Roke

Old news but really great show.

I may have compared it to both the best episode of Mad Men and The Godfather...

As the sovereign of at least four countries who shed blood in Afghanistan and Iraq I don't think King Charles should visit the United States for their 250th anniversary.

From the linked BBC piece "Jacob was on CNN a few weeks ago. For whatever reason, the interviewer asked him about my Parkinson's diagnosis," she recalled. "I thought it was kind of odd, but then the next day, one of the top Parkinson's experts in the world reached out to me and asked if he could help me." Reid explained: "I've never gotten to talk to a Parkinson's expert. I've been on a five- year waiting list here because I live in a very small place. "Now he's found me a Parkinson's expert, a neurologist, and I have an appointment in a couple weeks. "That could change things for me because I'm not really getting the treatment that I should be getting."

🔒: "So much patriotic ink has been spilled over Heated Rivalry's success, but the most Canadian detail is in a BBC piece: the author has Parkinson's disease, and was on a 5-year waiting list for treatment until she entered the ranks of the nation's elite"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Division Series are only 5 games?

Mbappé getting Ewing Theory'd tonight?

I dug it out of the reposts to figure it out.

good god how stupid would someone have to be to listen to this person. Insane.

Love to undercut a Royal visit with a Bozo eruption 🙄

Governor General of Canada @GGCanada post. "#GGSimon was honoured to have an audience with His Majesty King Charles III at @RideauHall as part of Their Majesties' Royal Visit to Canada. These ongoing conversations deepen the meaningful bond between our nation's 🇬🇧🇨🇦" nations.

If we weren't a post-accountable society the Governor General should resign over this post.

The entire job is to be the representative of the King of Canada. If the GG and their staff don't know that they aren't fit for purpose.

A black and white photo of Queen Victoria

Happy Victoria Day 🇨🇦

Doing my annual "how the heck did I get Europa Universalis IV to be legible?" thing.

Canada’s New Tariffs on US Drop to ‘Nearly Zero’ With Exemptions, Oxford Says Canada has effectively suspended almost all of its retaliatory tariffs on US products, tamping down inflation risks and improving its growth outlook, according to Oxford Economics.

Elbows Down 🇨🇦
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Carney should invite the King to open the 45th Parliament.

Waited in line 0 minutes to vote 👍

Voting during a Jets playoff game was a great bit of tactical voting by me 😀

Hopefully the ridiculous, English-language questions from The Rebel after the Québec debate will be the death of the Debate Commission.

Lol. Goal and assist for Demidov 14 minutes into his first game

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech

The Notwithstanding Clause is the flip side of the coin of Section 1. If you're okay with Section 1 limiting Charter rights you should be okay with Section 33.

With Section 33 we can at least vote the bums out. There's no recourse for Section 1.

Hope you enjoy it!

So many interesting tidbits and observations but I ultimately didn't like it because I'm more of a narrative guy and there wasn't much of that.

Liberal operatives planted 'stop the steal' buttons at conservative conference | CBC News Two Liberal Party staffers attended last week's Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference where they planted buttons that used Trump-style language and highlighted division within the Conservative ...

The Liberal Party is desperate to import American-style politics into Canada, even to the point of trying to manufacture election denial. A cancer on Canadian politics. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This is the party that purports to be against American-style politics and misinformation/disinformation.

Butterfly meme: Is this American style politics?

"On Friday night, in two Ottawa bars, campaign workers shared how the party was behind this move — how two Liberal Party staffers attended the conference intended for conservatives and placed these buttons in areas where attendees would find them."
🤡 #cdnpoli

Catholics set to exceed Anglicans for first time since Reformation due to younger churchgoers - Catholic Herald Catholics are on course to outnumber Anglicans in Britain, with the growth spearheaded by younger churchgoers who outnumber their Anglican brethren by more than two to one, a report by the Bible Socie...

"It means that Catholicism could soon overtake Anglicanism to become the country’s largest denomination of worshippers for the first time since the English Reformation initiated by King Henry VIII in 1527. "
thecatholicherald.com/catholics-se...

So Vice pulled a Sports Illustrated and hired a bunch of scabs to relaunch Waypoint?

YouTube video by CTV Your Morning Misinformation Already Spreading About Canada’s Election | Your Morning

Fact-checkers getting basic stuff completely wrong in the course of their fact-checking is disqualifying.

As Gilmore did when claiming John Turner was PM from the Parliamentary gallery when in fact he wasn't even sworn in until after Parliament was adjourned.
youtu.be/bK9CPb-wuwA?...

United Nations report recommends Canada repeal MAID for people without terminal illnesses International committee also called on Ottawa to scrap the proposed expansion of MAID eligibility in 2027 to people whose sole underlying illness is a mental disorder

Last week UN CRPD committee released a report that among other things, called on Canada to repeal Track 2 MAiD.

Story here by @mikehager.bsky.social with comments from @trudolem.bsky.social and myself.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Paul Chiang resignation letter

Better late than never

"This is a person of integrity who served his community" "He made a terrible lapse of judgement" Carney says of Chiang. "He has my confidence"

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I don't get it.

But I am beginning to understand why Hong Kong Diaspora Relative's paranoia about electronic communications.

Mark Carney defends keeping Paul Chiang as a Liberal candidate, says Chiang has apologized for his comments (those comments were calling for people to turn his opponent over to Beijing for a bounty) "He will continue with his candidacy"

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How have the Liberals not sacked Paul Chiang?

This is Day 4.

A day later and this candidate hasn't been turfed yet.

🇨🇦 Elbows Down for the Chinese Communist Party.

Paul Chiang needs to step aside as the Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville immediately.