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Right to care as crucial as right to death (National Post), Jun 07, 2025
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Jagmeet Singh used his minority power to get workers decent pandemic supports despite Liberal low balling and got long time NDP priorities universal Dentalcare and Pharmacare closer to the finish line than ever.
It authentically baffles me when people call him a failure.
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HOLY SHIT! Did you see the end of @60Minutes tonight?
This guy has been on the wrong side of the law his entire adult life.
cbc.ca/amp/1.7512992
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"Resist loss of the miraculous
by lowering your standards
for what constitutes a miracle.
It is all a fucking miracle."
Louise Erdrich on the deepest meaning of resistance – stunning poem: themarginalian.org/2024/11/1…
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"Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning."
A spell against stagnation – John O'Donohue on beginnings themarginalian.org/2023/12/3…
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#StarInvestigation: Fake nurses. No doctor on site. Staff who like to party: The inside story of this ‘luxury’ Muskoka addiction rehab.
It promises exceptional private care at a high price — but nobody is checking to see if the care is safe and effective. trib.al/Hae3Pt6
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British writer Virginia Woolf said: "There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself."
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In 1986, a young comedian walked off stage at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club and vowed never to perform again.
That same year, he was diagnosed with cancer.
His name was Norm Macdonald, and his story would change comedy forever.
Here's what happened:
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"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."
I keep returning to this lost e.e. cummings treasure: themarginalian.org/2017/09/2…
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Some things worth remembering:
1. Vaccines work. Without them around the world, more people will suffer, get sick, and die unnecessarily.
2. Global issues, like climate change, require global solutions. There are no safe smoking sections in restaurants or airplanes, or peeing sections in swimming pools.
3. If you care about equality, early and forced childhood marriage is a bad thing, and paying attention to maternal and child health is a good thing
4. The answer to the elitism of the best and the brightest is not the celebration of the worst and the dumbest. Wisdom, kindness, empathy, goodness, and competence are still valuable things. Do not despise them.
5. No matter how much hatred and vitriol are spread, flung and spewed on simple tenets such as these, they are still true.
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Someone reminded me of my post from 2023 when I covered the Ford Fest.
Fifteen months later, I’m unaware that these new, less-than-$500,000 detached homes are on the way. 👇
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Ont. Government, as we all knew was coming, is prepared to reject the wider consensus of Ontario's civil society, public officials, and communities threaten us all with his proposed use of the Notwithstanding Clause to attack our unhoused neighbours, many of whom are disabled 1/2
Mayors from across Ontario have asked for our help to deal with homeless encampments that are taking over public spaces and making their communities unsafe. I agree. Enough is enough.
Today, I let them know that we will be stepping up with new measures to protect communities and clear out encampments while getting people the help they need.
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ALT A painting of a bird beside the text "now there's some bullshit you don't see every day"
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“We don’t know how to let ourselves linger long enough in feared emotions to discover the gold of information in them”.
- Mary Jo Peebles, p. 108
One of the most important people in my life didn’t get to come home. Someone who spent her life doing good for others- always seeing the best & loving ppl for who they were. My heart family. I didn’t get to say goodbye.
May I love half as fiercely as her.
