He lost two ministers today, one of those being Chrystia Freeland, who is the Federal minister of Finance and the Deputy PM. She didn't let him off the hook either, in her resignation letter as a cabinet minster (she's staying on as a regular Member of Parliament) she pointed out quite bluntly that Friday, Trudeau told her he didn't want her as ( Read more... )

• Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
• One to One - There Was a Time - Plus: Original 80's Video with music at lesser quality
• Yaz (aka Yazoo) - Situation
• New Order - Blue Monday
• Falco - Jeanny

Daily Mail: Lead investigator behind seizing of P'Nut the squirrel is unmasked - as officials give an update

Court records reveal that DEC Investigator Joshua Crain obtained a search warrant for the animals, citing potential illegal housing of a squirrel and raccoon. Notably, the warrant made no mention of rabies concerns.

Crain, who was awarded ( Read more... )

National Post: Terry Newman: 592 places of worship burned in 12 years. Liberals don't give a damn

Excerpt: Between 2010 and 2022, there have been a staggering 592 police-reported arsons at places of worship, including churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques, resulting in damages of at least $10,000, according to the response to an official ( Read more... )

The Lawdog Files: Gather round, take a knee - where LawDog explains why his new publisher's editors won't be giving feedback to everyone who submits a story anymore.

Perhaps this was inevitable and there's no other way to handle feedback when there's this many submissions coming in. I just hope there isn't too many more shifts in "the way of doing ( Read more... )

sept 11 2001 radio broadcast coverage - I suggest listening in particular to Track 02 WABC-AM 9-11-2001 9-950 AM ET where an eyewitness describes the second explosion as it happens.

Normally I listen to FDNY/EMS/NYPD traffic of this morning 23 years ago at archive.org, but this year I thought I'd listen to a bit of the commercial radio station ( Read more... )

National Post: Ontario farmer says he has to pay $400,000 in archeological fees to build a home on his field - Bruce Cassel said he was told by the Ontario government that until the dig is complete, he could face fines or even jail time for stepping out into his own field

He's being shoved into a "stage 4" assessment where the only options are ( Read more... )

French-language inspectors are cracking down on Montreal hospitals

"Language inspectors from the Office québécois de la langue française are expanding the range of their inspections beyond businesses and are now targeting hospitals in the Montreal area, even going so far as to verify whether French is being spoken in operating rooms, The Gazette has ( Read more... )

I deleted the previous post where I thought I'd lost the old editor for good. Turns out I haven't.

It looked this morning as if the LJ coders had removed the default old editor and I didn't have a way to get back to it. Either:

1. They changed my default setting without warning me first
2. I accidentally clicked on that stupid popup that encourages me to ( Read more... )

Had a weird problem recently with Mom's Linux Mint 20.3 computer. I'd logged out of her userid in order to log into the administrative userid to run updates, and her screen went black and started rotating through VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI connections then powered off. What the...?! Tried CTRL-ALT-DEL to force an olderly shutdown -- no joy. Ah crap ( Read more... )