Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 73

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Victoire conservatrice prévue dans Leeds–Grenville–Thousand Islands et Rideau Lakes… Le candidat conservateur Michael Barrett devrait remporter l'élection partielle dans la circonscription fédérale de Leeds–Grenville–Thousand Islands et Rideau Lakes, dans l'est de l'Ontario, selon CBC/Radio-Canada.… — http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1139677/election-partielle-leeds-grenville-thousand-islands-rideau-lakes

G. K. Chesterton was an interesting character. He was a conservative, even a regressive, and yet he gives us passages like this:

"Now the whole parable and purpose of these last pages, and indeed of all these pages, is this: to assert that we must instantly begin all over again, and begin at the other end. I begin with a little girl’s hair. That I know is a good thing at any rate. Whatever else is evil, the pride of a good mother in the beauty of her daughter is good. It is one of those adamantine tendernesses which are the touchstones of every age and race. If other things are against it, other things must go down. If landlords and laws and sciences are against it, landlords and laws and sciences must go down. With the red hair of one she-urchin in the gutter I will set fire to all modern civilization. Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home: because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be an usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution. That little urchin with the gold-red hair, whom I have just watched toddling past my house, she shall not be lopped and lamed and altered; her hair shall not be cut short like a convict’s; no, all the kingdoms of the earth shall be hacked about and mutilated to suit her. She is the human and sacred image; all around her the social fabric shall sway and split and fall; the pillars of society shall be shaken, and the roofs of ages come rushing down, and not one hair of her head shall be harmed."

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http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/25/book-review-whats-wrong-with-the-world/

Le jour où le Nouveau-Brunswick a arrêté de conduire à gauche… Cette pratique, héritée des Britanniques, a duré jusqu'au début des années 1920.… — http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1139237/jour-nouveau-brunswick-conduire-gauche-voitures-britannique

Scotland is an obscure PC puzzle adventure game.

The old days that never were, to be sure. I do remember the old days. Applying for an email account at the department's IT contact. Going into the cellar where the computer rooms were, and logging into an AIX. Rows and rows of computers, one or two other humans, practically no help, no search engines, everything was hard. We're building a better past, striving for a brighter future!

A big protest banner that says,

"Ontario anglophones for francophone rights - oui, c'est possible - on vote"

And at the side it has a picture of Ananas from Téléfrançais

When a random from a free speech instance ends up in your mentions

Le discours du Trône est adopté au Nouveau-Brunswick : le gouvernement Higgs survit… Le gouvernement minoritaire de Blaine Higgs, au Nouveau-Brunswick, a survécu à son premier vote de confiance à l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick. Son discours du Trône a été adopté par 25 voix contre 23.… — http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1139018/vote-confiance-gaz-de-schiste-alliance-gens-nouveau-brunswick-conservateurs-discours-trone

@JordiGH facebook did a huge push where they lied about video stats on their site and convinced everyone that video is the only thing that mattered online, so many places started getting rid of writers in favour of video people and when it wasn't working because it was all based on a lie the sunk cost fallacy made them push harder for video.

At least that is what I have seen anyway.

Québécoise et son bébé tués par un ours: vent de solidarité pour le père… L'appel au secours est entré à Whitehorse en fin de journée. Un grizzli venait de tuer la Québécoise Valérie Théorêt et sa fillette de 10 mois, dans un territoire de trappe isolé du Yukon. Le père, survivant de l'attaque, ne pourrait être secouru avant le lendemain matin. Ma… — https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201811/29/01-5206164-quebecoise-et-son-bebe-tues-par-un-ours-vent-de-solidarite-pour-le-pere.php

Une modernisation de 160 millions à Contrecoeur pour ArcelorMittal… Bien que touché par l'imposition de tarifs par les Américains, l'aciériste européen ArcelorMittal investit deux fois plus que prévu à son complexe sidérurgique de Contrecoeur, à 55 kilomètres à l'est de Montréal, sur la rive sud du Saint-Laurent.… — https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/economie/energie-et-ressources/201811/30/01-5206166-une-modernisation-de-160-millions-a-contrecoeur-pour-arcelormittal.php