Unexpected medical problems being dealt with in July and August. Prognoses likely positive; I remain optimistic. Have a good summer yourselves, y’all.

played by military bands on 4th of July.

I first heard them when I would go to Winnipeg Warriors hockey games especially on Sundays back around 1959-60. They used to leave my 10 year-old musical brain in awe and wonder that someone could write great songs like that.

You can really see how those marches inspired Americans through the various wars. My fav: “The Stars and Stripes Forever” with the great thundering bridges.

Worth Repeating Re. Danielle

What with all the strikes and airlines adopting hostile attitudes toward even their preferred customers after flights are cancelled.

The recent Air Europa incident with over 30 passengers fracturing their skulls and necks in turbulence is a sign of the changing climate skies.

In another incident, a Delta flight was diverted to New York with mass food poisoning.

Uh, who needs this crap?

I think the age of predictably safe flights is long over and people will need to start to use other transportation means to guarantee where they want to get to.

The Covid epidemic has been back for months, though deaths and cases are no longer reported. The evil UCP prefers Albertans to remain in ignorance and not getting vaccines.

Now, recently, there is a cancer-care crisis which has, likewise, been deliberately underpublicized. Instead, the government is bragging egregiously about how much moola they have saved nickling and diming off the backs of Albertans by denying them health-care rights and adequate medical personnel in hospitals and clinics. They’d rather pay nurses much less money to take on doctor responsibilities.

This is the most callous, shameless government in Alberta and Canadian history. They are too busy manufacturing deluded wars at the border and inviting in Trump redneck bigwigs to do their appointed work.

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And law and the continuance of the legal system is, likewise, being threatened in Alberta with UCP not supporting the Legal Aid Society, an important core legal body. In this, UCP show a GOP-like interest in lawlessness that is pretty obvious, again removing support for ordinary citizens seeking access to the courts.

People of Alberta, the message has long been clear for this government: it is not in the business of helping and caring for average Albertans; we are on our own and can’t expect a government finger to be lifted when the need for assistance is daily and urgent.

They are so busy trying to destroy themselves and their country from within, that I can no longer muster any enthusiasm or caring for their fates. They continually and wilfully make stupid, corrupt, autocratic choices to destroy their constitution, their laws, politics, and what was once the most democratic, free country in the world.

Canada Day and it’s a good day to remember and celebrate our great Canadians. Certainly Terry Fox, the one-legged runner whose selfless 1980 cross-country charity run galvanized Canadians and cancer awareness, epitomizes the best of what we are and have been, historically. This year he is my Canada Day hero. Happy Canada Day, everybody!

America sails on, still blindfolded, into autocracy.
The limits of both Trump and Biden are myriad. This is, literally, the worst U.S. Election ever.

Don’t expect them back anytime soon.

The powers that be giving Connor and Oilers the consolation prize for a weak, flawed game 7 in which Connor did not get a point.

He would much rather have won the Cup.