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Yeah, so I read this tonight from the professors Armstrong (yes, professors, plural):

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/12/17/here-is-a-health-care-to-do-list-for-the-federal-government.html

The list of advice at the other end of that link makes sense to me. Given the current state of most of our provincial governments, I don't trust the people who run them with a single actual physical penny, no matter that our country no longer mints them as legal tender. Particular emphasis on point 4 as quoted below:

"Understand that health care is not a business like the rest. It is about people who need and people who provide care, doing so on the basis of their acquired skill and experience. Public services should not be organized on the principles of for-profit services but rather should recognize the specificity of care and of our shared responsibility as well as our shared benefits. This means, as a minimum, ensuring that funding does not go to profit, that we build surge capacity into the system and that we attend to the conditions of work which are the conditions of care."
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It seemed appropriate, when I saw something similar focused upon DT-45 on Twitter last night, to address Mr. Poilievre in like fashion. Call it photo-manipulation as op-ed cartoon, if you like.

A modified image of Pierre Poilievre, accompanied by a quote from Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 about how to be a demagogue
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"What I've learned about myself is that there is no amount of time that can pass, there is no break that can happen. I just will never clean up the basement." - Mercer during an interview with Tom Power on Q, date currently unknown to me. Source: Sunday Edition essay by Michael Enright.
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On The Sunday Edition this morning: "Now is the window of our discotheque!"

You go discover the context yourselves, okay?
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First time I'd seen a Max Planck quote at an activists' march on Parliament Hill.

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Here's another one I liked from that march.

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Inspired by "Battle at the Binary Stars".

Danby Connor's last words before being vented out of the USS Shenzhou by Klingon fire: "Why are we fighting? We're Starfleet. We're explorers, not soldiers."

The last newsflash of Danby Connor's life: you don't always get to be believed regardless of how much truth you tell and live.

Bigotry doesn't care.
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...that's been bothering me more and more of late, albeit for reasons unrelated to the concerns that Dr. Brin rightly continues to expound upon in recent years. From June Morgan, a minor agent of what few villains that novel contains references to:

"You're all so smart, so modern. You've got your info-plaques and percomps and loyal little ferret programs to go fetch data for you. But what information? Only what's in the Net, my dears."
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1. The seventh game of the playoff series between the Ottawa Senators and Pittsburgh Penguins starts tonight shortly after 8 PM EST.

2. Today is the 40th anniversary of the launch of Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) at the movie theatres.

The phrase "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'" comes to mind, and I expect I'm not alone in that.
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There's an old quote that's been coming back to mind after reading news and opinion pieces from places ranging from CBC News to iPolitics.ca. It comes from a book about a TV series - one of the earliest examples of what we now call "dramedies" - a portmanteau showing the blending of comedy and drama - on American television that won many Canadian hearts as well.

“I think there is a misconception on the part of a lot of people in this country that Frank Burns is unusual. My hope is that they see he is not unusual. He is fairly ordinary. He comes in sleeker packages, God knows. I hope when people think about who they are going to vote for, or who they’re going to work for, or whatever, they cast an eye toward Frank Burns and say ‘Now, does this person behave the same way? Am I dealing with this kind of monster?.’ Watch for him, be careful of him. There are Frank Burnses everywhere. Learn to know the type. Don’t elect them. Don’t make them chairman of the board. Frank is a dangerous man because he acts without reason, often without true intelligence, and, perhaps more importantly, with no real knowledge or perception of what consequences an action will bring out. He is not a man with perception and, consequently, he is incredibly dangerous.”

- Larry Linville, interviewed by David S. Reiss for the book M*A*S*H - the exclusive inside story on TV's most popular show (1)

Putting that quote into a more recent, Canadian-minded context: I wonder if those who supported Stephen Harper and his fellow believers might not have had a certain dislike for M*A*S*H while it aired in first-run on TV. Certainly, they had problems with CBC, which had the Canadian first-run rights for the series.

(1) Well, the people at Bobbs-Merrill weren't exactly shy about picking a sub-title for promoting that book, were they?
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A Babylon 5 question: I'm trying to remember the episode whence came a particular exchange about motives for lying between Cdr. Sinclair and Lt. Cdr. Garibaldi.
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I saw this image in the Toronto Star a few days ago, and thought the photographer lucked out on the timing of the shutter during that speech in Richmond Hill, Ontario. See for yourself. Source is credited in the resultant image.

Op-Ed Photoshopping re: Canadian politics after the cut )
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"Many couches have died for Don Cherry's jackets."

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