The Lions
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January 12, 2025

I haven't reported here lately about the progress in The Lions for quite a while. Here's the latest dashboard output. (Two pages).

We donated about $1000 to a member earlier on and then $500 each to Andy Lee and Sheldon.

The third nominee was the Coutts Three and it turned out that that the way to contribute is to their lawyers who also defend a wide range of freedom-related suits. Somehow I never got around to sending them the money and about then Stripe stopped paying out the money due to new government regulations and forms that I had difficulty filling out because they assume this is a business, which The Lions definiotely is not.

I'll have to look at that again because it looks as if we have accumulated some money to donate. I hate government forms.

Getting Stripe working again will also make it easier for people who want to subscribe because I think credit cards might work again, although I never have figured out how the coins and credit card thing works and there have been a number of changes. It appears that some people have figured it out anyhow.

I'm not particularly fond of how Locals operates but that's what we have. When I vist other Locals, I find that in the ones I looked many or most posts are for paid members only, making them useless to me because I can't afford to pay for each site just to see what's in there from time to time.

I'm happy that The Lions is almost entirely open to everyone. I think, though, that non-paying subscribers may not be able to participate in the comments and sometimes that's the most interesting part of any post.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments or PM me if you don't have access to comments.

And, thanks to those who post interesting things here, things we might not see otherwise.

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Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It

While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen

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23 hours ago

Some of these things I still miss

I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.

We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.

There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........

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