M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire

@nigelsezyarr yup! Friday night wirks. You'll get here on time to start the holidays with the kids. Are you soending new year with yes. If yes, I will plan a little family birthday party for Alistair.

@nigelsezyarr The sooner the better is my personal view. But I'll chat with CH, she may have some other considerations.

Are you going to Comox beforentou head this way?

Are you curious about some of the complications that have arisen? I could point you towards some news about court cases if you're interested.

Who wins Election 2019 under a ranked-ballot system? #PhilippeJFournier in #Macleans
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/who-wins-election-2019-under-a-ranked-ballot-system/

The short answer [0]: it wouldn't change the end results much. For me, the fact that ranked ballots give results similar to first-past-the-post is one of their advantages.

[0] The major flaw in the model is that it doesn't account for a voter who strategically voted for her second preference.

#canpol
#ElectoralReform

@strypey Many people said that in Canada, and now we're wondering what counts as suffering, what it means to be terminally ill, and whether my voluntary decision now should outweigh my voluntary will later. Not as easy questions as they first appear

M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire

Venice has been sinking all my life, largely because they pumped groundwater out from under the city. But of course #ClimateChange will make things worse.

‘Tragedy of a lifetime’: Venice declares emergency after near-record tide and floods | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/tragedy-of-a-lifetime-venice-declares-emergency-after-near-record-tide-and-floods

#Venice

"By the end of this week, Bangladesh’s agriculture minister is expected to announce the approval of “golden rice" for sale and use, making the country the world’s first to embrace a food that could save hundreds of thousands of children in developing nations from blindness and death."

Finally.

#TheWashingtonPost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/11/golden-rice-long-an-anti-gmo-target-may-finally-get-chance-help-children/

L'acte du souvenir était en français, anglais et en mohawk cette année à Montréal.

#JourDuSouvenir
#RemembranceDay

Remembrance Day stories all Canadians should know | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/postmedia-remembers-stories-of-fellowship-and-survival-from-canadian-veterans

#LestWeForget

@bgcarlisle Seems to me that "first, do no harm" provides very broad scope for physicians to decide what "harm" is, and to decide their treatment policies accordingly.

"[A]n emerging theme of federal politics in months to come will be the scale of Justin Trudeau’s electoral triumph."

In #PaulWells's analysis, the Liberals feel confident since they held on strongly to Central Canada and indeed many #Liberal MPs there increased their pluralities.

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/trudeau-re-election-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/

#Macleans
#canpol

Orwell on *Gulliver's Travels*: "In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion [...] is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by ‘thou shalt not’, the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by ‘love’ or ‘reason’, he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else."