Former Premier Dalton McGuinty, on stage a few years back with former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said he was grateful to be there with the most powerful politician in Canada: Hazel McCallion… I think it wasn’t just her age that led to her retirement: when her share of the popular vote slipped, from 91% to 94% in 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2006, to a mere 75% in 2010, well, the writing was on the wall. At age 101 she’s just accepted an offer to extend her directorship at our largest airport.
Former pro hockey player… Putin would do well to wait for her funeral before invading…
the ruling is significant because it opens the door in Texas for people who were sexually abused as children to sue both attackers and institutions that mishandled or concealed the abuses years or decades later.
There were a lot of grumpy birders on Twitter the other day talking about how tenuous the evidence of their return seems to be. From what I was reading, despite the claims, there is no solid photographic evidence, just lots of blurry photos and wishful thinking. I hope it’s true, though. I love stories like this.
Same. I saw a pileated woodpecker for the first time recently (fleetingly, because they’re very shy around here) and was just blown away. I can only imagine how impressive the ivory-billed was/is and love the possibility of the “Lord God bird” still hanging in there, somewhere.
September 2021: “No lasers unless you get all As this semester, Billy.”
January 2022: “Good job on your grades, here’s your lasers. What? Fire effect launcher? No, not unless you get all As again!”
It’s a giant confederate flag hoisted by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (who I will not link to). Below it, facing both directions, billboards reading:
I think it wasn’t just her age that led to her retirement: when her share of the popular vote slipped, from 91% to 94% in 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2006, to a mere 75% in 2010, well, the writing was on the wall. At age 101 she’s just accepted an offer to extend her directorship at our largest airport.
