And people drive like they’ve never seen that weather before.
Settles back with the popcorn…
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Their Catholic high school in a very conservative region didn’t turn a hair - name change, pronouns, everything was done with no fuss and complete acceptance. I think that’s the rule, rather than the exception. 2/2
It’s hard when that seems to be all you see in the news and social media. But here’s a counterbalance: last year, a young relative came out as non binary. 1/2
Actually, it isn’t. Yes, in some teachers, in some locations, I’m sure, but omnipresent? Not at all.
Which bigots? The private Christian schools? Separate schools? Public schools?
This, a thousand times.
Drifting? It's there.
So happy PP doesn't understand "pivot".
Good grief.
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See? This is what I’m on about. In the span of one month we have gone from Twisters,to Anchorman,to Wicked to Arm wrestling with Sylvester Stallone and next week on to Trans rights,and a movie I have never heard of or would have probably watched when left to my own devices. #HATM is for the people.
It's not the most important thing at the moment, but I'm so embarrassed for America. To have world leaders concern themselves with symbols of placation for an overgrown manchild. To have the leader of a country fighting for its life thinking about what he wears to the White House.
This. I live in a safe neighbourhood, but I'd think it was a hellscape if I paid attention to NextDoor or the FB groups.
He has a fancy new job in Executive Council.
My favourite ones are the mysterious multi-use ones east of Elphinstone with indecipherable symbols on the road.
Ah, one of the (in)famous bike lanes to nowhere. Every I'm at Euston Road in London, I marvel at how they have traffic AND bike lanes and it all works. They don't give a crap about parking, as it should be.
What bike route?? There is none on 14th. The obvious solution would be to remove one parking lane on 13th but we know that will never happen. And a pox on e-scooters.
It's great for non-writers - does decent prose, thought organization. Other than that.... How do I feel about it? @jmcelroy.bsky.social sums it up: bsky.app/profile/jmce...
Joe Clark had quite the tenure. No wonder I don't use AI in my work...it just makes stuff up that looks fine if you don't look too closely.
screaming
Condolences…it’s never easy when a pet leaves us.
Between ICE, tariffs, and DOGE, US farmers are hooped.
"I understand why women are afraid to come forward. I didn’t call the cops on my rapist & I’ve never named him publicly. It’s sure not because I’m protecting him. I’m protecting myself. Nobody would've believed this trailer-park girl vs that Big Man On Campus," @donnerkay.bsky.social writes.
Does he ever divulge the source(s) of his research?
Those look delish!
Love this one.
In Galway. Have already overheard a passer-by say "it's not the unicycling that's difficult, it's the juggling with knives".
happy birthday to bill watterson who gave me the gift of encapsulating my entire ethical approach in one comic panel.
I see some RMs have declared a state of emergency. Waiting on Canada/Sask to announce a hay program...it'll be needed.
That sounds like "special projects" to me...the death knell of a bureaucrat's career.
While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse. www.wired.com/story/substa...
Three P = taxpayers pay pay pay. Rich guys and their vanity project can pound sand.
Nah. They'll just work harder to keep the status quo.
"potentially no taxpayer burden" = 98 percent taxpayer burden for a sport that isn't even in a real league.
"When used properly" is the operative phrase. It doesn't work in my job and I want to throttle the IT department that put it on everything. Adding -ai to every search is working for now.
Sick of work counts.
I'm on their email list for some reason. They're going full winger with Andrew Lawton and calling mail recipients "patriots".
Women are smarter than men is the between the lines reading here.
Woke up this morning, hungover, with no coffee. None, of any sort, anywhere in the house. If you want to learn how thin the line is between you and a crazed drug fiend I highly recommend it.
Scampi: He’s behind me isn’t he
Many years ago I decided to combine WW2 then & now photos as part of research I was doing. It caught on and I made more. History is all around us. The ghosts of history. Cherbourg, avenue de Paris, ancien Poste de Police, jardin Public. Soldiers crossing under fire, 1944.
"America is a welcoming place". Sure.
My cat brought a live fucking chipmunk into the house which is now locked in the downstairs bathroom while I get both cats locked in a room so I can open the door for the critter to get back outside
Great Egret on the hunt. 🪶
I haven’t read it yet, but the chicken littles are forcing me to do so rather than read my cozy mystery.
