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Looks grim and funny at the same time, but they didn't give the dog proper star billing.

They have an interesting concept of "legal". Perhaps they ought to consult an attorney.

Trudeau's response to the pandemic was appropriate and effective, gaining him a lot of voter support, but he damned near blew it by calling an election when no one wanted it. I am assuming it was his call, but somehow I doubt it.

A quote from Winston Churchill" Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other forms that have been tried". And so it is.

And head coach in waiting.

The takeaways from the election: 1. Trudeau had a majority of Canadians supporting him until he decided to call an election in the middle of a pandemic. I suspect he and his advisors decided that the pandemic would be mostly over by mid-September and decided to roll the dice. Such is politics. 2. O'Toole was not a popular enough figurehead to offset core PC ideology that is way behind most Canadian values on abortion, carbon taxing, environment, Medicare, and gun control. The right-wingers will agonize over their losses but cannot see that they will keep wandering in the political wilderness with that mindset. 3. Trudeau did much to disqualify himself from a second term, but I believe that it came down to him being the lesser of evils. 4. The NDP is still not seen as a viable option as a governing federal party. 5. Trudeau will be gone by spring, and the PCs will resort to their traditional back-stabbing of a failed leader by that time as well.

Texas Abortion Doctor Sued For Violating State’s New Abortion Ban A San Antonio doctor who admitted defying Texas’ new abortion law by performing the procedure on a woman who was more than six weeks pregnant may have to defend his decision in court. Dr. Alan Braid wrote an essay published Saturday in The Washington Post in which he said he’d performed the abortion on the woman earlier this month, despite the state law that now bans abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy. The doctor’s goal, besides a “duty of care” to his patient, was to “make sure that Texas didn’t get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested,” he wrote in an essay published Saturday in The Washington Post. Now it looks like Braid will get to say more: An Arkansas man filed a lawsuit against him on Monday, according to The Washington Post. Oscar Stilley, a former lawyer convicted of tax fraud in 2010 and serving a 15-year sentence on home confinement, told the paper that, though he is not personally opposed to abortion, he thinks the measure should be subject to judicial review. “If the law is no good, why should we have to go through a long, drawn-out process to find out if it’s garbage?” Stilley told the Post after filing the complaint in state court in Bexar County, where San Antonio is located. The new law skirts judicial scrutiny by letting people file civil lawsuits against abortion practitioners and anyone who “aids” in an illegal abortion. Plaintiffs who win in court can receive bounties of at least $10,000, and Stilley admits he wouldn’t mind the cash. “If the state of Texas decided it’s going to give a $10,000 bounty, why shouldn’t I get that 10,000 bounty?” he said. Texas Abortion Doctor Sued For Violating State's New Abortion Ban | HuffPost

That is a tough call. Sometimes if an athlete is struggling, pulling him/her out for a bit allows for a reset of the mind. Leaving him/her in can really screw up a struggling athlete.

The same is now true in Idaho, Florida and a couple of others. Many states are at that point as well but are trying to keep it quiet to avoid panic.

Sooooo,,,they've been drinking?

Can we say "hypocrisy", children?

This is probably the new baseline and there will probably be a few spikes. I am most concerned by the number of patients in the ICUs. If they drop, it would be a great sign.

Even if its a Liberal majority, he's a goner.

One way or another, regardless of the election outcome, I suspect this will be Justin Trudeau's swan song. He has shown poor judgement and calling the election (if it was his choice) would be the coup de grace. Besides, someone has to take the bullet.

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. Excellent!!!

If they possibly can, they will. If they are in a dead heat with the Liberals and the Liberals are asked to form a coalition, the Cons will probably scream bloody murder.

I'm pretty sure that the collective egos of the Cons would not allow them to be measured in their governance, and that would lead to another election. When you promise to relax gun laws, reduce access to abortion and begin to privatize healthcare and yet not deliver, that would arouse ire among supporters. The Liberals, NDP and Bloc would stop those dead in their tracks.

The shopping cart incident was bad enough, but the road rage incident was downright scary and is a good indication of the degree of fanaticism in the anti-vaxxer camp. Anti-vaxx couple dies of virus after claiming they survived pandemic despite being unvaccinated Another day, another anti-vaxxer death. As the delta variant continues to spread across the country, anti-vaxxers are not only filling up hospitals but facing death. Almost every day, news of a popular anti-vaxxer being hospitalized or dying as a result of COVID-19 seems to make headlines. In the most recent incident, two YouTubers from Alabama who were popular for online resale tips died as a result of COVID-19 days after they posted a video confirming they would never get vaccinated, AL.com reported. "We are ALIVE and still Reselling on eBay," the couple said in their last video. The couple, Dusty Graham and Tristan Graham, known as "Alabama Pickers," posted quite a few videos on their YouTube channel denying COVID-19. The channel has since then been taken down, but their last video remains online reposted through other accounts, including the channel "Vaxx Mann." That channel belongs to the website sorryanitvaxxer.com, which is dedicated to resharing social media posts from people who publicly opposed the COVID-19 vaccine only to later die from the virus. According to a GoFundMe page set up by their children, Dusty died Thursday after battling COVID-19 for three weeks. His wife had "passed suddenly in her sleep" weeks earlier due to coronavirus complications on Aug. 25. "Unfortunately Dusty and Tristan have both passed away," the couple's daughter, Windsor Graham, said. "Thank you for all the kind words and helping us during this difficult time. We will be using the money to pay for funeral expenses." The announcement of their deaths follows an announcement from Dusty weeks earlier that he was in the ICU "battling it [COVID-19] out." The 90-minute video came days before his announcement and addressed in detail why the couple would never get vaccinated and their stance on other COVID-19 measures. "Still haven't gotten the you know what," Dusty said before mimicking a syringe jab. "Still not planning on getting it." Anti-vaxx couple dies of virus after claiming they survived pandemic despite being unvaccinated - Alternet.org

That Wilder scored two TDs running up the middle would indicate that our run coverage could be better.

So far, I am pleased to read that the disagreements have been reasonably civil on this forum, and I hope it continues- the ad hominem postings add nothing to the debates and serve only to turn people off. Similarly, every win ought to be celebrated, but let us keep in mind that we are unlikely to go undefeated for the rest of the season.

It seems to me that the Liberal ad blitz over the weekend highlighting the O'Toole/Conservative policies that are out of step with the majority of Canadian voters' values was pretty effective. And yes, the lunatic-fringe PPC party will hurt the Conservatives in key ridings.

There have been a couple of ugly incidents reported in Winkler. In one a woman in a store was photographing maskless shoppers, one of whom tried to run her off the road when she left. In the other, a maskless person reported that a masked person pushed a shopping cart and swore at him. No arrests have been made as yet. I guess this sort of thing was bound to happen.