Journalist who was held hostage for four months in Irak to French politician.

Wow.

I remember in the early 2000s Toumani Diabaté played one night at the Jazz festival in Montreal, two concerts, one early evening at Club Soda and later that night at Place des Arts, and I went to both because how could one not be enthralled by this music?
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This report is about Nova Scotia by really it could apply elsewhere in the country, a story about the long struggle to keep public officials accountable.

Condamné pour avoir tenté d'empoisonner au fentanyl Sergio Piccirilli au pénitencier: lapresse.ca/actualites/jus…

Grew up in Mexico, learned English by listening to the radio, became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the Miami Herald.

Seven Samurai is 70
It’s my favourite film & this beautiful shot best sums up why. The villagers only have precious rice (eating lowly millet instead) to offer samurai & are rejected by proud samurai for doing so. Kambei, however, understands their sacrifice & agrees to help.

Cette semaine j’ai conseillé à un patient avec un cancer généralisé de continuer de fumer ses cigarettes et d’en profiter en plus. Felt weird but felt good. Suis-je déviant??

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Quelle histoire tragique, comme quoi la pandémie est toujours source de deuils.

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Tu Thanh Ha Wrote this piece about Copeland’s comments at the time, including that the attorney general should have spoken up and corrected the premier and others: thestar.com/news/gta/judge…

Have been eagerly awaiting this incredible piece of reporting from betsy powell and she delivered a must-read on a prosecution that makes very little sense: What the jury didn’t hear at the murder trial of Umar Zameer thestar.com/news/gta/what-… via @torontostar

'His boyhood training on the clarinet consisted of two lessons from a Vancouver tugboat captain. The mariner was a patient of Mr. Nimmons’s father, a dentist who accepted the instruction as payment for molar work.'

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Utterly fascinating. I highly recommend you bookmark and save time to read it.
Full of great details: The Internet is held together by 1.3M km of undersea cables. Only 22 ships repair them. Cables are so deep it takes 6H for a grapple dropped from the ship to reach them.

OQLF doing incredible work out here with sex bots.

This week's newsletter: Tech has looted the internet, making every platform actively hostile to the user, turning Facebook, Google Search, Instagram into products that no longer provide a service while making them hundreds of billions of dollars.
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