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Doug Saunders

5 years

New edition! New cover! New content! New low price! Out this week. The history you never learned in school; the argument you never thought you’d make

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7 years

Sci-fi where the president has lost his mind and everyone knows because his private thoughts keep appearing on little slabs in their pockets

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To be fair, Disney was also threatening to release it

The Guardian

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Pirates of the Caribbean 5: hackers threaten to release film unless Disney pays ransom

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Caption: "With this ingenious trick you can easily smuggle a chocolate bar into a US cinema!"

Johannes Köpl

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Mit diesem genialen Trick kann man leicht einen Schokoriegel in ein US-amerikanisches Kino schmuggeln!

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Re Putin’s claims of “Denazifying” Ukraine. The country has four extreme-right parties that might be called neo-Nazi. Three of them have zero seats in the national legislature. The fourth has one of the 450 seats. Together they get 2% of the popular vote, less than in Russia

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Doug Saunders

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In France, it’s currently possible for a woman simultaneously to be fined €165 for being in public with a face covering and €135 for being in public without a face covering

Peter Scowen

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@perreaux En France, à l’heure actuelle, une femme qui déambule en niqab risque une amende de 165 euros, mais elle risque du même coup, en se pliant à cette loi, une amende de 135 euros en se présentant dans le métro sans masque.

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The NYT points out that the third Nixon-Kennedy debate, in 1960, was held virtually. One candidate was in NYC, the other in LA; they appeared on a split screen. So virtual meetups were no problem using vacuum-tube technology during the first ever televised presidential debates

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Doug Saunders

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Most Italians had never heard of pizza before the 1950s. Carbonara was invented in the United States. Much of what we call classic Italian food — cacio e pepe, tiramisu — was probably invented in the 1960s. And other sacrileges!

Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong

From panettone to tiramisu, many ‘classics’ are in fact recent inventions, as Alberto Grandi has shown

www.ft.com

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Doug Saunders

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Quebec introduced a universal childcare program 20 years ago. While hardly lavish, it produced the highest rate of female workforce participation in the world. It also raised Quebec's fertility rate. And it paid for itself, through added tax revenues created by working women.

Shane Dingman

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"Quebec has seen the rate of women age 26 to 44 in the workforce reach 85 percent, the highest in the world, according to Fortin. The rate of women that age in the workforce across all of Canada is 80 percent."

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Doug Saunders

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3 years

The fact that vaccinations stopped completely for several days of the holidays but deliveries from the government-owned liquor-store chain stopped for only one day thanks to the hiring of hundreds of extra staff does suggest, perhaps, an absence of attention to priorities

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@AllieGoertz They literally did

Before face masks, Americans went to war against seat belts

"There was a libertarian streak among resistors," Ralph Nader told Business Insider.

www.businessinsider.com

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Doug Saunders

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3 years

Wait. The $600 stimulus payments just approved by the US Congress aren’t monthly? They’re just, like, a single cheque? How’s that going to help?

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8 years

America is a land of unspeakable horrors

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7 years

Headline of the week award unquestionably goes to the Independent

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Exec 1: So, Millennials aren’t buying enough premium booze. Exec 2: Maybe we don’t pay them eno— Exec 3. Wait, what do millennials love to eat? Maybe there’s something Exec 4 [[googles frantically]] it says... Tide Pods! Exec 2 You’ve got to— Exec 1: That’s it. Make it happen

The Glenlivet

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No ice. No stirrer. No glass. We're redefining how whisky can be enjoyed. Introducing The Glenlivet Capsule Collection #noglassrequired

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Doug Saunders

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7 years

These people - mainly women - literally won the war for us

Thomas Hornall

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Now well into their 90s, staff who helped uncover secret Nazi communications gather at British WW2 code-breaking HQ Bletchley Park

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Doug Saunders

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5 years

Remember, Bitcoin is a speculative investment vehicle whose fundamental value is mainly rooted in the scarcity of electricity. Its complete destruction of a generation’s ecological progress is not a side effect, but its essence. It should be treated legally like asbestos

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Doug Saunders

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3 years

An extraordinary thing happened in Canada yesterday: most of the country decided not to hold Canada Day, out of a sense of respect and shame. My ‘hood, normally fireworks central, was nearly silent. There was also activist stuff, but I found this mass atonement more moving

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5 years

In light of Kiefer Sutherland’s comments about his grandfather, it is apposite to note that it has most often been left-leaning governments, over the past four-odd decades, that have balanced budgets and cut debt that’s been run up by conservatives

Want to cut public debt? Bring in the leftists

Since the early 1980s, liberal and social-democratic parties have been entrusted to clean up the fiscal and spending messes created by conservative regimes

www.theglobeandmail.com

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7 years

2016 will be remembered for the astonishing number of great popular musicians who died, along with Western liberal democracy

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4 years

Henry Ford was the first American to be awarded an Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler, and he was awarded it for his copious publications that backed the fuhrer’s interesting theories about bloodlines

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Trump mentions Henry Ford to Ford workers, then says, "Good bloodlines, good bloodlines. If you believe in that stuff -- you got good blood."

