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Howard Anglin retweeted
'I can’t help but feel a pang of anxiety for the future.
How long will the Remembrance ceremony last?
How long before the old muscle memory fades and people stop turning up?
How long, for that matter, before some crusading Constantine decides to root out the last traces of the old religion from our schools and cenotaphs?
We need not ask ourselves whether the old words and symbols, and the old idea of Canada that they represent, can unite us. The Remembrance ceremony is sufficient proof that they can, at least for the moment. But Remembrance Day, its symbolic language, and the ideals it expresses will only endure if we pass them on.
Wear your poppy, turn up to your local Remembrance ceremony, and, above all, teach your kids to do the same.
We who enjoy this land of milk and honey, won for us by the sacrifice of those who fought to defend it, owe the dead at least that'.
The latest in @WDiminishment by @ksm_wilson.
Link Below.
Howard Anglin retweeted
Brown is right--it won't make a difference. Anti-semitism is a shape-shifting hatred. Even after American funding to Israel is over, the obsession won't end. It will be a revelatory moment to understand that many, many of the voices who claim to simply want severed financial ties have actually been captured by an ancient hatred.
Many of those traveling down this rabbit hole don't even fully understand that. I predicted what figures like Calvin Robinson and Joel Webbon would be saying a couple of years before they said it. Many of these folks were, perhaps, genuinely outraged when they were accused of playing with Jew-hatred; fastforward a bit, and Robinson is plugging Henry Ford's The International Jew. If you'd told him, say, five years ago, that this is who he would become, he probably would have genuinely disbelieved it.
If you understand how this works, the trajectory of many of these people becomes grimly predictable. They do not even know what they are becoming or stop to wonder why five years ago, they didn't care about Israel at all and now it's a daily obsession. Maybe for a few fiscal hawks it is about funding, but color me skeptical.
Wildly inappropriate. The last thing we need is to add more partisanship to the immigration process.
Video featuring PM @MarkCarney will be shown at citizenship ceremonies.
Dept @CitImmCanada cautioned swearing-in, a legal requirement, should be nonpartisan.
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#cdnpoli #cdnfoi #ATI
When Louis St Laurent started providing federal funds to universities, Duplessis refused the funds as an unconstitutional intrusion on provincial jurisdiction. A young Pierre Trudeau agreed, writing at the time that “if a government has at its disposal such a surplus of funds that it can undertake to support a part of the common good that does not lie within its jurisdiction, one may suspect that this government controls more than its share of taxation.”
Now a separatist premier is asking for more federal funding within provincial jurisdiction. The cynicism is something.
When the fathers of confederation delineated the division of powers, figures like Alexander Galt envisioned the provinces exercising full autonomy in their exclusive jurisdiction.
They’d be surprised (and disappointed) by how easily provincial premiers have acquiesced to federal intrusion via the spending power. The idea that a separatist premier would demand more federal funding and in turn necessarily greater federal control over his health policy decisions just takes it to an absurd extreme.
The biggest threat to a federalism of watertight compartments is still centralizing federal politicians like Justin Trudeau. But the second biggest (and comparatively underrated) threat is provincial politicians who won’t selfishly protect their own exclusivity.
Howard Anglin retweeted
I think the #JohnLewisChristmas ad in 20 years time should revisit this family as granny’s will is being read out. And she’s left the lot to a donkey sanctuary.
Karma, you materialistic little sods.
When business talks about “labour needs,” you can bet 19 times out of 20 that they are not talking about the needs of labour.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing growing pressure from business groups to allow more immigration to address Canada’s labor needs, but the prospect of welcoming more migrants carries political risk for him bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
An ostensibly pro-Christmas ad that is worse than any “war on Christmas” propaganda.
Nope...not for me! 😠
This years John Lewis Christmas ad, in summary.
Nan needs a hug, rude kids barge past her, ignoring her completely.
Kids don't like Nans childhood presents, so Nan goes out shopping to John Lewis to buy things they like to placate them.
Nan eventually gets her hug, when the spoilt grandkids get the presents they want.
Oh, and a rickshaw ride round London for good measure!
An absolutely dreadful story of kids attitudes towards the elderly today, and blatant consumerism - I for one, won't be shopping there this year! 🎁 🎅🎄
I’ve just started making appointments with friends in different time zones based on the common reference of “New York time.” (I suppose Greenwich would work too, but more things in our lives revolve around North American time).
Hey @Google, why does your search engine defaulting to Daylight savings time when we’re not doing that in Alberta and B.C. anymore?
Howard Anglin retweeted
Another rather unusual twist w/ the upcoming time zone changes: The small neighbouring communities of Stewart, BC & Hyder, AK will find themselves separated by a 2-hr time difference, despite being inextricably linked by geography, daily life & their shared border.
#NewTimeZones
Howard Anglin retweeted
Thank you for sharing something so deeply personal, Lisa.
This is what troubles me most about advance MAiD requests. What happens when the person you once were would have chosen death, but the person you’ve become still finds joy in living?
Whose wishes should prevail? I don’t think we’ve come close to answering that.
Howard Anglin retweeted
Opinion: Making temporary residents pay for health care isn’t unusual theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
I'm still puzzling over the Somerset Maugham allusion. Starting a post with a paraphrase of the opening line of "Of Human Bondage" is an odd choice. Though Maugham's title, which he borrowed from a chapter by Spinoza on the dominance of rationality by emotion, may have something to do with "a day to feel all the feelings."
Howard Anglin retweeted
I’ve said before that the persistent defence from sociologists that plagiarism is normal, actually, does not redound entirely to their credit.
Howard Anglin retweeted
Watch King Charles at Commonwealth War Graves, in Guyana, meeting veteran Donald Grant, 99, who served in WWII with the RAF, and who says: “Is this the hand of the King? Is this the hand of the King? I can’t say much, but it’s all in my heart.”
Any foreign influence registry should require disclosure of meetings and financial relationships between foreign regimes and their state-controlled entities and Canadian FNs leadership. PRC top of list.
"China has long recognized that Indigenous governments exercise consequential authority over Canadian territory and natural resources. And according to a previously classified intelligence review obtained exclusively by The Bureau, Chinese officials have sought to exploit that authority through deceptive diplomatic outreach."
Howard Anglin retweeted
My favourite theme in @TheRestHistory is how the British always seemed to be supremely uninterested in the affairs of their empire. Whether it's The Troubles or the Suez Crisis, the median public opinion was always "boooorrrrriiing."