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@tanjil_rashid_ @ZareerMasani @saliltripathi 1. #Partition1947 counterfactuals aren't counterintuitive. #Partition ended a zero sum game among the same stale set of interlocutors conducting a dialogue of the deaf #Simla, June '45 onwards. #CabinetMissionPlan's devolution did NOT solve #India's impasse.
@tanjil_rashid_ @ZareerMasani @saliltripathi 2. #Jinnah accepted the #CabinetMissionPlan for an embryonic #Pakistan was assured, and permitted to secede, come 1957, if the #confederation was not to the #MuslimLeague's liking. Routinely overlooked by #Nehru's #Indian and #Pakistani baiters.
@tanjil_rashid_ @ZareerMasani @saliltripathi 3. To iterate: #CabinetMissionPlan was a pilot project to be reviewed decadally. Just how was #India and #Nehru to embark on #economic #planning and consolidate a #democratic #union of disparate elements riven by #regionalism, #casteism and #sectarianism?
If you relied upon Facebook and Twitter for information, you would probably think that Albertans are all starving because they are keeping the rest of Canada in the lap of luxury. Albertans are bombarding social media with posts about how hard done by they are.
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We have another Province in our Federation that is also an oil producing Province, Newfoundland and Labrador. When Mr Harper and Mr Kenney designed the current Equalisation programme in 2011, they carefully excluded NFLD because of their offshore oil.
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The average family income in Nfld is about 35% lower than Alberta, housing is cheaper, but everything else is more expensive because of geography. If their electricity utility is to stay solvent they need to double the price to the consumer.
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Excited to see the #DowntonAbbeyMovie? Here's the history of that amazing building...which is actually #HighclereCastle in #England but we will call it by the name we all know and love: #DowntonAbbey!
#nspoli #DowntonAbbeyFilm #NovaScotia #NS #builtheritage @DowntonAbbey
#nspoli #DowntonAbbeyFilm #NovaScotia #NS #builtheritage @DowntonAbbey
@DowntonAbbey #DowntonAbbey's land was granted to the Church in 749 and held by it for 800 years. A bishop's home (a palace, really) was built in the 1300s. The land was taken from the church in 1551 during the #ProtestantReformation and it’s been owned by several families since.
#nspoli #NS
#nspoli #NS
@DowntonAbbey The bishop’s palace at the site of #DowntonAbbey was rebuilt in 1679 as a #brick manor house (the drawing below). Some of the brick can still be seen at the building’s rear. In the 1700s, formal gardens and paths were built.
#nspoli #NS #NovaScotia #DowntonAbbeyMovie
#nspoli #NS #NovaScotia #DowntonAbbeyMovie
