David Doel

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Swiss coach Murat Yakin during a FIFA World Cup broadcast
In response to a tweet worried that Mark Carney might be open to privatizing health care, Globe & Mail columnist Robyn Urback replies: "Counterpoint: health care is already horrifying in this country and experimenting with alternative models is good, actually"
From PlayStation on Twitter: Important updates: News on physical discs for new games - http://play.st/4v86Wg3 News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - http://play.st/4vEN9FX
“I think the thing that the prime minister will be remembered for is the way that he rescued the Labour Party from the grip of the hard left and turned things around so spectacularly,” James Lyons, a former senior advisor for Starmer, told BBC. Starmer perhaps had his greatest successes on the foreign policy front, managing a difficult relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump and being a strong backer of Ukraine. But domestically, Starmer struggled to articulate a resonating narrative.
YouTube stats page showing 80.6% of views come from current subscribers, only 19.4% from not subscribed.
The "New Viewer" Dynamic The most significant change isn't necessarily that your regulars have left, but that fewer new people are discovering the channel compared to that April peak. • In early April, you were attracting nearly 400k new viewers in a single week. • In the last month, that number has dropped to roughly 38k-54k new viewers per week. • Audience Sentiment: Your core audience remains incredibly loyal. Your Returning Viewer numbers have stayed relatively stable (around 140k-170k weekly), which explains why videos like your latest one still get such high CTR and AVD-your "inner circle" is watching as much as ever.
Quote from NPR article: At first, economists assumed that the Great Recession was to blame but that births would soon rebound, as they'd done after previous downturns. But then the economy recovered — and birth rates just kept falling. If the recession wasn't responsible for the baby bust, what was?
Flamin hot dill pickle Cheeto’s
Liaison Strategies poll for June 1st showing the federal NDP under Avi Lewis having the biggest leap, jumping 5pts to 16%. This while Liberals drop to 41% and Conservative up slightly to 32%.
Source: CBC News
A game called ‘6 7’ with a young teen on the cover looking enthusiastic
“NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR THOUGHTS AND STUPID TEE SHIRT!!
NHL playoffs 1st match-ups (as things currently stand with only a handful of games left)
Headline news story: Man Lights 1.2 Million Square Foot Warehouse on Fire for Not Paying Him Enough
Headline from the Sarnia Observer: Gladu facing criticism for petition against conversion therapy bill
My CRT television that sits in the background of my set.
My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal). When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the regularity of open, vitriolic antisemitism in the cocktail parties and ambassadorial receptions that surround that crucial but flawed institution. For this reason (among others) he’s always been the one in our family with the deepest atavistic fear of antisemitism. He was sympathetic to the idea of Israel as a refuge longer than the rest of us. This is no longer the case. Like so many Jews who for decades adopted the dominant narratives of Zionism, he can no longer defend the current actions of the state of Israel. He now regards Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal. To return to the personal, seven years ago my Dad was diagnosed with a vicious cancer and was given as little as 3 months to live. It’s a sublime understatement to say that he’s a fighter - but he has persevered in life with a tenacity familiar from his political, diplomatic and humanitarian pursuits. Which brings us to this morning, when at 87 years old, he spent an hour standing at the side of the road in his old riding of Scarborough West. Standing up as a Jew against genocide. Standing up for justice for Palestine. Standing up on the right side of history, where the vast majority of humanity currently stands. I’ve never been prouder, never more humble before the stubborn principle and insistent moral clarity of the guy I’m so lucky to call Dad. People of Canada: don’t stop talking about Palestine. Starvation as collective punishment can never be forgiven. Burning and burying children alive can never be defended. Stand up against genocide until we make it stop! Thanks Dad.
- Defunding of proven supervised consumption sites to help reduce overdose deaths - Closing the Ontario Science Centre over ‘cost of repairs’, only to propose spending $900M+ more on a new smaller science centre - Developer giveaway of the waterfront on a 95year lease - Skill Development Fund handouts of over $100M+ to rich insiders - $112 million spent on advertising in one year, breaking a record - OSAP cuts, forcing students to go further in debt for higher education - Privatization of health care leading to underfunding of the public system - Worsening family doctor shortage - Using private staffing agencies for nurses, which charge the government more than a hospital would (with a profit from that going to the agency).. - ..instead of just paying the nurses properly through the existing system - Changing the Freedom of Information Act so that Doug Ford can hide his phone records
Quote from the Toronto Star: Dredging up memories of Lewis’s ”Leap Manifesto” in a recent email to supporters of the McPherson campaign, former Saskatchewan MLA Cathy Sproule recalled being nicknamed “Grim Leaper” in 2016 by then-premier Brad Wall, as provincial Conservatives routinely weaponized the energy transition road map against the New Democrats. Ten years later, it’s happening once more, Sproule said. On the first day of the Alberta legislature’s sitting this year, Premier Danielle Smith deflected attacks from the NDP’s Naheed Nenshi by bringing up Lewis. “Ten years. Different province. Different premier. Same playbook,” Sproule wrote. “When the federal party loses touch with Prairie realities, conservative premiers use it against us.”
Tweet: "This government is probably been one of the most transparent governments in the history of Ontario," says Minister Stephen Crawford as he announces the records of the Premier, cabinet ministers, and their offices will no longer be subject to freedom of information requests
Me at our booth for GDC 2014
Me standing in front of a 9 foot pile of snow that I shovelled along with my partner
US has more gun deaths per capita by far than any other country
Pierre Poilievre’s post on Twitter: Congratulations to President Trump on successfully arresting narco-terrorist and socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, who should live out his days in prison. The legitimate winner of the most recent Venezuelan elections, Edmundo González, should take office along with the courageous hero and voice of the Venezuelan people, María Corina Machado. Down with socialism. Long live freedom.
An email from someone named ‘Alex Birdman’ that just says ‘fuck u’
Screenshot of Google Chrome's toolbar showing the Twitter bird icon instead of the usual 'X' logo
Me at Game 2 of the World Series
'Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau spotted kissing on yacht: report'
‘Icon Blue’ PS5 controller
Canadian parliament honouring Charlie Kirk followed by Kirk’s comments on Canada.