Talk of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz is back.
You’ve heard this before but this time feels different.
Here’s a fast, clear thread:
🔹 What the Strait is
🔹 Why it matters
🔹 Who controls what
🔹 How Iran could disrupt it
🔹 What happens if it spirals
1/24🧵👇.
This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.
Exactly 1 yr ago, I announced that I was wrapping up W&C. Listeners responded, hoping for access to a digital archive. Now I’m thrilled that the complete 33-year run -1000 hrs- will be available to anyone, free of charge! CBC has partnered w/ SFU’s Special Collections +RareBooks.
Thanks to the @ppforumca and @egreenspon for this wonderful honour and an amazing evening. Congrats to my fellow honourees and thanks for all that you have done for Canada. 🇨🇦
.@JaniceCharette: "Too many good people who have put up their hand to make a difference to bring their experience and their knowledge to advance the public good have been subjected to attacks on their integrity and threats to themselves and to their families. This cannot continue. Let us take inspiration from the words of Theodore Roosevelt. It is not the critic who counts. We need to celebrate those that are actually in the arena, who do actually strive to do the deeds that spend themselves in a worthy cause."
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Every Canadian should thank @JaniceCharette — for her public service, representing the country abroad and leading the federal bureaucracy through a pandemic. Her message: Canada needs more civil public policy debate and more Canadians stepping up to public service.
Mstislav Rostropovich, human/musical dynamo, b otd 1927. An incredible force - irresistible!
"It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano."
He succeeded! No-one ever commissioned more masterpieces, for any instrument.