The Canadian Commons Committee (CCC) – A Proposal

Introduction When the Trudeau government was first elected in 2016, a central promise was that there would never again be a first past the post election. The government committed to studying the concepts of proportional representation among other mechanisms that would explicitly give voters more freedom and choice at the ballot box. These queries were eventually abandoned, as electoral reform was seen as too complicated…

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Dear Padre

I'm not sure where to begin, but we'll get there. I went to a friend's house for a bonfire, and you showed up. I have to admit, my impression of you was stacked against you from the start. You were arrogant, loud, and hypocritical. But that was just the opening round. You started talking about your experience in Afghanistan, and bragged about "receiving" a body of one of our fallen.

https://brokenmolars.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/dear-padre/

#wildfire

Don't despair. Fires are really good for forests. As long as environmental restoration professionals are given the budget, access, and time, everything will be fine.

#alberta is known for supporting restoration of sites right? Right?

Who am I kidding, they're probably going to turn Jasper into an open pit coal mine.

There are so many #wildfires in western Canada that this tracker almost crashes my browser.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=b3a88a15a562430c8f91dd8beb66ebdf

#alberta #wildfire

#trudeau

"Maybe a cabinet shuffle is what Canadians really want"

FFS

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-cabinet-to-meet-friday-as-speculation-around-a-shuffle-swirls-1.6967575

So the book Technological Slavery is only available to me in hard copy. The audiobook version is not what I'm looking for. I wanted the most up to date text.

Google books? No

Library? No

So now I own a physical copy of the book written by Ted Kaczynski. I just want to read it, not own it.

No excuse for a library to not have this, at least digitally.

#manifesto

#placebo is growing on me.

#music

I was looking at the #definition of a #manifesto.

This use in a sentence is off the hook.