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Letters to the editor: September/October 2026

I found Brett Popplewell’s cover story “Cold War” (June), about how Greenland was preparing for an American invasion, absolutely absorbing. We are in a chilling place with President Donald Trump: Greenland—I just want it. Canada—fifty-first state. Venezuela—invaded. It’s just a matter of time before Trump focuses on us again, after his war crimes in Iran. You can bet that the fifty-first-state promise is misleading: we would never become a state. No, we would become the north’s equivalent of Puerto Rico—an unincorporated territory without the right to vote. I am heartened to witness the coming together of other NATO members to the defence of Greenland. Pathetic as those forces were compared to the overwhelming might of the American military, it is so very important to speak truth to power, to challenge it, even if it means our own destruction. We cannot allow Trump or Vladimir Putin to simply roll over the world, stealing and destroying what has been built since the end of the Second World War.

Eric Hebert Edmonton, AB

I support the concerns about artificial intelligence raised in Carmine Starnino’s excellent Editor’s Letter and in “My Perfect Friend” (June), Thea Lim’s smart, insightful essay on her........

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