Social media success has gone to your head; just phoning it in now.
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Social media success has gone to your head; just phoning it in now.
If he gets turfed it will be replace him with someone even worse. Until they recognize that Unite the Right has run its course and the moderates split off into a new PC party, the Reformers are just going to keep picking rage farmers with no platform or vision.
Well shit, now who is going to dispense calm, sage, witty advice to hotheaded fools in *every* movie or tv series produced in North America? RIP Graham Greene. www.imdb.com/name/nm00012...
This is a talk you probably should have had five years ago. Who knows what nonsense he's picked up in the schoolyard about frozen food attitudes and choices?
The opportunity for individual Canadians to continue to make an impact is to continue to boycott US goods and services. #BuyLocal #CanadaSky
Venomous Lionfish(TM) isn't the species, it's the culinary dish. Which, since I invented it, I get to name. Watch for it and its variations Venomous Lionfish-Os and Venomous Lionfish alla Arrabbiata in local supermarkets this fall.
We do this because speed limits are arbitrary. The safe speed on any patch of road varies by: vehicle, weather, traffic, driver ability and alertness, lighting, etc. That's why police and courts have discretion. Sometimes 20 over is safe, sometimes 20 under is dangerous.
Making my way through YUL on my way to YYT, early morning in August 2025. #photography #YUL
New Coke was the triggering event for woke culture and the DEI movement.
Humans love to bemoan the loss of skills that we invented with our intelligence and creativity out of need and then made obsolete when the continued application of that same intelligence and creativity eliminated that need. Should we ever need to write again by hand, we'll just start writing again.
What's a 100 times more effective than a tariff (or counter-tariff)? Continuing to just *not buy* American exports. At all.
Canadians: removing retaliatory tariffs can be a negotiating win AND remain a retaliatory win if you continue to just not buy anything from the USA anyway. Just sayin'.
Honourary bookseller Miss Jane Marple (formerly known as Sandy) is eager to assist her first customer in finding the perfect late summer read!
Well I *was* just boycotting US products over the tariffs, invasion threats and fascism, but now I'll add radioactive food to the list of reasons.
Even ignoring the inhumanity of such a blatantly classist health policy, the economic benefit of immunizing against COVID versus treating those with COVID/long COVID is off the charts, so Conservatives are now willing to *pay* to make poor people suffer.
If you want to talk about inequity, how about the fact that the votes of a handful of uneducated, uninterested, ideologically-driven American swing state voters have such a massive impact on the health, security and prosperity of ... everybody else in the entire world.
That's funny, Barney's Version is one that I regret not quitting while I was behind.
It's no Highlander, but it is a great bad movie.
I will be sorely disappointed if this regime isn't toppled by millions of patriots taking to the streets armed with hoagies, heroes, subs, Dagwoods, wraps and sammies of every variety. Can you imagine the humiliation of being defeated by sandwiches?!?!
I'm torn on this advice. Some of my all time favourite reads (and movies) are ones that it took me two, three, or more attempts to get into, and some of those I actively *hated* for the majority of the book before they were redeemed by a big payoff.
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Don't know if it is climate or politics, but I have never seen anywhere near the number of reverse snowbirds visiting my touristy little Ontario town from southern US states as I'm seeing this year. Border state visits are down a bit, but southern state visits are off the chart up.
Thou shalt not let them replace PBS with Prager U.
Does the fourth button on top front row unleash a bidet stream so powerful it lifts the user right off the seat? I am both frightened and intrigued.
"Venomous Lionfish" is going to kick ass in the 5-15-year-old male fish eating demographic. If it had been available when I was kid, I would have refused to eat anything *but* Venomous Lionfish, and I didn't even like fish.
The public library in my small Ontario town has a bike repair station with tools and frame support bars tethered to the outside wall.
My entire Spanish vocabulary consists of the phrase "Una mas cerveza grande por favor" and about seven variations of the word perdón. I have yet to encounter a situation in a Spanish speaking country that couldn't be resolved by one or the other, or both.
Ever since the infamous toenail in the Big Mac incident of '92, I've made it a personal rule never to try and force someone to sell me food if they do not--for any reason--want to sell me food.
Would love to see you become more active on this site. I know you don't get the numbers here that you do on other platforms, but you're the kind of draw that would build the bigger user base that would eventually boost your own numbers here.
338 projection shows 11% for independents, which accounts for the drop from 83% for the CPC in the last election. I suspect we're not seeing formal polling data because it would be nearly impossible to use normal polling processes with 200 candidates on one ticket.
Ditto for irons. If it can't handle full heat and steam, it just *can't be ironed* and all of the other settings are meaningless.
Beans of a thousand varieties, rice, root veggies, very tiny pebbles.
The scandal was manufactured ... by AE, for profit. Sure the eugenics angle has been overblown--as they knew it would be, but the campaign didn't need the controversial lines; they were included solely to generate discord in an already fractured society. Rage farming for $$ is evil.
