Great tweet of the day
Rare photo at Stonehenge, staff moving clocks back one hour.#clocksgoback pic.twitter.com/UUZegtttVF — You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) October 26, 2019
Cathie from Canada
"Popular" vote? Not so much
Here is the vote result in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta:Liberals: 500,000 votes – 4 seatsNDP: 466,000 votes – 4 seatsConservatives: 2 million votes – 54 seatsSo don’t talk to me…
Rats behind the wheel!
Check this out, and don’t miss the comments: Rats are capable of driving tiny cars, researchers found. It eases their anxiety. https://t.co/Gsn4sg1ufO pic.twitter.com/0WjEJpByug — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 24,…
Great tweet of the day
What does Andrew Sheer, Stephen Harper and I have in common? None of us could beat Justin Trudeau! Lol — Patrick Brazeau -Algonquin ?? (@senatorbrazeau) October 24, 2019
When you come to the end of a perfect day
I didn’t hear it myself, but I guess Singh was taking too long with his concession speech and Scheer started his concession speech before Singh finished, then Trudeau started HIS…
Russia moves in to the Middle East
So Russia is moving in to the Middle East, now that Trump has abandoned the field: The negotiations ended in a victory for Mr. Putin: Russian and Turkish troops will…
Dueling crowd sizes
So CBC’s Katie Simpson was impressed that Andrew Scheer’s speech in Richmond Hill Ontario last night attracted 1,500 people, she calls it his biggest crowd so far: Biggest crowd I’ve…
Great tweet of the day
Andrew Scheer seemed doomed to finish his first (and perhaps last) election campaign as CPC leader without having accomplished anything of significance. Then, he managed the impossible: He ceded the…
Wow – tonight Ekos predicts a Liberal govt
NOTE: I just edited this post title to clarify that EKOS is predicting a Liberal government, but isn’t yet predicting a Liberal MAJORITY – depends on how some of the…
Worst tweet of the day
Two days to go, and we may well have a winner for worst media tweet of this election. Here it is, from CBC’s Rosemary Barton, along with my somewhat snarky…
Edmonton ❤ Greta
Here are some photos of Climate Change/Greta Thunberg rally in Edmonton. Climate Justice Edmonton says there were 10,000 at the rally. I guess United We Roll was there too with…
Meghan Markle and the racist British press
I knew the British tabloids were racist, but I had no idea how cruel they had been throughout Meghan Markle’s pregnancy. I guess there is a documentary being done about…
Liberal minority govt predicted
Forum Research predicts Liberal minority govt — Liberal 133 seats, Conservative 121, NDP 46, BQ 37, Green 1.FYI, Forum was the only pollster 2015 to correctly predict the Lib Majority,…
Just a little funny stuff
Make sure you watch to the end: The Liberals are just a hot mess. #Compromise2019 pic.twitter.com/uJP5MaJrv7 — 22Minutes (@22_Minutes) October 16, 2019 And this one: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry…
Great Tweet of the Day
Via the inimitable Dick King-Smith – you owe it to yourself to follow his tweets. Make sure to have the sound on for this one: Teddy the talking porcupine enjoys…
Commander in Least
I haven’t checked because I don’t want to ruin my amateur standing, but as far as I can remember, the US Constitution gives only one real job to a U.S.…
Why I am voting for Trudeau
Trudeau stands for poverty reduction, international democracy promotion, Indigenous partnership, climate change initiatives and economic developmentHe also stands for personal courage: Why did I vote Liberal? Because Justin Trudeau put…
Great tweet of the day
Its not from today, its from a while ago, but it is a great one: This poem never fails to destroy me. It’s one of the reasons I started writing…
10 days to go
Ten days to go and I expect we will soon start to see a certain degree of panic among Canadian pundits, as they realize their unrelenting negativity toward Trudeau and…
What you need to know about Inner YouTube and PewDiePie
Fascinating NYT article about PewDiePie, whom I had heard about only because my son knew about him and about the whole new Inner YouTube culture that he represents, sort of.…