Tom Slee
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Similar: "a roomful of enthusiastic and over-caffeinated co-op students" (interns).
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
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handhyorkshire.bsky.social
The Jarrow march reached Harrogate OTD, 12, October in 1936. The marchers travelled 15½ miles from Ripon to arrive in Harrogate on that date, and then departed for Leeds the following day. It faced various challenges. The Labour Party conference's
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👍 The last place to delegate is where value depends on the worst-case behaviour.
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Ok but only if "undo" send was over a decade ago.
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"Minister of defence procurement Stephen Fuhr" surely knows that "no decision" is in fact a decision: to purchase the F-35 planes from a country whose leader wants to take over Canada, in the name of defence.
christyceeck.bsky.social
I have some questions after reading this story...

“Our pilots are off to the U.S. in the next few months to start training,” she added. “The infrastructure is going up. We have airfields being extended to get ready, so we are definitely not in a position where we are waiting.”
‘We are moving forward’: top soldier says F-35 preparations continue despite government review
Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan says the Canadian military is moving ahead with its preparations for F-35 fighter jets despite an ongoing government review of the purchase.
www.ctvnews.ca
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I first read your final item as "prior tantrums" but that was probably just me remembering my childhood.
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bhaggart.bsky.social
My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law.
Looks like that’s not going to happen today.
Golden Dome signals change to Canada’s long-time opposition to joining U.S. missile defence
Canada opted to stay on the sidelines in 2005 as the U.S. developed defences against ballistic missiles
www.theglobeandmail.com
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Agree. The repeated framing of the American threat as "tariffs" is a complete misunderstanding and underestimation.
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I have become a big fan of Ms. Lewis.
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This is very good from Rita Trichur. Seems to me that the US has invoked National Security concerns to limit Canadian involvement in the US economy so it follows that the reverse is legitimate.
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Not only that, but my 1990 work on Helium-ethyne intermolecular potentials did not receive the chemistry prize, again. #NobelSnub
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That's really interesting. I have to admit that the measurement problem has given rise to a lot of real-world results, even as I tend to think it's a morass to be avoided in general. But then I'm no one and he is Anthony Leggett, so I'm not going to argue hard for my view.
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I don't associate @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social with wishful thinking, but there's a whole lot of it here.
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Correct observation even if not entirely unbiased.
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I felt the same.
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Good thread.
bhaggart.bsky.social
Doctorow’s blaming of bad antitrust law for ruining the Internet conveniently ignores the other, equally culpable, culprit: the decades-long insistence by groups like the Doctorow-affiliated Electronic Frontier Foundation that the Internet itself should be minimally regulated.
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
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...along with the dismissive assertion that lawmakers don't "get it" and "the Internet doesn't work like that".