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FORESEEABLE CONSEQUENCES ARE NOT UNINTENDED: Five major Canadian banks were hit by an hours-long outage on Wednesday, convincing some that a bank run might be occurring.

 

A PROPER DRESSING-DOWN: Mad respect for Canadian MP Melissa Lantsman for her brief floor speech in parliament. Come for the delicious calling-out of Trudeau for his hypocrisy, stay for his whiny rebuttal, enjoy the complimentary mint of MP Pierre Poilievre’s tweet.

 

 

GORD UPDATE: Our friend Gordilocks may have been banned from Twitter, an honor, really, but is alive and well on Gettr, and still fighting the good fight. Give ’em hell, Gord.

 

 

POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Leading off is Taylor Dysart, a PhD candidate in the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, where her research examines the intertwined worlds of healing, science, indigeneity and settler colonialism in the Amazon. As WaPo commenter 20thCenturyLtd succinctly put it: I am truly tired of some historians (or, perhaps, their WP editors) taking any pretext to shove their pet lesson down my throat. Based on what I read here, the story of public health towards the Canadian First Nations is, at best, tangential to the headlined theme, and the author herself doesn’t trouble to touch upon it until para 3.

 

 

POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Following up is James Antle, who states the obvious but misses the opportunity to remind the left that this may someday be used against them.