‘Back To Dock’ Voted Most Popular Destination Among Current Rowboat Passengers theonion.com/back-to...
Not when I say it.
Redeploy ICE to actually enforce the carry on limits. Everyone wins!
That might be the etymology, but doctors say 'stat' because it makes them sound cool.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_8... The only two movies I've been actually excited about ahead of time in decades are Dune and a comedy-mystery written by a Brit panel show comedian about octogenarian crime fighters.
Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect.
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I prefer the up front honesty of his "representing a boor by being boorish" approach to diplomacy over having some silver-tongued devil lulling us into a false sense of security. Every time he speaks we can be reassured that yes, things are actually as bad as we thought.
They are generally not taking their IP, and vanity press is the only way 99.9% of writers will ever get into print. There are scams to be sure, but there isn't anything inherently wrong with taking pay to print and distribute someone's book.
Harbour Air is buying a fleet of electric float planes to do Victoria-Vancouver and other short hop routes.
Meh, I remember in Grade 5 they showed a film reel of a kid jumping backwards out of a lake onto a dock and drying out mid-air as the splash completely disappeared. Now THAT was some amazing physics.
The awesome little bookstore in which I work is going to be featured on CBC's All in a Day tomorrow!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GRp... For the aviation geeks, this RCAF pilot has an amazing channel featuring long-form video of helicopter on- and off-shore search and rescue operations in eastern Canada including multiple camera angles, all communications, great editing and clear explanations.
More prescient and relevant to today than 1984, by a wide margin, and IMO a much better written and more enjoyable book to boot. Criminally overlooked.
It's the pickles!
Though you appear to be of humble origins, maybe his personal historians had discovered you are descended from an ancient royal line.
Greater independence is necessary, but total independence from USA is not possible. We *cannot* defend our vast territory alone and Europe is never coming west over the Atlantic to defend Canadian soil. We will always be obliged to participate in any initiatives that fall under the NORAD umbrella.
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Alas, if only Canada had had the opportunity to engage in some joint operations with the British during WWII. I suspect that A Bridge Too Far might be the extent of his knowledge of that little conflict.
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If I can’t take a GO Train to Winnipeg, what even is the point?
I have come to suspect that the list of acceptable words varies puzzle to puzzle. Starting a spreadsheet to track.
Would dearly love to see Trudeau and Singh run against Poilievre in Alberta on doomed-yet-hilarious platforms consisting solely of verbing as many nouns as possible.
It is a *lot* easier to be gracious to the foe who is now at least temporarily neutralized than it is to be gracious to the foe who is now going to be running--and in your mind ruining--your future. I can't imagine a losing LPC crowd cheering a victorious Poilievre had things gone differently.
Will be pulling a shift tomorrow at the wonderful Book Nook in sleepy Perth, Ontario as we celebrate Canadian Independent Bookstore Day in the midst of the madness of Perth's Festival of the Maples. What's your favourite indie bookseller? Go pay them a visit tomorrow, they miss you!
Quick reminder: in the USA and all other democratic nations knowingly obeying an unlawful order makes you guilty of--and liable for--whatever crime that unlawful order has you commit. "Just following orders" will not exonerate you. Do your sworn *duty* even if directed otherwise by superiors.
"Thursday Murder Club" Netflix release date is August 28. Here's hoping Canada has the same release date as USA!
I have some great suggestions, but until you finish Diplomat S2, you're dead to me, streamingwise.
Pierre Poilievre apparently has all the security clearance that's required to read American military tactical plans and receive real time updates of ongoing operations, so I don't see why we can't read him in on sensitive Canadian intelligence as well.
It's hard to feel safer when you already felt super safe, so perceptions of change *can* really only skew negative for the majority. That those who feel less safe skew so strongly to one political ideology is the telling part of that story, not the overall stats (which are in fact positive).
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The entire CPC platform since Unite the Right is "Liberal leader bad" and pray the NDP does well enough to split the vote. That has literally been *all* they've campaigned on for two decades, and when the NDP tanks and there's not sufficient vote split on the left, they're just utterly lost.
Fully staffed with very efficient and friendly seniors in Perth. Bit of a wait due to heavy volume, which served as a great opportunity to meet and chat with friendly and patient senior voters.
Turbo Otter: upgraded 70-year-old older brother of the Twin Otters from your Maldives adventure. Workhorse of the North and iconic Canadiana. Gorgeous planes!
Those contemplating crossing the US border with foreign passports are taking people being sold by your federal gov't to foreign gulags with no due process a tad more seriously than "you-know-who trying to stir things up." But y'all can safely come visit us where the rule of law still reigns.
The entire CPC platform since Unite the Right has been "Leader of LPC bad" and then pray the NDP does well enough to split the vote and enable a CPC win. The party is viable solely due to an FPP math cheat. Who cares if there's media access? They aren't going to actually *say anything* anyway.
