It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.
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It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.
A simplified map of Canada showing the country divided into its provinces and territories, each shaded in different pastel colours. The large northern territory of Nunavut occupies much of the Arctic region with numerous islands extending into the surrounding ocean. The provinces stretch across the southern part of the country from British Columbia on the Pacific coast to the Atlantic provinces in the east. The surrounding oceans are coloured blue, while neighbouring land areas outside Canada are shown in gray.
Every Canadian province and territory has a capital.
The names of those capitals come from many different sources.
Sometimes it is royalty, and sometimes it is an Indigenous name.
Here is how each capital received its name.
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And now he’s ritually humiliating Inter Miami by announcing the next war.
"The Transitive Strongman"
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It’s #BANDCAMPFRIDAY, when BC waives its usual cut so the artist gets your whole payment…
Out today on my Bandcamp site for no particular reason: The WAR DOUBLE ALBUM. 20 tracks about bellicose idiocy in all its forms: mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...
I'm not a Proton user, and I am looking at this with concern.
"When a country is led by people who wear the cross but who have lost the plot, the end times really are at hand. Theirs, not ours: Vietnam weakened an already corrupt president, and we all know how that eventually ended.
With answered prayers."
Pat Beall at the @sun-sentinel.com...
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The Republican religion is “Avarice.”
Trump worships greed, his idols are cash, oil, and real estate.
Everything Trump does is a “Grab,” a “cash grab, oil grab, sex grab, or a land grab.” Trump will snatch your soul.
This one resonates with me the most. Especially after some of my politicians wring their hands everytime someone claims they weren't consulted.
The quickest way to getting nothing done is to allow goal post moving and consensus chasing.
VERONA, Italy (AP) — The Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics will officially open later Friday amid the tensions of war in the Middle East and with some countries intending to boycott the opening ceremony because of the return of the Russian flag to the global sports stage.
When Charlie Kirk died,Trump lowered flags nationwide for him.
6 US soldiers die and not only will he not lower the flags nationwide for them, he just says “some people will die.”
You can see why Russia sees an opportunity to settle scores. "Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Fans of Charles DeLint may enjoy this short story:
ICE came to Newford. Big mistake.
A free novelet for all of you.
www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html
Latest Trump approvals have him at only 38%.
So, thus far, his base has still not abandoned him. Despite what the Epstein files have revealed, despite the K-shaped economy, despite the hit to the heartland, despite him starting another war in the Middle East.
Translated: "We will celebrate our war crimes, dammit!"
Canada must stand firmly on the side of international law. If the war drags on Canada will be under enormous pressure to support the gangsters. My latest on how Canada cannot get sucked into this dangerous war.
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The package of censorship and surveillance bills brought up in todays markup has been advanced
Continue to contact your representatives and demand this legislation be opposed. Tell your family and friends, explain how these bills are not what they appear, and ask them to join us in opposition!
It's time we started seeing Doug Ford not as a populist, but as a flake. Just flakey ideas.
(TBH the idea of putting one in East Harbour is the least crazy. There's space and eventually transit, and not likely demand for offices or condos for a while.)
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Parties to the conflict must immediately refrain from and cease unlawful attacks, whether direct attacks on civilians, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, or the use of explosive weapons.
They must take all feasible precautions to prevent civilian harm.
@rmaltby.bsky.social “Whilst ignoring the UN Charter in support of U.S. strikes, the new Realists risk becoming complicit in the reckless endangerment and senseless killing of children in the regional war.”
www.thewhig.com/opinion/carn...
Take action now to stop Bill C-12, which would put our friends and neighbours at risk. Despite outcry from human rights groups, the Bill was rushed through the House.
Learn more and act now: takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/173197/...
Amnesty International Canada condemns the killing of Iraqi-Canadian woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed.
Yanar was one of Iraq’s most courageous advocates for women’s rights. Her death is a tremendous loss for the human rights community & for women & girls whose lives she helped protect.
Butler wrote about Trump's sadism over a year ago.
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She's the one trying to unseat Homelander as the Big Bad?
No way is she capable of equalling Nick Fury Senior or Junior. Or any SHIELD officer I respect, for that matter (and I have a list)!
"Shield of the Americas", huh? Does that mean the plan to make 🇨🇦 (among others) submit to annexation?
Judith Butler in Who's Afraid of Gender?: “The weaponization of this fearsome phantasm of ‘gender’ is authoritarian at its core.”
Looks like we need a new category:
☑️ all of the above
Ross is a friend, and someone whose work I admired and enjoyed when he was the developer of Star Trek RPGs at the turn of the century.
His life has gotten complicated, and his post-RPG career as a waiter is imperiled by ageism and his medical conditions.
If you can pitch in, please do so.
Considering how thoroughly Trump wants to sell the Ukrainians out to Putin, they shouldn't be surprised.