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Great Spirit bless 🙏

'mornin' all! I see the sun is a' shinin' 🌄 and the boids 🐦🐤🦜🕊️ are a singin' "tweet, tweet ♪♫♭" here on my roof. See! Told you so, it wasn't the boids, I think the Boids are on a tour somewhere in the Scottish moors. It's bug season there. No, not that kind of bugs, I meant it was Bugs Bunny a' playin' the flute 🐰🪈 Toot, toot! Now that's a toot from a different flute, eh? Right. That's what you call having a conversation with yourself: make sure you make note of it in case you get lost. AND YOU NEVER, EVER, DEPLOY YOUR PARACHUTE IN A HURRICANE!

PROCESSOR MALFUNCTION ... Robot comes out in the open, arms waving, and shouting in its mechanical voice -" Warning! Warning!"

My processor thinks at supersonic speed! My inner voice is shouting out, warning, warning! along with the little red light flashing on the dashboard of my imagination. Don't worry! All that the processor needs is a good cup of coffee, then it will all come back into focus, the pressure is off, and the Titanic didn't sink after all. 😟🧐😕😲

PS, Doc dropped his monocle in his water glass.

"Well, that's another story." 😆😂😆😄🤣🥲

Try this again on my third cup of coffee, stepped out in the sunlight in my green space for a couple of moments, NICE. But the coffee really tastes good this morning. I think I just got the right mixture of fresh ground coffee per cup of water for the right blend. I think I got it as close to my taste buds' satisfaction as I could, or take up step dancing. Even after being ill for a while, I can still do the spin dancing for a short spurt. I love that feeling of freedom. I don't really recommend it after 80 🫤

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

BETRAYAL:

We, The People, live under the Law of The Land: Under The Constitution and the Bill of Rights of America. Not some;

💩 PANTS DICTATOR WHO HAS TURNED THIS GREAT LAND INTO A BANANA REPUBLIC OF LIARS, THIEVES, AND PIRATES.

Vance meets Pakistan’s prime minister ahead of US-Iran talks

Iranian officials also separately met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif before high-stakes US-Iran peace negotiations expected later today.

Updated 8:24 AM EDT, Sat April 11, 2026

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The Vatican rarely needs to raise its voice. When it quietly cancels a papal visit, REJECTS A NATIONAL INVITATION, and chooses REFUGEES OVER WASHINGTON ON AMERICA'S BIRTHDAY, the message lands harder than any press conference ever could...

This is bigger than one speech or one diplomatic clash. It is about what happens when a superpower tries to COMMAND MORAL LEGITIMACY BY FORCE and discovers that some institutions have survived too much history to be intimidated now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmn66MsutqQ

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Question: Betrayal

What Does Betrayal Mean?

Betrayal means "an act of deliberate disloyalty," like when your friend told other people all your secrets. What a betrayal! Betrayal's root is betray, which comes from the Middle English word bitrayen — meaning "mislead, deceive." Betrayal has to do with destroying someone's trust, possibly by lying...

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☮️✊ VIVE LA RESISTANCE ✊☮️

BREAKING NEWS:

US and Iran begin peace talks in Pakistan, according to Iranian state media

The US delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance, and Iranian officials each met separately with Pakistan’s prime minister earlier Saturday.

Here's The Latest:

• Pakistan talks: A US delegation led by Vice President JD Vance has begun Saturday’s closely watched negotiations with Iran in Pakistan, Iranian state media reports. The high-stakes talks are expected to take place both directly and through intermediaries, sources previously told CNN.

• Lebanon diplomacy: Lebanese and Israeli diplomats are also planning to meet to discuss a ceasefire, in Washington, DC, next week. The first days of the US-Iran truce were some of the deadliest for Lebanon, with hundreds of people killed by Israeli strikes.

• Alleged weapons shipment: Meanwhile, US intelligence indicates China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran amid the fragile ceasefire, according to sources. The Chinese embassy in Washington said “the information in question is untrue.” ...

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46 min ago

Iran-US talks begin in Pakistan, state broadcaster says

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Updated 9:25 AM EDT, Sat April 11, 2026

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These moms had daughters sucked into a deadly online school shooter community. What they need you to know

Jaimee Seitz loved to make crafts for her daughter, Audree Heine. So when Audree asked for customized T-shirts, Seitz got out her supplies and went to work. She didn’t recognize the slogans Audree wanted — one shirt was supposed to say “Natural Selection” and the other “Wrath” — and thought it must be slang she didn’t know.