For the love of God, American media, stop yammering on about tariffs. If you are not HAMMERING 24/7 at the loss of due process and the complicity of Congress in the demise of your most cherished legal/democratic institutions, you are either incompetent or complicit in the demise of the USA.
Your country has a robust set of checks and balances. *Nothing* is the fault of one man. Everything evil that happens happens because a whole lot of people who swore to stop evil things from happening betrayed their oaths.
Why has nobody explained to the American people that the reason they have so many trade deficits is that they, the wealthiest nation the world has ever seen, have all the money with which to buy stuff!? Citizens of other countries *can't* buy as much as you buy. You're angry because you're ... rich.
A. Elle is absolutely brilliant. B. Not even Oxford endorses the Oxford comma "unless necessary for clarity" in which case it is no longer an Oxford comma. C. That hyphen bit is deeep!
Sign of the day…Chicago
🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸
Someone barricaded themselves in the East Block of Parliament about six hours. CBC reports that police have "dispatched a robot to deal with it." This is currently a low-key local news story with minimal coverage or concern, and that's one of the things I love about Canada.
She shouldn’t have to be out in the Kansas City cold, worried about her financial future. #HandsOff #KansasCity
Nobody is disputing your right to self-determination, America. But if you knew you actually wanted to be fascists, could y'all not have spared us all the utterly endless pontificating about freedom, democracy and the rule of law as if you were the only ones that had ever heard of those things?
And the best thing to come out of them all is that I learned a new word today: hagiography.
Canadian retailers responded instantly to the Buy Canadian sentiment and overnight began marking Canadian products on shelves. Many helpful customers invert US products on shelves to save others time in checking. That said, Canucks are mad about more than just tariffs, so YMMV.
“13. PRACTICE CORPOREAL POLITICS Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside.” open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8shR... Sean is wonderful. His young family is wonderful. His dogs are wonderful. The sheep are wonderful. The scenery is unbelievable. www.youtube.com/@seantheshee...
Hey @aircanada.bsky.social a couple of quick and easy ways to help your brand right now. 1. Get active over here on @bsky.app and dump the other wankers, esp for support, and 2. Prioritize and boost Cdn vendors in your points plan. You’re welcome. #AirCanada #CanadaSky I
There will *absolutely* be fallout WRT the support of military rank and file and officers--a support base no tyrant can afford to lose. Those folks unanimously take COMSEC very, very seriously, and won't forgive or forget top leadership skating on such an egregious and foolish violation.
This is brilliant. It will land, hard, with the anti-elite base, and nobody from that is base going to be remotely interested in listening to the complicated explanation of why sometimes similar passages are plagiarism and sometimes similar passages are not plagiarism.
He's also way underdressed for the minus 20 weather in Pit right now.
I don't think this is Pituffik, stop along the way. Isn't that Marine One he's disembarking from?
I've been there at this time of year. Would take minimal work to convert that base to a particularly bleak gulag to house him and his cohorts when the citizenry finally has enough of their antics. I'm sure Greenland would be happy to host.
A remarkable story and a cautionary tale amid USAID cuts to TB programs. The disease from another era remains a threat. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
Everyone with any interest in EVs, or are even open to the idea, understands this. It is just something people use to justify an opposition that is entirely ideological rather than rational, and trying to convince them with facts is a waste of time and electrons.
With ICE channeling the Gestapo/KGB and detaining innocents with no due process, Canadians and Europeans aren't just boycotting out of anger, they are now "afraid" to travel in the USA. Your allies are debating or have already issued travel advisories for the US. That's where you're at now.
I'm looking at a dictionary definition of it and I still don't believe that's a real word.
I am boycotting as much as possible, but I'm not sacrificing nutrition. I won't buy from Amazon, Apple, Tesla, but I'm not going to stop eating spinach if I can't find a non-US source. If you do buy American products, just try to buy from small independent local stores. Boycott hurts them bigly.
Sounds great, but good luck trying to find rooms/campsites. The post-lockdown travel boom had already made vacancies rare and more than doubled their cost, add US boycotters and a lot of folks are going to be either priced out of Cdn vacays or unable to find accommodations at any price.
Tyranny of the minority "can" happen here, but due to how we elect our Commons, not Senate selection. While technically legislative, our Senate acts more like a quasi-judicial backstop if things get too stupid elsewhere. It's pretty benign, with very limited powers compared to US Senate.
The Senate protects "regions" from tyranny of the majority. The imbalance isn't a flaw, it's a feature to protect areas of low pop from being abused by areas of large pop. Every democracy has some similar system to offset regional population imbalances. You would not want it otherwise.
Fun campaign in support of the CBC. 😎 #CanadaSky #CBC @savethecbc.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=UFJ4...
This is not a problem that, even when identified, the average human being is equipped to defeat. Like a gotcha clause buried in 200 pages of unintelligible fine print legalese. The best minds, backed by unlimited data and financing and psych research vs Joe Average is not a fair fight.
Just when you thought the whole ludicrous situation could not possibly get any dumber: