It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, what with right-wing purists jumping all over him for canning Maxime Bernier from the Opposition party’s front bench. In addition to being the normally ineffectual Mr. Scheer’s chief rival for the hearts and minds of the country’s
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Joe Fantauzzi: Columbus is no hero of mine
Italian-North Americans — especially those of us with roots in the Mezzogiorno (and I include the Ciociaria and Abbruzzo here) — don’t need a Genoese genocidal rapist as our hero. It’s time to eliminate Columbus Day. It’s time for #IndigenousPeoplesDay Some good reading and watching: ‘All Indians Are Dead?’ At Least
Continue readingCuriosityCat: From My Quotes Cupboard: “I have to have a murder!”
The needs of a newspaper editor: … the body of a Paris magistrate involved in the shady business of keeping Stavisky out of jail was later found mangled on the tracks of the Paris-Dijon railway. Apparently he had been tied to the rails after having been drugged… When three famed
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