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  2. good news thread (non polItical please)

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    Here's another "business" struggling because of the coronavirus pandemic: kids' lemonade stands.

    According to lemonade brand Country Time, the popular summertime fixtures in neighborhoods across the nation are closed "due to social distancing guidelines."

    So, Country Time has launched the "Littlest Bailout Relief Fund" to help put a "little juice back into the economy."  

    The brand owned by Kraft Heinz announced in a news release that it will send stimulus checks to kids who can't operate their lemonade stands this summer.

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    "So, when life gives you social distancing, make lemonade."

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/07/18/country-time-bailout-relief-coronavirus-closed-lemonade-stands-stimulus-checks/5464290002/

  4. Canadian Politics

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    Canada’s most decorated Indigenous war veteran, Sgt. Tommy Prince, deserves to be the face of the new $5 bill, say Manitoba’s Conservative MPs.

    Prince’s life exemplifies both incredible sacrifice and bravery and the persistent racism faced by Indigenous people in Canada, said Sen. Donald Plett and eight MPs, including Conservative House leader Candice Bergen and National Defence critic James Bezan, in a letter sent to the Minister of Finance last week.  

     

    Prince earned 11 medals in the Second World War and the Korean War, and was one of three Canadians to receive both the American Silver Star and the Military Medal, presented by King George VI at Buckingham Palace in 1945. 

    However, when Prince returned to his home province of Manitoba, he endured discrimination, poverty and illness and died while living in a Winnipeg shelter at the age of 62.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/tommy-prince-indigenous-hero-five-dollar-bill_ca_5efb4e84c5b6acab2847629f?ncid=other_topvideos_cp1pj3fgmfs&utm_campaign=top_videos

  9. Renaming Sports Teams

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    If you want to get an insight into an Inuit discussion of this issue I strongly recommend reading this article in the local Iqaluit (Nunavut) newspaper:

    https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/edmonton-football-club-responds-to-new-calls-for-a-name-change/

    It's not so much the article itself but rather the comments on it that I found really interesting. Just a random example:

    Posted by Northern Inuit on 6 July, 2020

    just because you have a twitter account doesn’t make you the be all and end all voice of eskimo’s and inuit alike.

    talk to us, many of your fellow inuit love the name Edmonton Eskimo’s.

    I’m not a fan of the CFL, but I’m proud and happy that Edmonton chose their name.

    now wash your hands and stop worrying about the small things.

  14. Least favourite non-Bomber

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    1 hour ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

    Calgary - no one real despicable for me despite their run of success. I'm sure someone can remind me of someone to hate (Burris is tolerable for me)

    Bobby Dobbs, Calgary's Coach from 1961-64. He was such a **** head that Bud Grant wouldn't shake hands with him. And I stopped buying Fudgicles when I noticed that they were made in Calgary (I was quite young at the time.)

  18. Covid-19

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    Odd that in the above article the CBC doesn't mention Canada's role in helping to develop the AD5-nCoV vaccine:

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    But the good news is that CanSino Biologic’s partnership with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) should guarantee a Canadian supply if the vaccine proves officially viable for mass production, according to Dr. Joanne Langley of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology.

    "We'll likely be producing the vaccine on Canadian soil so it gives us security of supply," Langley told The Canadian Press May 22.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/what-we-know-about-the-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-about-to-be-tested-on-canadians-1.4955799

  24. US Politics

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    On this forum select "Reply to this post". Then in another tab, on the tweet you want to post, you'll see a button with an arrow pointing upwards in its bottom right-hand corner. Click on it and select "Copy link to tweet". Back here in the reply window, click in the 'Quote' marks and paste the link you just copied into the quote box. Finally select "Post as plain text instead" and it should work.

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    witter.https://twitter.com/DrGJackBrown/status/1274573029343821824?s=20com/DrGJackBrown/status/1274573029343821824?s=20

     

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