I honestly feel like they are placeholders for paving companies and land developers.

Amen to that. We have been sleep walking for the last 40 years waiting for RR’s “trickle down” effect. Let it RAIN!

Pathetically, they are scapegoating immigrants for all the ills in Canada. We need immigration and we need it done in a more considered fashion and that means scrapping the Temporary Foreign Worker program to focus on strategic nation building rather than constructing social & economic ghettos.

As an immigrant I’m for it in principle. However, immigration has never been egalitarian. It serves the needs of business—creating demand for dwellings, goods, services etc & keeping wages low by increasing job competition. Govt opened floodgates without considering the negative consequences.

Good point. It leans toward venerating blind, unquestioning sacrifice…but I still bought and wear one (when I remember). Knowing the context for sacrifice is important but it is complicated and clouded by the optics of hero worship. It requires learning history and history is HARD..

Great to always keep learning. A VERY important history indeed. Perhaps Google Marat as well. These times will incite the coming of new Marats and Robespierres and it will be messy to be sure.

What would Robespierre suggest in terms of dealing with this situation?

That might well be the final play. The rich tax us to help buy the oil fields we already kind of own (I include Indigenous peoples too) then close them. This “crisis” was a perfectly orchestrated one that has repatriated the oil barons’ hands to the rudders of power.

The pipelines would have been great in P Trudeau’s day but we know better now. The oil piece is an Alberta appeasement and sadly counter productive. If it was nation building we could have nationalized oil and earmarked significant $ to public expenditures. But the oil interests never wanted that

The most disappointing thing about the Liberal strategy is that it leverages hopefulness in a cynical way. The greatest aim is to achieve power. Pollievre leverages frustration at empty, hopeful, yet unfulfilled promises. In the end, they serve the extraction industry. while failing on environment

Betrayed by a bat!

I’ve literally had palpitations. What a great series. Hard being a Jays fan though

Thanks for sharing your passion for etymology. Words are the breadcrumbs of history

So the penguin is named after the nuns who were named after the Great Auk.

Where would Celts have seen penguins??? Are you saying early celts sailed to the Southern coast of Chile or Antarctica?

Trey Yesavage reminds me to never turn our backs on our US friends. He’s a fine young man. A lot of “leaders” out there should endeavour to match his work ethic, skill and humility. An exemplary and talented athlete and all around great human. #baseball #MLB #TorontoBlueJays #WorldSeries