drabble: less talk, more work.

Welker to Lavrov: "Here are the facts. Close to 50,000 civilians have either been killed or injured in this war. Russia has hit maternity wards, churches, schools, hospitals, a kindergarten just this week. So either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?"

The Art of the Bluff He took another peek. A 7-2 offsuit, a really raw deal. He’d have to bluff on it. He glanced around the table. Emannuel looked smug, but he ...

Sometimes international summitry is like a poker game. Those who bluff in a spot like that don't know what they're doing.
#drabble #100words
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The Gate in the Middle of Nowhere Off-road, we encountered locked gates, and we had to hand our bikes across to another rider, then climb over ourselves. On one two-metre gia...

The first rule of Bike Club is you don't talk about Bike Club... What goes on on the fence stays on the fence. True story, in a hundred words.
#drabble #100words #truestory

Blurry Memories In my prairie hometown, on a Saturday night, there was often not much going on, and we teenagers sometimes crashed wedding parties. These ...

Two helpful rules for leading your life: Dance like nobody's watching. Drabble like nobody's reading. Well, here goes:
#amwriting #100words #drabble

To the Bitter End Some years ago, I watched one of those human-interest stories with which (after doling on the day’s many disasters) they close newscasts. It...

Reflections on the toll of an active life. My latest drabble with the Exquisite Corpse writing crew.
#amwriting #100words #drabble

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When Winning is Everything (Econ 100 Concluded) Assume one country is better at producing a particular “good” than others because of its “factor endowments,” or its use of technology. In s...

The final installment of my 3-part crash course in Economics. Crash being the operative word. (I'm looking at you, tariffs.)
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#amwriting #100words #drabble #Economics

A Win for The Wind From All Directions The Canadian Nautical Research Society (CNRS) has announced its selection of The Wind From all Directions for its 2024 Keith Matthews Award, with Honourable Mention for a “Book Deserving Special Re…

Very pleased that the Canadian Nautical Research Society has bestowed its Keith Matthews Award on my novel, The Wind From All Directions. It is the first time that CNRS has recognized a novel for the award.
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Economics 100: Inequality Today’s hundred-word seminar is about how to create income inequality. First, cut taxes, and make sure the rich get 90% of the benefit. Seas...

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My latest #drabble is Part 2 of my 3-part crash course in economics. You too can earn a university degree from the comfort of your couch.
#amwriting #100words on #Economics

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An Historic Encounter on Spanish Banks While visiting Vancouver recently, I did some cycling in preparation for a coming trip. One day I rode along the south shore of Burrard Inlet past Kitsilano and Jericho Beach, then onto Northwest M…

Remembering an historic encounter on the Spanish Banks, off modern-day #vancouverbc

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The world is waiting for Donald Trump's tariff announcement today. All eyes will be on him. And, narcissist that he is, he would have it no other way. Perhaps that says it all about the real purpose of this policy.

#tariffs

Birding in the Kalahari We drove along a sandy track, skidding occasionally, but mostly riding the spoor like a ball in a bowling lane gutter. Rounding a curv...

True story from the African veldt, in a hundred words.

#drabble #africa
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The Happy Place I’m not sure why, because it wasn’t part of my upbringing, but art makes me happy. It doesn’t happen at first sight. For my first half...

In art there is hope. A hundred words about the soothing of the savage breast.
#art #drabble #100words
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Tariff Warfare Today the government of the United States of America declared economic war on Canada. We have been attacked without justification, on false and flimsy pretenses. The facts simply do not matter to o…

Our response to the US tariffs must be resolute. Vimy, not Vichy.
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It's as clear as the light of day, and yet his base and minions choose not to see it.