It was only after the death by suicide of Audree, a 13-year-old who did well in school and who loved Eminem, Olivia Rodrigo and dirt bikes, that her mother learned the significance. “Natural Selection” and “Wrath” were on the shirts worn by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold when they killed 13 people and then themselves at Columbine High School in April 1999...

• Doodling love hearts for a killer:
• From fandom to fixation:

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PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2026, 6:00 AM ET - 3 hr ago

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Trump’s white supremacy refugee policy is in full effect

The administration is letting in only a handful of refugees this year. More than half are from South Africa, in line with Trump’s false claims of an Afrikaner “genocide.”

VIDEO | Included:

The United States once prided itself on being the final destination of people around the world seeking refuge from war and strife. The State Department reports that America has welcomed a total of more than 3.1 million refugees to its shores since the U.S. refugee program was established in 1980.

But President Donald Trump has decimated the number of applicants who were granted refugee status — and those who made it through are overwhelmingly the beneficiaries of an insidious shift in policy to favor white South Africans...

• Of the 4,999 refugees admitted, 4,496 were from South Africa; the remaining three newcomers were from Afghanistan:
• The cruelty of this racist policy is only exacerbated when you consider the compounded effect of the other actions Trump has taken:

Apr. 11, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Judge orders pause on signature validation process for Alberta independence petition

Court issues month-long stay pending judicial review

A judge has granted a month-long stay preventing Alberta’s chief electoral officer from certifying the results of a petition to force a referendum on a proposal for Alberta to separate from Canada. Justice Shaina Leonard’s ruling on Friday afternoon also prevents Stay Free Alberta, the group behind the petition, from referring the matter to Justice Minister Mickey Amery once signatures are submitted.

The decision follows an application from two of three First Nations groups who say they believe the petition process threatens treaty rights. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and the Blackfoot Confederacy have been seeking a stay on the petition campaign pending a final ruling...

WATCH | Judge issues ruling on Alberta separation petition case:

First Nations' court challenge may block Alberta separatism itself, not just *petition drive

Argument that a province leaving country severs Indigenous treaties may affect Quebec, too

The argument First Nations groups made this week in an Edmonton courthouse wasn’t only aiming to block Alberta separatists’ petition drive toward a referendum, even if that was the specific, narrow goal of an injunction and a related hearing. Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and other litigants are challenging the very idea that a province can split from Canada, and in doing so sever their constitutionally protected First Nations treaties.

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) is centred in northeast Alberta, but its ancestors followed caribou throughout what’s now Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories — and members today freely cross those boundaries to hunt, fish and trap, lawyer Kevin Hille told the court this week.

“Any constraint on those activities by an international border would violate those [rights],” Hille said...

VIDEO | Included: Why it’s almost impossible for Alberta to separate from the rest of Canada

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Posted: Apr 11, 2026 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

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WELL RUFFLE ME FEATHERS 🪶🪶🪶 Another honorable, sir Judge! Thank you.

Trump, Iran trade demands ahead of high-stakes peace talks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56erdHvALM0

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

I see the sunrise 🌄, but it's already getting overcast 🌫️ with grey clouds. The forecast today is calling for cloudy and 41° F. That's pathetic, it's still like March weather out there 😖 Tomorrow sounds more promising, 50° F and mostly sunny 🌤️

I wonder how long my gardening apparatus will be sitting on the kitchen table before it's nice enough to go back to puttering around in my balcony garden again, next June? I hope sooner than that, I might die of old age before then, too, you know. I want my seedlings to sprout before THIS coming June.

It's lovely to sit out there when everything is green, but since February, we have had only one nice day when I could sit with my coffee in my Green Space. I keep it cleaned of snow and green with artificial plants all winter for such occasions. This year, I sat out there three times, once in February and twice in March. There was simply too much wind this past winter, especially that infernal freezing wind. Too cold to sit out there much this year so far.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

THE SYSTEM

What will happen if the system breaks down? That's quite a good possibility, given the Orange Snot Ball messing it all up with his TARIFFS and illegal business transactions. What happens to a government that doesn't govern? It can't run by itself. Who's going to want to deal with a government that has no laws, rules, or regulations?

