Like this. Also, who follows him.

Life is funny.

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Great Summer poppiness. Bit of Stealers Wheel riffage at start, which is never bad.

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The best thing about this story is that it’s in the Caledon Citizen. Take that, Parliamentary Press Gallery!

Okay, Reformatory and Dipper commenters, start posting dozens of over-the-top remarks about how Justin doesn’t worry you at all, not at all, and how you are simply genuinely worried for Grits who favour Justin. Go!

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From the Swedish mop tops’ latest waxing.  Saw ’em last night, for about the hundredth time.  They’re still the best live performers in rock’n’roll.  Why they aren’t bigger than the Stones is beyond me.

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…received via email, this morn. There’s a link, too, wherein one thing explains the other.

I guess.

Deborah Coyne @DebCoyne is now following you (@kinsellawarren).

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Radio Canada International’s shortwave service was, quite literally, Canada’s voice to the world for nearly seventy years – through wars, through triumphs and disasters, through it all. It has literally been part of our history. When I was an election observer in Bosnia in 1996, billeted with a Serbian family, I was glued to my tiny shortwave radio at nights. I’d listen to the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the news from back home, and I was pretty grateful that RCI existed.

You may not know it, because so many of you are in Canada or Internet-dependent, but RCI went off the shortwave airwaves this week. Last night, my sons and I actually pulled over to the side of the road to listen to RCI’s Marc Montgomery say goodbye.  Even for my youngest son, it was emotional.

Why should you care? Does it matter? It matters. Billion-dollar fighter jets and super jails, before a pittance for a radio station that subtly promoted democracy, and decency, around the world. In small but undeniable ways, the Conservatives are chipping away at the notion of what Canada was, and what it is. It is thoughtless, it is ideological, it is done without any appreciation of our history or our shared culture: the Harper regime are denuding us of the things that make us uniquely Canadian. To ourselves, and to the world.

I urge you to watch this man saying goodbye to RCI. By the very end of it, I suspect some of you will be left feeling as I did – namely, hating the guts of some of the bastards in this “government,” and determined to do something about it.

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I’ll be on David Akin’s show tonight to discuss this stuff.

Sure wish it was 2014, and not 2012. We could win the damned election!

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The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, the governor general informs us on a slick vice-regal website, is “a new commemorative medal … created to mark the 2012 celebrations of the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the Throne as Queen of Canada.”

The medal, enthused the GG, “is a tangible way for Canada to honour Her Majesty for her service to this country. At the same time, it serves to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.”

How nice! How “tangible!” In all, around 60,000 Canadians will receive the shiny silver medals, which have a likeness of the Queen on one side, and her insignia and some maple leafs on the reverse side. To get one, you need to be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, you need to have made “a significant contribution” to the country, and you needed to be alive as of February of this year.

It also doesn’t hurt, apparently, if you are a Conservative Party hack, a separatist, a banker, a conservative tax lobbyist, a conservative cheerleader, or even a member of an organization with links to white supremacy and homophobia.

Many people who have received the medals are deserving of recognition, of course. But others associated with the medals don’t deserve them, at all.
Here’s a sampling:

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