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The Luck of Brin's Five. by Cherry Wilder.
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This is a story that told of a man who crashed on a planet where he was adopted and accepted by a local multi generational alien family. This alien culture saw caring and helping any living being who was in some way challenged or different, as an honour and a priviledge. To be able to help care for someone very elderly, disabled, ill or diverse was seen as being lucky, as it was a way to add to society's growth in empathy and kindness
When you don't understand, lean in more. When it challenges your intelligence, lean in more. When it makes you feel stupid… lean in more.
When we're faced with ideas, innovations and information that we don't understand – the natural human response is to lean out. To dismiss. To protect our ego.
But the key is to reserve the temptation of judgement.
Ask honest questions:
Why am I believing what I believe?
Is it possible that I'm wrong?
Do I know what I'm talking about?
Am I leaning out because I don't understand?
Those that have the patience and conviction to do this will undoubtedly own the future.
Those that don't will continue to be left behind.
What are you leaning out of right now that you should be leaning into?
-The Diary of a CEO.
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Niagara Falls
Photos of Niagara (hoover over for information)
180 feet down and 2,200 feet through the tunnel to get to an amazing view of the falls. See next photo
This is the view from the end of the Power Station Tunnel. The boat was originally the Maid of the Mist (that's now on the NFNY side), then Hornblower and now City Cruises. Both the Tunnel and the Cruise are a must!!
The falls are lit up every night from dusk. Special days are marked with colours, like red and white on Canada Day.
180 feet down and 2,200 feet through the tunnel to get to an amazing view of the falls. See next photo
A Little Bit of History Canadian Style
The Assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
No Canadian Prime Minister has been assassinated. However, a politician back in 1868 was shot to death. Here's his story:
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was a politician, a poet, and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He had a rare talent for getting along with all members of the fractious House of Commons.
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McGee had been elected to Parliament with the help of the Irish of west Montreal. He had been instrumental in convincing the Irish population to support Confederation, which they initially viewed as similar to the despised English rule of Ireland.
As a young man, McGee had become involved with a group of nationalists who advocated rebellion against England. Now McGee was a harsh critic of another Irish separatist movement called the Fenian Brotherhood. He condemned violence and all secret societies that preached it.
"Secret Societies are like what the farmers in Ireland used to say of scotch grass," he wrote in the Montreal Gazette. "The only way to destroy it is to cut it out by the roots and burn it into powder."
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His words angered the Fenians and their sympathizers who considered McGee a turncoat.
On April 6, 1868, shortly after 1 a.m., McGee left Parliament Hill after a late sitting. He walked to a boarding house where he stayed while in Ottawa. As he was turning his key in the lock, McGee was shot in the head and died immediately.
Within 24 hours, police had arrested James Patrick Whelan, whom they assumed to be a Fenian. In his pocket they found a revolver, which had recently been fired.
Whelan was tried and found guilty of the murder of McGee, though he maintained his innocence and it was never proven that he was a Fenian. Whelan was hanged in front of a crowd of five thousand people - the last public hanging in Canada.
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