Whose currency will we use to settle international transactions? The Chinese Yuan or cryptocurrency. Personally, I place my bet on the Chinese Yuan. A group of industrialized nations is already pushing for the use of the Yuan instead of the U.S. Dollar. Is America, in the new world order, becoming, "I can see the road sign now!"... floating on a buoy in the ocean? The Port of Pirates? Heck, if I'm going to be a soothsayer, I'm better at tooth-saying: "dumb dentures!" Canada will be China's Western Hemisphere Distributor. I can see it all now, sitting reclined in my office chair, admiring my office door. On the glass panel, in nice, fancy writing, on my office door was: 'Master of Tooth Saying'.

No. I'm not related to Colbert on the late-night show, wish I were, though ☺️

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Question: Symptoms of a falling empire

🔹AI Overview

Symptoms of a falling empire often include severe economic decay (high inflation, debt, and inequality), political dysfunction, loss of territorial control, and declining social cohesion. Key indicators include reliance on foreign troops, declining quality of life for citizens, constant and unprofitable warfare, and an overextended military.

• Key Symptoms of Imperial Decay:
• Economic Collapse:
• Internal Political Decay:
• Loss of Social Cohesion:

* Infrastructure Failure:

• Constant Warfare:

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Better not waste time putting it off for later to think about it, THERE MAY NOT BE A LATER, and it just might be that if you had been there at the right time, one tiny little act that you needed to do could have changed the course of events on the fabric of time and space as well as in your life. Like writing a story, you don't like how it's going, so you change the events to lead away from the catastrophe. We're at the edge of the precipice, and behind us is The Conflagration.

ONLY WE, WE, THE PEOPLE, CAN STOP THIS CONFLAGRATION!

☮️✊ VIVE LA RESISTANCE ✊☮️

BREAKING NEWS:

US inflation tripled last month on record spike in gas prices

What We're Covering Here:

• The war with Iran drove up monthly US inflation threefold in March, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report, released Friday morning.

• The annual rate of inflation reached 3.3% in March, up from 2.4% in February. The monthly rate measured 0.9%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• The price spike was overwhelmingly driven by spiraling energy costs from the chokehold that Iran has on global oil supply. Gasoline rose by a record 21.2% last month.

*Read More:*

8 min ago

White House touts egg prices

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Melania Trump tried to sweep the Epstein saga away, but she ended up reviving it

The most plausible explanation for first lady Melania Trump’s out-of-the-blue address on the Jeffrey Epstein drama was that she was trying to make it go away. But her stunning on-camera statement Thursday from the White House Cross Hall — the spot where her husband last week spoke to the nation about the Iran war — will almost certainly have the opposite effect.

“I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump,” she said, in a statement that was all the more remarkable since there had been no widespread public speculation about the matter in recent days.

The optics were of a first lady fed up with reports and speculation she believes falsely link her to Epstein.

• A new political nightmare for the White House:

Trump is also at odds with some high-profile former supporters who regard his Iran adventure as flouting his campaign pledge of no new foreign wars ...

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PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2026, 12:00 AM ET - 9 hr ago

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The beautiful, violent world awaiting the Artemis II’s return

The view from a quarter million miles away from the planet we call home puts the chaos down below into perspective.

VIDEO | Included:

Shortly before the four-person crew of Artemis II crossed behind the moon Monday and briefly lost contact with NASA’s Mission Control, pilot Victor Glover, quoting the Bible, urged humanity to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. “To all of you down there on Earth and around Earth, we love you, from the moon,” Glover said. Forty minutes later, with its signal restored, the crew made history as it reached nearly 252,760 miles from this planet, the farthest human beings have ever traveled.

Most days, the vastness of space has no appeal to me over the comforts of the Earth. But the following morning, as I stared at my phone in disbelief, I grew jealous of the astronauts who were away from it all on that mission to orbit the moon...

• What a juxtaposition: Trump’s threat to obliterate an ancient land with the awe-inspiring images of Earth being beamed back from the Orion spacecraft.

• The crew of Artemis II reminded us that we must appreciate this fragile oasis we’ve been granted. ...

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Apr. 10, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

CANADIAN NEWS:

A RAY OF HOPE!

