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 ❄️
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Cathie 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
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Dark Brandon rises
At first I wasn’t sure whether Biden’s speech tonight was a good idea. But seeing the speech and now the reaction to it, I am feeling a very positive vibe. Since the chaos of Jan 6, 2021, I think Americans have worried about what is happening to America. With Biden’s
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Happy happy joy joy
Just some happy things today: Serena wins and Palin loses and for one second the world feels in balance. — Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman) September 1, 2022 Serena wins! I found out today that Serena turned pro in 1995, which was several months before Anett Kontaveit was even born – that’s
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Rage-farming
Conservatives never let a lie get in the way of rage farming. pic.twitter.com/mmqMShpABF — Currently Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (@IAMSMRT1) August 30, 2022 The term “rage farming” was a new term to me when I started to see people talking about it on twitter – here is the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: "We have a lot to do"
This pretty well summarizes everything, doesn’t it: That being said, we have to work on equality, health care, education, housing, public services, pharma and dental, small businesses, foreign investment, elections, and the Russia Ukraine war. We have a lot to do. — Rod Farva’s litre of cola (@RodKahx) August 29,
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Funny business!
Tonight here’s a bunch of recent tweets that made me laugh: First, here’s a great Coyne concept — hitting for the Conspiracy Theory “cycle”: … was killing thousands of people, including children, with vaccinations.”https://t.co/3BVFtl91io I believe that’s what’s called hitting for the conspiracy theory cycle. — Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦 (@acoyne)
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: What a week!
Beginning with a wonderful palate cleanser: Nazem Kadri brings the Stanley Cup to the London Muslim Mosque. This is believed to be the first time in history that the Cup has entered a mosque. @HkyNightPunjabi @NHL @Sportsnet pic.twitter.com/wRIZAm8hvv — Amrit Gill (@AmritG) August 27, 2022 A short stop at today’s
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: CTV News is losing its soul
The very definition of a professional news organization is one that reports news without fear or favour. Over the years, news organizations have fired reporters, editors, anchors, editors, publishers, for good reasons and bad, pleasing or angering their audiences. But when a news organization also lets its own corporate actions
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: This you?
Its sorta hysterical, really. So yesterday Biden announced $10,000 student-loan forgiveness policies, which are a great thing that will help millions of people. And predictably, some Republicans went nuts about how irresponsible Biden was to just wipe out indebtedness with the stroke of a pen. And, also predictably, Twitter then
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Six months of war in Ukraine
Here are a few selections from the New York Times collection of Ukraine photos during 6 months of war Dusk in Kyiv Feb 24 (Brendan Hoffman) A volunteer fighter at Mykolaiv March 10. (Tyler Hicks) Sister Diogena Tereshkevych in a bomb shelter in Lviv April 15. (Finbarr O’Reilly) A family with
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Random and funny stuff
it’s hard to remember that the future is still being built. it’s hard not to think of those days as pre-made— squares on a board game waiting for our little thimble or race car. it’s hard to see the future for what it is: an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of possibility, of
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Shaking hands with the devil?
So Poilievre shook hands with a white supremacist and now he won’t apologize. And the CPC wants Canada to think this guy and the juvenile sycophants surrounding him are PMO material? Pierre Poilievre is ignoring calls to disavow a far-right extremist identified as a national security threat. Poilievre’s spokesperson mocked
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Just a little light treason
Just a short one tonight: Ron Johnson believes that there’s a five second rule for both food dropped on the floor and treason. — Steve Metz (@steven_metz) August 22, 2022 Senator Johnson knows a little light treason when he sees it — he was one of the senators who
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Weekend funnies
If you ever wondered what happened to Biff… Tom Wilson, who played Biff Tannen in “Back to the Future,” wrote a song about answering the same fan questions for 30+ years and it’s one of the greatest things available on the Internet pic.twitter.com/AdAr546EQB — TrivWorks (@TrivWorks) August 18, 2022 This
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Lisa Forever
#Lisa #LaFlamme Handling brings flack pic.twitter.com/3xOQtPC3Qd — Mike Allen Cartoons (@MikeAll30808974) August 19, 2022 Interesting to continue to watch the uproar over CTV News firing of Lisa LaFlamme — today, more revelations: First, Bell Media is stressed out because everyone has been so mean to them and nobody UNDERSTANDS how
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: "We will stay here together"
Zelenskyy: “Our land is the only thing we have. We will stay here together.” https://t.co/uNoxkJbTWN — Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️🌈 (@CathieCanada) August 19, 2022 When the Ukraine-Russia War started in February, and quickly became so awful for the people living under bombings and occupation, one of the questions I
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Night and day
I don’t have a lot to talk about tonight, but I read a couple of articles today and I was struck by the contrast in these descriptions – the leadership Biden shows in dealing with Russia’s war against Ukraine, compared to the ridiculous, childish ineptitude of Trump. Here is Biden
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Updates from all over
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act today — and Biden is no dummy, unexpectedly handing Manchin the pen even though Schumer and Pelosi are right there too. In spite of how the Dems are hopeful that the 2022 elections will give Dems a larger Senate majority, there’s always a chance
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: May you live in interesting times
“May you live in interesting times” is the apocryphal curse that threatens trouble, war and chaos — and our times are getting a little too interesting now, aren’t they? In his The Atlantic newsletter tonight, Tom Nichols writes: Compared with the bizarre ideas and half-baked wackiness that now infest American
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