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we lost a wall off the local indoor ice rink (about a mile from here), the UM Hockey Arena lost part of its roof. The high winds were very localized - we had incredible sheeting rain but very little wind at our house.

n word was still in very wide currency in '50s America.

Lessons for the Democrats? By Calder McHugh Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the 2026 Liberal National Convention in Montreal, Canada, on April 11, 2026. | Andrej Ivanov/AFP via Getty Images MONTREAL — What happened last year in Canada is by now a matter of political lore. Harnessing a wave of Canadian nationalism in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s belligerent rhetoric, Prime Minister Mark Carney implored voters to get their “elbows up” and led his Liberal Party to victory after trailing badly in the polls. Then, in January, Carney won international acclaim for delivering the most consequential speech at Davos, arguing that a “rupture in the world order” required a new approach from middle powers like Canada. Yet even as Carney’s global stature grew and his popularity surged, his Liberal Party remained short of a majority government — until last night. By sweeping three special elections, Carney finally has a majority in Parliament. The victory should keep Carney in office until 2029, and it enables him to more easily enact a domestic agenda that includes trade policies designed to reduce Canada’s economic reliance on the United States. But it also offers lessons for center-left parties around the globe as they struggle for relevance amid the rise of the populist far right. The election results come on the heels of a jarring — and perhaps revealing — moment in Canadian politics. Last week, Marilyn Gladu, a former Conservative MP, crossed the floor to join the Liberals, becoming the fifth member in a year to do so, along with three other Conservatives and a New Democrat. Gladu, however, stood out among the group. A social conservative who won her safely Conservative riding in 2025 by over 15 points, when she arrived on stage at the Liberal Party Convention in Montréal on Friday, she was such an unlikely convert that her appearance was met with a mix of modest applause and pointedly folded arms. In the media scrum afterward, as journalists shouted questions about her seemingly contradictory past positions, she insisted that this is what her constituents want. “It’s going to be good for the riding … good for the country … and it’s good for me personally as well,” Gladu said. The last point is the operative one. Success has begotten success for Canada’s Liberals. People like a winner. And Carney has laid the groundwork for this directional change. As POLITICO’s Nick Taylor-Vaisey recently noted, the current version of Canada’s Liberals looks a lot more like that of the early 2000s, when social conservatives were more commonplace within the party. And while much has been made of the backlash to Trump that has advanced Liberal Party fortunes, Carney has also signaled he intends to be a big-tent leader, ideologically and stylistically different from his more polarizing predecessor, Justin Trudeau. A technocratic former central banker more comfortable in board rooms than on the stump, Carney has nevertheless leaned into gladhanding with voters. He has cast himself as a change candidate — and revisited a decade of Liberal policy on climate, taxes and federal public service expansion — without entirely jettisoning Trudeau’s priorities. “If I’m a Conservative … I want to campaign against giving Liberals a fifth term rather than Mark Carney a second,” said Gerald Butts, the chairman of the Eurasia Group and a senior strategic advisor to Carney and Trudeau. “But in order to do that, you have to make the case that he’s the same old, same old. And I think that’s going to be a tough brief.” For now, as political parties of all stripes around the globe become more insular and more insistent on purity tests, Carney’s broadening of the definition of a Canadian Liberal is expanding his coalition at home. And his willingness to forcefully buck the United States has made him a leader in nascent global attempts to build a new Western alliance without Washington as its beating heart. But, as pollster Philippe Fournier said, “When you have a big tent, how much can you stretch the fabric until it snaps?”

NBA couldn't have asked for a better start to the post-season. Both of those games were really good, tight matchups, with drama all the way until the end. That said, I have no idea how the refs don't review that cheap shot by Ball. He should've been ejected from the game. During a dead-ball you can look at a previous three pointer to make sure the guy was behind the line, but you can't review a potential hostile act that takes out a team's best player? That's insane.

I want them to draft a TE to see the forum have an aneurism.

i thinm the wings collapsed. they were never as good as their early season results, as evidenced by their goal differential. if there is any bad luck involved, its that they play in the toughest division in the sport. those things are cyclical and the wings are in a bad place for their own cycle. the real question were all asking is why is it taking so long to get better? their peers are doing better than they are. i just dont see the positives in the farm system. they have no star players it seems. that's what they really need. I would not be surprised if they get desperate and shell out the farm for EP40.

As long as it's a free and fair election, I agree.

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What is the problem you see in the article quoted in the meme that highlights your point? I'm missing it.

i was agreeing with you. 🙂

When Von Hayes went to the Phillies. Pete Rose said: "I was suprised to find out that you were white because everybody told me how fast you were." To give the devil his due, Rose was not racist though. He reportedly went out of his way to befriend Black players at time when things were still segregated.

Getting back to the weather… so, have there been any tornadoes or massive flooding yet?

It's out fault—they were telling us exactly what they were doing by projecting onto their enemies, and we weren't sophisticated to see that in the moment.

Once Harris got his hands on them!

And he said it in public! And it was considered OK!

The second and fifth round picks were pretty good!

I’m glad no one here said Bernie Sanders taught Trump to pardon criminals.

Blame the technology instead of the AV crew if you like, but it hasn't escaped my notice that almost no other team's broadcast has the same problem.

Already spiking the football on Gage Workman to the full credit of Al Avila, are we? 😁

I had to look that up… sheesh… "I finally get a n*****, and I get the only one who can't run"

It's debatable how racist Branch Rickey himself might have been—he was born in 19th Century America, after all, so even if he were in, say, the least racist 10% of the white population of the time, he almost surely still engaged in a paternalism borne of the assurance of an entrenched superior racial status. But it is also completely understandable that Rickey had to be very careful to choose the one black player who would be the most acceptable/least unacceptable to the out racists among his colleagues. There were any number of other players Rickey could have selected who would not have had the fortitude to withstand the brickbats of the first two years and, as importantly, to finally stand up for himself on the field starting in year three. That third year was crucial in the development of black player acceptance, because it paved the way for Jack and the others to be regarded as a player same as everyone else, and not just as a novelty colored player. RIP Jackie Robinson.

I have always suspected that his career ending injury had more to do with the insane number of innings he pitched as a rookie more than overcompensating for his Spring training knee injury.

Games I’ve attended that stand out in my mind: As mentioned above, Cubs in 1998. I still have the ticket stub. Last game at Tiger Stadium Cabrera walk off homer August 17, 2013 Kenny Rogers game 2006. It was absolutely electric in that park.

I was there!