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AKA: business as usual.

Seems to me that BLM has looked worse and worse as the game has worn on. The Als don't seem to have much of a pass rush and if they did, Mitchell would be dismembered by now. Still.....THE CFL IS BACK, BABY!!!!

I'm not sure that was all related to ethanol consumption.

I would bet Harris doesn't finish the season.

He can remember dinosaurs.

Sad to say, La Belle Baguette on Ness Avenue is gone forever, replaced by a shop specializing in tarts.

Mods pls delete

According to Jacobson and Wallace, Alan Hallman was also on the Zoom call, a notorious fixer for former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, Rodney Diplock, a high-ranking leader inside the PPBC, Brad Mitchell, another PBCC member, and Gerald Chipeur, a well-known attorney who was once the general counsel to the Conservative Party of Canada, now count the PBCC as a client. “Chipeur is the key bagman for the Conservative Party in Alberta,” Jacobson said. “I would say he’s probably one of the principal bagmen and behind-the-scene influencers federal in the Conservative Party that represents the extreme right, religious fringe.” Video: We Interviewed The Doug Ford/Russia “Whistleblower,” David Wallace, And It Was BANANAS https://t.co/PtJOGXUrYD The startling claim is part of a massive dossier called the Klondike Papers, which Blackball Media obtained after a story broke earlier this week that appeared to show Premier Doug Ford’s office was actively engaging in backchannel discussions with Kirill Mikhaylov, the Russian Consul General of Toronto. The details of how Jacobson got wrapped up in this story stem from Wallace’s claim that Chipeur and Hallman retained his services to help track down a former member of the PBCC, Richard Marsh, a whistleblower. The latter blew the lid off an alleged PBCC scam that fraudulently siphoned millions of dollars from the UK’s National Health Service. According to both Jacobson and Wallace, the PBCC told them Marsh had warrants for his arrest, but they discovered Marsh did not have any outstanding arrest warrants after some due diligence. When Wallace and Jacobson informed Chipeur, Hallman, and the PBCC that no such warrants existed, Hallman allegedly requested that they “grab Marsh and turn him over to us.” “You got the wrong person,” Jacobson told them. He also said that when he was on the same call, he informed them that because of the attempted manipulation and what sounded to Jacobson like a request to help the PBCC kidnap Marsh, he would now do whatever it takes to protect Marsh from the PBCC. Jacobson’s motivation for speaking out appears to be his longtime friendship with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, who he says is in bed with radical Christian groups like the PBCC. He says he still considers Kenney, a friend. Jacobson took Kenney to Israel several times and said he appreciated Kenney’s steadfast support of the state of Israel. Jacobson added that he is intimately familiar with how politics works in various countries and stressed the importance of having access to both bagmen and money. *We can’t confirm any of what Mr. Jacobson told James Di Fiore, nor do we endorse it as truth. These are Mr. Wallace’s and Mr. Jacobson’s accounts of what they say are/were their experiences. https://deanblundell.com/news/nathan-jacobson-plymouth-brethren-church-asked-me-to-take-out-justin-trudeau/ I hope the RCMP has launched an investigation on this with an eye to laying charges and extradition.

Harris is likely suffering from terminal senesce.

Streaming is the future of TV, like it or not. Television networks per se are on their way out.

Just another S.O.B.

Mark my words, the CPC is headed for a Trumpian-wannbe party. The Cons have realized they cannot win with their current platform and are unwilling to change to a saner one. So, they will go full-monty and hope they can generate enough astro-turf hysteria and fake grievances that they can intimidate their way to either power or enough influence that the winning party will try to placate them with policies to soothe them.

What we need RIGHT NOW is a windfall profits tax on the petroleum industry. I was at the Costco gas bar last Friday and most people were NOT filling up as they were wont to do in the past. Most were putting in much smaller amounts of fuel, judging from how long they were at the pumps.

