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Tonight’s masterful piece of songwriting, originally released on Leonard Cohen’s 1984 album Various Positions, is a modest prayer, an acknowledgment of our ultimate powerlessness in the hands of the fates, and a humble plea for providence and grace. Here’s a recent, bare-bones live performance of the haunting and beautiful If It Be Your Will.
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David Cameron’s Britain

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Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and and the few remaining British battle back;

David Cameron’s top team have their “tin hats on” tonight as a surge in support for UKIP left them braced for a drubbing in the polls.
The Tories and Lib Dems are both set for a hammering in the by-election for safe Labour seat South Shields while UKIP eyes its best ever ­Westminster contest performance.

You can follow the action with Nigel Farage.

Things You’ll Never See On The CBC

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Against a steady drumbeat of negativity, a glimmer of hope…

Sometime within the next two years, the CBC is almost certainly going to lose its single largest source of advertising revenue, NHL hockey. It will be out-bid for the contract by one of the country’s enormously wealthy commercial broadcasters, probably Bell Media. That will mean a loss of 40 per cent of the corporation’s total annual ad revenue, but also a loss of something close to 400 hours of Canadian content programming – a hole that will have to be filled. Already bled white by decades of funding reductions from successive federal governments, the CBC is in no position to survive this blow.

(h/t Maz2)

It’s Probably Nothing

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Miami Herald;

The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape in Chinese army vehicles, then got out to traverse a dry creek bed with a helicopter hovering overhead for protection.
They finally reached their destination and pitched a tent in the barren Depsang Valley in the Ladakh region, a symbolic claim of sovereignty deep inside Indian-held territory. So stealthy was the operation that India did not discover the incursion until a day later, Indian officials said.
China denies any incursion, but Indian officials say that for two weeks, the soldiers have refused to move back over the so-called Line of Actual Control that divides Indian-ruled territory from Chinese-run land, leaving the government on the verge of a crisis with its powerful northeastern neighbor.
Indian officials fear that if they react with force, the face-off could escalate into a battle with the powerful People’s Liberation Army. But doing nothing would leave a Chinese outpost deep in territory India has ruled since independence.”

h/t Maz2

Great Moments In Socialism

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As Europe “bleeds out”;

Naturally this plight is explained to the desperate voters as the consequence of the remaining vestiges of capitalism. The growing impoverishment, we are told, is occurring because socialism hasn’t gone far enough. Only give the government more power and all will be well. And so the low information voters turn out in the streets offering to exchange what little freedom they have left for some low paying jobs and a little welfare. The poorer they are the more eager they become to trade their last liberties for one more benefits check.

h/t Maz2

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Tonight we watch 100-year-old newsreel footage of a horse race marred by the actions of a suffragette who stepped in front of the thundering pack in an attempt to stop Anmer, a horse owned by King George V, who was a man.
Spectators “claimed that they heard a woman shout ‘Votes for women!’ before leaping out in front of the king’s horse. [Footage] shows clearly that (Emily) Davison stopped in front of Anmer…and it appears that she tried to make a grab for the reins of the horse but the speed of Anmer and the impact on her were so great that she took a terrible blow.”
To some people “the iconic image of the suffragette being trampled by George V’s horse has come to symbolize the bitter struggle that women fought to win the right to vote in Britain”; to others, perhaps, it’s reminiscent of a panel from an Edward Gorey tale. The only thing everyone can agree on is that when women in the UK were enfranchised five years later there was one less female voter.
Putting politics aside for a moment, here, at last, for all you fans of horse racing, is some grainy footage of the exciting 1913 Epsom Derby, won by 100-1 long-shot Abboyeur.
The King’s horse was fine, btw, and finished the race sans jockey.
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Are York Regional Police Now the Self-Proclaimed Arbiters of Free Speech?

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Well known American blogger Pamela Geller is scheduled to speak in Toronto this month. But if the allegations are true, then some in the York Regional Police force appear to have decided that she should not appear:

Insp. Ricky Veerappan of the force’s diversity, equity and inclusion bureau, confirmed he and officers from the force’s hate crimes unit met with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue on Tuesday.

Oh, Shiny Pony!

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TechDirt;

The political debate in Canada is heating up, with the Conservative party recently launching a series of attack ads aimed at the new Liberal party leader, Justin Trudeau. Whatever you think of these kinds of ads — and I am of the mind that it sucks to see them getting more and more popular in Canada, no matter which party is using them — former Liberal leader and current Liberal MP Stéphane Dion has now shown everyone how not to respond to them.

h/t Howard

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