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We were at the Rogers Centre that day. A memorably stressful & frustrating Canada Day. We don’t automatically get those games as part of our #BlueJays ticket paks anymore. Call it being gun shy.

Shawn Micallef: They’ve been a blight on Toronto streets for 20 years. Why those icky garbage bins might soon be trashed The city is running a survey to see what the public wants for street furniture after the 20-year contract with Astral Media ends next year.

I wrote a rubbish column in the @thestar.com today

Good to know although I won’t buy from the USA. But if it’s being sold from Canada (it is a 🇨🇦 show after all, so I hope so!), that could be an option. Well check it out. Thanks!

We still have a DVD player too despite also paying a fortune for streaming services. It’s not dead yet! Thanks to Monty Python Holy Grail for the reference. 😉

I wonder if I can find a copy at a resale shop? There a 2nd hand bookstore near me that sells lots of DVDs!

Harper sneaks through Canada-China FIPA, locks Canada in for 31 years In the world of official government announcements, a two-paragraph media release sent out in the late afternoon on the Friday before Parliament resumes sitting is the best way for a government to a…

Poilievre is warning us against becoming too dependent on China. NB: This happened when he was a sitting Minister of Something. canadians.org/analysis/har...

Canadian passports are about to get more expensive | CBC News The cost of a Canadian passport is about to rise and plans by Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to overhaul the way it sets prices could result in them being even more expensive in the future.

“NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan… That's another burden that the Liberal government is putting on everyday Canadians," she said.”

The cost of a passport is a very minor proportion of the cost of international travel, and it’s valid for 10 years. It‘s a bargain.

YouTube video by The45Prof 1st RECORDING OF: Everybody’s Talkin’ - Fred Neil (1966)

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YouTube video by Desire4Ochs Phil Ochs - When I'm Gone

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Shittier and more expensive. It's a Doug Ford trademark. #onpoli #topoli

This is how Canadians, with funding from our Government, help lower prices and provide local production!!
The opportunities are endless.
Environmental and efficient!

In retirement I volunteer with a small non-profit dedicated to the preservation of immigration history. We’re mostly (though not exclusively) former government officials who worked in Canada and overseas, so much of what we focus on are big events in our careers, like the boat people movement.
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DeLorey says Poilievre’s upcoming trip to Germany & the UK is a message to get our products to market.
Let’s see - how many times has it been mentioned that Poilievre has never in all these years made an overseas trip?
He’s got a “to do” check list and this is on it.
#cdnpoli #pnpcbc

Trump: “We don’t want people who can’t love our country voting in elections”

Are there any differences?
World view for starters: PM Carney is a much bigger thinker, Poilievre has his sights set on domestic policy only.

Why did I feel I'd already heard Pierre Poilievre's Feb 26 speech? Oh right, most of it has already been said by PM Mark Carney. Polievre's speechwriters re-wrote Carney's salient points from the last month or so, structured it the same way too.

Stylized “Simpson’s” logo from the 1980s

Outlines of Simpson’s letters that were affixed to the building at street level

The old Simpson’s labelscars reveal themselves now that the Hudson’s Bay store plaques have a been taken down at the historic Queen Street flagship.

I can’t find it on Gem either 😕

Thanks for the lead, Kelly! I don’t see that Acorn TV has Slings and Arrows streaming right now, but I’ll keep my eyes open for it.

Boooo! Someone, somewhere, should find a way to make the original ‘Slings & Arrows’ available for viewing again. It’s frustrating that we can’t watch it. #SlingsAndArrows #cancon

Otherwise known as a lie

Boo hoo, poor Albertans.

Danielle Smith Delivers an NDP Budget | The Tyee But big deficits, more spending and no plan are apparently OK from the right.

One has to read to the end of the piece to stop being rankled by the first short paragraph. Alberta can't seem to come to terms with the fact that oil doesn't pay for everything - can't contemplate a PST or a change to the lowest provincial taxes.
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This is brilliant 🤭
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Good thing governments spent the last decade telling young people they all had to learn how to code and universities that they were useless unless they were churning out IT grads.

And if it was another party spending billions on all these rebuilds then he'd be furiously talking about how much of a waste of money it all is

He doesn't have a political ideology beyond what inconveniences his commute from the inner burbs and what will enrich his developer friends

Trump’s Foreign Policy: Resurrecting Empire President Trump’s approach is a revival of the mission of empire — acquiring the territories and resources of sovereign peoples.

News Analysis: President Trump’s approach to foreign policy is a revival of the mission of empire — acquiring the territories and resources of sovereign peoples. nyti.ms/4aPUqJX

Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca Federal departments and the Canadian Armed Forces must answer by April how many members of anti-fascist groups work for the public service and the military.

You know who was Antifa?
Roosevelt, Churchill, and our own Mackenzie King.
Genuis could do with a high school education.

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Opinion: Donald Trump may yet survive – but he is currently losing The march toward autocracy has stalled, though it’s unknown if that will gain its own momentum

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