Canada's ecoomy adds 14,000 jobs in March after February's whopping losses

Labor force survey from February showed a loss of 84,000 jobs

Canada's economy added a modest 14,000 jobs in March, Statistics Canada said on Friday, clawing back a fraction of the sharp job losses seen during the first two months of the year.

The data agency's previous Labor Force Survey from February showed a loss of 84,000 jobs, a result that was largely a surprise to economists and analysts. Given the earlier losses, "no one is going to mistake this small back-up as a sign of strength," wrote Douglas Porter, chief economist at Bank of Montreal, in a note to clients.

Chart | Included: Monthly in jobs in Canada:

Chart | Included: Unemployment rate in Canada:

Posted: Apr 10, 2026 8:38 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Pentagon denies report of heated meeting with Vatican representative

Cardinal Christophe Pierre 'summoned' by White House in January, according to The Free Press

The Pentagon pushed back late Thursday on a report that suggested a meeting in January between a U.S.-based cardinal and a member of Donald Trump's administration grew heated.

The Pentagon said on social media that Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense for policy, had a "respectful and reasonable discussion" with Cardinal Christophe Pierre on Jan. 22, slamming "grossly false and distorted recent reporting." "We have nothing but the highest regard and welcome continued dialogue with the Holy See," the department said on X.

The digital outlet the Free Press reported on Monday that Pierre was "summoned" by the White House over comments made by U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV two weeks earlier...

• U.S. ambassador slams 'fabrications':
• Criticism of current war:
• No U.S. trips on horizon:

LISTEN | The rise of evangelicals in U.S. politics:

Posted: Apr 10, 2026 9:31 AM EDT | Last Updated: 28 minutes ago

- CBC -

The End of the American Empire | The David Frum Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb_2J7-Es6g

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

I suppose it's a good morning. Actually, it's an excellent morning. Well, let us start with my prayer for today.*_

PRAYER 🙏

I woke up, I'm alive, and all of my parts are working. The world around me is still here and in one piece. I was outside in my Green Space; it's windy but much milder, and the birds are singing. Thank you, G-d, for the privilege of living one more day, one day at a time. Maybe one more day to have the privilege and honor of sharing the light today. Thank you, G-d. AMEN!

Yesterday's header bloop. No, I didn't change my HEADER, but I think Grammarly did when I copied and pasted it elsewhere. I didn't notice, and all six of yesterday's copies went out to my platforms with the same header error. My apologies all the same. Blame it on the Foo Fighters 🛸 they're all over the place, well, aren't they? "Get the aluminum foil out, ma!" - NA! It's jest the after effects from that kick in the head from that mule 🫏😖✨ back on the tird of the tirty-tird day of the tird month of 18 and 67 when Whistle Butt, my hossy 🐎 got shot in the butt (‿ˠ‿) Now her butt whistles on a windy day.🤣

Anyway, on with Today's Discussion.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

25th AMENDMENT

Republicans silent as Democrats call on US cabinet to oust Trump over Iran

➡️ Lawmakers call for use of 25th AMENDMENT after president brazenly threatens to commit WAR CRIMES in Iran ⬅️

Guardian on Google

As Donald Trump unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling for his removal from office – while Republicans remain conspicuously silent.

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Tue 7 Apr 2026 20.54 BST

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Question: Who can invoke the 25th Amendment against the President?

🔹AI Overview

The 25th Amendment (Section 4) can be invoked against a President deemed unable to discharge their duties by the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet. They must submit a written declaration to Congress, immediately making the Vice President the Acting President. Congress decides if the President contests it...

People also ask:

Question: Who can invoke the 25th Amendment against the President?

🔹AI Overview

The 25th Amendment (Section 4) can be invoked against a President deemed unable to discharge their duties by the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet. They must submit a written declaration to Congress, immediately making the Vice President the Acting President. Congress decides if the President contests it.

Brookings

Key Entities Involved

• The Vice President:
• Cabinet Secretaries:
• Congress:

Key Considerations

• Purpose:
• Never Used Involuntarily:
• Challenge:*

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Anyone got an instruction manual on how to use the only crowbar there is to pry the Orange stench from its throne when it's his own Dunce Cadets and MAGAts who are in charge of the only crowbar?

