Ah, dang it. Like death and taxes, unwanted summer electoral politics are inescapable. Rumour has it that our PM Justin Trudeau is determined to call a snap election, reportedly to be held on September 20th. Why? Because he believes that doing so at this time will ensure his party can win a majority government, allowing him to avoid what he has been calling “opposition obstruction.”
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Roxanne Tellier – The Run Down and the Wrap Up
Posted in Canadian Music, COVID 19, Family, Health, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Afghanistan, Brookings Institute, climate change, Conservatives, DBAWIS, Election, Florida, googa mooga, Justin Trudeau, Mackettes, NDP, politics, Ray Charles, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, September 20th, the heymacs, The New Yorker, YouTube on August 15, 2021 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – What a Difference a Year Makes
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, Review with tags Afghanistan, Africa, Australia, Canada, CERB, COVID-19, curfews, DBAWIS, Delta variant, Dollarama, Dr Fauci, India, lockdown, non-essential goods, pandemic, PPE, segarini, stay-at-home orders, Tellier, Tokyo Olympics, U.S. Surgeon General, Uganda, what a difference a year makes, World Health Organization on June 27, 2021 by segariniOn January 25th, 2020, a Toronto man returning from Wuhan, China was the first presumptive COVID-19 case in Canada. By March, with the disease raging across Canada, the World Health Organization had declared COVID a pandemic, the NBA, NHL and most other sport leagues had suspended their seasons, while the Olympics were officially postponed to 2021, the Juno Awards were cancelled, Parliament went on break, and schools began to close from coast to coast.
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