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Mark Carney sits on a modest chair a step below King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla sitting on a pair of thrones.
"There’s standard advice to anyone who finds current events upsetting: Log off. But you can’t! Not if it’s your job to cover them, but also, not if you are Jewish and that’s your offline reality. Remember the 2010s mantra about how being apolitical is a privilege of those not personally impacted by politics? You can limit your exposure to social media trolls, but then you go to the ROM when the Auschwitz exhibit’s up and go through airport-level security and you know, you know."
From the linked BBC piece "Jacob was on CNN a few weeks ago. For whatever reason, the interviewer asked him about my Parkinson's diagnosis," she recalled. "I thought it was kind of odd, but then the next day, one of the top Parkinson's experts in the world reached out to me and asked if he could help me." Reid explained: "I've never gotten to talk to a Parkinson's expert. I've been on a five- year waiting list here because I live in a very small place. "Now he's found me a Parkinson's expert, a neurologist, and I have an appointment in a couple weeks. "That could change things for me because I'm not really getting the treatment that I should be getting."
Governor General of Canada @GGCanada post. "#GGSimon was honoured to have an audience with His Majesty King Charles III at @RideauHall as part of Their Majesties' Royal Visit to Canada. These ongoing conversations deepen the meaningful bond between our nation's 🇬🇧🇨🇦" nations.
A black and white photo of Queen Victoria
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
Butterfly meme: Is this American style politics?
Paul Chiang resignation letter
"This is a person of integrity who served his community" "He made a terrible lapse of judgement" Carney says of Chiang. "He has my confidence"
Mark Carney defends keeping Paul Chiang as a Liberal candidate, says Chiang has apologized for his comments (those comments were calling for people to turn his opponent over to Beijing for a bounty) "He will continue with his candidacy"
"Liberal candidate Paul Chiang, seeking re-election at Markham-Unionville, recently spoke openly about the HK$1 million bounty placed by Hong Kong Police on Joe Tay, a Conservative candidate at Don Valley North. “To everyone here, you can claim the one-million-dollar bounty if you bring him to Toronto’s Chinese Consulate,” Chiang reportedly told Ming Pao, a Chinese-language media"
Tweet from @yuanyi_z "Mark Carney's chief of staff was caught lying to a court about the existence of an order-in-council, so I suppose it's not hugely surprising that Carney would be signing a fake executive order in imitation to Donald Trump."
@thejagmeetsingh post on Twitter: "On behalf of all New Democrats, I wish everyone celebrating a joyful Purim! Today, we celebrate the strength and resilience of Jewish people in Canada and around the world. We stand in solidarity wth the Jewish community against rising antisemitism and commit to building a world free from hatred in all its forms. Happy Purim! Chag Purim"
@GovCanHealth "GovCanHeaith The risk of #coronavis disease #COVID19 remains low in Canada, even if cases have been reported here. Measures are in place to prevent the onward spread from travel-related cases. Get prevention tips and updates: Canada.ca/ coronavirus"
That I, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, even have to say this is in itself absurd and demeaning, but here it goes: It is wrong to plan a rally against Nazis at which you effectively exclude Jews from participating. This otherwise banal statement feels necessary for the following reason."
According to a senior Canadian government source: Trump became heated about Canada's protections around the dairy sector. Said it's example of how US is treated poorly. That is where the profanity was used, by the US President. Source says Trudeau did not use profanity
Abe Simpson typing "I am not a crackpot"
Balatro screenshot end of round 13
An overhead view of a tourtiere with the edges slightly overdone
Screenshot from the 1993 federal election page on Wikipedia showing Kim Campbell's Tories won 16% of the vote
Bugs Bunny "I wish all" meme "I wish all Canadians a very pleasant January Progation"
"Everything is fine" meme
Balatro game screenshot: 3 Lucky Cat Jokers
Cinnamon Scuffs recipe
List
Bruce Arthur Classic ratio, that brings me back
Book cover: The New Roman Empire
Normandy '44 Book cover
The Burgundians book cover
Screenshot
Drew Magary & Dave Portnoy
Talking with Kennedy, I realized, with a jolt of unexpected horror, that there was an entirely unplanned pattern in my Holocaust tour across America. Almost every city where I spoke with Holocaust-museum educators, whether by phone or in person, had also been the site of a violent anti-Semitic attack in the years since these museums had opened: a murdered museum guard in Washington, D.C.; a synagogue hostage-taking in a Dallas-area suburb; young children shot at a Jewish summer camp in Los Angeles. I was struck by how minimally these attacks were discussed in the educational materials shared by the museums.
Book Cover: The Anglo-Saxons
Kang & Kodos from The Simpsons
Sid Meier's Civilization VI Can you play a session of this game in 15 minutes or less? Yes No
Book cover: Ghost on the Throne
A Bob Semple Tank
Bismarck's War Book cover
Empress book cover
Homer and Bart Simpson sitting on the couch watching TV at night; Homer beckoning at Lisa offscreen to join them.