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…
Cathie from Canada
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…
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…