Stop illustrating articles about record-breaking heatwaves with photos of happy vacationers relaxing on beaches!!

What a great line-up!

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

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I smell the sea and that lovely summer smell of dried grass in the sun. It’s quite warm but there’s a cool breeze off the water. I saw three little crabs in a tide pool fighting over an empty shell. (Lighthouse Lane Park, Bowen Island)

Just went past an entire football team emerging from a hotel on Burrard

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VERY tempted to buzz all my hair off again. It feels like I’m wearing a wool hat on my head in this weather.

Day 2 of church street pedestrianization. I am floored at how fast it happened. Nice work from the TSA interpreting a 8 sites. Even got into the Steps controversy (you can see the remnants of the steps in background)

Hey, #NewWest, if you’re looking for a store that has a top-notch selection of books, new and used, check out Orange Crush Velvet on 12th Street. Whenever I go in there I want to buy ALL the books. (They also have vintage clothing.)

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I had hoped things had moved on – I recall having this conversation over 10 years ago – but am still coming across these same "objections" to gender-neutral pronouns in the wild so thought I'd come up with this handy guide to debunking them.

You asked if you could help, here's my Wishlist. I think only Canadians can buy things off of it. Amazon's annoying rules. Don't have cash apps in Canada, best I can do is PayPal for international friends. 1/2 (Second Part Below) www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/... PayPal - paypal.me/lramoutar

The Saw Creek wildfire situation has rapidly escalated this evening in the Highway 1 corridor in areas north and south of Lytton. A formal Evacuation Order will be released shortly by the TNRD for Electoral Area "I," for an area east of Highway 1 from Florence Road north to near Skihist Park.

Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it. Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

It’s really, really bad that Mark Carney achieved a majority government. It would have been far better for Canada had he been kept in check by some opposition.

Did you know that Ontario, California was named by two brothers from Brockville, Ontario, Canada? George Chaffey and William Chaffey were engineers and irrigation planners who developed large parts of Southern California.

I really do think a lot about how big tech systematically destroyed all the reasonably-safe places intended specifically for kids online…. and now powerful interests are turning around and claiming that we have to destroy Internet privacy because being online is obviously dangerous for kids.

Someone suggested “agree to disagree” as a polite alternative to “fuck off”, and frankly, I’d rather be told to fuck off.

I sincerely hope that DJT has seen Michelle Obama’s speech at the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center and that he knows deep in his nonexistent soul that no one will ever give a speech like that about him.

Canada 6 - 0 Qatar 90+2' Jonathan Davis HAT TRICK ⚽⚽⚽🎩

It’s really nice to see Lil Nas X back and looking happy and well 😍 www.instagram.com/reel/DZsWO0S...

A little girl in a stroller lost her balloon. I ran after it, caught it, but it broke off its stick and blew away again into traffic. Baby now crying and I feel like a schmuck 😭

Noticeably fewer people at the market today — I guess everyone’s watching the game! 🇨🇦 ⚽️ 🇶🇦

Fucking what? By who???

Me, having left the room for a minute: “What happened?” My kid: “Varland happened.”

Was impressed by this. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Woods Richardson’s name takes up a lot of space on his jersey #BlueJays ⚾️

Was volunteering at a retirement residence this afternoon. I forgot that elders like indoor temperatures to be on the warmer side 🥵

This is incredibly concerning. How does this even happen? A citizenship certificate is a foundational identification document. Citizenship is so core to people’s lives and identities. This is a *HUGE* fuck up on the government’s part and I feel so terribly for those affected.

they should’ve left E.T. to die in the river

All joking aside (see previous repost) it’s a very serious and dangerous situation when people such as RFK Jr. keep talking about “putting an end to” autism. The only way to put an end to autism is to put an end to autistic people, and that is the grotesque undercurrent of these kinds of statements.

if he's going to keep peddling this bullshit i think he needs to pick a less autistic sport than baseball

Found safe! ❤️

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If politicians really want to “save childhood,” they can start by ensuring every child has three meals a day, a safe place to sleep, and safe access to education. Banning social media does nothing to help kids who don’t have basic resources.

The defense is: "we use a vetted set of authorized texts for the purposes of training AI to generate responses to questions." Aside from the uncanny valley horror of necromancy that such automated history-telling incites, there's also the issue of sources being processed like this w/o context. 7/n

One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n

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Wondering why so many people on my family tree (~100 years ago, give or take) who were Canadians from and residing in Vancouver, British Columbia, got married in Washington state (mostly in Whatcom County, just over the border) #genealogy

Today’s outing: Kwomais Point Park and Elgin Heritage Park #SurreyBC #CrescentBeach

58,000 people watching the livestream. Feels like we could get this to a million in the next hour. Would make a great headline.

Now these are some good shade trees 🌳 Moody Park #NewWest

James Garner in a promotional still for the television series Maverick, 1957

The Ellisons now own TikTok, Paramount, Warner Bros, CBS News, HBO, Comedy Central, and CNN, among other major channels. They are also the largest private donor to "Friends of the IDF." They also paid $7 billion for streaming rights to UFC, which is hosting an event at the White House.

however much you hate billionaires is not enough

Quebec bans energy drinks for children under 16. This is something that will *actually* protect children, unlike the blatant attempt to get everyone to hand over their personal identification, banking info, and/or selfies to social media platforms. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...