Welcome back to Posted, where we are delighted to see that the temperature here at the home office for this late-ish October day is edging above 20C, with bright sunshine. If, however, we had the technical knowhow to shave five degrees off that number and send them to Calgary to help all Posted readers out there avoid the horror of today's predicted snowfall, we promise we would. Shipping costs would be prohibitive, however, so it was always unlikely.
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Ron Wadden, Posted curator in chief
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Paris visits don't come cheap, especially during major events such as the Olympic Games. Nevertheless, the testimony of outgoing CBC President Catherine Tait about her stay at a $1,000-per-night hotel for part of the Paris Games will generate some heated questions at a Commons committee today. Christopher Nardi has the primer here, and you can expect more soon on the committee fireworks.
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It's time for federalists in Quebec to prepare a response to the rejuvenated separatist movement, admits Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's provincial lieutenant. "The importance of education about the benefits of being part of Canada cannot be underestimated," Jean-Yves Duclos tells the Post's Antoine Trépanier. The question might be, have they waited too long?
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Congratulations to whoever won the B.C. election on Saturday. We would be more specific but, as British Columbians and many other Canadians surely know by now, we have no idea which party will emerge in power, and won't know for a while. David Carrigg has more on the recount process. In the meantime, we might know — or might not, if B.C.'s situation proves contagious — who will be in charge in New Brunswick, as that province goes to the polls today.
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Nothing gets the public engaged in the important process of voting and defending the constitution like ... the chance to win $1 million, right? That's Elon Musk's approach as the entrepreneur billionaire attempts to entice people to sign his political action committee’s petition supporting the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech, and the Second Amendment, with its right "to keep and bear arms." It is no coincidence that the offer is focused on key swing states.
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"It turned out that later everyone who was in the car was murdered. Eleven people were murdered there. It was a death vehicle." — Eyal Golan, whose sister survived the October 7 massacre at the Nova music festival when she felt "bad intuition" about being in a fleeing vehicle with friends. Shirel Golan was right to get out of the car, but there is no happy ending. She could never outrun the trauma of that day, and took her own life on Sunday, the day she turned 22.
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"It’s a fundamental tenet of collective bargaining that a job, once created, never ceases to be necessary. So the current position of federal labour leaders is that demanding employees return to the office is both mischievous and cruel, and that working from home should henceforth be the rule rather than the exception." —Kelly McParland, on the bureaucrats he thinks could use a wakeup call.
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Thrashing: It's not a typically advisable thing to do while lying on an operating table. Unless, of course, medical professionals in the room are preparing to remove your heart and other vital organs for transplant when you're not actually dead yet. In that, hopefully rare, situation, thrash like your life depends on it.
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90: The birthday recently celebrated by an Ottawa legend, longtime hockey coach Brian Kilrea, who guided the junior 67s for 32 seasons, and collected a rinkful of colourful memories along the way. Tim Baines shares some of those stories here, from the miserable Eddie Shore to the city 'Killer' wouldn't leave, even at the cost of an NHL gig. Our fondest Kilrea memory came at a soccer field, oddly enough, where we coached a women's team for a time, many years ago, and he would often come out with his lawn chair and stogies to watch his daughter frequently blank the opposition. To coach in the presence of a coaching legend was a personal thrill, even if it was in a different sport. Happy birthday, sir.
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Just a pelican on a paddle board in the Mediterranean off the coast of Batroun, Lebanon. No big deal.
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Would the owner of a lost red foot please contact this zombie in Mexico City for its return ... or some more horrifying day-of-the-dead-related outcome.
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