Well, #AndrewScheer didn't set any hearts on fire during the general election, or during the last #Tory leadership race really [0]. His replacement might be better.
But it will be distressing if the media draw the conclusion that a believing #Catholic cannot win an election in Canada, not even if he promises not to enact his personal beliefs into law.
@ink_slinger@keithzg Compared to *The Globe and Mail*, *Newsweek* is young and hip. The *National Post* has always been more entertaining than the G&M.
The presence of Paul Manafort, a seedy operator with connections to unfriendly regimes, at a top level of the campaign should have been enough for the FISA court to authorise investigations.
Hope it's OK to share a work thing on here. I was commissioned by the Energy Advice Hub to write a comparison of the UK parties' manifesto promises on energy and the climate.
So I have waded through EIGHT different manifestos to find out what they're actually saying, as opposed to what the media says they're saying. I thought I would never finish it in time, for the election but it's finally been published. Please read and share if you can.
Every time I hear President Trump complain that the Obama Administration was spying on his campaign, every time I hear Democrats or the intelligence community denying it, I think to myself, "I hope the Obama Administration *was* spying on the Trump campaign. They *should* have been keeping an eye on them."
I've just finished reading 'Broken Bonds: Surrogate Mothers Speak Out', edited by our very own Spinster @jenniferclahl , Melinda Tankard Reist and Renate Klein. I read it in one sitting. It's mostly the voices of surrogate mothers themselves and is extremely powerful and absolutely heartbreaking. The physical and mental costs to these women is enormous. There is so much hidden knowledge about the process that is shared by these women. It's also very well researched by the editors who are feminist campaigners and additional information is included as well as the reports given by the mothers. I very much recommend it.
One of very few women TV writers at the time, she used her initials to disguise her identity (similar to contemporary sf writers Andre Norton and James Tiptree, Jr., among others).
@ink_slinger Speaking of churches, if you only visit one in #Montréal, it should be St. Patrick's Basilica. If two, then St. Patrick's and St. Joseph's Oratory.
"Oracles were apparently first studied by #Turing, in his 1938 PhD thesis. Obviously anyone who could write a whole thesis about these fictitious entities would have to be an extremely pure theorist, someone who wouldn’t be caught dead doing anything relevant. This was certainly true in Turing’s case – indeed, he spent the years after his PhD, from 1939 to 1943, studying certain abstruse symmetry transformations in a 26 letter alphabet." -- Scott Aaronson, via #SlateStarCodex
@ink_slinger 13 years ago, many of the sites of glass high-rises in #Montréal were parking lots, the result of demolition decades ago. The destruction of local heritage buildings was much worse in the 70s and 80s. See for instance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Horne_Mansion
From the perspective of heritage buildings, the major current problem is the emptying of the churches. At least some of them have been repurposed, but the art and ornament are largely thrown out.