Royal Canadian Mingling

Da Kath and Kim Blog!! #australia #tumblr #omg

Remarquez le bordel que c’est le dossier du Pont Mercier, ainsi que ceux des autres ponts fédéraux-provinciaux. Chaque palier de gouvernement blâme l’autre pour les problèmes, et impossible donc pour les citoyens d’attribuer la responsabilité à un élu. Les compétences partagées sont très difficiles à gérer, et ce même lorsqu’il y a un alignement de croyances politiques. Alors regardons Montréal. Tout est géré par une administration mixte (arrondissement/ville-centre). Voici pourquoi les projets avancent dans une confusion totale, et voici pourquoi je soutiens la proposition de réforme des arrondissements de la Coalition Avenir Québec.

djgagnon:

Cat in the Milk Truck at the Horton’s

Sydney, Nova Scotia, October 1980.

smithsonianmag:

Wrongfully Admitted to Sunbury Asylum

In 1945, Maraquita Sargeant, a mother of five young children, was admitted against her will to Sunbury Mental Asylum in Australia. Her youngest child, Tony, has spent the last 50 years of his life searching for answers.

Walking the grounds of the now vacant and dilapidated Sunbury, Tony claims his mother was the victim of an era where there were no contraceptives and divorce was not allowed. Having five children already, Maraquita was not willing to give birth again and soon after was admitted. In 1946, she wrote a letter to the governor of Victoria stating she had been “unjustly detained.” The governor responded with a letter to the mental hygiene director and stated the letter “appears to be from a sane person.” The hygiene director’s response can only be described as chilling:

“She is definitely insane and if released would be a threat to certain prominent people’s reputations.”

With the director alerted to Maraquita’s attempt to write the governor, he shipped her to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where she received a lobotomy—a new and experimental procedure at the time that involved separating the front of her brain from the back. The operation was considered a failure. Maraquita spent her time at Sunbury in the sewing room repairing linen and ironing. Despite the injustice, Maraquita remained optimistic and in 1967 she was released. - Continue reading and watch the video at Smithsonian.com.

Ed note: This video was submitted to our In Motion video contest. The deadline to submit your video is May 31. Head over to the contest page for more details.

My favourite #Shakespeare quote butchered by a harpy.

mediaite:

Michele Bachmann tries, fails to quote Shakespeare on the House floor.

jomobimo:

Plate 4814, Curtis’s botanical magazine v.80 (1854)

djgagnon:

Sleep with the Fishes

( … in a Bureau of Fisheries car made from a converted sleeper!)

‘The Bureau of Fisheries has six railroad cars especially arranged for the transportation of live fish. During the year ending June 13, 1915, the distribution of fish, eggs, etc by the bureau amounted to 536,260,143 eggs; 3,694,281,699 fry and 58,215,692 fingerlings, yearlings and adults. These went to Fish Commissions in 28 different States, to waters needing stock from the controllers of which request had been made to the bureau and to private persons asking for fish for streams, lakes or ponds. While in special instances some fish or eggs are sent by special messenger, by far the greater part was sent out by means of the bureau’s special fish and egg transportation cars.

‘An important branch of the Bureau of Fisheries operations is in the rescue of young food fishes from lakes and bayous formed by the overflow of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers and their tributaries. During 1915, operations of this character yielded 8,357,000 fish, which is approximately 90 per cent of the food fishes which would otherwise have perished through drought or ‘air drowning’ when the overflow dried up, or from cold water in the year if not rescued.’

from: Our Country and its Resources; Robert A Hopkins; 1915; Munn and Co.