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Out this week. The history you never learned in school; the argument you never thought you’d make
Doug Saunders
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Doug Saunders
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International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, Maximum Canada, etc.
- Sci-fi where the president has lost his mind and everyone knows because his private thoughts keep appearing on little slabs in their pockets
- To be fair, Disney was also threatening to release itPirates of the Caribbean 5: hackers threaten to release film unless Disney pays ransom trib.al/eUmsigK
- Caption: "With this ingenious trick you can easily smuggle a chocolate bar into a US cinema!"Mit diesem genialen Trick kann man leicht einen Schokoriegel in ein US-amerikanisches Kino schmuggeln!
- Re Putin’s claims of “Denazifying” Ukraine. The country has four extreme-right parties that might be called neo-Nazi. Three of them have zero seats in the national legislature. The fourth has one of the 450 seats. Together they get 2% of the popular vote, less than in Russia
- In France, it’s currently possible for a woman simultaneously to be fined €165 for being in public with a face covering and €135 for being in public without a face covering
- For the first time in 23 years the USA isn’t at war. It’s experiencing full employment and rising living standards not seen in decades. Crime and violence are falling to record lows. It’s energy independent. Yet its leading candidate goes on about “civilizational collapse”
- The NYT points out that the third Nixon-Kennedy debate, in 1960, was held virtually. One candidate was in NYC, the other in LA; they appeared on a split screen. So virtual meetups were no problem using vacuum-tube technology during the first ever televised presidential debates
- Most Italians had never heard of pizza before the 1950s. Carbonara was invented in the United States. Much of what we call classic Italian food — cacio e pepe, tiramisu — was probably invented in the 1960s. And other sacrileges!
- Quebec introduced a universal childcare program 20 years ago. While hardly lavish, it produced the highest rate of female workforce participation in the world. It also raised Quebec's fertility rate. And it paid for itself, through added tax revenues created by working women."Quebec has seen the rate of women age 26 to 44 in the workforce reach 85 percent, the highest in the world, according to Fortin. The rate of women that age in the workforce across all of Canada is 80 percent."
- The fact that vaccinations stopped completely for several days of the holidays but deliveries from the government-owned liquor-store chain stopped for only one day thanks to the hiring of hundreds of extra staff does suggest, perhaps, an absence of attention to priorities
- Wait. The $600 stimulus payments just approved by the US Congress aren’t monthly? They’re just, like, a single cheque? How’s that going to help?
