Excellent (I'm biased but really it is excellent) @TheHubCanada interview with my dad Jim Mitchell and his co-author Kevin Lynch on their Donner-Prize-nominated book about reshaping Canadian government:
https://t.co/3JLNaGj3JH
@ButkisDakota@harrisonlowman@terrynewman I don't think so, it just means the Canadian media (broadly speaking) lack the moral fibre to resist any future moral panic. It'll be on a different subject, of course, as will the next one after that, and the next.
@DanielCowper or does he somehow fail to recognize them? Did he read it too quickly or not at all? Or is he a mid-20th-century prof posing as a much better educated man than he was? Itโs one of those.
@DanielCowper But he is always showing he has not read the book he is discussing, only skimmed it. It is the passion of a stamp-collector.
For example, is he unaware that Tolkien employs different styles (here annalistic) and perspectives (here that of future people of Gondor) (1/2)
Today is Tom Longboat Day in Canada. Thomas Charles Longboat, Iroquois name Cogwagee, was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario. Longboat, born in 1887, would go on to become the most globally known Canadian athlete of the first half of the 20th century. His dominant victory at the Boston marathon in 1907, with a lead of 5 minutes over the 2nd place finisher, was reported and celebrated around the world. Marathon racing at the time holding global cache.
In February 1916 Longboat enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces running messages between military posts, earning the nickname the โBulldog of Brittaniaโ.
After a tumultuous adulthood back in Canada, Longboat would pass away in 1949 at 61 on the Six Nations Reserve of his birth.
June 4th in Canada is Tom Longboat day.