Today’s news: Nelson moments
Today seemed to be a day of “Nelson” moments. There was that day-long Rogers outage: Having Rogers internet down all day meant spending the day talking with family. They seem…
Cathie from Canada
Today’s News: Looking for their soul
First up, some comment about what has happened to the soul of the Conservative party in Canada: The leadership of the CPC is still theoretically up for grabs, but the…
Walking on the funny side
First, the latest from Jolly Old England: Imagine the Titanic refusing to admit that the iceberg won. — Kathleen Donohoe (@KathleenDonohoe) July 6, 2022 The commentary is heavily implying that…
Today’s news: Comments on the passing scene
Its been a crazy day, eh? Patrick Brown is out: So arrogant he doesn’t even show up to debate other #CPC hopefuls, this after likely eliminating Patrick Brown. @PierrePoilievre so…
Today’s News: Declare victory and leave
If former Sask premier Brad Wall had ever bothered to learn French, he could have been a Conservative prime minister. He had the persona of a golden boy and the…
Today’s News: Weekend updates
Conservative leadership update: Maybe Poilievre has hired a new PR firm not staffed by 12-year-olds. He released a video today that conservatives actually liked. As for me, it worried me…
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
A few days ago, Margaret Atwood put out a tweet (now it has 140,000 “likes”) about how America turned itself into The Handmaid’s Tail world because people couldn’t get over…
Canada Day Part Deux
Here, I think, is the last and best word on the Convoy, from Scrimshaw tonight: "The Convoy’s a disgrace. It’s also a walking advertisement for hatred, bigotry, and indifference towards…
Canada Day, eh?
CANADA DAY pic.twitter.com/dqGN87Fc1P — Brittlestar (@brittlestar) June 30, 2022 Love this classic "I Am Canadian" rant! ???? #IAMCanadian https://t.co/GoXPPde6wZ — Canuckle (@CanuckleGame) July 1, 2022 Happy Canada Day from Ottawa!Final…
Today’s News: From Ketchup to Reverse-OPEC
We probably should’ve known that presidency would end with ketchup dripping down a wall, but then, Heinz sight is 2020. — Justin Chang (@JustinCChang) June 28, 2022 The Cassidy Hutchinson…
Today’s News: Updates
Update from Ukraine: Some interesting news today: Canadian special forces don’t deny New York Times report that commandos are in Ukraine https://t.co/LZeQJoVFya — The Vancouver Sun (@VancouverSun) June 28, 2022…
Today’s News: Pro-Choice Underground
The world is not laughing at you anymore America. We’re aghast in horror. — Mark (@Markfry809) June 25, 2022 Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman writes: It is no exaggeration to…
Palate cleansers
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…
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…
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 — James Moore (@JamesMoore_org) June 24, 2022 Next, we are…
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…
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…
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…
Today’s News: Updates
A batch of updates tonight – here we go Juneteenth: Drew Litton, The Colorado Sun #juneteenth2022 pic.twitter.com/EHo0SjG7v7 — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) June 19, 2022 Steve Sack, The Minneapolis…