Argals

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

As Hilary Knight (US Women's Hockey) said a couple of days ago..."now I have to sit in front of you and sort of explain someone else's behaviour. That's not my responsibility."
Geez...

RE: @wdlindsy@toad.social

As Hilary Knight (US Women's Hockey) said a couple of days ago..."now I have to sit in front of you and sort of explain someone else's behaviour. That's not my responsibility."
Geez...

Grrr...
"No perp walks."
Grrrr. Grrr....

It's working.
My chronic pain shoulder rehab program is slowly showing results.
Step by step, inch by inch, millimetre by millimetre.
First bike ride this season and my shoulders feel great! <3 <3
Better range of motion, stronger, pain level tolerable.
I am elated!!!

#ChronicPain #BoneOnBone #ShoulderRehab

I. Am. Canadian.

From Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)...

"There's a different advantage to confining your concerns to imaginary things: imaginary things don't exist, so they don't contest your public statements about them, nor do they make demands on you. Think of how the right concerns itself with imaginary children
(unborn babies, children in Wayfair furniture; children in nonexistent pizza parlor basements, children undergoing gender confirmation surgery). These are very convenient children to
advocate for, since, unlike real children (hungry children, children killed in the Gaza genocide, children whose parents have been
kidnapped by ICE, children whom Matt Goetz and Donald Trump trafficked for sex, children in cages at the US border, trans kids driven to self-harm and suicide after being denied care), nonexistent children don't want anything from you and they never make public pronouncements about whether you have their
best interests at heart."

#ProtectingChildren

"Danielle Smith and her government are responsible for a litany of failures in healthcare, education, and the economy. The Premier is sowing hate and division to distract from the fact that her government is the real culprit. Albertans should not be fooled by this cowardly strategy."

#CanadaStrong
#KindnessMatters

Thomas Massie on the Epstein files: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to jail. Until then, this is still a cover-up.”

Grrrr...

So not only did it cost $1000 to be a Conservative convention delegate yesterday, you also had to be in Calgary in person to vote. And guess what...when you got there, he was the only person on the ballot!!
And he only got 87%???

"like be chosen the valedictorian for a homeschool class" Greg Maceahern

This.
"A handful of Americans have the power to stop this NOW, and they are refusing to." HC Richardson

Grrrr.....

Paul Krugman...
"One question that may be harder to resolve is the extent to which the possibility of insider trading may actually have influenced policy. Are decisions about war and peace in part serving the cause of market manipulation rather than the national interest? If you dismiss this as unthinkable, you just haven’t been paying attention."

nadhobbs...
"A retired judge says even he can’t explain how Alberta’s pain medication contract jumped by $7 MILLION.
An investigation addendum claims $42 MILLION was paid… for no product.
This isn’t complicated — it’s your tax dollars.
Where did the money go?
Who signed off on it?
And why is no one being held accountable?
Albertans deserve answers."

From millanglyle...
RUN THE DAMN PROVINCE!
Let me put this bluntly: Alberta is sitting on the edge of another massive oil windfall because the world is on fire, and instead of acting like grown-ups entrusted with the wealth of an entire province, this government is busy playing footsie with separatist fantasies and 51st-state nonsense while dodging the simplest test of political courage — a straight declaration vote in the Legislature affirming Alberta is part of Canada.
If you cannot even stand up in your own chamber and say where you stand on the country you govern inside, why on earth should Albertans trust you to steward billions in resource revenue for the long-term benefit of this province instead of burning it on ideological theatre and grievance politics?
The world may hand Alberta another oil boom, but right now Albertans are being asked to trust a government that seems far more comfortable stirring constitutional chaos than managing the wealth beneath our feet!!

"And then, because this man has the emotional range of someone who has both managed sovereign debt crises and apparently dropped the F-word during the Q&A (bless him, truly), he pivoted to the Middle East. He didn't tiptoe. He didn't hedge. He walked straight into the room's most uncomfortable topic and sat down in the best chair."
"He's the kind of man who measures twice, cuts once, and doesn't brag about it at the barbecue."
#I.Am.Canadian.

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This is the time to hold them accountable for the misogyny in hockey culture.

Boys will be boys or it's just locker room talk is no longer tolerated.

"The venn diagram of people who consider 14-16 year old girls “young women who knew what they were doing” and adult millionaire hockey players “a bunch of drunk kids in their 20s” is a circle."

The impact of this event is causing big ripples...

Grrrr...

Now they are using facial recognition technology in the streets.

And then revoking Global Entry and TSA privileges, no explanation.

They continue to wonder why CDNs are not travelling to the US??

PM Carney announces govt will be investing in greenhouses.
Smart. Smart. Smart.
Greenhouses can grow all yr.
We can add more AI greenhouses. (Damn impressive greenhouses).
Healthy, fresh vegetables for CDNs at cheaper prices.
Buy Canadian. Elbows Up.

From Dr HC Richardson tonight...
"As G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers wrote: Republicans could stop this at any time they wanted to.
“All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dem[ocrat]s to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump—3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.”