Monday, June 01, 2026

Why do people smash things when their sports team wins?

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Can someone please explain to me what burning cars and e-bikes and smashing and looting stores has to do with celebrating a sports victory? ...

How Spain became so successful: immigrants

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Remember back in the late 2000s/2010s, Spain, along with southern European neighbours Portugal, Italy and Greece were disaparagingly referre...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Kamloops residential school burials investigation is proceeding, just very slowly

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Can you believe that it's been 5 years since the announcement in May 2021 of the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous residential ...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Israel denies allegations of sexual violence in conflict zones

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The UN has accused both Israel and Russia of engaging in "patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence" in conflict zones , ...
Friday, May 29, 2026

What's in a name? Where laws are concerned , quite a lot, it seems

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Some of Vladimir Putin's most outspoken opponents are engaging in a full court press in Canada. And what they are campaigning for might ...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Correlation between education and voting in the USA

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Here's an interesting little rabbit hole to go down. Based on US census data, the best-educated American states  are: Massachusetts Colo...

China's immovable smoking addiction

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By all accounts, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave up an atrocious smoking habit some fifteen years ago. His country, though, is making zero...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Is Mark Carney's extended honeymoon period starting to sour?

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Mark Carney has been granted a generous, even unprecedented, honeymoon period as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and as Prime Minister...