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Ever have thematic problems? One year it was water problems. The basement flooded 2x. Then a toilet mysteriously overflowed while we were out & damaged the drywall in the basement. Then the septic alarm went off in the middle of the night & we had to get an emergency service 1/5
Then the outdoor tap froze and cracked and created a huge ice sculpture attached to the side of the house. And the shower leaked and had to be seen by a plumber 3 times before it was resolved. And then the dishwasher hose came unattached... 2/5
Another year it was mice. Mice got into the cottage in the summer. Then mice got into the house just before Xmas (we think they came in from the garage in a box of ornaments). It took ages to be mouse-free. Now our mouser dog inspects anything coming in from the garage. 3/5
This year it seems to be tires. One tire on my husband's car just goes flat periodically. Two tires on the quad won't hold air more than about 20 minutes. The quad trailer has a flat tire. The tire pressure light in my truck keeps going on...Garage says there's nothing wrong. 4/5
One of the quad tires has already been into the tire shop to be fixed, and it's leaking air again. And I need to use the quad and trailer for hauling mulch and peat moss this week. Seriously, what gives? 5/5 #FirstWorldProblems

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Sep 2
In the discussion of the new rules around trans girls in girls' sports, a few people have actually said the quiet part out loud. "Boys become trans to join girls' teams and get an advantage" and "Boys are claiming to be trans so they can spy on girls in the changeroom" Just
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wow. These people really, really don't get it. I am going to assume they come up with this crap because it would be their motivations to pretend to be a girl. The thing they aren't getting is, these kids are not pretending. This isn't play-acting to gain an advantage. These
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@WSOnlineNews Ok. This, right here, is disinformation. It is perpetuating the myth that Alberta, as a province, makes equalization payments. False premise. Everyone in Canada pays federal income tax at the same rate (based on income) no matter where they live. That money is pooled. This 1/
@WSOnlineNews pool of money from Canadians from across the country is used by the federal government to pay for many different things, like infrastructure and defense and social programs and trade negotiations and health and education transfers, and, yes, equalization. So what would Alberta 2/
@WSOnlineNews not making equalization payments look like, exactly? Since Alberta does not write a cheque to anyone for equalization?

Is the Western Standard advocating that Albertans stop paying Federal Income Tax? Are they in league with Diagolon and the crazy Queen Didalo now? 3/
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We just had an election. Before that we had two years of Poilievre's non-stop campaigning. Looks like he's going to keep campaigning. And the media wants to make everything a scandal. Take something normal and scream it so everyone gets alarmed. This is all exhausting.
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Could we not just have a nice, normal summer, like summers used to be? No 24/7 digging for dirt on Liberal MPs. No three word slogans. No hysterical headlines about nothing. No one trying to bring down the newly elected government...
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I don't want to know what the National Post thinks of the PM's wardrobe, or breakfast choices, or management style. In fact, I don't want to know what a Trump-aligned American right-wing hedge fund located in New Jersey thinks about anything to do with Canada.
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This is a "When did you stop beating your wife?" question. The person asking bases the premise of the question on the fact they have been reporting on a rumour all week. Really? So you report something based on speculation, then ask questions as though your speculation
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makes it real?

First, this rumour is not, apparently, based on any evidence because no evidence has been presented. Robert Fife's "unnamed sources" have been horribly wrong before. Remember Maher Arar?

So, how does this reporting fit into the principles of Journalistic
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Ethics? Let's have a look.

1. It must be true.
Hmmmm. Is it true? What assurances, other than the Globe & Mail has been saying it all week, do we have that there is any substance to this at all?

2. It must be verifiable.
OK, so what proof is there that any of this is real?
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I have been listening to @Justin_Ling 's podcast "The Village" again. I listened to the first season when it was new and only just now rediscovered it. It's all dreadful and shocking. The third season goes into what happened in Montreal to the LGBTQ2+ community, while the
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I see a lot of people say they are not into politics. They don't want to hear about politics, or talk about politics. They say it as though that makes them more pure then the people who do speak about politics. Like they are above all that. Certainly, for a
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#cdnpoli
long time, people avoided speaking about politicis as a matter of politeness. That prohibition on talking about politics (or religion, or income) was always presented as a way to avoid conflict, but in fact, it is a way for the wealthy to prevent people from organizing,
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These days, a lack of political awareness is actively encouraged by the far right, for precisely the same reasons. People who don't listen to the news, or read the news, or talk about the
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