Canada Opened a Greenland Consulate in Days (But Can't Solve Domestic Problems in Years)

Canada Greenland consulate opens Friday in response to Trump's annexation threats. You watch your government respond faster to Danish territory than domestic problems. Strong sovereignty statements. Quick diplomatic action. But you're asking what everyone avoids: what can Canada actually do when you can't send troops or defend anything? Is this protection or performance?

Symbolic gestures don't require military capability. They require budget and announcement ceremonies. The gap between what Canada can symbolize and what Canada can actually defend keeps growing. Next time your government announces immediate action on foreign territory, ask what concrete resources backed that announcement.

Topics: Canada Greenland consulate, Arctic sovereignty, symbolic diplomacy, Trump annexation threats, Canadian foreign policy

Back to Work: My Computer Broke Monday (So I Didn't Work Until Wednesday)
Federal return to office mandates four days weekly for public servants. You're working from home right now, reading this. Your colleague's computer died Monday morning. His next scheduled office day was Wednesday. No work happened Monday or Tuesday because tech support doesn't fix home setups remotely. Wednesday arrives, he shows up, acts like nothing happened. Two days of salary paid for zero productivity because the remote work structure enabled it.

The argument for staying home: flexibility, work-life balance, avoiding commutes. The reality observed: "you are simply not as productive when you're inside your apartment versus when you are in an office where you have other people who are basically implicitly monitoring you." The computer failure story isn't an outlier, it's a symptom. When accountability drops, productivity follows, and the bill goes to taxpayers who can't work from home themselves.

Topics: federal return to office, work from home productivity, public service accountability, remote work policies, taxpayer efficiency

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Originally aired on 2026-02-06