Mike

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What do you think of “hands off” as a protest slogan? I like “elbows up” better, but “hands off” probably fits the purpose of the U.S. protests better

Hands off protest tweet

Terrible news that Stratford Festival lost $1 million last year. For a long time I've thought Stratford received too much government money, but I also don't want to see it flounder while Canada is struggling.

Thinking of going back to Twitter? Elon asked for feedback today and an account with almost 500,000 followers pointed out that his post was only viewed 696 times in the first hour after posting. The Twitter algorithm is designed to hide unpopular posts.

Twitter post

Did you watch any of the liberal party debate last night? IMO, from a public speaking pov, most impressive were Katrina Gould and Chrystia Freeland, then Frank Bayliss and finally Mark Carney.

Excluding Minnesota, the U.S. states about to get hit hardest by an Arctic air mass all voted for Trump. Cast your vote a) Do you think Trump will be there to take care of them if disaster strikes? b) Or will a lot of red state voters be having a "Leopard ate my face moment"? (please retweet)

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Trump is after Canadian land and he’s announcing new tariffs and tariff threats daily to force us into submission. They are trying to strangle us just like the Union army did to the southern states in the Civil War 175 years ago with “Anaconda plan” Trump understands 19th century history.

The Anaconda plan