Teacher Wounded In Texas School Shooting Slams Police As 'Cowards' “You have a bulletproof vest, I had nothing. You’re supposed to protect and serve," said Uvalde teacher Arnulfo Reyes, whose 11 students all died. A teacher wounded in last month’s school shooting in Texas slammed first responders as “cowards” for standing by outside his classroom while the gunman killed all 11 of his young students as they tried to play dead. “You have a bulletproof vest, I had nothing. You’re supposed to protect and serve. There is no excuse for their actions and I will never forgive them. I will never forgive them,” Arnulfo Reyes said in an interview with “Good Morning America” Tuesday from a hospital, where he’s recovering from multiple gunshot wounds. The Robb Elementary School teacher said his class was watching a movie following a student awards ceremony around 11:30 a.m. on May 24 when they heard gunshots. He directed the kids to get under a table, just as they were trained, and told them to “act like you’re asleep.”

Which, like it or not, was why the Bombers found it necessary to move on from him.

Big usually means durable and Ellingson does not seem to have been injured often.

Probe Reveals Mysterious ‘Third Party’ Breached Michigan Voting Systems Amid Trumpworld’s Voter Fraud Frenzy -Getty Election officials in Michigan have reportedly told investigators about an unauthorized “third-party” accessing voting equipment amid Trumpworld’s push to expose what it claimed was voter fraud in the wake of his 2020 defeat. Citing newly obtained records, Reuters reports that state police have expanded their investigation into voting system breaches, with search warrants and memos revealing an additional three towns and one county under scrutiny. Investigators are said to be looking into a potential breach in Lake Township, and equipment in Irving Township was also reportedly seized for examination. In Roscommon County, two officials told investigators they handed over equipment to unauthorized people, the records show. In one case, a town’s two ballot tabulators were given to unidentified people for several weeks. State authorities announced a criminal investigation into the statewide breaches in early February, with at least 11 such incidents reported across the state. Although Trump won all the counties where the breaches are said to have occurred, his allies have argued that he should have won by a larger margin.

Russia has several areas in the far east and south east that are inhabited by people who are distinctly Mongolian in appearance. These areas are largely poor and uneducated and have been heavily relied upon to fill out the ranks of the Wagner group and kill-squads of the Russian army. For those who are unfamiliar with the Wagner group, it is loosely affiliated with the Russian army and is rented out as mercenaries. They are currently in Africa and many were brought to Ukraine, Georgia and Chechnya. Their commander is an out-and-out Nazi who shows off his swastikas at every opportunity. They were responsible for the atrocities at Bucha in Ukraine and other locations in Ukraine.

No doubt he would prefer everyone went back to Conestogas.

78 years ago today on D-Day, June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan of Vancouver, led D Company of Royal Winnipeg Rifles ashore at Juno beach. He would be shot 6 times, survive and go on to become Scotty on Star Trek.

A new COVID vaccine is coming. Will it sway anti-vaxxers? Anew COVID-19 vaccine could soon be available to Americans this summer — and the familiar protein technology used to make it may make the vaccine more palatable to those who were wary of mRNA vaccines, experts believe. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) advisory committee will meet to review Novavax's submission for its vaccine, dubbed NVX-CoV2373. If endorsed by the committee, the FDA will likely authorize the shot for adults 18 and over. The move would mark the fourth vaccine to be approved for emergency use authorization in the United States. Notably, the anticipated approval would make it the first new vaccine to be approved in over a year in the U.S. — and at a time when more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 have become the dominant strains in the United States, which the original vaccines weren't designed to target. The Novavax vaccine is already approved in the European Union, Canada, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia. Given that the original strain of COVID-19 has died out, having been superseded by newer, more virulent variants, the announcement of a new vaccine designed to fight the ancestral strain of SARS-CoV-2 might seem odd. Yet experts tell Salon that the Novavax vaccine is particularly exciting given that it may be attractive to people who hesitated to get the mRNA vaccines (which includes Moderna and Pfizer's shots) due to misinformation and fear. As of June 6, 2022, an estimated 66.7 percent of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); that includes 76 percent of adults over the age of 18. "Unfortunately, some of the other vaccines have gotten maligned by the anti-vaccine movement because they're not protein-based," Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center, told Salon. "This is a protein vaccine, it's very similar to other vaccines that people routinely get, so maybe those individuals who have been unfortunately swayed by the misinformation about the other vaccines may find this one more suitable." Adalja added that even though this vaccine is "more traditional," it is also innovative in its own way. https://www.salon.com/2022/06/06/a-fourth-vaccine-from-novavax-vaccine-is-coming-soon-will-it-sway-anti-vaxxers/