It's now routine that people offer me their seats on the bus. Do I look that old and decrepit? Oy!
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Steve Mertl
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Steve Mertl
@raincitysteve
Retired wire service hack, freelance journalist, cars and not cars. Vintage watch geek. Knee-jerk moderate. Indifferent tweetist.
Vancouver Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Reporting from the Globe and Mail shows that Sam Jaber — Danielle Smith’s handpicked board member of Invest Alberta — has been allegedly claiming CPA designation, despite not being registered in Alberta.
This is deeply concerning. Danielle Smith appointed this man to one of the most crucial boards in our province. Invest Alberta is critical to bringing good jobs and investment to our province, and needs to be led by the smartest businesspeople in the country, not friends and cronies of the Premier.
Jaber has already stepped away from Invest Alberta because of his involvement in the CorruptCare scandal and his links to Sam Mraiche. This latest revelation is even more telling about his lack of qualifications for this position.
The Premier chose Sam Jaber for this role. She appointed him. It’s now her responsibility to remove him from the board of Invest Alberta.
theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
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Did everyone's grandparents have a set-up like this?
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BREAKING: The Texas televangelist who claimed God is using the Iran War to begin the Biblical Apocalypse and Rapture up all the Christians to Heaven on Trump's birthday this June 14th because Trump is the "2nd Messiah" just got arrested for cooking meth in his church basement.
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It's not actually difficult.
As an elected official, including as Premier, I never did land acknowledgments, unless speaking on a reserve, or to an indigenous ceremony / event. In those cases, I would simply say "thank-you for welcoming me to the x community," or "it's great to be here in the Treaty y area," etc.. In other words, basic courtesy, not an elaborate ritual of historical revisionism and humiliation.
The only criticism of my approach came from manufactured media outrage stories. I never met an indigenous leader or person in Alberta who objected to my approach.
This is much more about progressive virtue signalling than actual reconciliation. Formulaic secular liturgies do nothing to improve the lives of indigenous people.
thestar.com/edmonton/no-in…
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Land acknowledgements are bullshit and fundamentally about normalizing blood-and-soil nationalism. They pretend that North America rightfully belongs to one ethnicity, and that all other peoples, lacking an ill-defined “spiritual” connection to the continent, should perpetually be “grateful” for the “opportunity” to exist here.
If European nations demanded that all non-Europeans regularly express gratitude for living on “traditionally European lands,” progressives would rightfully see this as unjust. Yet, they abandon their principles when it comes to Indigenous land acknowledgements because they are either too stupid, or too intellectually unprincipled, to see the contradiction here.
Land acknowledgements should be purged from our institutions, and, to this end, no self-respecting conservative should perform them. The obvious exception would be at events that specifically concern the Indigenous community, and only if an acknowledgement uses wording that simply states historical facts without establishing a racial hierarchy of citizen legitimacy.
Don Bradshaw@RealDonBradshaw
When a Conservative Party @CPC_HQ Member of Parliament can’t do something as simple as a land acknowledgement, it tells you everything you need to know about this party’s stance on First Nations people. #FirstNations #cdnpoli
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@kinsellawarren I stood right next to Wolf at the Clinton-Yeltsin summit in Vancouver during the closing presser.
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He's my favorite journalist and anyone who reads me know that.
Don't be a Twitter hall monitor. It'll end badly.
D. Scanlon@dscanlon_d
@kinsellawarren Be nice. He's a good man.
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If you saw that photo of a motorcycle dangling over the top of an intersection from the traffic light, this is how it happened.
Lynda Steele 🇨🇦@steeletalk
Wow - this is crazy.
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President Trump says Iran’s latest offer isn’t acceptable.
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If you told me four years ago that I’d be watching videos of a shotgun-mounted Ukrainian drone mercilessly shooting down a swarm of russian drones, I would have laughed. Yet, here we are.
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@kinsellawarren @brianlilley Do you think there was some fiddling going on?
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Toronto Crime Watch@CrimewatchTO
x.com/spaikin/status… If this were a Conservative politician, every mainstream media outlet would already be publishing hit pieces comparing him to Trump for questioning the election results and suggesting they were rigged. But you won’t hear word, because their boss endorsed him.
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Thank-you to the @FBI for this great police work.
~90% of gun violence in Canada involves firearms smuggled from the United States.
FBI New York@NewYorkFBI
FBI New York, @SDNYnews, @nyspolice, and @ATFNewYork announced the arrests of Malik Bromfield, Faizan Ali, and Kamal Salman, who are charged with attempting to smuggle nearly 90 firearms from the United States to Canada. "These three defendants, including two foreign nationals, allegedly endangered our communities as they attempted to smuggle 89 firearms - 17 of which were stolen - into Canada," said ADIC Barnacle. "The FBI is committed to working with our federal and state law enforcement partners to take illegal guns off our streets." Read more: justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/t…
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The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power.
snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpowe…
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@kinsellawarren The Trudeau men have a history of dating pop stars.
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I am happy that he is a happy private citizen
POPTime@poptime
Katy Perry fala sobre redescobrir o amor aos 41 anos com Justin Trudeau, seu namorado e ex-primeiro-ministro do Canadá: "Ele me deixa tão feliz [risos]. Eu não consigo parar de olhar pra ele. Ele me deixa rindo como no colegial. Eu tô falando do amor da minha vida. Isso me faz chorar, mas são lágrimas boas."
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Thank you for reading this post!
Please also consider donating to support Ukrainian students who study during the war if this cause resonates with you.
foundation.kse.ua/en/donate-to-e…
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