Sophie Delhaes
@corkypirbright.bsky.social
"Don't be a stinker."
When in doubt, read Wodehouse.
When in doubt, read Wodehouse.
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See what stories caught our attention this week, including positive progress for mass transit in Serbia and a deposit return scheme that’s making waves.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
See what stories caught our attention this week, including positive progress for mass transit in Serbia and a deposit return scheme that’s making waves.
reasonstobecheerful.world/what-were-re...
reasonstobecheerful.world/what-were-re...
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Fishing communities across Puerto Rico are watching the fishing revival on the island of Culebra closely.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Fishing communities across Puerto Rico are watching the fishing revival on the island of Culebra closely.
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reasonstobecheerful.world/tiny-island-...
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Welcome back to #StatsSunday — your statistical fix, pulled from this week’s stories. Read the story behind this stat here: reasonstobecheerful.world/tiny-island-...
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Welcome back to #StatsSunday — your statistical fix, pulled from this week’s stories. Read the story behind this stat here: reasonstobecheerful.world/tiny-island-...
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In the December edition of our newsletter about creating positive change, we consider how you can make the holiday season something the planet can celebrate, too.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In the December edition of our newsletter about creating positive change, we consider how you can make the holiday season something the planet can celebrate, too.
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reasonstobecheerful.world/the-spark-ma...
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“94% of Quebecers can speak French, including 85% who speak French regularly at home. According to Quebec politicians, these are signs that the French language is threatened with disappearing entirely.”
Quebec language politics have become increasingly disconnected from reality
#polqc
Quebec language politics have become increasingly disconnected from reality
#polqc
Quebec language politics have become increasingly disconnected from reality
Language politics in Quebec have been co-opted by populists interpreting stats to suit pre-established narratives for political gain.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“94% of Quebecers can speak French, including 85% who speak French regularly at home. According to Quebec politicians, these are signs that the French language is threatened with disappearing entirely.”
Quebec language politics have become increasingly disconnected from reality
#polqc
Quebec language politics have become increasingly disconnected from reality
#polqc
www.cbc.ca/news/health/... "An estimated 5.9 million Canadians don't have regular access to a primary care provider..."
More Canadians have a regular family doctor than in 2022, survey suggests | CBC News
More Canadians have a family doctor or nurse practitioner compared with three years ago, though satisfaction remains low, a comprehensive new survey suggests.
www.cbc.ca
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
www.cbc.ca/news/health/... "An estimated 5.9 million Canadians don't have regular access to a primary care provider..."
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Contre le narcotrafic, les États-Unis s’abîment dans les exécutions extrajudiciaires
Par Patricia Neves
Par Patricia Neves
Contre le narcotrafic, les États-Unis s’abîment dans les exécutions extrajudiciaires
Depuis septembre, 87 individus considérés comme des trafiquants de drogue ont été tués en mer des Caraïbes et dans le Pacifique par des frappes états-uniennes. L’opération suscite une vive controverse. Pour de nombreux analystes, elle enfreint un droit fondamental : le droit à la vie.
l.mediapart.fr
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Contre le narcotrafic, les États-Unis s’abîment dans les exécutions extrajudiciaires
Par Patricia Neves
Par Patricia Neves
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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C'est la Journée nationale de commémoration et d'action contre la violence faite aux femmes. www.canada.ca/fr/femmes-eg...
Journée nationale de commémoration et d’action contre la violence faite aux femmes - Canada.ca
Informations sur la Journée nationale de commémoration et d’action contre la violence faite aux femmes, pourquoi elle est commémorée et le 30e anniversaire de la tragédie de Polytechnique Montréal.
www.canada.ca
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
C'est la Journée nationale de commémoration et d'action contre la violence faite aux femmes. www.canada.ca/fr/femmes-eg...
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We lit up Table Mountain & Joburg with a message the G20 can't ignore: TAX THE SUPER RICH.
70% of the public want it. 70% of millionaires want it. The planet needs it.
It’s time for G20 leaders to deliver.
(Photo Credit: @patrioticmillionaires.org)
#TaxTheSuperRich #G20SouthAfrica
70% of the public want it. 70% of millionaires want it. The planet needs it.
It’s time for G20 leaders to deliver.
(Photo Credit: @patrioticmillionaires.org)
#TaxTheSuperRich #G20SouthAfrica
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
We lit up Table Mountain & Joburg with a message the G20 can't ignore: TAX THE SUPER RICH.
70% of the public want it. 70% of millionaires want it. The planet needs it.
It’s time for G20 leaders to deliver.
(Photo Credit: @patrioticmillionaires.org)
#TaxTheSuperRich #G20SouthAfrica
70% of the public want it. 70% of millionaires want it. The planet needs it.
It’s time for G20 leaders to deliver.
(Photo Credit: @patrioticmillionaires.org)
#TaxTheSuperRich #G20SouthAfrica
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Economist Esther Duflo explains how the richest people on the planet legally avoid paying their fair share—and the massive impact a small change could make.
A 3% tax on the world’s 🌍 3,000 richest people could raise $400 💰 every single year.
Imagine what we could fix with that?
#taxtherich
A 3% tax on the world’s 🌍 3,000 richest people could raise $400 💰 every single year.
Imagine what we could fix with that?
#taxtherich
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Economist Esther Duflo explains how the richest people on the planet legally avoid paying their fair share—and the massive impact a small change could make.
A 3% tax on the world’s 🌍 3,000 richest people could raise $400 💰 every single year.
Imagine what we could fix with that?
#taxtherich
A 3% tax on the world’s 🌍 3,000 richest people could raise $400 💰 every single year.
Imagine what we could fix with that?
#taxtherich
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The reality of our global economy:
❌The bottom 3.5 Billion people: Struggle to afford food and basic medicine. 💰The top 62 people: Own more wealth than all of them combined.
