James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@social.cleverlibre.org

"On Tuesday, the premier said “regarding my family matters, my family is separate from the political process. They aren’t involved.”

However, the reception seating chart shows crossover between the peprsonal and political in Ford’s Ontario that extends beyond developers, to provincial appointees and to those who occupy positions aimed at influencing government. The premier’s office did not respond to requests for comment for this story."

#OnPoli

https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2023/02/23/insiders-government-appointees-also-attended-doug-fords-daughters-wedding.html

#comics are magic

It's worth mentioning that #JordanPeterson is one of the top voices in Canada for the #FarRight #15MinuteCities conspiracy/fever dream. Here he is finding #Tyranny in the toilet. You fools. You laughably ridiculous fools.

#Sophistry #cdnpoli #abpoli

AI gives me the creeps. Not because it might want to murder us all. Just because it might want to read us its bad poetry.

World: Can the US please just use the metric system, instead of making up weird measurements no one else understands

US:

How Canadians confuse the world:

- We measure outside temp in Celsius and oven temp in Fahrenheit.

- Length in meters and our height in feet.

- Cheese is weighed in kilograms but people are weighed in pounds.

- We speak like Americans, spell like Brits and randomly throw in French words.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Our system is not designed to function with one entire level of government too busy washing their hair to pick up the phone."

And part of our system, is the Emergencies Act. It doesn't exist to cover for governments outright abdicating their responsibilities. Its structure assumes cooperation.

https://www.tvo.org/article/the-convoy-crisis-wasnt-a-failure-of-federalism-it-was-a-failure-of-doug-ford

BALLS MEET EGGPLANT

#truth #EatTheRich

“It feels cooler to say ‘I’m not woke!’ then the truth, which is ‘I’m terrified of what I don’t understand and I only know how to process that as anger because I can’t look inward.’ To wit!”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sarah-silverman-anti-woke-right-wingers_n_63eda62ae4b0808b91c4ab68

REp. Andy Ogles, who was gerrymandered into office as the first Republican to represent Nashville in Congress, seems to be giving George Santos a run for his money in the making shit up department.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/businessman-economist-cop-international-sex-crimes-expert-the-stories-of-congressman-andy-ogles

Today is a wonderful day in #Alberta ...

It's baby-name-data day! 🥳

The province just released info on all the names given to babies born in 2022.

I built a little web app for those who *really* want to nerd out on baby-name trends over the past 42 years:

🔗 : https://robsonfletcher.pythonanywhere.com/

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I love this image about #books and #libraries — and silly policies about restricting books to a kid's supposed #reading level. Shared with permission.

(You can buy this group's work at https://topatoco.com/collections/unshelved.)

This meme came to me in a dream and made me laugh way harder than it probably should've.

CW eye contact

Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ – it’s fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/13/african-american-studies-republican-ban-florida

GOP is bragging they hit a new record for Black GOP members of the House. Out of 223 GOP members of the House how many are Black? Four. Yep, just four. Zero are Black woman. The GOP Black outreach program will now shut down because that is enough for them.