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Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150

Trump Officials Plan To Drop Army's Preference For Blind Vendors
The decision was approved by Trump’s education secretary,
Linda McMahon,
the former professional wrestling CEO,
according to a notice.
The Education Department oversees what’s known as the "Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program",
which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.
An Education D…

Trump's Latest Target In His Anti-DEI Rampage: Blind Workers
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has apparently decided that giving blind entrepreneurs priority at Army dining halls "adversely affects" U.S. interests.

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: 'The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression' (Eric Berger/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/government-shutdown-food-stamps-snap
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p2#a251025p2

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