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Doug Saunders

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9 years

Still the greatest heckle ever delivered http://t.co/ItHKQHUqy4

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6 years

Today Poland experienced the darkest moment it has seen in decades

Polish Nationalist Youth March Draws Thousands in Capital

Tens of thousands of Poles marched across downtown Warsaw in an independence-day procession organized by a nationalist youth movement that seeks an ethnically pure Poland with fewer Jews or Muslims.

www.wsj.com

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2 years

So yes, Neo-Nazis exist in Ukraine, as in most European countries. They were visible in the 2014 Maidan protests, as security goons. I met and profiled them. But they’ve been excluded from any form of power and have no place in government or civil society

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Doug Saunders

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7 years

The only press events I've experienced remotely like this in content or style were the Gadhafi family's press engagements in the early 2000s

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3 years

They were so close

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8 years

Twitter expressed its condolences to Justice Scalia yesterday

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2 years

Never is my faith in humanity lower than when I see how many people have come to believe that the inflation which is present everywhere in the world is somehow the fault of their own country’s current government’s policies

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6 months

Days after Pakistan started trying to deport 1.7 million Afghans, many of whom have lived there for decades, Iran now says it wants to expel all 5 million of its Afghans. The world’s most refugee-filled countries are on the verge of executing the world’s largest ethnic cleansing

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Doug Saunders

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5 years

The many British people living in Spain who voted "leave" in the Brexit referendum because they didn't want any more immigrants from elsewhere in Europe are slowly beginning to realize that they are, in fact, immigrants from elsewhere in Europe

James Felton

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Anyway here's a bunch of Brexiter Brits living in Spain only now realising that an end to free movement would also apply to them.

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Doug Saunders

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5 years

The United States has the highest rate of women dying in childbirth in the developed world. Except California, where the rate has plummeted due to smart hospital policies. Fascinating reporting from @juliaoftoronto

Vox

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The US maternal mortality rate soared 27% between 2000 and 2014. But not in California. Here's why:

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Doug Saunders

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7 years

In February, 1996 I wrote a memo telling my fellow reporters how to use a new technology. A colleague cleaning out his desk just found it

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Doug Saunders

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6 years

The Toronto mayor, a generally conservative guy, responded to a terrible mass shooting in which two kids were killed with these words. He hasn’t yet instituted a ban, but this is the question to ask. Other mayors would do well to ask this. Firearms serve no urban purpose

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Doug Saunders

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11 months

We just decided we’re quite seriously taking this journey this summer, though probably stretching it over 3 days. We’ll throw in Berlin, and pretend it didn’t change its name to Kitchener. Stay in motels, go to drive-ins

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Doug Saunders

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8 years

"Pray for Paris" seems a cruel slogan to direct at a country whose very existence is a mass secular revolt against religious authority

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1 year

RIP the guy who invented chicken tikka masala. Not only Glasgow’s greatest contribution to world cuisine, but a great example of a classjc diaspora dish, along with Crispy Beef (Calgary), General Tso Chicken (NYC) the burrito (San Diego) etc

Chef who invented the chicken tikka masala dies aged 77

Ali Ahmed Aslam, 77, inventor of the Chicken tikka masala, passed away this week. He is guaranteed to go down in history as a legend of Indian cuisine in Britain.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Doug Saunders

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6 years

We now have confirmation that the Quebec City mosque massacre was an act of targeted political terrorism; his motives echo messages in the far-right media. We need to learn more about the voices that radicalized him

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2 months

When a broadly conservative and pro-Israel American such as Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute is driven to this language, you know the last of October’s goodwill has been burned off by Netanyahu’s extremism

Norman Ornstein

@NormOrnstein

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More West Bank settlements is a direct Fuck You from Netanyahu to Biden and the US. I did not want to say this, but I think it’s time to cut off arms. Netanyahu and his thugs like Smotrich and Ben Gvir are moving headlong to make Israel an international pariah state.

