Michele Austin

Spent the weekend working thru the proposed Canadian lawful access legislation (C-2 Strong Border Act) and it is a morass of all sorts of proposals that need work. Honestly I have read it a few times now and there is still more to analyze.

My law firm only accepts cheques and money orders, I just about stroked out.

Like, my cheque book is pretty much a missing sock. Who knows where that thing is?

I just want you to know that yesterday someone tagged my age as “mid 40s” and I was utterly thrilled. Even with the shock of grey hair that has grown in recently. #winning

YouTube video by SCTV Great White North: Mouse in a Bottle

Canada Day. Evergreen Canadian content:

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I thought it was impossible to make Rob Ford dull. But the new Netflix Rob Ford documentary is a snooze.

Go. Outside.

100% voter participation from the Austin family today. Proud of the team for exercising their franchise.

Kings serenaded by another national anthem by harmonica chorus from Koreatown senior citizen center The Los Angeles Kings have brought back the harmonica-playing senior citizens whose rendition of the national anthem caused a sensation before their playoff opener.

Missed this best news of the week story. Thanks to my husband for pointing it out.

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Made German Wurstsalat today to try and recreate my youth. Fiedler’s delicatessen in Kitchener to be exact. It wasn’t bad. Tasted like it had seen Munich from a plane window. Need different mustard and no sugar. All in all, proud.

Yesterday I was at a presentation focused on women and negotiation skills. It was excellent. First questioner? A man, of course, asking about sales negotiations. How did the host even allow that? Small things matter. Count the pennies as my mother used to say.

Just leaving this right here for my American cousins as you draw closer to it every hour:

Under Thailand’s criminal code, section 112, it is illegal to defame, insult, or threaten the King, Queen, the Heir-apparent, carrying a penalty of 3 to 15 years of jail time.

If you don’t read the email, did it even happen?

Every day, Kennedy! I turn my work laptop off every night.

Defiance and Threats in Deportation Case Renew Fear of Constitutional Crisis Legal scholars say that the nation has reached a tipping point and that the right question is not whether there is a crisis, but rather how much damage it will cause.

Like ‘em or not, the NYT is doing some exceptional writing and reporting these days.

The law has become a tool to harm enemies, but not to bind those who govern. That is a quite different constitutional order from the one that we’ve had for a long time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

I miss the days where the biggest political issue in Ontario was people pooping in public at Wasaga Beach.

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Severance. It feels right to watch the latest episode at this moment.

Potash and uranium. Saskatchewan must be protected at all costs.

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.

The show must go on.

Elon Musk Tells Federal Workers to Detail Work in an Email or Lose Their Jobs Elon Musk has drawn inspiration from his 2022 takeover of Twitter with the tactic. His threat on social media of termination did not appear in an email to federal workers requesting the work summaries...

Lived this at Twitter. Not great. Metrics be damned. Careful management or outcomes? Pffff. Demonstrated ROI? Nope. Content of this email? Hardly. Your career hangs on meeting this obscure deadline. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

Never ever invest in a LIRA. End.

Over/under on an O-train stoppage tomorrow in Ottawa? #onstorm ☃️❄️

The duplicity of the treatment of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith when it comes to US tariffs vs every other Canadian politician and official now going to the US to make nice. Its outrageous.

Smith did it first. She made the blueprint. Everyone else is following it.

Bell CEO slams CRTC, announces further slowdown of fibre network build The chief executive of BCE Inc. blasted the national telecom regular and announced the company would further scale back the build of its fibre internet network.

Bad public policy puts investment, jobs and connectivity at risk: www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/com...

I grew up with no citrus or berries in winter. You sold crates of oranges at Christmas as a fundraiser because they were so special to have at that time of year. GenX, we’ve got this.

It's Bell Let's Talk Day!

In Canada, join me in supporting youth mental health organizations. Text YOUTH to 45678 to donate $5 and Bell will match it.

Please share and spread the word #LetsTalk 💙 🇨🇦

Fascinating.

Cruise ships hit by worst year for stomach bugs in over a decade, CDC data reveals | CNN 2024 was the worst year for gastrointestinal outbreaks on cruise ships in over a decade, thanks to a surge in norovirus, according to figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cruise ships hit by worst year for stomach bugs in over a decade, CDC data reveals
www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/t... via @cnn.com @canadahealthwatch.bsky.social

Testified at the Senate on the issue of copper theft in telecommunications alongside colleagues at Telus and the Canadian Telecommunications Association.

If you live in eastern Ontario, my right knee would like you to know that bad weather is inbound.