Richard Wolff calls it "beyond obscene." We call it a broken system.
#TaxTheSuperRich
@mintpressnews.bsky.social
❌The bottom 3.5 Billion people: Struggle to afford food and basic medicine. 💰The top 62 people: Own more wealth than all of them combined.
Richard Wolff calls it "beyond obscene." We call it a broken system.
#TaxTheSuperRich
@mintpressnews.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The reality of our global economy:
❌The bottom 3.5 Billion people: Struggle to afford food and basic medicine. 💰The top 62 people: Own more wealth than all of them combined.
Richard Wolff calls it "beyond obscene." We call it a broken system.
#TaxTheSuperRich
@mintpressnews.bsky.social
❌The bottom 3.5 Billion people: Struggle to afford food and basic medicine. 💰The top 62 people: Own more wealth than all of them combined.
Richard Wolff calls it "beyond obscene." We call it a broken system.
#TaxTheSuperRich
@mintpressnews.bsky.social
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"We could resolve most or all these problems simply by making the mega-rich pay their fair share." 📉 - David Suzuki
@davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
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@davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
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It’s time to loosen billionaires’ stranglehold on humanity
Taxing the super affluent at rates that would still leave them with enough to maintain lavish lifestyles could generate enough money to resolve many societal issues, from health to hunger to global he...
davidsuzuki.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"We could resolve most or all these problems simply by making the mega-rich pay their fair share." 📉 - David Suzuki
@davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
davidsuzuki.org/story/its-ti...
@davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
davidsuzuki.org/story/its-ti...
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The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the only literary accolade to present its winner with their very own pig. Here's this year’s winner, Rosanna Pike, with her new companion, aptly named after her winning novel: A Little Trickerie .
#BEWP2025 #ChampagneBollinger
Photo: Laurie Fletcher
#BEWP2025 #ChampagneBollinger
Photo: Laurie Fletcher
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the only literary accolade to present its winner with their very own pig. Here's this year’s winner, Rosanna Pike, with her new companion, aptly named after her winning novel: A Little Trickerie .
#BEWP2025 #ChampagneBollinger
Photo: Laurie Fletcher
#BEWP2025 #ChampagneBollinger
Photo: Laurie Fletcher
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The funniest book of the year? "A Little Trickerie" by Rosanna Pike wins the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction:
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A Little Trickerie
🏆 Winner of the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
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December 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The funniest book of the year? "A Little Trickerie" by Rosanna Pike wins the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction:
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fivebooks.com/book/a-littl...
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"Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." —P.G. Wodehouse
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." —P.G. Wodehouse
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“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
December 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
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Marina Lewycka posthumously named ‘winner of winners’ of Wodehouse prize for comic fiction | Books | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Marina Lewycka posthumously named ‘winner of winners’ of Wodehouse prize for comic fiction
The British-Ukrainian writer, who died last month, won the prize’s 25th-anniversary Vintage Bollinger award for 2005 novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, while Rosanna Pike took this year’s...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Marina Lewycka posthumously named ‘winner of winners’ of Wodehouse prize for comic fiction | Books | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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What ho, Wednesday! As we approach festivities and we struggle to restrain ourselves with our advent calendars, perhaps some distraction may be in order. Or just tuck in like enthusiastic trenchermen - Bertie for one, and those who 'wear armchairs fashionably tight about the hips this season'.
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
What ho, Wednesday! As we approach festivities and we struggle to restrain ourselves with our advent calendars, perhaps some distraction may be in order. Or just tuck in like enthusiastic trenchermen - Bertie for one, and those who 'wear armchairs fashionably tight about the hips this season'.
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I am chuffed to announce the publication of A Guide to P. G. Wodehouse’s New York City and Long Island, by Norman Murphy with Amy Plofker. This little guide will be a prized resource for all Wodehouse fans. It is being sold on Amazon; the U.S. list price is $12.99.
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I am chuffed to announce the publication of A Guide to P. G. Wodehouse’s New York City and Long Island, by Norman Murphy with Amy Plofker. This little guide will be a prized resource for all Wodehouse fans. It is being sold on Amazon; the U.S. list price is $12.99.
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Ford's solution to low test scores—hire consultants at $1500 a day.
OR
He could restore the $1500 per student per year that he cut from already underfunded schools.
#ONpoli #OntEd
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OR
He could restore the $1500 per student per year that he cut from already underfunded schools.
#ONpoli #OntEd
globalnews.ca/news/1155754...
Low EQAO test results trigger system-wide review of Ontario curriculum | Globalnews.ca
While the results represent a slight improvement from the previous school year, the government said the test scores are 'not enough' progress.
globalnews.ca
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ford's solution to low test scores—hire consultants at $1500 a day.
OR
He could restore the $1500 per student per year that he cut from already underfunded schools.
#ONpoli #OntEd
globalnews.ca/news/1155754...
OR
He could restore the $1500 per student per year that he cut from already underfunded schools.
#ONpoli #OntEd
globalnews.ca/news/1155754...
Reposted by Sophie Delhaes
Giving $1 million of city money to pay for private security in the Byward Market is outrageous. All it will do is displace more unwell people into Centretown and surrounding communities. And announcing this at a press conference before consulting council? Not cool.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Action plan or 'PR stunt'? Mayor's public safety event gets mixed reviews | CBC News
Mark Sutcliffe says public safety has been a key priority since he ran for election three years ago, but his challenger for mayor says his latest announcement looks like a political event for the next...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Giving $1 million of city money to pay for private security in the Byward Market is outrageous. All it will do is displace more unwell people into Centretown and surrounding communities. And announcing this at a press conference before consulting council? Not cool.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
