Commentary
The old expression “straws in the wind” refers to small signs or hints that a significant change or event is coming—signs or hints so subtle that they rarely make the headlines or attract social media attention.
So here are four straws that most of us may have missed—missed because they wafted on the political breezes in Switzerland, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Denmark—but not in Canada, though we too greatly need what they portend.
On Jan. 22, 2026, in Davos, Switzerland, Argentinian President Javier Milei called not for some vague coalition of middle powers like Mr. Carney, nor for the assertion of global power as promised by Mr. Trump, but for a return by the Western democracies to “Judeo-Christian values,” framing them as the essential moral and cultural foundation of Western civilization….