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Mumilaaq Qaqqaq

Mumilaaq Qaqqaq is MP for Nunavut in the 43rd Parliament of Canada. Source.

Gurkha MPV by Terradyne

This is a Gurkha MVP armoured personnel carrier built by Terradyne of Newmarket, Ontario. These vehicles are ideal for intimidating unarmed civilian populations but useless in preventing mass shootings by wannabe cops. Halifax bought one in 2019. Source.

Danbo and Class Struggle

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Christoph Niemann's Brexit

Chritoph Niemann's The Illustrated Guide to Brexit is gorgeous.

Grace MacInnes

Grace MacInnes (1905-91) was a politician with the CCF and NDP, and the daughter of J.S. Woodsworth ("Dad" on the left). She was a member of the Canadian Parliament from 1965 to 1974. She was the only female member of the 29th Parliament, 1968-72. Source.

Cutteslowe Berlin

The English invented everything. From 1934 to 1959 the Oxfordshire suburb of Cutteslowe was divided by a brick wall topped by spikes to separate public from private housing. Source.

Rokunohe Votes

Electronic voting machines were introduced on a trial basis in Japan in 2002. They reduced the time needed to count votes, but they were expensive to rent and never caught on enough to make it worthwhile for the manufacturer to continue tech support of them. Rokunohe, Aomori, the last municipality to use the machines, went back to paper ballots in April 2018. Source.

G.M.A. Grube

G.M.A. Grube (1899-1982) was a classicist at the University of Toronto who specialized in Plato, and you still see his name on the covers of the translations he did for Hackett Publishing, which any used bookstore with a philosophy shelf will have. But he was also a political activist, a member of the League for Social Reconstruction, the editor of their journal Canadian Forum, and he ran for the CCF in the riding of Broadview in Toronto in 1940, 1945, 1949 and 1950. Source. And.

William Young

William Young was born in Falkirk in 1799 and served as Premier of Nova Scotia from 1854 to 1860. He is not the only Bairn to become premier of a Canadian province: Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, also started out in Falkirk.

Morton visit the Falkirk Stadium. This is a must-win game for both sides, as neither can expect many points in the last two weeks of the season: Morton have Dunfermline and Dundee United; Falkirk have Dundee United and Ross County.

If Morton beat Falkirk, and Partick beat Alloa, Morton will move up to sixth place.

If Falkirk beat Morton, and Partick and QoS both win, Morton will drop to tenth place.

Morton have not lost to Falkirk yet this season.

Falkirk have lost their appeal and have 28 days to fork over £40,000 to the SPFL as a result of the McKinnon affair. Story.

This is matchday 34 and fifth-place Dunfermline can still finish the season tenth. The relegation fight at the bottom of League One is nearly as close. [Ha ha. As soon as I say that Brechin and Stenny get locked into the relegation zone.]

Current winless streaks (league + cup):

7        Morton

5        Dunfermline

4        Queen of the South

2        Inverness CT

2        Partick Thistle

1        Ross County

1        Ayr United

0        Dundee United

0        Alloa

0        Falkirk

Other Championship matches:

Ayr United 1 - 3 Ross County (last night)

ICT [0 - 2] Dundee United

If the Tangerines fail to earn all available points from here on or if Ross County earn any more points then Ross County win the title.

Partick [2 - 1] Alloa

QoS [2 - 1] Dunfermline

If the Pars fail to earn all available points they are out of the Premiership playoffs.

[Morton win 0 - 2. Goals by Kiltie and Telfer. Ayr and Inverness make the Premiership playoffs. The bottom six clubs can all still be relegated, but Morton are in a good position at sixth with 40 points.]

How have Morton performed against Falkirk in league play this century?

2018-19        1 win, 2 draws so far.

2017-18        1 win, 3 losses; 4 gf, 5 ga; 3 points.

2016-17        1 win, 3 draws; 5 gf, 4 ga; 6 points.

2015-16        1 draw, 3 losses; 1 gf, 4 ga; 1 point.

2013-14        2 draws, 2 losses; 3 gf, 7 ga; 2 points.

2012-13        2 wins, 2 losses; 5 gf, 6 ga; 6 points.

2011-12        2 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss; 5 gf, 3 ga; 7 points.

2010-11        2 draws, 2 losses; 3 gf, 5 ga; 2 points.

2000-01        2 wins, 2 losses; 5 gf, 7 ga; 6 points.

Most draws in a 36-game season, Morton (updated):

14            2001-02

13            2016-17 + 2018-19 after 33 games

12            3 times

11            4 times

10            5 times

  9            once

Most clean sheets, Morton:

25        1966-67        (38 league + 11 cup games)

22        1963-64        (36 league + 20 cup games)

20        2005-06        (36 league + 7 cup + 2 playoff games)

18        1995-96        (36 league + 4 cup games)

18        1988-89        (39 league + 7 cup games)

Fewest clean sheets, Morton:

  0        1902-03        (22 league + 1 cup game)

  0        1895-96        (18 league + 1 cup game)

  1        1937-38        (38 league + 4 cup games)

  1        1893-94        (18 league + 1 cup game)

  2        seven times

So far this season Morton have 11 clean sheets.

Stranraer's reserve team have won the South of Scotland League, but are ineligible for promotion to the Lowland League.

1928-29: On April 16th Morton travelled to Love Street to meet St Mirren in the second leg of their Renfrewshire Cup final. St Mirren won 6 - 1 and took the cup.

On April 20th Morton hosted Leith Athletic and won 4 - 1.

Cowlairs versus Kilmarnock. These two played in the 1892-93 Scottish Alliance. Cowlairs won 3 - 1 at home on October 1, 1892. They played to a 3 - 3 draw in Kilmarnock on April 29, 1893. They never met in the Scottish League or the Scottish Cup.

Celtic FC games on Easter Sunday in the 21st Century:

2018/4/21      Hibs vs Celtic

2017/4/16      Ross County 2 - 2 Celtic

2013/3/31      St Mirren 1 - 1 Celtic

2011/4/24      Rangers 0 - 0 Celtic

2010/4/4        Hibs 0 - 1 Celtic

2008/3/23      Gretna 0 - 3 Celtic

2006/4/16      Livingston 0 - 2 Celtic

2004/4/11      Livingston 1 - 3 Celtic

2001/4/15      Dundee United 1 - 3 Celtic

Celtic play on Easter Sunday, but always away.

SWFL2 W/SW: Morton Women [2 - 1] Gleniffer Thistle (tomorrow)

Danish 1st Division: Fredericia [1 - 0] Koge (April 22nd)

Swiss Challenge League: Winterthur [2 - 3] Servette

Regionalliga Südwest: 1. FC Saarbrücken [0 - 0] Astoria Walldorf

72nd Aomori Prefecture Football Championship semi-final:

Match No. 8: ReinMeer Aomori [0 - 1] Blancdieu Hirosaki

24th Fukushima Prefecture Football Championship:

Match No. 13: FC Primeiro [1 - 0] Soma SC

Match No. 14: Nihon University Faculty of Eng'g AC SC [0 - 4] FFC Matsushita

Match No. 15: Aizu Olympus [0 - 5] Eastern Japan Int'l University SC

69th Iwate Prefecture Football Championship semi-final:

The first three rounds of this tournament were played late last year. Bracket.

Iwate University [0 - 4] Ganju Iwate

The winner will meet Grulla Morioka in the final.

This weekend Iwaki FC play training matches against Japan Soccer College (today) and a Tochigi SC XI (tomorrow). [Iwaki 1 - 0 Japan Soccer College.] [Iwaki 2 - 2 Tochigi.]

The Suffragette

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