What an awful couple of days, and its not going to get any better next week. SCOTUS still has more cases to announce (including another gun case). And Canadians are wondering why Pierre Poilievre hasn’t said anything yet about abortion, but is talking about kicking MPs out of caucus for
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Cathie from Canada: Today’s News: The War on Women
The loss of abortion rights in the United States is the news of the day — the US Supreme Court has overturned Roe V Wade, redefining women’s rights and allowing states to stop women from getting abortions. After deciding 40 years ago to make abortion into a divisive partisan issue,
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Pushing back
FreeDumb Convoy: First, here’s some actual news from the real world – Covid vaccines saved 20 million lives: 20,000,000 https://t.co/NT4RfBMWuo β James Moore (@JamesMoore_org) June 24, 2022 Next, we are finally seeing some push-back to that awful meeting held yesterday that Conservative MPs held on Parliament Hill: The Conservative Party
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: FreeDumb all the way!
Its hard to even think about how crazy the FreeDumb Convoy is getting, much less write about it. Justin Ling has a major article today in Vice that describes a leaked intelligence report about the anti-vax nutjobs who intend to try to overthrow the Canadian government, or at least take
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Investigations all over
There are three important investigations going on right now — the Mass Casualty Commission (AKA the Portapique massacre) in Nova Scotia, the Jan 6 Committee hearings in Washington, and the Uvalde massacre investigations in Texas. They all had significant events happening today. Mass Casualty Commission (Portapique massacre): The Nova Scotia
Continue readingCathie from Canada: National Indigenous Peoples Day
June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day – here are some tweets that I liked about this important day. Here is Trudeau;s speech: “such strength, such resilience” Miigwich PM @JustinTrudeau for this. It brought tears to my First Nations eyes. Aβho!πͺΆππ½π¨π¦ππ§‘#IndigenousHistoryMonth #IndigenousPeoplesDay pic.twitter.com/nFW6ic9BND β Indigenous Voices MatterπͺΆπ¨π¦π§‘πΊπΈππΊπ¦π (@Voic6Indigenous) June 21,
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Updates
A batch of updates tonight – here we go Juneteenth: Drew Litton, The Colorado Sun #juneteenth2022 pic.twitter.com/EHo0SjG7v7 β Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) June 19, 2022 Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune @ThatSteveSack #juneteenth2022 #CRT pic.twitter.com/idsnMwgQ1F β Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) June 19, 2022 Pride: This observation from Peggy
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: About authoritarianism
Over the last several days, I have seen a number of tweets and comments about authoritarianism as people try to understand what happened with everything from Jan 6 Insurrection to the FluTruxKlan, and what’s coming up. Here’s a roundup – First, Lindsay Graham has said some remarkably stupid stuff over
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Pride parade again
Today was Saskatoon Pride parade day – thousands lined our streets, in spite of the heat, for our first parade since 2019: In photos: Sun shines on Saskatoon’s 2022 Pride Parade https://t.co/WZWBfSdfEi β TheStarPhoenix.com (@TheStarPhoenix) June 18, 2022 Happy Pride Saskatoon! Parade starts in two minutes. #HappyPride #yxe pic.twitter.com/B0vrDpJz51 β
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: A tangled ball of string
The LA Times has a major article describing the gang of third-raters, rubes, grifters and gullibles who were trying to overturn Biden’s election. First, it’s all just one big tangled ball of string — the same bunch of fellow travellers keep turning up through all sorts of Trump Administration scandals.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Remember remember….
It doesn’t quite scan like “Remember remember the 5th of November“, but remembering Jan 6 2021 is now a cottage industry in the United States and the Jan 6 Committee hearings are getting more fascinating with every passing day. Today we found out how Trump kept himself surrounded by third-raters who
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Some comments on the passing scene
Just a bunch of observations today on the passing scene. First up, interest rates. And I do mean up. Now, perhaps there is a problem with the conventional wisdom that raising interest rates will stop “inflation”. The problem is – maybe it won’t. As Atrios (economist Duncan Black) describes it:
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: "You can’t handle the truth!"
Whoever this βsomeoneβ wasβ¦ https://t.co/DD07Eluflj pic.twitter.com/JADr2lqewN — Mark Gerretsen π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ (@MarkGerretsen) June 14, 2022 Here’s one thing I noticed today — because Trudeau has Covid and has to appear on video in the Commons, he doesn’t get interrupted by hecklers as much, and he can actually make his points
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Funny stuff
Just a random collection of funny stuff tonight So who knew there could be TWO ranked bulldogs in North American Diving Dogs? But here is one of them, Chewy! This is Chewy. He competed in his first dock diving event last month. Proud to be one of only two ranked
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Update on the Russia Ukraine War
I haven’t seen as much about the Russia Ukraine War lately. So tonight I wanted to highlight some recent tweets and articles to summarize the situation: Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 13 June 2022 Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/tMxM9CXCRe πΊπ¦ #StandWithUkraine
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Remembering what happened
Revisionism about the convoy insurrection: Remember Canada 5 months ago? The Convoy Insurrection destroying Ottawa’s downtown, border blockades messing up trade, protestors fanning out across the country to block nurses and doctors from going into hospitals, thousands of counter-protestors risking street fights, a spreading contagion of trucker blockades all over.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Two solitudes
Justin Ling’s column today made this observation about the Jan 6 hearings “We’re trapped in a hall of mirrors” Whatβs novel and disconcerting is the degree to which an emerging far-right ecosystem tooled itself into a totally insulated rapid response organ. A real-time streaming funhouse hall of mirrors…. What is big
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Carnage. Chaos. Criminal.
Wow, did you see this tonight? Carnage. Chaos. Criminal.#January6th wasn’t a random event. It was a coordinated, deliberate conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/mrzoJG6W4M β American Progress (@amprog) June 10, 2022 Here is the complete, raw, without network graphics, version of the video just aired by the January 6th
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Animal crackers
Busy day today so just some funny animal tweets to enjoy: pic.twitter.com/kxBADuoqhj — Cathie from Canada π¨π¦ π·π³οΈβπ (@CathieCanada) June 7, 2022 Bear sits next to guy ππ pic.twitter.com/0mkauOqsaL — πππ«π‘ππ (@farhad55526050) November 8, 2020 Paraglider meets a black vulture. π pic.twitter.com/ogIsUvg87Y — Paul.Nelson (@batsy09) June 5, 2022 This little
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: News from all over
First, in Canada, the Mass Casualty Commission into the 2020 Portapique massacre is continuing with RCMP testifying today. Here’s the worst of it: as shown in Tim Bousquet’s hearing coverage this morning, RCMP seemed overly focused on crafting Perfect Tweets to warn Nova Scotians about Wortman’s murderous rampage — they
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