It appears to be something he does. He recorded one for CHUO (University of Ottawa radio) a couple of weeks ago.
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Shut up, Stevie. You lost. This isn’t your call anymore.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland scoffed at Harper’s missive.
“We will continue to defend Canadian interests,” Freeland tweeted on Friday night. “Capitulation is not a negotiating strategy.”
I remember well when Jean Chretien declined to join the Coalition of the Willing and invade Iraq. Harper slithered out from under his rock to publicly apologize to G. W. Bush on behalf of all of us.
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Canadian ticket scalper’s multimillion-dollar StubHub scheme targets big acts like Adele, Drake, Metallica
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The Canadian Legion is claiming both the photo of the poppy flower in the top part of the image and the poppy doughnuts in the bottom are trademark infringements.
While I agree the doughnuts are inappropriate and that protecting the poppy symbol is important, I don’t see claiming every image of a poppy as legitimate.
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Seriously? Can we just have the usual news of someone stealing the poppy box from Timmies?
Instead we have to have a news about a poppy donut? So dumb.
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Between the doughnuts and the absurdly overextended trademark enforcement, I agree it’s dumb all around.
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Meanwhile, Harry Leslie Smith, an actual WWII veteran (currently on a book fucking tour at 94!) won’t wear a poppy and hasn’t since 2014.
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Less amusingly:
Loss of local media can be disastrous.
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This is just huge. The loss of small press local media is horrifying.
I mean people already hate Toronto… getting all your news out of only one outlet based in Tdot?
Jesus its nuts. We’re so insular here its terrible.
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I remember when I lived in London ON, the afternoon CBC radio show had traffic reports for Toronto. It was very weird to hear it when you knew you were 200km away.
I’m just thinking of all the news they’re gonna miss. It was under-reported before.
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I’m looking at the list of papers: Kanata Kourier-Standard, Orleans News, Ottawa East News, Ottawa South News, Ottawa West News… The Glebe Report still remains, but that is outside of Postmedia’s control (independent volunteer-run paper).
Maybe time to break up Postmedia.
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I was trying to find a video of the Jagmeet Singh (leader of the NDP) dancing, and I failed.
BUT I did find this.
Which is these lovely guys trying to teach MPs how to dance. 
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For the TOers, some glamour shots:
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And a TO inside joke:
I always feel so sorry for Paul Magdar.
(That fur store is one of few left in the fur district.)
And we all owe our Sunday shopping to Paul.
He was a pioneer, and he got sorely punished for it.
I wanted to go buy a pink fur from him when he was closing and I didn’t and I regret it!
Side note: an alternative bar I went to in the late 80s early 90s was in the basement of a building in the fashion district, and often in the alley we’d find discarded moth eaten fur coats, that were no good for rich people, but were excellent for us freaks. We all had mink collars and fox tails for a while, until they all fell apart. Catch-22, you were a hell of a place.
“http://thenandnowtoronto.com/2014/09/then-now-catch-22/” - I’m in one of those photos, and no I won’t say which. 
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I am not sure that we’re truly as different as implied, or that Canada can claim all the high ground, but:
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I think we’re more different now than we have been in the past.
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So… we think there’s a serial killer in Toronto, targeting young women who are out late at night.
There’s been 3 missing women from the same area in three fucking days!
One was found strangled (by her Mom who drove all the way down from North Bay because the police are less than fucking useless!) the other two are still missing.
https://twitter.com/canadianpup/status/937493174838333441
Click through for the thread, its worth reading.
Also, in the same area, is a man in a black car pretending to be an uber and trying to pick up people.
This literally happened to a friend. She was out drinking, called an uber at 2AM, and got in the wrong car. The uber driver SAW her, and phoned her asking her why she’d gotten in the other car, and she freaked out and started screaming and the dude kept driving, but the real uber driver followed them flashing his lights and honking and eventually the dude stopped and she ran out and got in the uber. The dude sped away and neither got his plate. And now we have numerous people missing and some shady shit happening.
As someone who was a teenager during the Scarborough Rapist years and Paul Bernardo/Karla Homolka, this is all rather terrifyingly familiar.
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