A pub in a building where Sir John A. Macdonald once had his law office is dropping a reference to Canada’s first prime minister from its name after receiving requests to do so from members of the Indigenous community.
The Scottish pub in Kingston, Ont., once known as “Sir John’s Public House,” will now be called “The Public House,” its owner said, noting that a new sign was being erected Tuesday.
Along with a white flag.
(h/t Captain Obvious)
We’re doomed.
W. Brett Wilson has some choice words for Canada's NAFTA tactics pic.twitter.com/rLsvooAUNc
— BusinessNewsNetwork (@BNN) January 10, 2018
After years of Canadian journos quoting NDP leadership candidates and LPC riding presidents as “audience member”, “Saskatoon doctor” and “area farmer” … WELL ISN’T THIS PROGRESS?
Morning Update: The tweet above was deleted, then revised and republished a few hours later — along with three more identifying the heckler, who appears to be a private citizen acting on her own volition.
A fourth tweet at 1:45am eastern, from Chief Political Correspondent @GlobalNews — about a heckler who appears to be a private citizen. What's next? Sniffing out her home address for a proper doxxing?
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 11, 2018
Bob “Beetle” Bailey, credited with the first base hit for the late Montreal Expos in 1969, has passed away.
Tips thread open.
Google, the most powerful search engine in the world, is now displaying fact checks for conservative publications in its results.
No prominent liberal site receives the same treatment.
And not only is Google’s fact-checking highly partisan — perhaps reflecting the sentiments of its leaders — it is also blatantly wrong, asserting sites made “claims” they demonstrably never made.
No surprise to those using Google to search sources relating to politics and scientific/environmental issues — in recent years, the top results have tilted heavily in favour of progressive sources.
More: This is the company that has a near-stranglehold on online advertising and search.
“No” means “shut up and bend over, transphobe”..
h/t Colonialista
A highly infectious dog flu that has spread rapidly across Asia and parts of the U.S. has made its way into Canada.
Two dogs in Essex County, Ontario, have H3N2 canine influenza, according to the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, and two others are showing symptoms though the infection has not been confirmed in those canines.
Officials said the dogs were imported from South Korea, through the U.S. and were showing signs of respiratory disease the day after they arrived when they were examined by a veterinarian.
That’s right. South Korea — because America doesn’t have enough unwanted pets.
More from the “rescue group” website;
The adoption fee for dogs received from China is $625.00 and for the Spanish galgos, the fee is $700.00.
h/t Philanthropist
Day three of Oregonians pumping their own gas. pic.twitter.com/yQgz5Ex8ik
— Sarah Rose (@1SarahRose) January 4, 2018
I’m old enough to remember when global nuclear war was just a tweet away…
South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for helping to spark the first inter-Korean talks in more than two years, and warned that Pyongyang would face stronger sanctions if provocations continued. South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for helping to spark the first inter-Korean talks in more than two years, and warned that Pyongyang would face stronger sanctions if provocations continued.
Remember this?
1. Nunes saw something in the WH SCIF that scared the hell out of him.
— name redacted (@nameredacted5) January 10, 2018
On January 10th, 1776 Thomas Paine published “Common Sense”. Tips thread is open.
Dana Bash Praises Trump Over Immigration Meeting: ‘This Is the Presidency Many’ Thought He Was Capable Of
Genius.
Racist goons are targeting the FCC chief — and his family
I sometimes wonder if the Invisible White House has learned to use the Potemkin White House to deke us while it changes the country.
Google translated from Basler;
German utility company Tennet TSO spent almost a billion euros last year on emergency interventions to stabilize the grid. That’s what the company announced earlier this week. The costs were thus about half higher than in 2016 (660 million euros) and around forty percent higher than in 2015 (710 million). Tennet is responsible for the electricity supply in an area that extends from Schleswig-Holstein in the north to southern Bavaria and accounts for around forty percent of Germany’s total area. In particular, Tennet is responsible for important north-south routes.
The reason for the increase in emergency interventions is the increasing number of solar and wind turbines in Germany. The share of renewable energy increased from 29 to 33 percent of the electricity supply last year. Wind and solar power are irregular and often unpredictable. This makes the network increasingly unstable.
Original German language source here.
Republican-led House and Senate committees are investigating whether leaders of the Russia counterintelligence investigation had contacts with the news media that resulted in improper leaks, prompted in part by text messages amongst senior FBI officials mentioning specific reporters, news organizations and articles.
In one exchange, FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page engaged in a series of texts shortly before Election Day 2016 suggesting they knew in advance about an article in The Wall Street Journal and would need to feign stumbling onto the story so it could be shared with colleagues.
Quite the article.
Thread open for your tips and whatnot.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the federal government may not retry Cliven Bundy and his sons after rebuking prosecutors for withholding evidence during their felony trial stemming from an armed standoff four years ago.
U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case last month, saying federal prosecutors willfully withheld evidence that lawyers for the Bundys and alleged co-conspirator Ryan Payne should have had access to while mounting their defense.
She said the attorneys were in violation of the Brady rule, which requires prosecutors to disclose evidence that could be favorable to a defendant, and told them it wasn’t possible to proceed with the case.
On Monday, she dismissed the case “with prejudice,” meaning the government cannot retry the defendants. “The court finds that the universal sense of justice has been violated,”
In a just system, there’d be criminal penalties awaiting them.
‘Economists Say’ is used to coat liberal policy positions with a veneer of scientific certitude.
h/t TLH
NBC just quietly deleted their Oprah endorsement after 14 hours.
Not a good look for a news company. pic.twitter.com/CZ8nyBMANr
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 8, 2018