Author: Cathie from Canada

Back in 2006, blogger Charles Lavoie did a post to assert that all New Yorker cartoons would still be just as funny with the caption “Christ, what an asshole” and everyone was surprised about how well that works. It works with most cartoons and it became a meme.  So I

Congratulations to Brandi Morin, in New York City tonight to receive her Edward R. Murrow Award for her article: A “lingering evil”: From residential schools to murdered women. Edward R. Murrow Award winning article: A ‘lingering evil’: From residential schools to murdered women https://t.co/B9WfTQ3aWM via @AJEnglish — Cathie from Canada

Remember Friendly, Jerome and Rusty?     Here is an hilarious thread: DYING at the Canadians in the Zoom talking about The Friendly Giant and the Americans being like “WTF there was a chicken in a bag nailed to the wall?!” YES AND THIS MADE US WHAT WE ARE. WHY

Back in the spring when there was a bunch of chatter about how the US and NATO should save Ukraine by declaring a no-fly zone, Biden categorically refused to consider it, saying that Americans had not elected him to start a nuclear war. But now that Ukraine is winning the

Just a random selection of stuff tongiht. First, I just cannot understand why anyone in Florida would still vote Republican.  Here is what the Hurricane Ian storm surge looked like, and the governor and country officials didn’t tell people to evacuate until it was way way too late.  It was

The news has moved on so much in the last week that we haven’t been seeing as much recently about the Hurricane Fiona recovery on the east coast.  But it has been terrible for them this last week, and it continues to be difficult – this recovery will take a

“Reconciliation is not the responsibility of Indigenous Peoples. It is the responsibility of all Canadians. It is our responsibility to continue to listen and to learn,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. #NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation https://t.co/3TqNqUj3NB — teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) October 1, 2022 At the end of the book The Christmas Carol, Dickins

Sept 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also called Orange Shirt Day – for settlers, it is a day for thoughtfulness, remembrance, acknowledgement of wrongdoing, apology, and promise to do better. Here are some tweets and stories to share.  At first I thought, is this tweet for

Today, here’s some of the interesting stuff I bookmarked recently: This is fascinating – its a visual representation of the world population and the webpage also has much more detail about specific continents. This is epic 🚀 https://t.co/7zn3MZL9Z3 — Alexandra Churchill ✌🏼⭐️⭐️ (@churchill_alex) September 27, 2022 A M A Z I

The original tweet, from 2015: ‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party. — Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn) October 16, 2015 It has mostly been used for Brexit and for Trump — when the people who voted for Brexit and

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. ” Revelations 6:7-8  I’m thinking tonight of the Ukraine Russia War — once again, history is “galloping riderless across the landscape” with no direction and no control. The possibility

Seen in a tweet! What I cannot understand is why so many people think Covid is “over”, though thousands are still getting it and dying from it around the world.  We have our next booster booked now – scheduled for early October, it will be our Moderna bivalent shot and

It’s been a terrible night and day in Atlantic Canada as they grapple with that bitch Fiona: Ferocious #Fiona, from the #Caribbean to #Canada pic.twitter.com/SriO3U2WhO — Stu Ostro (@StuOstro) September 24, 2022 Moment of impact #storm #surge #pab #nlwx #fiona wow (Not my video). pic.twitter.com/F0Yt7EkYBu — Donnie O'Keefe (@DonnieOK) September

Well, the great Roger Federer played his last match today – it wasn’t “one for the ages” but it was pretty nice, a doubles with Nadal at the Laver Cup in London.  I didn’t get into watching tennis until just a few years ago, when we got a big-screen TV

Does anyone still remember that 1997 Mel Gibson – Julia Roberts movie Conspiracy Theory?     It was supposed to be just a thriller – comedy.  Turns out, it was also predicting the crazy now in too much of our society.  So maybe this is how Conspiracy Theories get started: