Housekeeping: TTAC Takes Off For Indigenous Peoples' Day 2023
Hi there! Just a note to let you know we won't be posting Monday, as we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day here in the United States and Canada.
So take a moment and reflect on the meaning of the day. We'll be back on Tuesday with the usual shenanigans, though we may check in if news breaks.
Enjoy your weekend! See you Tuesday.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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What a party! Tassos had the most fun but everyone still got quite smashed. Can't wait for next year!
What a stupid made up meaningless "holiday". I'm indigenous. I was born on this land.
Sort of off topic, but not, due to the comments.
Regarding the tragic farce that occurred in Canada's House of Commons. The Speaker of the House has authority over the House. Not the PM. The Speaker sets the rules, decides who speaks, is responsible for discipline and security in the House.
The person who was recognized was a guest of the Speaker.
Even if the PM's office were to request a guest list, or attempt to 'vet' such guests, it is not within their rights or powers. The Speaker could in effect tell them to 'get stuffed'.
Speakers of the House, while serving leave their political party and do not caucus with its members. They serve as 'independents'.
Thus the rules in Canada are much different, in this and many other matters from those in the USA.
The Speaker has resigned for the error made by his staffers and/or office. Although our current PM can be held to account/blamed for multiple things, this is not one of them.
And in Canada we just celebrated Thanksgiving. Which here falls on the second Monday of October. We do have National Truth and Reconciliation Day, which is a day dedicated to recognizing our Indigenous People(s).
My personal preference is generally for minority governments. It means that the party in power cannot govern based on ideology. They have to compromise. It also usually means that they remain in power for only a few years at at time. Turnover in the government ranks/sitting MP's is in my opinion not a bad thing.
As far as naming holidays or Acts of legislation it seems like our governments are hiring bad copy writers to come up with the names. Particularly the current Ford government in Ontario. For example The 'Working for Workers Act'. and the 'Keeping Ontario Open for Business Act, all sound like something Larry Tait would have approved after consuming too many martinis at lunch.