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Doug Saunders

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2 years

I’ll repeat this: anyone who thinks there is an identity group called “the unvaccinated” who deserve some sort of rights and protection needs to be asked if they feel the same about those other well-known identity groups, “haven’t paid their taxes” and “driving without a licence”

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7 years

Let's call this what it appears to be: A man inspired by Trump and Le Pen is accused of mass murder of Muslims

Quebec City mosque attack suspect known as online troll inspired by French far-right

His online profile revealed little interest in extremist politics until last March, when Marine Le Pen visited Quebec City

www.theglobeandmail.com

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6 years

They'll have people volunteering for that job at half the salary just to deal with the Comic Sans

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4 years

They just shut down my daughter’s school. A kid had come into contact with a corona-affected person on break. Not like “no classes tomorrow” but “everyone leave the premises RIGHT NOW, parents collect your kids.” Berlin is not messing around

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Doug Saunders

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7 years

@KaleighRogers Improved version (may not apply to your cat)

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It is, to be precise, just about the *lowest* it's been in 45 years

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Doug Saunders

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6 years

This may be the most deadly act of directly Donald Trump-inspired terrorism yet confirmed

Les Perreaux

@perreaux

6 years

On January 29, the day of the attack, came a trigger. Bissonnette tells his police interrogator. He was watching news coverage of Donald Trump's Muslim ban and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's subsequent welcoming message.

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Doug Saunders

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3 years

The KGB‘s code name for Chrystia Freeland, now Canada’s finance minister and deputy PM, was “Frida” and they regarded her very active democracy work in 1989s Soviet Ukraine as a real threat. The details are amazing

KGB archives show how Chrystia Freeland drew the ire (and respect) of Soviet intelligence services

Chrystia Freeland’s ties to Ukraine are no secret, but KBG archives illuminate her role in the Ukrainian independence movement during her days as a student

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Doug Saunders

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6 years

How do we prevent another Trump from happening? Let's look at two new articles which point to specific policies that could help...

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Doug Saunders

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8 years

"She deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her" is not a great response to sexism accusations if you're unpopular with female voters

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Doug Saunders

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9 years

This is the best visualization I've yet seen of Europe's "Muslim tide" hysteria http://t.co/a681LGp4yR

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6 years

But two factors stand out, and not just in USA. First, education: People with degrees & diplomas don't vote for extremists:

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4 years

The White House was briefed about the dangers of the new coronavirus hitting the United States in NOVEMBER. The president’s staff wrote him about the need for domestic measures in JANUARY. Many Americans are in huge trouble because he did nothing at all until well into March

Sanho Tree

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Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as NOVEMBER "Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," one of the sources said of the NCMI’s report. "It was then briefed multiple times to" the DIA, the JCS, and the White House.

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3 years

I haven’t always made the right decisions, but my childhood decision to plant myself firmly and exclusively on the Jeff Beck side of the Jeff Beck / Eric Clapton war is paying dividends today

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Doug Saunders

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5 years

One of Canada’s smarter federal policies is allowing foreign students to stay for up to three years after graduating — compared to 60 days in the USA. This, plus a general sense of safety, is vacuuming up highly skilled young people who’d otherwise be at Ivy League schools

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Alexandre Bissonnette, who committed a terrorist attack in 2017 that killed 6 people, was sentenced today, and the judge reminded us that he was radicalized into violent extremism from a very specific source

Andy Riga, Montreal

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Evidence from Bissonnette’s computer showed he was fascinated with anti-immigrant alt-right and conservative commentators and U.S. President Donald Trump and was worried about an influx of Muslim immigrants in Quebec.

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Doug Saunders

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2 years

Proof of vaccination was required to cross most international borders between 1951 and early ‘90s. Vax requirements were dropped in many countries because mandatory vaccination had succeeded in stopping spread. Vax proof will surely be required at all borders for next decade

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Doug Saunders

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8 years

Clinton's winning debate strategy may consist of just standing there with an eyebrow raised

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6 years

Good tweet from a US guy with a locked account

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6 years

Second, urbanization: white people in highly concentrated urban areas, with lots of immigrants and minorities, don't vote for candidates opposed to immigration and minorities:

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Doug Saunders

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11 months

Wait. The US has just endured a tragedy in which hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily because far from enough were vaccinated and many states didn’t follow elementary quarantine rules. Yet an outspoken share of its people, including this site’s owner, believe it DID TOO MUCH?

