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And then there’s the inconvenient facts of actual weather records in Canada going back to about 1875 that didn’t fit the narrative…. So they dropped 75 years of records… so that with what was left it more or less fit the narrative??

We’ve got kids out in the Okanogan Valley. They are not used to this cold this time of year by any means.

A senior Israeli official has said he expects the war against Hamas in Gaza to continue for at least the rest of this year. "We are expecting another seven months of fighting,” the prime minister’s national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, told Israel's Kan public radio. He also said Israel’s...

I’m having a busy morning. Has it?

Careful where you say that line…😉 It fits the ongoing goat rodeo though…

It’s almost June, and the predicted low last night was +3°C…& We are lucky to see highs of room temperature less than 1/2 the time lately…here on the prairies anyway.

Israel consented to the jurisdiction of the ICJ under the dispute resolution clause in the 1948 Genocide Convention and is bound by consequent decisions of the ICJ under it. There is no avenue of appeal against poor ICJ decisions. The way it reads, from the outside, the ICJ may not have...

I’m still stuck on the whole U of T Faculty is behind the Student (& non-student) Pro-Palestine Encampment, etc… 60 Faculty of the 16000 Faculty so that is 60/16,000= 0.375% of the U of T Faculty? That’s…not the U of T Faculty is behind this when the other 99.625% isn’t involved in the...

60/16,000? That can’t be right. And that came and went without anything happening. Never make empty threats or empty promises. The 60/16,000 faculty members in involved. I’m still blown away by that 16,000 number… Encampments are a freedom of expression? Seriously? A protected expression...

An Ontario mother has pulled her Jewish daughter out of high school fearing she is no longer safe, saying the school is allowing and encouraging pro-Palestinian activists to display and promote threatening antisemitic messages. “I live in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and my child is not in...

Sorry. The story looks like this if your rather hunt it directly instead of linking to it

Canada’s population density is stretched over the 100 mile wide border with the US for all intents & purposes, which is irrelevant, & new Canadians aren’t settling in the unsettled portions, which is relevant. There’s only so many hospitals and doctors and housing and so on and so forth…& that...

Sort of but not really. More like a life raft, that can be expanded and grown over overtime…but… if your throw too many into it at the same time, then it’s gone…& here we are.

Is that pier really sinking or is that rough water and floating pier in segments so water going across it?

Canada has always been an outlier on immigration. That was true long before the Trudeau government. Compared to other rich countries, we had a relatively wide and open door. But around the door were walls, which were also higher than those in Europe or the United States. Canadians were always...

What are Palestine’s borders? What are Israel’s borders? Depends on who you talk to I guess. Is Gaza part of Palestine? Is Israel part of Palestine? From the river to the sea, money for nothing and the chicks for free? Like the Afghanistani’s that fought the Russians in the 80’s, before...

This weekend, two people approached a Jewish girls elementary school in Toronto and fired multiple gun shots. The shooting heightens the fears of a Canadian Jewish community that has now experienced multiple shootings at schools and community centres, attacks on students, and vandalism at Jewish...

An Israeli airstrike that caused a huge blaze at a tented area for displaced people in Rafah has killed 45 people, medics have said, with images of charred and dismembered children prompting an outcry from global leaders and putting ceasefire talks in jeopardy. Bombing overnight that the Israel...