Those U.S. GOP state legislators who’ve been complaining about Canadian wildfire smoke affecting air quality south of the border have a point. I can’t believe nobody here has turned off the wildfire switch, or at least turned our giant fan so it blows somewhere else. (Usually that’s Randy’s job, but he’s been off on vacation at the cabin for the last month and a half.)

Meanwhile, those ambulance-chasing ghouls esteemed lawmakers may want to tune into a Canadian weather forecast for some perspective. Here, I’ll paste the latest alerts from Environment Canada:

“A mass of unstable political air and polarizing rhetoric is drifting up from the U.S., bringing with it attacks on women, immigrants, racialized and Indigenous people and queer and transgender communities. A tariff front will sweep in, and trade winds are likely to shift from north-south to east-west.

“The sunny outlook we’d been forecasting has been downgraded as authoritarian politics make their way north of the border, with Alberta the most affected but other provinces in the path as well. A disinformation alert is in effect throughout the country, with heavy flooding of bullshit likely in most communities. No relief is expected until at least November 2026.”