Marsha Faubert

“Inspired the team and I to build”.

Omer Bartov.

Thx Shirley. I know there’s a whole discourse about this that I’m not familiar with, so I should go looking.

I’m not sure how this would work outside the context of state abuse of power. Sometimes we need criminal consequences in individual cases. And the parallel civil liability process muddies the water too. The idea interests me because the status quo clearly doesn’t work either. But so many questions.

After 18 years of work, Toronto’s Port Lands opens to the public A new waterfront park welcomes visitors into a new $1.5-billion effort to renew the area’s ecological and Indigenous past

This incredible project is coming to fruition. The Portlands are returned to nature and human activity. Nice to see such a well considered and designed infrastructure project.

I just read this. My heart aches for the victims of this violence which includes, as Bartov points out, Israelis and Jews throughout the world who must “bear the stain of the genocide in Gaza perpetrated in their name”. His voice needs to be heard and governments need to stop enabling this.

Huge congrats on your big move! Transitions are exciting and scary but your new home sounds like a good place to land. I hope you keep up the pieces on your reading, which always offer some great suggestions.

Wow. Great energy, great communicator. Would love to see that here.

I loved that book!

Canada: checks under the covers for the bloody horse’s head.

Anand Giridharadas: “The country that invented jazz was never going to be good at putting on a military parade. It was never going to be us.” Good to see the No Kings protests more reflective of the American spirit I admire.

The always informative Sarah Taber on the trouble with raw milk. It’s about the cow poop!

Reminds me of that Pete Seeger song. But - those little boxes are often an affordable home for many people. Identical designs in subdivisions might lower building costs. And speaking of identical design- I’m in Paris rn where that uniformity is a distinctive feature!

“People started playing with: “Well, what would it feel like to just not give a shit if people die?” And once you play with that, you’re playing with fire. And it starts spreading. And it becomes, “Well, who else could we say it’s OK if they die?””
Great interview. Hope she’s wrong about Carney.

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My fav: “Throughout, JD Vance and Marco Rubio chortled obediently on the couch like Beavis and Butt-Head in nice suits.”

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

Thank you 🙏

A case for recusal, surely, but this is so common that they must find it a non issue. The idea of elected judges offends my sense of the rule of law. Our appointments procedure is exemplary.

“She told me that she had campaigned on a "get tough with criminals" platform, and her next case was going to be interesting because the defence lawyer was a friend of hers who had contributed to her campaign.” This is why we should not elect judges - the debts that accrue are meant to influence.

A bridge spanning the St. Clair River, backlit with the setting sun.

The Bluewater Bridge, which I won’t be crossing anytime soon, if ever again.

💙 thank you Bonnie.

Lament for a Neighbour By: Marsha Faubert

I have some thoughts about our relationship with our complicated neighbour.
open.substack.com/pub/canadast...

What did you use to stand up again 🙂

One thing that I was thought was revealing about the divisions within Canada:

When Carney acknowledged Poilievre's hard work on his campaign in his victory speed, the crowd of Liberals cheered.

When Poilievre mentioned Carney in his concession speech, there was loud booing.

Low info big mad voters - a recipe for disaster exploited by leaders who like to mirror the big mad back at them and feed them disinformation. We escaped this time but next time?

I can’t wait to never hear PP’s voice again. #cdnpoli #elxn45

You love to see it. A good result overall but a confusing one too. NDP losses were not really Liberal gains. Carney has work to do on both sides of the border.

pierre polievre losing his seat

scha·den·freu·de
/ˈSHädənˌfroidə/
noun
pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune

Sitting here waiting for PP to fade into oblivion. 🤞