Today’s News: From All Over
Reconciliation visit: The final stop for Pope Francis in Canada was a visit to Iqaluit. The Globe and Mail reports: On Friday, met with several school survivors In Iqaluit before…
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Today’s News: "Rescind the Doctrine"
The Pope’s reconciliation events were in Quebec today – above is a photo of a delegation from the Innu community of Mashteuiatsh, where the last Quebec residential school closed in…
Today’s News: "A whisper in our minds"
In the end, the Pope’s apology is important, though it will not ease the pain. Pope Francis was able to give the long-awaited apology, speaking in his language, but most…
Today’s News: Updates
Papal reconciliation visit: An apology from Pope Francis. This was the best part after the apology that is.#PopeFrancus crowned with Indigenous headress, While crowd erupts with approval.??? #PapalVisit2022 pic.twitter.com/14cYlrTWfo —…
Today’s News: Pope Francis arrives in Canada
#PopeFrancis arrived in Edmonton on Sunday to an honour drum song ahead of what he describes as a “penitential” trip aimed at advancing reconciliation with Indigenous people over the lasting…
Music and poetry and funny stuff
But first: what a race! ??? Gold for ?? in the 4×100 at the Worlds!! Big tip of the cap to our dudes @KingsleySC and @De6rasse big backstretch from Jerome…
Today’s News: Ukraine update
Lots of news from Ukraine lately: First, a new deal was announced today to move Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea: New: A deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain…
Today’s News: The elephant in the room
Tonight’s Jan 6 Committee hearing made lots of news tonight. But as Brian Stelter reported in his Reliable Sources newsletter tonight, perhaps the most important comment came from Michigan Republican…
Some great stuff
I had never seen this before, its absolutely hilarious. Here’s another great Twitter story: Frank Slade was helping his Aunt Ethel run her gas station in Goldsboro, North Carolina, when…
I read the news today, oh boy
Today’s news: In the past few days our entire MSM has been preoccupied with: 1. The Prime Minister’s hair (not a typo)2. A nonsense “Canada is communist” statement made by…
Today’s News: Updates from all over
Uvalde Massacre update: The Uvalde preliminary report is out and it is damning. pic.twitter.com/1pIjB5hVwX — mrs.LHS ????☮️ (@ABPC84) July 18, 2022 We’ve gutted education financing to fund police departments just…
Weekend: Music, and Animal Crackers
Hey, Gangnam Style was 10 years old as of Friday! And Psy is still going stong – he has now released 9 albums and is on tour again this summer.…
Today’s News: The Tale of the Ten-Year-Old
The Tale of the Ten-year Old has now become a shameful part of American history for Republicans and for American media. Every conservative thought experiment about the pregnant 10 year…
Today’s News: Shot / chaser
The shot: From six years ago The chaser: From Friday Obviously the news agenda for at LEAST the next 72 hours is CANCELLED while we decide what we think about…
Today’s News: Whose side are these guys on?
The US story of the day is the news that the Trump’s White House Secret Service deleted its text messages from Jan 5 and 6 2021. Accidentally! Yeah, sure… I…
I’m just sittin’ here watching the wheels go round and round
So I saw this tweet tonight: What line from a song really stuck with you? — Eric Alper ? (@ThatEricAlper) July 14, 2022 And of course I immediately got lost…
Today’s News: Ain’t we havin’ some fun now!
The Jan 6 committee held another hearing today – they’re taking aim right at Trump now, putting the “fun” in “fundamentally nuts”: As bad as we thought it was…it was…
Today’s News: Finally!
Well, finally. Somebody in the White House seems to have taken charge of the abortion issue — maybe Harris, maybe Becerra, maybe Biden himself — and this is actually getting…
Weekend updates
An historic day of remembrance for Canada’s WWI soldiers in the No. 2 Construction Battalion Members of the battalion served with distinction in the First World War but faced anti-Black…