Sunday Morning in Pictures: XXIV

[September 6, 2026]  It’s been since late June since I last posted a Sunday Morning in Pictures. My wife says I’m “too serious” again. Fair enough. Then Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, handed the internet a gift. In the middle of a real trade fight with the United States, he told Washington to “stop doing memes, stop throwing shade and stop trying to be tough” before he would talk again. That is not how grown men settle hard business. That is how a man who has been called a weasel for years discovers that the nickname stuck, and then asks the neighborhood to please stop laughing. The internet, being the internet, did the opposite. Canadians and Americans both piled on. The memes did not stop. They multiplied.

I have no brief against Canada as a country. Good neighbors, good soldiers I’ve served alongside, and a people who can take a joke when they choose to. What I do have is a low tolerance for a central banker who talks like a moral tutor and then flinches when the pictures start flying. Leadership is not asking the other side to be quieter so you can feel respected. Leadership is taking the hit, answering the substance, and moving on. These pictures are what followed Carney’s request. Some are mean. Some are accurate. A few are just funny. If you’re offended, tough nutcracker. Sit down with the coffee. Enjoy Sunday morning in pictures, numero XXIV.