So what next? What about simply and unannounced going in under cover and arresting the Orange piece of 💩 stench, scoop him up with a long handled fishing net BIG PERRIOD 🔘 that's it! Then insert a clothespin on their nose and walk him out to the paddy wagon in cuffs?

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Question: What does it take to impeach Trump?

Impeaching a U.S. President, including Donald Trump, is a two-stage political process outlined in the Constitution. The House of Representatives must pass articles of impeachment by a simple majority, acting as a formal accusation of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors". A Senate trial follows, requiring a two-thirds majority to convict and remove. (Wikipedia)

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This one seems like the more likely one, but quite possibly a lengthy process, time-consuming, and we WE NEED TO ACT NOW - OR GET CONSUMED

BREAKING NEWS:

US and Iran prepare for talks as Strait of Hormuz remains restricted

What We're Covering:

• Status of ceasefire: The two-week ceasefire deal appears to be largely holding, with fewer attacks reported across the region today. A US delegation will go to Pakistan for talks beginning Saturday.

• Strait of Hormuz: Only a handful of vessels have been allowed to pass through the crucial waterway since the ceasefire announcement. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed shipping through the strait stopped following Israel’s attack on Lebanon Wednesday, which Tehran has said was a ceasefire violation.

• International backlash: Condemnation is mounting after hundreds were killed and wounded in Israel’s largest strikes on Lebanon since the war started. Iran and Pakistan insist Lebanon is part of the ceasefire deal, but the US and Israel claim the agreement doesn’t cover Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.

• Trump on deal: President Donald Trump said US forces will remain “in place” until a full agreement is reached with Iran. Trump added that if a deal is not reached, “which is highly unlikely,” then the “Shootin’ Starts.” ...

15 min ago

Oil surges back to $100 as traffic remains slow through Strait of Hormuz

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Updated 10:10 AM EDT, Thu April 9, 2026

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‘The nuclear button for the Vatican’: Pope Leo steps into the political fray

This week, Trump’s threats to end “civilization” in Iran prompted a move Vatican historians call extraordinarily rare.

Pope Leo XIV has never shied away from denouncing injustice. But for months, he avoided anything explicitly political. Then, this week, President Donald Trump threatened to destroy an entire “civilization,” and the first American-born pope crossed a line he had never crossed: urging citizens to call their elected leaders.

“I would like to invite everyone to think in their hearts of so many innocent children, so many totally innocent elderly people who would also be victims of this escalation,” the pope said. “I would like to invite everyone to pray, but also to seek ways to communicate — perhaps with congressmen, with authorities, saying that we don’t want war; we want peace.”

The remarks surprised Vatican observers and marked a defining moment of Leo’s tenure, as his papacy nears the one-year mark. Leo, who is widely viewed as more reserved and measured than his predecessor, has long spoken about migrants, poverty and war in moral terms...

MS NOW Opinion:

• Pope Leo calls on U.S. bishops to stand up for migrants’ rights

NEWS:

• Pope Leo condemns Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization: ‘Truly unacceptable ...

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Apr. 9, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Carney’s Liberals are attracting support from unlikely places

Carney government moves 1 more seat closer to a majority

During his brief and ill-fated time as leader of the Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff invited Canadians to join him inside the "big red tent." This appeal obviously did not work out for Ignatieff. But perhaps he was merely ahead of his time.

Fifteen years after Ignatieff's time as Liberal leader came to a sudden end, Mark Carney is exploring just how big of a tent the Liberal Party can build. In the past several months, Carney's Liberals have gained a remarkable five MPs who chose to cross the floor from other parties...

• Collegial, but controversial:

WATCH | Canada needs 'serious' leader, Gladu says:

• Can a tent be too big?:

WATCH | Carney a seat away from a majority:

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Posted: Apr 08, 2026 6:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 8

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Heather Winterstein shouldn’t have been in wait room, needed frequent checks, a medical expert tells inquest

24-year-old's vital signs were fluctuating widely en route to St. Catharines, Ont., hospital, inquiry hears

On the day she died of sepsis, Heather Winterstein shouldn't have been placed in the emergency room waiting area at the St. Catharines hospital until she could see a doctor, an emergency medicine expert told a coroner's inquest Wednesday.

