Elections are often a choice between who’s least bad, and PP would be terrible in defending Canada against attacks by Trump. PP has no academic nor business credibility. He’s not well known outside MAGA USA who support him. His policies have been Trump-lite for years.
I’m quite sure he’d be a lightweight in international matters. Trump and his appointees would try to walk all over him.
So far, PP has refused to get top-secret clearance so officials with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) could share intelligence on foreign interference with him.
I’ll be voting for Mark Carney. Various roles at Goldman Sachs. Governor of the Bank of Canada. Governor of the Bank of England. United Nations (UN) special envoy for climate action and finance. Well known and respected as an economist.
He could have run for the Conservative Party leadership, legitimately. In 2012, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked Carney—who was then governor of the Bank of Canada—if he would join the Conservative government as minister of finance.
He completed the 2015 London Marathon in 3 hours, 31 minutes.
Actually, my current Conservative MP in Calgary Centre, Greg McLean, is very good. I won’t be disappointed if he is reelected. A loyal opposition is an important part of our Westminster-styleparliamentarydemocracy.
I wrote to tell him I had to vote against PP. No reply. 😀
Vancouver Island, where my Mom lives, will elect either NDP or Conservative representatives in 2025.
I’d vote to reelect Gord Johns of the NDP. Seems to me he’s been doing a terrific job.
When Tricia discovers a room of secret tape recordings in Adrienne’s house and starts listening to them, the truth about Adrienne’s murder is revealed, as are secrets about Tricia’s and Ethan’s own murderous pasts. …
Never Lie is told via two alternating points of view, shifting back and forth between the voices of Patricia Lawton, first introduced only as “Tricia,” and Dr. Adrienne Hale. Tricia’s voice narrates the present, while Adrienne’s voice narrates the past. …
Set in 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley, Dark Winds follows Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police as he is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes.
The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past.
He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee. Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation.
Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other and their own personal demons on the path to salvation.
This show is on AMC and AMC+ — two services I’ve never used.
Somehow it was showing via our Cable TV service under “On Demand”. Some of that On Demand contents is FREE … at times.
The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed!
Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she’s generally happy with her life, even if she can’t figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she’d rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers.
There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C who is compulsively checking his watch, desperate not to miss his eleven-year-old daughter’s musical. Further back, a mother of two is frantically trying to keep her toddler entertained and her infant son quiet. How did she ever think being a stay-at-home mom would be easier than being a lawyer? Ethan is lost in thought; he’s flying back from his first funeral. A young couple has just gotten married; she’s still wearing her wedding dress. An emergency room nurse is looking forward to traveling the world once she retires in a few years, it’s going to be so much fun! If they ever get off the tarmac. . . .
Suddenly a woman none of them know stands up. She makes predictions about how and when everyone on board will die. …
How would you live your life if you thought you knew how it would end? Would you love who you love or try to love someone else? Would you stay married? Would you stop drinking? Would you call up your ex-best friend you haven’t spoken to in years? Would you quit your job?
For me it was less a plot than a series of slices of life. The characters unrelated — other than their reactions to what happened on the plane.
At times I found the book long.
Still — it’s unique. And it will make you consider your own life.
Are YOU living each day as if you already know the year of your death?
Unfortunately, the plot is even more absurd than usual. I was tempted to quit.
As the book opens, President Lucas Kent is meeting with General Wayne Grissom, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the White House. …
Violent attacks have been peppering the nation, and Kent and Grissom don’t know if foreign or domestic terrorists are to blame — or a combination of both. Their fear is that there will be bigger and deadlier ones, culminating in an unprecedented attack on the nation’s capital. …
Sampson goes on a clandestine mission in which no cavalry will be called upon to bail him out should it all go sideways. …
Borrowing its basic plot structure from Agatha Christie‘s And Then There Were None (Christie’s book is directly referenced by some of the characters at several points), it tells the story of a group of seven university students who travel to a deserted island that was the scene of a grisly mass murder six months earlier, where events soon turn ominous.
Rick McCharles 