Joshua Matthewman @MatthewmanJ

For the 30th year in a row, "Return of the Mack" is the song of the summer

Dan Devine @YourManDevine

5 days ago

I used to think that saying the song of the summer was "Return of the Mack" every summer was a great bit by @Passionweiss, until I matured a little and realized the truth: it's not a bit, it's just the song of every summer

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Rats, trench toilets, and brothers-in-arms dying beside you. The war for Ukraine has now lasted longer than the First World War. And for all that’s changed, some things about today’s trench warfare are grimly familiar. My report from the Kharkiv region theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

A massive reality check just hit the "drill, baby, drill" agenda. The Trump administration's historic auction to open Alaska’s sacred ANWR refuge to oil majors just suffered a total market collapse—attracting bids on just 10.5% of the land. Here is what happened: 🧵🇺🇸🐻‍❄️🏔️ 👇

I just report the news. #cpc #cdnpoli #lpc

John Mayer’s first album ROOM FOR SQUARES was released 25 years ago this week, so I wrote a long critical overview of his career. Possibly the most interesting career arc for any 21st pop star? Certainly a wild ride. stevenhyden.substack.com/p/narcissus-ic…

We are officially in World Cup month. Please leave your xG charts, pressing percentages, and defensive metrics in the club season. International tournament football is strictly decided by pure vibes, individual brilliance, tactical survival, and a random goalkeeper turning into prime Lev Yashin for two weeks. Enjoy the entertainment and put the spreadsheets away.

The Ontario Legislature is never quieter and more respectful than when MPP @solmamakwa speaks. He spoke in recognition of Indigenous History Month today, in Oji-Cree, his first language. #onpoli

Marquinhos comforts his international teammate Gabriel after his penalty miss costs Arsenal the Champions League...🥺🇧🇷

PM Carney: "Is it helpful to ask these fundamental questions? No, it's not helpful. Of course it's not. Is it the democratic will of Albertans? Did they vote for this in the last provincial election? No, they didn't. It wasn't on the ballot paper, it wasn't in the mandates or platforms of the governing party and the official opposition."

Francis Fukuyama on the U.S. as a declining power: American decline is a direct product of Trump's rise since 2016. It is as if Trump had decided to do everything in his power to weaken the United States vis-à-vis China. He has polarized an already polarized country, cut funding for basic scientific research, and attacked American universities which are the best in the world. He and his colleagues have openly stated that their domestic opponents — the Democrats — are a far greater threat to the future of the United States than either China or Russia. There is agreement among America's friends and rivals that the United States has become something of a rogue state that is contributing to global instability and disorder — as well as something of a laughingstock.

Empty rooms and Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear World Cup washout bbc.in/3PhoBTP

Theo faced bullying for his long hair so I invited him to my office and told him he could be Premier. It was an honour to meet him and his family and give them challenge coins. He’s a smart, resilient kid. We are proud of him and all of our kids in Manitoba. 🦬

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Everybody expected the Xi summit would be bad, but as usual Trump exceeded all expectations. Disaster on an unimaginable scale.

John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews

a month ago

Donald Trump allowed himself to be outplayed in China, according to the academic and author @peterfrankopan. From accepting a lower seat beside Xi Jinping to showing gratitude and respect to him, Trump acted like the humble number two. Just what Xi wanted him to portray. ‘Poor

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Today, on Moose Hide Campaign Day, we join Canadians from coast to coast in standing against violence toward women, children, and all those along the gender continuum.🔶TSA is proud to support a day dedicated to reflection, solidarity, and meaningful action. #MooseHideCampaignDay

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They never do. Read The Morning After, by Chantal Hebert and Jean Lapierre. Twenty years after the 95 referendum, the major players *still* hadn’t figured out what they would have done in the event of a yes vote. It was all just bluff and improv. But anyone who does try to game the thing out with any rigour pretty quickly comes to the conclusion that it can’t be done: not unilaterally/illegally, and not by negotiation/constitutionally. That needs to be communicated to people. But what needs to be communicated even more is that the whole enterprise is illegitimate; that there is not, and cannot be, any such thing as a right to secede from a democratic country (which is why virtually no democratic country recognizes such a right); that threatening to do so to blackmail your fellow Canadians is as morally bankrupt as it is practically futile; that the attempt to invoke democratic principle in its defence is bogus — you cannot vote to help yourself to something that isn’t yours, namely the territory of Canada — while the right of self determination simply folds in on itself: if Albertans or Quebecers have a right to self determination, do Edmontonians or Montrealers? For that matter, do Canadians? Or is the proposition that the vast majority of Canadians must simply stand mute while their country, which tens of millions have built over several centuries, is blown apart by a single vote on a single day by a small fraction of the population? Even if either Alberta or Quebec had been sovereign states prior to entering the federation, that would not hold water: once you’ve dissolved your sovereignty in the larger entity, you can’t reconstitute it. It no longer exists. There’s nothing to reconstitute it with. But it’s just gaga to make such claims with regard to a province that, like Alberta, was itself the creation of an Act of the Parliament of Canada, or like Quebec, of the Parliament of Great Britain — and then only the relatively minor rump that was carved out of the pre-existing Province of Canada at Confederation. Two thirds of the present-day territory of the province of Quebec was added after Confederation — again, by acts of the Parliament of Canada. So there’s no actual likelihood of Canada breaking up, even if there is a referendum in either or both provinces, and even in the vanishingly unlikely event that either or both of them managed to win a “clear majority” on a “clear question.” What is possible is that either or both of them might land themselves in a ruinous, divisive, and possibly violent mess, whose costs would mostly be borne by their own citizens. But we do not make that prospect more likely by rushing to make offers to dissuade them from leaving or going to great lengths to show “the federation works.” The committed hardliners regard such offers with contempt while the cynical blackmailers regard them as a baseline from which to make further demands. Neither is anything achieved by saying “fine, go.” Acquiescing in the theft of Canadian territory and the destruction of the federation hardy counts as a “tough” position. No, the proper stance is to advertise, well in advance, that neither exercise will be regarded as conferring any right to secede of any kind; that whatever we might be willing to talk about afterward, it would not be secession. It might not even be as advantageous as the status quo.

Don Braid @DonBraid

a month ago

Separatist leaders hate Canada but have no real plan for secession. Why is that? Do they count on the U.S. to step in? Column calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg

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Absolutely correct

Rob Silver @RobSilver

a month ago

The most amazing part here is she clearly thought her line about A.I. was an applause line. I will repeat myself: A.I. is going to become the biggest political issue of the next decade. Most politicians right now are her. The voters are the students here.

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Harper tried to jam through projects by gutting environmental assessment process but failed-no pipelines but a lot of protests & court cases. I worked w/ NRCan Minister Jim Carr to rebuild trust in process & ensure good projects went ahead faster. Delays mostly on proponents.

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Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. nyti.ms/49dtF24

@DobberHockey I think most Leafs fans are sick of this core (or what remains of it) and would accept a rebuild right now, even if not enthusiastic about it. Comes to the same thing in the end - this current roster won't win.

With this goal Mitch Marner as Knight ties his Leafs goal total in playoff games 5-7 of a series at 1. It’s also his first since 2018. This is a real stat.

B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce

2 months ago

PLAYOFF MITCH PUTS THE KNIGHTS UP 2-0 👀🚨

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