But even if she had to wait in the ER for limited resources and staffing shortages, it would have been critical for her to be reassessed frequently for any signs that her condition was deteriorating, Dr. Ron McMillan of McMaster University testified. The inquest also heard that as paramedics brought Winterstein to what's now known as the Marotta Family Hospital on Dec. 10, 2021, her vital signs appeared to be fluctuating widely. Winterstein died after spending two days trying to access health care at the hospital...

• Reassessment ‘extremely important,’ inquest told:
• Health system in ‘unprecedented times’ due to pandemic:
• Paramedic says Winterstein’s vital signs were fluctuating:
• Health network releases statement:

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Posted: Apr 09, 2026 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 minute ago

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This is what happens when you take away Federal Funding for Public Health care to GIVE GOVERNMENT FUNDING TO PRIVATE CARE ORGANIZATIONS: (‿ˠ‿) 🪛 ! People are dying in the Provincial Hospitals because of a shortage of Doctors and Nurses, you fn' 🦦 I pray you sleep well, Mr. FORD!

WAKE UP, PEOPLE! SMELL THE ROSES AND WATCH THIS PIRATE ☠️

Artemis II astronauts answer questions from space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpv0HJTvlsM

 

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BREAKING!

PM Carney announces new infrastructure initiatives

*Prime Minister Carney unveils new initiatives to build infrastructure, including pledging $64 million towards a new community center in Brampton, Ontario.*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at-oCcMP7R0

April 07, 2026 at 11:06AM EDT

Prime Minister Carney launches the Build Communities Strong Fund and announces the first tranche of projects

BRAMPTON, ON, April 7, 2026 /CNW/ - The global economy is rapidly changing, and many Canadians are feeling the effects at home – including increased pressure on housing and infrastructure. In response, Canada's new government is focused on what we can control: increasing our housing supply and investing in modern and reliable infrastructure to build stronger, more affordable communities for Canadians.

In Budget 2025, the Government of Canada announced the Build Communities Strong Fund – a $51 billion investment to build the infrastructure that Canadians rely on every day. It will speed up the construction of hospitals, recreation centres, universities, and colleges that serve our communities; bridges that move our goods; and water and transit systems that keep our towns and cities running.

Delivering on this commitment, today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, officially launched the Build Communities Strong Fund – and announced its first project – the new Embleton Community Centre and Park in Brampton, Ontario. This is a $64 million investment to build what will become a 175,000-square-foot community centre with a pool, gymnasium, fitness centre, childcare facility, as well as various community spaces and outdoor recreational amenities. This is the first of a series of 13 projects under the Build Communities Strong Fund across the country – with $300 million in federal funding and more to come in the weeks ahead. In addition to the Embleton Centre and Park, the first tranche of projects can be found here.

The Fund will be a force multiplier in infrastructure – with funding that will be matched by nearly $17 billion from provinces, and additional billions leveraged through municipal and territorial partnerships as well as private capital. Combined with provincial matching, the projects through the Fund will support an average of 42,000 jobs per year – from engineering to the skilled trades. The Fund will boost Canada's GDP by $95 billion over the next decade. That means approximately $12 billion in infrastructure investments every year for the next eight years – nearly double the previous eight years...

The Build Communities Strong Fund delivers funding through three major streams:

• A provincial and territorial stream: $17.2 billion over 10 years to plan, build, and deliver critical public infrastructure projects across provinces and territories through bilateral agreements. Provinces will be required to cost-match federal investments and take action to reduce the cost of construction, including for housing-related infrastructure, through reductions to development charges where they pose a barrier to housing construction.

This stream includes funding for:

NOTE ⬇️

• Health-related infrastructure: - A dedicated investment of $5 billion over three years in health infrastructure funding to prioritise upgrades to critical health infrastructure, including hospitals, urgent care centres, and facilities for palliative care, mental health care, and long-term care.

• Housing-enabling infrastructure:* Projects that support and enable housing supply, including water and wastewater systems, roads and bridges, public transit, and community infrastructure.

• Infrastructure at colleges and universities: The construction of new facilities or rehabilitation of aging facilities and upgrades to learning and research spaces.

• A direct delivery stream: $6 billion over 10 years to deliver regionally significant projects and important local infrastructure, including large building retrofits, climate adaptation infrastructure, and community infrastructure such as new community and recreational spaces. Eligible project proponents can submit proposals starting today.

