Terry Glavin

3 days ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

My mother the spy, as I used to call her. She passed through to Tir Na Nog on January 29, 2023. Marsha Lederman wrote a lovely tribute to her in the Globe and Mail here: Bletchley girl Eileen Glavin scanned the airwaves for German messages. My own tribute on the day of her passing, right here in The Real Story: This is not the Sunday newsletter I'd planned. Ma lived well, and bravely, a devout Catholic to her dying breath, like my father.

1 week ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

Special American edition!Well, almost anyway. If there’s one thing Canadians of all political inclinations agree on it’s that what’s happened up here these past few weeks has been really, really strange, and the federal election result was very odd. You can’t blame Americans for being just as confused. So this Sunday’s Real Story edition is mainly for American subscribers.

1 week ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

That’s the underlying tension in my conversation with Stewart Muir of Power Struggle, a series of encounters with guests from industry, climate science, government and elsewhere, to probe the reality of modern energy. The case I make, as far as energy goes: Canada’s priority should be energy sovereignty. As for energy exports, we should be focused on getting LNG to Europe. We built a damn railway in the 19th century from coast to coast, for God’s sake.

1 week ago | nationalpost.com | Terry Glavin

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2 weeks ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

Here’s what’s up in today’s federal voting day newsletter. The “Lost generation” was going to remain without hope of rescue no matter the outcome of the federal election. The mainstreaming of antisemitism in Canada barely registered. It was as though all the scandals and national-security uproars and the Hogue Commission on Foreign Interference never even happened - I was going to get into this but there’s just so much to deal with, it requires separate treatment.