I’m all for more trains across Canada, so a Quebec City/Toronto high-speed rail would be GREAT (even though I’m on the other side of the continent), but I agree with some of this opinion piece. The timing and wording seems hypocritical, and how that private consortium relates to VIA Rail smells like trouble.
“B.C. trying to recruit U.S. doctors amid Trump health-care uncertainties” : our provincial government is trying to do something useful and clever! More of this please!
The old Fighting Fantasy books are coming back to North America! Steve Jackson publishing Steve Jackson! The Kickstarter is under way over here.
Another evidence of how pissed Canadians are at the US: a 40% decline in British Columbians going into Washington state over the past two months. That final quote from the Mayor of Blaine is so weaksauce: don’t make us feel welcome, show us that you’re fighting this shit.
If we can’t vote for climate action for the cute polar bears, or for the burning forests, can we at the very fucking least agree to vote for climate action so that the price of chocolate doesn’t explode?
Given their history and founding values, it’s absolutely baffling to me that Image Comics doesn’t have their own digital comics store the way that, say Dark Horse does.
Amazon is closing more loopholes about Kindle books so this is another good time for you to download all the stuff you rightfully own, before it’s forever stuck in a walled garden. The tool in the linked article work pretty well, and include Comixology books (I used it a while ago to download a whooping 3547 books!)
Oh hey, a new pharaoh’s tomb was found in the Valley of the Kings! I hope there’s a Mummy’s Curse in there, that would lighten up the world news.