• A community stream: $27.8 billion over 10 years for the construction and rehabilitation of essential local infrastructure such as local roads, bridges, water systems, and community centres...

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May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Good morning, all. Well, it is supposed to be in the 50-55 F range today. I may even get a chance to do some fixin' in my Green Space today. I still have all the tools set out on the table from a week ago, but the weather wasn't comfortable enough to do anything out there unless you were wearing winter apparel. Somehow, I don't enjoy doing garden work in a winter coat and mitts.

I thought that, for today, we can take some time away from Satan's Acolyte and his minions and their Dunce Cadets for now, and consider a question that I find interesting, and I pray you will, too. For example, why are we here, and what stake do we have in the unfolding scheme of the universe? We are only here for a whiff of time, as the Apostle Paul calls it, but it's long enough to make a mess of things 💩🫟

Incredible. A FLASH OF BRIGHT BLINDING LIGHT. No sound, just silence and the bright light, followed by a shockwave. Then everything quickly fades. All that is left is a tiny, dense object – either a neutron star or a black hole – surrounded by an expanding cloud of very hot gas and dust rolling outward from the center of the explosion.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

What is the destiny of the Human Hybrid? Why are we here? There's got to be more to it than just our short lives, then end up six feet under the ground for some future paleontologists, maybe 3,000 years from now, to dig up my old bones for an archeological study.

THE REBIRTH

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Question: The death of a star becomes the seed for new stars

The innards, the elements of a Supergiant, a dying star, are (such as oxygen, carbon, and iron) are scattered through space. This stardust eventually forms other stars and planets under the great pressure of the nebula in which they are ensconced.

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From Quarks to Quasars

The way a star dies depends on just one key thing: its size.

The smallest among them, just 8% the size of our Sun or larger, burn quietly for billions of years. When they run out of fuel, they don't explode — they simply fade, casting off their outer layers and leaving behind a glowing ember: a white dwarf. Silent. Dense. Still burning with the memory of a star that once was.

Larger stars, 8 to 20 times the mass of the Sun, live fast and burn bright. And when they die, they go out with force — collapsing in on themselves, detonating in a massive supernova. What's left behind is a neutron star: unimaginably dense, spinning rapidly, with a magnetic field strong enough to twist light itself.

But the most massive stars — more than 20 times the Sun's mass — collapse so completely after a supernova that not even a neutron star can withstand the pressure. The core contracts into an incredibly small, incredibly dense point known as a black hole — a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. It's warping space and time itself.

From white dwarfs to neutron stars to black holes, a star's death is never the end — it's part of the universe's ongoing story of destruction, creation, and rebirth.

Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/star-lifecycle/

All information since the Big Bang has been recorded into the fabric of time and space and cannot be destroyed or lost.

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Question: Information cannot be destroyed or lost - quantum mechanics

The principle that information cannot be destroyed or lost is a fundamental tenet of quantum mechanics known as unitarity. It states that the physical state of a system can always be reversed to its previous state, meaning information is conserved, not erased. Even if information appears lost (e.g., burning a book), it actually transfers into the environment (soot, smoke, and heat).

This video explains why information cannot be destroyed, using the example of a burning book:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-BgTzIFG8L4

BREAKING NEWS:

Both US and Iran claim victory after two-week ceasefire deal reached

Pakistan has invited Iran and the US for talks on Friday, as Israel says it is continuing ground operations in Lebanon.

What We Know:

• 11th hour deal: Both President Donald Trump and Iran have portrayed the last minute ceasefire deal as a victory for their nations. The ceasefire pauses a spiraling conflict that has upended the global economy and sparked a historic oil crisis.

• Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s military will coordinate passage of vessels through the critical Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire, Iran’s foreign minister said. Trump said reopening the strait was a key condition of the ceasefire deal.

• What happens next? Pakistan’s prime minister has invited delegations from both Iran and the US to Islamabad for talks on Friday. Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Vice President JD Vance are expected to attend.

• Lebanon not included: The Israeli military today said it will continue its intensified ground operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claimed Lebanon was not part of the ceasefire, despite Pakistan’s prime minister saying it is...