Some folks are reacting like Carney is Stalin II.
Even though it has nothing to do with the issue at hand. I’d rather they talk about the millions sink into REAL and the other org - no return on that bail out.
good god, he is thick.
I’ve Never Been to Me tops my list.
PressReader and Canadian Major Dailies are two digital services free with a library card.
I could care less about the monarchy other than I like parliamentary democracy and if the King comes with that, so be it. I love the statement it's making.
PP knows and approves of Jenni B. Look who he chose as his surrogate - another nasty little person.
And Bing is even worse.
I have to put -ai after every search term now.
Fledged Red-Shouldered Hawk still wants parents to be DoorDash. 🪶
That has to be one of the only times Bing has produced something useful.
Who is that?
Wait your turn! I'm in Saskie and have Manitoba envy.
I caved - it was 16.
A classic!!
Which is higher revenue than REAL is likely to ever produce, which got an 8 million dollar bailout for a CEWS decision that someone made while either not reading or deliberately ignoring the clear criteria.
We are all Mitchell. youtu.be/sizIWhCyQtY?...
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That's the one! It's interesting to read the take on this astroturfed nonsense from outside "the west".
Read his more recent one on the NDP as well. Can't disagree with a thing.
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Re Moe - Evan Scrimshaw has an interesting take.
Good grief. Where I live, there are strict rules about what a politician can and cannot accept, regardless of the "interest" of the gift giver. A jet is not on any list. Ever.
Love Illinois, and Chicago is a gem of a city. See you again if and when things return to normal and crossing the border returns to normal.
Very true. He can't avoid it, and there's Jason Kenney in the shadows just waiting to take a swing. Jason's pretty awful, but on separation, he's taking them all on.
Blandness with a steel spine.
“My audience is here.” Self-absorption rules.
Happy Birthday, Puff!
Every day is Festivus in “the west”.
And Saskie. I look forward to Kenney punting Moe and Wall to the curb.
This x 1000.
And he’ll do the same when, not if, Jason Kenney takes his nonsense on.
He’s awful, but he’s not always wrong, and he’s refreshingly direct with them, unlike all the hand wringers who think we need to understaaaaand them and vastly overstate their importance.
Straight out of my youth - Cheez Whiz and celery is the only correct answer.
I now wear a lovely permanent poppy I got from the British Legion, and make a donation separately.
I like parliamentary democracy, and it will do for now. If it means the King and Gov-General show up once in a while, it's all good.
And it's good politics, considering the US President's ambitions. Surely we are confident enough to enjoy the trappings of parliamentary democracy that has zero parliamentary influence.
The Maritimes are strong observers - nothing like a vet barking "where's your poppy?" at me in a mall - "It fell off," I quavered as I bought yet another one to shortly fall off.
Oh I don't know - I kind of like the idea of him running in a province with Smith and her BS from "strong, free Alberta". See how that plays in Ontario in the next fed election.
Sorry, statute of limitation or something…he’s all yours.
As my friend Jans’ shirt says “Stay intolerant” 👍
I hope that the Mayor learned that giving wingnuts 10 hours of Council and many more hours of staff time is a waste of resources and not in any way in the public interest.
Is he supposed to be chairing? So far, it sounds like an unmoderated wing nut free-for-all.
Lucky ducks! Tough decision to oust a Berta or Saskie muppet, and Berta won.
Exactly the same as the City of Regina water treatment plant. 🙄
"That's what one of my links said." Research Jesus wept.
Because they're wrong.
How did we get to the point where we can waste all these city resources and money on a clown show for one guy and his buddies to hold forth like this? Bachynski needs to get a grip on this.
That's far too complex for the bozo contingent on Council.
Go, Paula, go!
Jason Kenney has a clear understanding of the “threat” of western alienation.
Who’s ignoring them?
Who cynically use the excuse their provinces are getting a bad deal to their own political and grifting advantage.
And my timeline today is full of "but we need to understaaaaaand western separatists", and "Alberta is the most important province because", and "the election was decided before MY vote was counted". It's tiresome.
This. Pre COVID, it was Sharia law, then vaccines, the yellow jackets, convoy, QAnon, drag queens in libraries, immigrants eating cats and dogs. Same fringe minority.