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:
Cathie 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. –…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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+…