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  1. I also want to call foul on the ideas of two "founding peoples". This outdated meme is both historically and contemporarily inaccurate.
  2. bemoan a lack of youth political participation when youth are setting the political agenda and highly, visibly involved in pol. activities.
  3. Babies, I think commenting on specific iterations of Canadian punditry is probably meaningless. However, it seems silly to me for pundits to
  4. 25 more minutes of tornado warnings in Montreal. I'm ready... I've been calling my dog Toto for at least 5 minutes.
  5. U.S. WWII bomb found just under the grass where Bayern Munich played for decades. Google transl: bit.ly/K42GFW h/t @DougSaunders
  6. Ah, it's casserole drumming time! I like this much better than vuvuzelas. Reminds me of Stanley Cup finals... #manifencours
  7. This continuing Romney campaign Cory Booker meme is just getting weird, now bit.ly/JRJQ6O
  8. RT @308dotcom ThreeHundredEight.com [new post]: PQ and Liberals neck-and-neck as CAQ falls away. #qcpoli #polqc #assnat threehundredeight.blogspot.com/2012/05/pq-and…
  9. @kady I agree. I think thinking about "blogs" is a weird way to look at it anyways. It's a format. The news organization matters more.
  10. @kady Gawker, Wonkette, Daily Beast etc. are all full-time and staffed. And The Tyee is *really* not "legacy media", it's web-exclusive.
  11. @kady the Canadian equivalent of Gawker etc. is still the alternative press, generally localized. Xtra fits this bill as well.
  12. @kady Take a look at The Tyee. And to a lesser extent the Georgia Straight (also a print newsweekly, but substantial online presence.)
  13. RT @MiracleFortress Your whole city bangin pots and pans is actually the jam (via @popmontreal) #GGI
  14. Harvey Milk's life story really made me realize the huge importance of being visibly out as a queer bi/pan/whatever human being.
  15. It's Harvey Milk's birthday, so screen The Times of Harvey Milk, one of the best documentaries of all time: imdb.to/22O45 #canqueer
  16. I think there's room to vaguely criticize with an attack on the loi speciale and Charest's "handling".
  17. I've been mulling over whether benefits of differentiation from PLQ (and Charest esp!) would be worthwhile for both fed. parties
  18. Of course education is a provincial issue, but ask yourself how often provincial jurisdiction stops NDP & LPC wanting to interfere. #cdnpoli
  19. I wonder when NDP/LPC will stop cowardice re: position on Québec protests. How long can they get away with silence? #cdnpoli
  20. Looks like #22mai protest is shaping up to rival Montreal's Iraq war protests in '03, which I think had the prior record, no? #manifencours