$117,566

Expensive cleaning.

That's how much the disastrous Mary Simon has spent on dry cleaning since being appointed governor general in 2018.  How in Gawd's name can anyone do that??!!

Checking with a professional cleaner, Majestic, the company said that would be enough to dry clean 13,831 blouses, 6,204 dresses or 3,918 duvets.  Holy sh-t!  Rideau Hall actually has in-house dry cleaning facilities, but she still sent stuff out to the tune of $117,566.  That's $1,800 every month since she crashed the Hall!  Does she routinely spill that much beef wellington and champagne on her blouses?  

She needs to get the boot like her predecessor Julie Payette.  Between the two of them, they billed taxpayers $88,000 for clothes!  Whether it's feasting on gourmet meals on planes, spending a fortune on limo services in Iceland -- why did Simon go there anyway? -- staying in the finest hotels, or buying bespoke clothing, this GG has absolutely no problem bilking the taxpayer.

The main question is, of course, why an Indigenous woman, with anti-colonialism baked into her DNA for generations, would even accept the job of governor general -- a job in which she is the representative of the very pinnacle of colonialism:  The Crown.  I guess the beef wellington and imperious perks were too good to forego in favour of integrity.  It's evident neither the right nor left sides of her brain are engaged honestly.

Residential school grad Wab Kinew

Another Indigenous is in the news today.  Wab Kinew and the NDP have trounced Heather Stefanson and the Conservatives in Manitoba.  Kinew is now the premier and the first Indigenous to hold the post.  Congratulations are due!  Do you think he ever would have succeeded had he not attended school?  Rhetorical.

Delving into his background, I see he has a white mother and a native father, which he says will help him manage the province.  Of course, the natives are wild with joy because he campaigned on a promise to launch a futile, multi-million dollar search of a Winnipeg landfill for the remains of two native women who were murdered and dumped there.  (We're not allowed to ask what they were doing on the streets in the wee hours when they were murdered, but we can take a wild guess.)  All this while the province's finances and health care are in tatters.  

That's a dumb idea, but it's the only thing on the minds of the natives who supported him.  Naturally, the always-offended-and-shrill Tanya Talaga is pushing this hard.  Tanya writes as though she is the embodiment of all things Indigenous, but in reality she is half Polish and raised in downtown Toronto.  That inconvenient truth she never mentions, however, because it would spoil her narrative and expose her inauthentic embellishments.

Sigh....nothing changes and the Indigenous agenda remains fixed in stone:  Me, me, me and to heck with the rest of the country.  I hope Kinew tries to govern for all Manitobans, not just the native variety.