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Iran’s "general principles" were accepted in ceasefire deal, president says

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Updated 6:55 AM EDT, Wed April 8, 2026

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Oil prices plunge and markets surge on Iran war ceasefire but ‘significant hurdles remain’

Oil prices plummeted and stocks surged Wednesday after US President Donald Trump agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, spurring hopes that more oil tankers would soon be able to transit the key Strait of Hormuz. WTI, the US crude benchmark, tumbled almost 16% to $95 a barrel – still well above the $67 level it settled at on February 27, before the war began. Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, dropped 14% to $93.8 a barrel.

Despite the sharp moves, uncertainty surrounds the ceasefire, in particular about a quick resumption of transits through the strait, through which about 20% of the world’s oil supply normally passes. The war in the Middle East – and the effective closure of the crucial Strait of Hormuz – has caused the biggest oil supply shock on record, choking off roughly 12 million to 15 million barrels of crude oil a day.

“The market has been eager to get good news but it remains to be seen if the Strait of Hormuz opens fully,” Bob McNally, founder and president of Rapidan Energy Group, told CNN...

• Stock markets surge:

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Updated Apr 8, 2026, 5:45 AM ET - 4 min ago

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Trump desperately wants to claim victory over Iran — but the facts say otherwise

Iran’s ruling regime has not only survived, but Trump’s war may also make it an even wealthier and more influential regional power.

Whatever inspired President Donald Trump to not unleash an even more severe bombing campaign against Iran on Tuesday night — and possibly commit scores of war crimes by obliterating civilian infrastructure in the process — a two-week ceasefire is a positive, if short-term, development. But this should not be celebrated as some kind of victory for America or for the Iranian people, who remain under the yoke of a sadistic theocracy.

Over and over in recent days, Trump has pledged to bomb Iranian power plants and infrastructure as part of a mighty American military campaign. In his zeal to project the U.S.’ “strength,” however, Trump’s actions on Tuesday have signaled something else entirely: a weak and unstable leader who has done irreparable damage to America’s reputation and the global order. Among the most befuddling developments: Why did Trump declare Iran’s “10 point proposal” (brokered through Pakistani mediators) “not good enough” on Monday, but suddenly a “workable basis on which to negotiate” on Tuesday? And how can Trump claim to have fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz when Iran still controls it? ...

• This should not be celebrated as some kind of victory for America or for the Iranian people, who remain under the yoke of a sadistic theocracy.

Our commander-in-chief has given us another reason to doubt his leadership

Apr. 8, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

EV giant BYD accused of forced labour violations at European factory

China Labor Watch interviewed 50 workers at BYD facility in Hungary

As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world's bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD.

China Labor Watch (CLW) received a complaint last fall from one of the thousands of migrant workers brought to Hungary from China to help build BYD's first European plant in the city of Szeged — a $6-billion investment intended to supply the European market with around 300,000 vehicles per year. The non-profit organization launched an investigation and provided CBC News with an advance copy of its findings, set for publication later this month...

CBC News has not independently verified any of the allegations.

BYD did not respond to a request for comment.

• Opaque recruitment, shifting accountability:
• BYD imports: 'forced labour risk':
• CBSA detained suspect car parts:

Posted: Apr 08, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

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Why Canada's reaction to Israel's invasion of Lebanon is so different this time

Carney's condemnation of Israel's 'illegal' action is a marked contrast to Harper's response

Israeli troops appear to have halted their advance into Lebanon short of their original objective of the Litani River. But Israel's government has not moved off its stated intention to reoccupy southern Lebanon, which it held from 1982 to 2000. When Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked for Canada's response last week, he faced similar questions to those put to his predecessor Stephen Harper 20 years ago.

Harper drew criticism for his defence of Israeli actions in 2006 that included the bombing of a UN base that killed Canadian Army Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, the bombing of Beirut International Airport and threats by the IDF's then chief of staff to smash civilian infrastructure so that "the clock will be turned back 20 years for the Lebanese people." ...

WATCH | Carney condemns Israel's invasion:

'Way over the line':

WATCH | Israel kills 3 journalists in southern Lebanon strike:

• Hezbollah's position weakened:

WATCH | From 2024: International community shifts on Israel:

• Fear drives displacement:
• The nightmare scenario:

Posted: Apr 07, 2026 7:39 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 hours ago

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THIS IS NO 💩! ⬇️

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