Days after starting his second term, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders that targeted DEI programs and policies for elimination, decrying them as illegal and immoral.
Museums across the country scrambled to react
— and in many cases, comply.
Within days, Washington’s National Gallery of Art announced it would close its office of belonging and inclusion
and remove the words “diversity, equity, access and inclusion” from its list of values on its website. …
Good Morning #Canada
In 1882, Lieutenant-Governor Dewdney acquired land adjacent to the route of the future CPR line at a site known as Pile-of-Bones. He then announced that this featureless site, distinguished only by collections of bison bones, would be the new capital of the North West Territories in western Canada. Thus, Regina was born out of a national scandal and conflict of interest. It became the provincial capital when Saskatchewan officially joined Canada in 1905. The North West Mounted Police were headquartered in Regina, starting in 1885, and the city remains as a training centre for the RCMP. Regina survived a cyclone in 1916 and a great depression riot in 1935. Recently, they recovered from a marketing faux pas when they canceled their tourism slogan, "Regina: The City That Rhymes With Fun."
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://youtu.be/L8eHaVi1yfE?si=Oc2NsqG6tnB4Zqnn
I can’t believe capitalism pulled this one off again. How do you keep outdoing yourself? Truly remarkable, in the most depressing way imaginable.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism
So, “IJ” is a diphthong — capitalised together therefore, and can have its own #unicode digraph — but the equivalence with “Y” existed until 1804 and has been deprecated since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digr