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Doug Saunders

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4 years

“Guy radicalized by right-wing internet memes takes them literally and attempts assassination or terrorism” now describes scores of major security incidents in the US, Europe, Australasia and Canada. It’s not unreasonable to call it the biggest domestic threat of our time

Mercedes Stephenson

@MercedesGlobal

4 years

Exclusive from @globalnews : the two page, hand scrawled letter written by Corey Hurren before he rammed through the gates of Rideau Hall talks about his deep financial trouble, alleges Canada is descending into a communist dictatorship and asks forgiveness

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Doug Saunders

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6 years

Somebody pushed the “random shuffle” button on American politics and culture

Tasneem Nashrulla

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6 years

Dennis Hof, a brothel owner who was running for the Nevada state legislature, died in his sleep at one of his brothels after celebrating his 72nd birthday with porn star Ron Jeremy, rapper Flavor Flav and ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio.

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Doug Saunders

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6 years

One of the most diplomatic figures in Canadian internationalism reached the end of diplomacy today

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6 years

It wasn't economic alienation -- people with family incomes below $50K voted AGAINST Trump, those with more voted for him

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2 years

One of the very few beneficial effects of the pandemic was it caused people to self-identify as being fundamentally unfit for public employment or military service, and often to remove themselves from such employment, thus greatly improving the quality of service delivered

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I am a 32 year old healthy man with no comorbidities. I had been in the army reserves for 14 years up until I denied the experimental shot & boosters. According to @JustinTrudeau I am a far right racist, misogynistic conspiracy theorist who is a threat to everyone. #TrudeauMustGo

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Fact check: He does not actually have great children

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1 year

A startling case of American exceptionalism is visible in this survey shared in @DLeonhardt ’s newsletter today. The “socially liberal and fiscally conservative” quadrant would be very full, possibly the largest, in most other English-speaking countries. In USA it’s almost empty

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3 years

Americans may notice that they’ve just delivered a universal medical service for free to everyone in the country using state funding and the entire market economy did not collapse

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I realized the shelves are not devoid of flour because of hoarding —after all, nobody’s clearing out the proteins one needs to stay alive —but because everyone’s decided to take up daily baking. Folks, you’re about to learn what happens when you eat a loaf of bread every day

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2 years

It’s very Veep to be forced to admit this

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First, let's look at the underlying causes. I pointed to these in this essay shortly after Trump's election, on the radicalization of many white people

The real reason Donald Trump got elected? We have a white extremism problem

As white people, the election of Republican Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency was our turn to experience the cold shock of discovering that a significant part of our community has been radicalized

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Doug Saunders

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5 years

They just cancelled school due to a blizzard on report-card day so there are a lot of children in this town who’ve just found religion

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3 years

My favourite story this weekend was the very successful “get vaxed, get a sausage” campaign in the German state of Thuringia running into flak from opponents who felt it was unfair to all the people who had already had a vaccine shot without getting a free sausage

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7 years

$10 says this revelation will get the president more upset than you-know-what

Vulture

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Clay Aiken says Trump didn’t actually decide who got fired from #CelebrityApprentice

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For those abroad trying to understand today's Canadian election, here's an underlying fact: For the past quarter century, in every election, about 60% have voted for a candidate from a left-leaning party The outcome depends only on how that vote divides among parties

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Doug Saunders

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There are a lot of unspeakable atrocities taking place in the world at the moment

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

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NEW from @hrw and @amnesty : In Western Tigray, widespread abuses against the Tigrayan population amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.

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10 months

Sorry, carbonara was invented by Americans, but in Italy, while they were fighting there, apparently. What’s more American than bacon-and-eggs pasta?

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7 years

That depends whether it's a "weird and disturbing interlude in our history" movie or a "this is how our glorious era began" movie

Paul Fairie

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7 years

I feel like the eventual movie about the 2016 US presidential election that comes out in 40 years is going to be amazing.

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8 years

If the CIA had just made Rolling Stone send Sean Penn to interview bin Laden in 2001 it would have saved us all a lot of time

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The NYPD has just demonstrated that Mayor De Blasio was right to win on a campaign of comprehensive NYPD reform, and ought to step it up.

