Today’s News: Congratulations to Brandi Morin!
Congratulations to Brandi Morin, in New York City tonight to receive her Edward R. Murrow Award for her article: A “lingering evil”: From residential schools to murdered women. Edward R.…
Cathie from Canada
More Great Stuff
Remember Friendly, Jerome and Rusty? Here is an hilarious thread: DYING at the Canadians in the Zoom talking about The Friendly Giant and the Americans being like “WTF there was…
Today’s News: Starting the nuclear conversation
Back in the spring when there was a bunch of chatter about how the US and NATO should save Ukraine by declaring a no-fly zone, Biden categorically refused to consider…
From the Bookmarks
Just a random selection of stuff tongiht. First, I just cannot understand why anyone in Florida would still vote Republican. Here is what the Hurricane Ian storm surge looked like,…
Today’s News: Playing nuclear chicken?
Well, this is terrifying, isn’t it? It sounds like Russia is getting set to try to play a game of Nuclear Chicken with Ukraine and the west: It comes as…
Today’s News: Winter is Coming
First tonight, what the heck is going on in Britain? The new Truss government seems determined to destroy the British economy in the name of some looney libertarian conservative craziness,…
Today’s News: The Indominable Spirit of the Maritimes and Newfoundland
The news has moved on so much in the last week that we haven’t been seeing as much recently about the Hurricane Fiona recovery on the east coast. But it…
Today’s News: Honouring Truth and Reconciliation Day
“Reconciliation is not the responsibility of Indigenous Peoples. It is the responsibility of all Canadians. It is our responsibility to continue to listen and to learn,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin…
Today’s News: Orange Shirt Day
Sept 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also called Orange Shirt Day – for settlers, it is a day for thoughtfulness, remembrance, acknowledgement of wrongdoing, apology, and…
Great stuff
Today, here’s some of the interesting stuff I bookmarked recently: This is fascinating – its a visual representation of the world population and the webpage also has much more detail…
Today’s News: "But I never thought leopards would eat MY face!"
The original tweet, from 2015: ‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party. — Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn) October 16,…
Behold, a pale horse
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. ” Revelations 6:7-8 I’m thinking tonight of the…
If you thought Covid was "over", think again
Seen in a tweet! What I cannot understand is why so many people think Covid is “over”, though thousands are still getting it and dying from it around the world.…
Today’s news: Ferocious Fiona
It’s been a terrible night and day in Atlantic Canada as they grapple with that bitch Fiona: Ferocious #Fiona, from the #Caribbean to #Canada pic.twitter.com/SriO3U2WhO — Stu Ostro (@StuOstro) September…
From the Bookmarks
Well, the great Roger Federer played his last match today – it wasn’t “one for the ages” but it was pretty nice, a doubles with Nadal at the Laver Cup…
Today’s News: It’s going to be a marathon, not a sprint
This marathon will be exhausting. Pierre Poilievre hasn’t even been Conservative leader for two weeks yet. By the time the 2025 election finally arrives, we’re all going to be as…
Today’s News: Conspiracy Theories
Does anyone still remember that 1997 Mel Gibson – Julia Roberts movie Conspiracy Theory? It was supposed to be just a thriller – comedy. Turns out, it was also predicting…
Today’s News: "It’s still real. It’s still terrifying. It’s still hard"
Beautiful illustration from The Globe and Mail, by Chippewa/Potawatomi artist Chief Lady Bird ? ᐅᑮᒪᑫᐧᐱᓀᐢ Inquests were just announced into the massacre of Sept. 4: BREAKING: Sask. chief coroner announces…
Today’s News: #ISingWithTrudeau
So today the Queen was laid to rest in a beautiful ceremony — here are a few of the tweets I flagged about the most-watched funeral in world history: The…
Today’s News: Ratioed
To begin, I need to give a definition of “ratioed” – Merriam-Webster defines it as “A quantitative measure of how little they like your take.” A tweet is “ratioed” when…