James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

How Canadians confuse the world:

- We measure outside temp in Celsius and oven temp in Fahrenheit.

- Length in meters and our height in feet.

- Cheese is weighed in kilograms but people are weighed in pounds.

- We speak like Americans, spell like Brits and randomly throw in French words.

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"Our system is not designed to function with one entire level of government too busy washing their hair to pick up the phone."

And part of our system, is the Emergencies Act. It doesn't exist to cover for governments outright abdicating their responsibilities. Its structure assumes cooperation.

https://www.tvo.org/article/the-convoy-crisis-wasnt-a-failure-of-federalism-it-was-a-failure-of-doug-ford

BALLS MEET EGGPLANT

#truth #EatTheRich

“It feels cooler to say ‘I’m not woke!’ then the truth, which is ‘I’m terrified of what I don’t understand and I only know how to process that as anger because I can’t look inward.’ To wit!”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sarah-silverman-anti-woke-right-wingers_n_63eda62ae4b0808b91c4ab68

REp. Andy Ogles, who was gerrymandered into office as the first Republican to represent Nashville in Congress, seems to be giving George Santos a run for his money in the making shit up department.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/businessman-economist-cop-international-sex-crimes-expert-the-stories-of-congressman-andy-ogles

Today is a wonderful day in #Alberta ...

It's baby-name-data day! 🥳

The province just released info on all the names given to babies born in 2022.

I built a little web app for those who *really* want to nerd out on baby-name trends over the past 42 years:

🔗 : https://robsonfletcher.pythonanywhere.com/

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I love this image about #books and #libraries — and silly policies about restricting books to a kid's supposed #reading level. Shared with permission.

(You can buy this group's work at https://topatoco.com/collections/unshelved.)

This meme came to me in a dream and made me laugh way harder than it probably should've.

CW eye contact

Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ – it’s fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/13/african-american-studies-republican-ban-florida

GOP is bragging they hit a new record for Black GOP members of the House. Out of 223 GOP members of the House how many are Black? Four. Yep, just four. Zero are Black woman. The GOP Black outreach program will now shut down because that is enough for them.

Can we please settle this debate already? There is no labor shortage. There is a living wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a child care shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.

@JamesHMcLaren @bergsbites

#Toronto #JohnTory #Resignation #poll

🤦​ Phone poll happening this evening in #Toronto: "Do you feel John Tory is making the right decision by resigning as mayor of Toronto, or should he remain in office?"

#Milquetoast #Resignation #StrongMayor

i don't like to follow popular trends for instance instead of saying "the bee's knees" i say "the fellas patellas." hmu boysss

According to Greek Mythology, Chiron was a half-human, half-horse doctor.

This made him the Centaur for Disease Control.