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Books: Democratizing the Constitution; Modernizing Government Accountability; From NPM to NPG. Awards: Donner and Smiley book prizes PhD: UVic Certified chainsaw operator Assorted cantankerousness

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Loudest: Motorhead

28.11.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

First: Cinderella

Last: Junkhouse

Best/Most: Springsteen

Worst: GWAR

Coolest: maybe New Yorkers Against Violence with The Beastie Boys, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mos Def, the Roots, N.E.R.D., Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Afrika Bambaata, Michael Stipe, Moby and Bono at Hammerstein Ballroom

28.11.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i mean, i don't think it's a mystery NYT

16.10.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1979    πŸ” 412    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 45

Hockey has a culture problem.

16.10.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apropos of something, I really don’t understand how anyone looks around in 2025 and decides that the path forward is unanimity on anything, let alone a master plan for a whole country.

12.10.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jen’s advocacy on this deserves recognition. Very important work.

11.10.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Obviously with the dogs.

11.10.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reading the article this may be a case of the author doesn’t write the headline.

11.10.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If Trump wants to signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000", we shld be making a play to get companies to set up shop up here to locate that talent.

20.09.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That this needs to be said….

19.09.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Canada isn’t the United States. Your administrative doesn’t get to dictate what we can and can’t say up here.

19.09.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Worse than goons tho, Chuck.

18.09.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was nice knowing you America. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

17.09.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is I don't know."

The guy who said that wants to be the guy who says the other side is the side stoking hate and violence.

11.09.2025 05:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t celebrate political violence, even if you disagree with the politics.

10.09.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Trump’s tacit admission last week that he’s lost India and Russia to China and N Korea and now Russia taunting the west with this is really not good.

10.09.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Parliamentary nerdery at YOW.

06.09.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

« Stuck »?

03.09.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can offer you a worse read?

30.08.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gobsmacking.

28.08.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Surge in U.S. customs searches of electronic devices raises concerns about harsh treatment of Canadians β€” CBC News U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports a sharp rise in electronic device searches at crossings, raising concerns about privacy, discrimination and harsher scrutiny of Canadians.

Land of the free!

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28.08.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Screw your thoughts.
Screw your prayers.
And, most of all, screw your unwillingness to protect children.

28.08.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What thing do you really wish you could do at like an elite level?

Me: surf

26.08.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stretch of Ste-Catherine Street East to become pedestrian-only year-round | CBC News The City of Montreal announced Friday their "ambitious" plans to transform a portion of Ste-Catherine Street East into a pedestrian road year-round, with redevelopment work starting in fall 2026.

β€œThe redevelopment plan includes planting more than 225 trees and adding vegetation-covered pits, most of which will also serve as rain drainage. The city will also add more seating along the street and an illuminated canopy”

cc: @arieltroster.com @stephanieplante.bsky.social

25.08.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This has been a bit coming, but it is critically important: domestic vaccine production capacity.

Right on.

24.08.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A terrible assumption made in a lot policy/political punditry is to assess whether some decision or action has achieved an improved outcome in comparaison to the status quo, ignoring that the status quo may have gotten worse in the absence of said decision or action. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

22.08.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The 14 yr old saying β€œBruh, you literally got the thousand yard stare. Eat some yogurt” to the 15 yr old as he struggles with his spicy Raman is the best expression of concern/insult combo I’ve seen in a long time.

19.08.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shocking.

18.08.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It took a minute to remember where the insert a footnote button was this morning.

Also why hasn’t AI eliminated citation writing yet?!

17.08.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Situation: Hopscotch is Now Illegal on D.C. Sidewalks And the United States Secret Service is out there to enforce

Land of the free.

I wonder if they consulted the NCC for operational advice for this mission.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

16.08.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0