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Please, please, PLEASE bring back the NLP. Lord knows we can all use the laughs. British politics does that so well: the NLP was our Lord Buckethead.

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For any others who have kids who want to suddenly try out new instruments… Long and McQuade has half price instrument rentals for the month of March

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The Conservatives have already started running attack ads. Seems like an endorsement to me. But I left the party when it reneged on electoral reform, a betrayal that just keeps on giving. After 15 years of PR in Scotland, coming home to 19th-century First Past The Post was, frankly, embarrassing.

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Why indeed.

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For historians of Canadian sport, watching this particular intersection between sport and life – and its significance for the public images of two first-rank national sporting celebrities who seemed teflon-coated not so many years ago – has felt historic in its own right.

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Or if you're feeling like supporting a Canadian sports institution right now, when the options are imported sports products that enrich fervent supporters of El Gringo Loco.

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Yes, it was. Especially when you consider that people in the media were calling for Gregor Townsend to be sacked after the loss. The SRFU needs to give this decision robust support.

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Wally Gabler put in a solid shift for the Argos in the late Sixties, and got within a great Russ Jackson performance of a Grey Cup berth in 1968. He also had a nasty habit of beating the Argos after he was traded away. Condolences to his family and friends.

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Superb. Golfo del Gringo Loco is definitely getting stolen!

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Coming soon to a street near you.

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Canada should apply for membership in the European Union. Not that it would result in us being a member, but to send an “outside the box” message about global realignment.

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Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own

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Yup. Almost lost it yesterday. Thank heavens the campus closed for snow. Teaching today would have been a stretch.

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Clued up for today's Big Game!

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Nicely expressed. By definition this view is aligned AGAINST fascist and fundamentalist ideologies - but it is not aligned WITH any (and any academic can testify to the diversity of our political alignments).

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Hopefully this wee chap had a better year than the Argonauts, who that season had a losing record for the first time since 1909.

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if you like railway barges, underwater archaeology, treasure hunts, and/or the slocan valley of british columbia, youll probably find something to enjoy in this movie about the search for a cpr locomotive that sank 700+ ft deep in slocan lake in 1947. #bchist #cdnhist www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPKw...

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That could be a real hoot, if the tickets aren't all bought up by British and European people.

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Very sad news. Bob was incredibly generous with his time and support when I was one of a group of graduate student early medievalists at Edinburgh trying to set up a society. A brilliant and brave scholar who will be missed by all of us.

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The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

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New slide to open today's Canadian Sport History class. Question for the students: "Why would such a thing happen at a sporting event, of all places?" Funnily enough, Thursday's topic is "Cultural Imperialism: the case of Canadian sport".

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The truth. Not a word about drugs, migrants, or any of the other things he invented to use the "security" loophole in the trade agreement he just ripped up.

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PREDICTION: If you're an Ontario bourbon drinker, and this embargo gets you to switch to Gibsons, Wiser, or Crown Royal for your nip of something after a long day at the grindstone, you are never going back.

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CBC’s coverage of the tariffs today is a prime example of why we need a strong public broadcaster.

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CBC's wall-to-wall coverage of this crisis is another great example of why we should value Canada's public broadcaster

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The crowd at the #Sens game in Ottawa boo’s the U.S. National anthem. Then belts out the Canadian anthem. Tariffs related? #cdnpoli

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do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

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This is not about fentanyl. Or immigration. It's about the President of the United States imagining he can leverage our economic relationship to run our country. It is 100% an act of imperialist aggression.

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Old Dutch is American (Minnesota). Humpty Dumpty was Canadian (Winnipeg) but sold out to Old Dutch twenty years ago. Double check these lists if they are your thing.

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List of Canadian Brands to make shopping a little easier. 🇨🇦

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Slides from an upcoming class on how and why Canadian football rules have changed since 1921.

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