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@TXHillbilly66 @HamiltonAnais @thedaywar90 His parents were separated. The last time President Obama saw his father was in Hawaii when he was 10 years old.

@HamiltonAnais @thedaywar90 He doesn't want anybody to find out he was illegally elected president after being born in Kenya

He made a memorial for his mother at his library. I love this human being because of his incredible character. ❤️

The Alzheimer Walk is May 30th. I’m over $2K in support of the Alzheimer Society and I am so thankful for your support!! I feel certain scientists are going to find the clue to curing or stopping this dreadful disease & other forms of dementia. Many, many thanks!!

@mapleblooded @KristinRaworth You’re not the 1st generation ‘expected’ to take care of aging parents. The boomer generation cared for elderly parents & their children, while working. Now all generations of middle age r doing so. It’s referred to as the ‘sandwich’ where they care for both elderly & children.

This comment isn’t to diminish the relationship you had with your parents. But we’re the first generation expected to take care of our aging relatives. It looks like I’ll be spending my retirement being a caregiver for my parents. In comparison my grandparents died when my dad was 41 and 49.

Unemployment in today’s Canada. My experience. It’s a big read but please read it through. For three years, I helped care for my father while continuing to work full-time. I even moved next door to him so I could better support him as his health declined. I cared for him until he died. Later, while still employed, I went through six months of breast cancer treatment myself. Pretending those experiences didn’t affect my career would be dishonest. What nobody tells you about employment instability is how cumulative it becomes. Caregiving impacts careers even when you stay employed. Illness impacts careers even when you keep showing up. You can still be working while slowly losing professional momentum underneath you. During unemployment, I applied for 65 jobs. Government. Communications. Non-profit. Administrative. Retail. Hospitality. Not one offer. At one point, after years in senior advisory and executive communications roles, I applied at Starbucks. I didn’t get the job. That experience stayed with me. Not because service work is beneath me — some of the hardest jobs I ever had were in restaurants and hospitality when I was younger. But because the economy had somehow decided I was simultaneously overqualified and unemployable. At 44 years old, after years spent working in government and public affairs, there were moments I genuinely started wondering whether I had anything left to contribute professionally. That’s what prolonged unemployment does to people psychologically. The hardest part of unemployment wasn’t only financial. It was psychological. Watching previous accomplishments stop mattering. Trying to explain résumé gaps without sounding damaged. Feeling your professional identity slowly erode in real time. In April 2026, Canada’s unemployment rate climbed to 6.9%. Behind those numbers are people whose lives became complicated. Caregivers. People managing chronic illness. Cancer survivors. People navigating grief, burnout, disability, aging parents, or health crises while trying to maintain careers at the same time. Governments still talk about unemployment mostly through statistics. But people experience the economy emotionally. Through rejection emails. Through grocery bills. Through rent increases. Through the quiet panic of realizing there’s very little room left in modern life for interruption. The labour market increasingly rewards uninterrupted stability. Perfect timelines. Continuous productivity. No visible complications. But real life does not work that way anymore. Parents age. People get sick. Caregiving responsibilities consume years . Disabilities emerge. Mental health deteriorates. And increasingly Canadians are expected to absorb those pressures privately while continuing to perform professionally as though nothing has changed. There’s a growing class of Canadians who did everything they were told to do. I certainly did. Built careers Paid taxes. Earned degrees. Contributed to institutions. Then life interrupted the plan. And the system suddenly became much less patient with them. This is why affordability and unemployment cannot be separated politically. When the cost of living keeps climbing, employment instability becomes terrifying. One interruption can destabilize everything. I have a job again now and I am grateful for that. But the experience changed how I see work, government, and the economy. A lot more Canadians are hanging on by a thread than our politics currently acknowledges.

@DrHelenFry I’ve read many of his books!

How well did the late Frederick Forsyth speak German? In 2022 I had the great honour of interviewing him. He was my favourite spy novelist, and this is what he had to say:

@MtnSounder @thefarmersheep 😂 Roast leg of lamb excellent with mint sauce!!

@thefarmersheep With mint sauce.

am I accepted in Canada

@DireStraits77 Never tire of this song.

Mark Knopfler 🎼Sultans Of Swing (An Evening With Mark Knopfler, 2009) 🎸🎵

@globeandmail @acoyne Is he going to retire and write a book about his career?

Robert Fife, one of Canada’s best-known political journalists, is retiring. Ask him your questions about his career theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

@MtnSounder @Ford_Nick Asparagus is great, and some roasted potatoes would be nice too (the Irish in me)! 😀

@Ford_Nick I like lightly grill asparagus.

What goes best with some ribeyes?

@PhilSledge I always ask and ask if the dog is friendly.

Be honest…..

@steeletalk Exactly! Or a monster with bad teeth. 😂

A decapitated pig’s head. 😳

@ThomasWatsonCD Or stress levels might increase because they have to produce more in 3 days. 🙂🤷‍♀️

I’d love to be able to have my staff go down to 3 days a week! They’d probably get more done in 3 days than they do in 5 since their stress levels would drop!

@steeletalk No, never, not ever!!!!!!!! 😬

Absolutely not.

@steeletalk @Cleosmahm Yup - familiar with that “style”. Tee hee

@Cleosmahm That’s why the crotch always hung low!

@CraigBaird I so enjoyed his broadcasts!!

He was known as Mr. Canada and Captain Canada. Every weekday, Canadians coast-to-coast tuned into his radio show Morningside. Many credit him with helping Canadians find a national identity. This is the story of Peter Gzowski. 📸 Winnipeg Free Press 🧵 1/10

@atrupar So that’s why the picture of Mr Trump as Jesus Christ - because he can bring people back from the dead.

Trump: "We've taken people that were dead. We had a person given the last rites -- gone, the kids are crying and everything -- and started them on this drug. And the person became better. It works."

Missed it last week? Here is my latest Legion Magazine article (please share widely, as I strongly believe that more people, particularly veterans, need to know about this fantastic initiative): legionmagazine.com/a-conversation…

Intense Mammatus clouds this morning over Regina. #YQR Sadly, they didn’t bring much rain.

@ThomasWatsonCD I hope your conversation went well!! 🙂

My 3am rewrite of my CFS/Mother’s Day sermon was so go I ended up doing the thing I encouraged the congregation to do myself. Spoke to my mom for the first time in 7 years.