@_kruptos At a drone show and fireworks display last night (southern Ontario) for โCanada Dayโ and they had the drones show a bunch of foreign flags ๐
@FortySacks My favourite part of the rather stupid Passchendaele movie was when the Canadian troops have a Quebecer in with them. It struck me as such a quintessential Canadian thing
@DownGoesBrown i had started to wonder if i could do a better job as GM than brad, but now im starting to think i could do a better job hiring than the MLSE suits... #notgreat
@holland_tom@flemingrut this is correct i think; the pain and suffering in the death of Christ does not provide salvation, but was to prove humanity's utter refusal to accept him
@QuasLacrimas But they overlap in the sense that if you have a religious (Christian) population there are far fewer policy solutions required, and leaving the religious to themselves enables this 2/2
@QuasLacrimas that gets to religion as a bad policy solution, (which it definitely is.) The objectives of policy and religion are different, so trying to use one to accomplish the goals of the other is foolishness 1.5/2
Today is Flag Day, commemorating the introduction of the Liberal Leaf in 1965 under prime minister Lester B. Pearson. What does the Liberal Leaf mean? Where did it come from? What about the Red Ensign mean? A thread. 1/
The state's that win the future are going to have great firewalls and smartphone bans.
It cuts against my sensabilities, but it's just obviously true. Giving regular people a smart-phone with social media is like when Europeans gave whisky to the Native Americans.