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6 years

Particularly refreshing to see this great win delivered by a squad of Englishmen who really look like the UK, Europe’s most diverse country. A nice symbolic antidote to the official intolerance of recent years

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That Canada now has now fully vaccinated more of its people than the United States, despite a much later start, is not so much a Canadian triumph as an American tragedy. But it does show, as I've said, that "domestic vaccine production capacity" counts for nothing in the end

CNN Breaking News

@cnnbrk

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Canada has surpassed the US in the percentage of people fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to data from both countries

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I trink this is based on a mistake visitors make. English Canadians use a lot of polite words (sorry, thank you) but on average are decidedly not friendly or open. Americans will use less formally polite language (“Uh-huuh” for thanks) but are way friendlier to strangers

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

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I love this city but this is objectively bonkers

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4 years

No need to understand the language

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It’s worth asking why so many on the far right demonize George Soros. After all, he is - a finance billionaire who made fortunes off free markets - an anti-communist who devoted much of his fortune to aiding victims of communist authoritarianism and other tyrannies A mystery

Josh Marshall

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Not a huge surprise but Musk has now revealed himself as a degenerate antisemite. Worth noting for those still trying to minimize his hard right turn.

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I spent the week looking at countries that did well pandemic-wise and then didn’t, and the sole determining factor isn’t lockdowns or testing but...vacation travel. Those that prevented it, or made hotel quarantine universal, were safe. Those that allowed it had 2nd and 3rd waves

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5 years

This year we planted catnip in the herb garden

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3 years

By the way, that's my brother-in-law in the orange shirt, and he is most definitely mocking the antivaxxers. He's a movie-set carpenter and he gets COVID tested every weekday

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83 dead in Samoa, mostly young children. Because people there believed RFK Jr’s ideas. The ideas on which he’s running for president

Decoding Fox News

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10 months

If there was ever a time I wanted people to retweet something - A vaccine specialist, Dr. Paul Offit, spells out how RFK Jr. played a role in discouraging vaccination rates in a small population. A measles outbreak followed which resulted in 83 deaths mostly of young children.

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Our neighbours’ house, 18 inches from ours but older, has these paw prints baked into a brick. Presumably some kitties of the 1890s had a romp across some wet clay in the Don Valley

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4 years

A good day for Canadian values to prevail. Here are Canada’s most gifted hockey commentators, the stars of Hockey Night in Canada (Punjabi-language version), marking Remembrance Day

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6 years

In one of those great which-came-first cases, it now looks like we developed bread thousands of years before we developed farming in order to grow the grains used to make bread. So bread provoked agriculture, cities, everything.

World’s oldest bread, baked 14,500 years ago, is found in Jordan

Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital...

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

4 years

In honour of the president having been administered an experimental antibody cocktail, I would recommend that we all administer ourselves a cocktail of some sort or another

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

7 years

Trump chose, as his intro song as he walked down Lincoln Memorial steps, "Heart of Stone" - a song about bullying women into crying

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

4 years

France may not have cured it, but after six months they’ve determined its gender

Dr. Jen Schradie

@schradie

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Académie Française, the French language police, have just announced that while Covid19 *could* be a masculine word because of “le virus” that it’s preferable to be feminine because of “la maladie.”

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

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Twitter may have its flaws, but it is by far the best medium yet invented for announcing that you are leaving Twitter

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

2 months

The people who are fixated on keeping your housing expensive and your cities underpopulated are all old enough not to have mortgages

Alex Bozikovic

@alexbozikovic

2 months

Vancouver opponents of density:

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

4 years

It’s worth noting that the president’s doctor is an osteopath, a form of pseudoscience that medical bodies in eg Canada do not recognize as legitimate medical profession

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

4 years

I’ve seen too many pics of parks etc that use lenses this way. These two pics show the same people at the same moment.

Thomas Baekdal

@baekdal

4 years

Danish news site reminds people of being skeptical of how news photographers take pictures. Here is the same place, one picture taken with a zoom lense, and the other with a wide-angle lense:

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

4 years

I believe people like this have missed the stage of cognitive development known as object permanence. Babies are unable to believe an object still exists if they can’t see it; some adults continue to lack this function and are unable to comprehend things they can’t personally see

* W. Brett Wilson *

@WBrettWilson

4 years

Assuming the data is correct - read this for context.

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

3 years

Awkward Canadian fact: Even if you're willing to put aside his racial-cleansing policies, John A. Macdonald was still a terrible first Prime Minister, whose botched sovereignty, confederation and reciprocity negotiations damaged Canada in ways still felt today.

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Doug Saunders

@DougSaunders

4 years

This is a huge development, showing that more than 80 per cent of Hong Kong adults explicitly endorse the protesters' call for rule of law and democratic institutions. This election result refutes Beijing's claim the protests are a fringe movement or foreign plot

South China Morning Post

@SCMPNews

4 years

Hong Kong elections: pro-Beijing camp left reeling from landslide defeat

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