So today the Queen was laid to rest in a beautiful ceremony — here are a few of the tweets I flagged about the most-watched funeral in world history: The BBC’s montage at the end of today’s coverage of the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Moving, powerful,
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Cathie from Canada: Today’s News: Ratioed
To begin, I need to give a definition of “ratioed” – Merriam-Webster defines it as “A quantitative measure of how little they like your take.” A tweet is “ratioed” when only a few people “Like” it or “Re-Tweet” it, compared to the large number of people who are hitting “Reply” to
Continue readingCathie from Canada: From the Bookmarks
What a week! Here are some palate cleansers I have been collecting: The game will miss these two ❤️@serenawilliams | @rogerfederer pic.twitter.com/G630i4BlSL — ESPN (@espn) September 15, 2022 That is quite the photo. https://t.co/sdRxlvoVxJ — David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) September 18, 2022 The Simpsons predicted Trump becoming president, but they
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Corruption of the Soul
Two very different stories this week, from different countries, and yet there is a connection at their core. Both the DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt and the Poilievre press conference freak-out demonstrate, I believe, the kind of corruption going on in our politics today. It doesn’t follow the usual definition of
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: A mind is a terrible thing to lose
Britain appears to have lost its mind over the death of a 96-year-old woman The queen’s funeral is absurdly excessive at this point. — The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 16, 2022 Two football teams who played the weekend after the Queen died are being investigated and will be “dealt with
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: True Colours
Day Four of Poilievre’s leadership and his true colours are already showing: The nasty politics of the “real Pierre Poilivrer”. This is what he did to one of his own high profile MPs who dared support his opponent @JeanCharest_What would this nasty bare knuckes guy do to you?@HazelEros @gtlem @MerlinofCanada
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Sorting it out
I was trying to sort out the David Akin vs Pierre Poilievre contretemps yesterday and I couldn’t figure out what happened or who did what. I should just have waited for Dale Smith’s column today: …the federal government has announced their assistance package for low-income people dealing the effects of
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Notable from the Emmys
We sorta hate-watched the Emmys this year – we hadn’t seen very many of the shows nominated, so the awards didn’t mean very much to us really. I was disappointed that much of the time, the celebrities presenting the awards seemed to think the show was about them – while
Continue readingCathie from Canada: From my Bookmarks
As I scroll Twitter, I often bookmark interesting comments and funny tweets. But I don’t always get the opportunity to include them in my nightly blog post — sometimes they are too much off-topic, other times I want to collect more before I blog them. Here are the tweets I
Continue readingCathie from Canada: A Community of Healing
It has been just a week since the James Smith Cree Nation was shattered. After the death of Myles Sanderson and his brother Damien, it seems like the world has moved on to other news stories. But of course the story will not really be over so quickly. It’s already
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Slava Ukraini
Such wonderful news today from Ukraine – coming so fast now its hard to keep up: Pretty impossible to sleep tonight. The mood. The lyrics: “Russian ship, go f*** yourself!” #UkraineWillWin pic.twitter.com/qa9NEO0nV8 — Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇦 (@ZarinaZabrisky) September 10, 2022 Ukrainian women in Balakliya thanking Ukrainian soldiers for liberating them.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Ukraine, and CNN
Just a couple of highlights tonight — Ukraine’s success, and CNN’s failure. First, Ukraine is kicking Russia out, town by town! Ukraine has broken its silence since the start of its counteroffensive on 29 August🔹700 sq km regained 🔹Russians pushed back 50 km in Kharkiv direction 🔹>20 settlements retaken in
Continue readingCathie from Canada: A Long Covid Compendium
Long Covid is now pretty close to the top of my List Of Diseases I Never Want To Get. For the past several weeks I have been collecting Long Covid news so I thought I should post this today. Even Queen Elizabeth II may have had it. 2/ No doubt
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: The Queen is dead. Long live the King.
pic.twitter.com/TXoK0qwny8 — Maggie Keresteci (@MaggieKeresteci) September 8, 2022 What an amazing number of places she went and people she met! This thread shows many of them: [*full disclosure: I met the Queen once, like 35+ years ago, at a reception for journalists on the Royal Yacht Britannia. Somewhere tucked away
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Grieving together
Myles Sanderson was caught today. And tonight he is dead. There was an incredible sense of relief across the province when the arrest was announced: Myles has been captured. Now our community can mourn this tragic event. James Smith Cree Nation Strong — Doug Sanderson (@dougsanderson25) September 7, 2022 Just
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Still at large
We are now in Day 3 following the Saskatchewan massacre and Myles Sanderson is still at large: JUST IN: Mass killing suspect Myles Sanderson is not hiding at #JamesSmithCreeNation, @rcmpgrcpolice said. Authorities say the location of the mass #murder suspect is still unknown and are urging the public to remain
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Continuing the story
The news is fast and furious today as the story about the mass stabbings at James Smith Cree Nation and the town of Weldon continues to be the most important news story in Saskatchewan. The Globe and Mail provides a summary of the victims identified so far: A mother of
Continue readingCathie from Canada: A terrible day in Saskatchewan
This morning we woke up to the alerts on our cell phones: Canadian police searched across Saskatchewan for two suspects believed to have stabbed to death 10 people in an Indigenous community and a nearby town in one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s history. https://t.co/jV6JYC93De — The
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Weekend funnies
Gordon Lightfoot – 83 years old! – performed at the CNE tonight in Toronto and people loved it, lots of tweets about it. Kiefer Sutherland happened to be in town to catch Gordon Lightfoot’s performance at the CNE, so they had him introduce Lightfoot. As you do. — Myrna ❄️
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Just following up ….
Tonight, just some follow-ups on some of the stuff I talked about earlier this week: More on conspiracy theories and rage farming: Unbelievable. Do conspiracy theories cluster? Um, yep. – GMO fearmo Don’t forget the wind turbines that kill everything that flies and the poor kids mining cobalt for solar
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