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…
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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…
Today’s News: About authoritarianism
Over the last several days, I have seen a number of tweets and comments about authoritarianism as people try to understand what happened with everything from Jan 6 Insurrection to…
Today’s News: Pride parade again
Today was Saskatoon Pride parade day – thousands lined our streets, in spite of the heat, for our first parade since 2019: In photos: Sun shines on Saskatoon’s 2022 Pride…
Today’s News: A tangled ball of string
The LA Times has a major article describing the gang of third-raters, rubes, grifters and gullibles who were trying to overturn Biden’s election. First, it’s all just one big tangled…
Today’s News: Remember remember….
It doesn’t quite scan like “Remember remember the 5th of November“, but remembering Jan 6 2021 is now a cottage industry in the United States and the Jan 6 Committee…
Today’s News: Some comments on the passing scene
Just a bunch of observations today on the passing scene. First up, interest rates. And I do mean up. Now, perhaps there is a problem with the conventional wisdom that…
Today’s News: "You can’t handle the truth!"
Whoever this “someone” was… https://t.co/DD07Eluflj pic.twitter.com/JADr2lqewN — Mark Gerretsen ?? ?? (@MarkGerretsen) June 14, 2022 Here’s one thing I noticed today — because Trudeau has Covid and has to appear…
Funny stuff
Just a random collection of funny stuff tonight So who knew there could be TWO ranked bulldogs in North American Diving Dogs? But here is one of them, Chewy! This…
Today’s News: Update on the Russia Ukraine War
I haven’t seen as much about the Russia Ukraine War lately. So tonight I wanted to highlight some recent tweets and articles to summarize the situation: Latest Defence Intelligence update…
Today’s News: Remembering what happened
Revisionism about the convoy insurrection: Remember Canada 5 months ago? The Convoy Insurrection destroying Ottawa’s downtown, border blockades messing up trade, protestors fanning out across the country to block nurses…
Two solitudes
Justin Ling’s column today made this observation about the Jan 6 hearings “We’re trapped in a hall of mirrors” What’s novel and disconcerting is the degree to which an emerging…
Today’s News: Carnage. Chaos. Criminal.
Wow, did you see this tonight? Carnage. Chaos. Criminal.#January6th wasn’t a random event. It was a coordinated, deliberate conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/mrzoJG6W4M — American Progress (@amprog) June…
Animal crackers
Busy day today so just some funny animal tweets to enjoy: pic.twitter.com/kxBADuoqhj — Cathie from Canada ?? ??️? (@CathieCanada) June 7, 2022 Bear sits next to guy ?? pic.twitter.com/0mkauOqsaL —…
Today’s News: News from all over
First, in Canada, the Mass Casualty Commission into the 2020 Portapique massacre is continuing with RCMP testifying today. Here’s the worst of it: as shown in Tim Bousquet’s hearing coverage…
Today’s News: Lest We Forget
Follow this tweet thread for some sad photos of the brave Canadian boys who lost their lives fighting in D-Day 78 years ago. They were all so young: @CAFinUS has…
Today’s News: Just a few odds and ends
Just a random collection of news tonight. First, from Uvalde: The more the media tries to dig into what happened in Uvalde, the less it makes sense. It is beginning…
Today’s News: Why does Europe care about Putin’s delicate fee-fees?
So this is discouraging news: There’s a growing divide in Europe over what would constitute an acceptable conclusion to the Russia/Ukraine war. Macron is saying publicly what a lot of…
Today’s News: 100 days
It has now been 100 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. The yellow markings on this map from Australian Strategic Policy Institute researcher Nathan Ruser show how successful Ukraine has been…