NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Holy shit these two photos from Artemis II that were shared just a bit ago.

Irving Oil has been buying Saudi crude since the company’s Saint John refinery opened in 1960. Now that relationship is in jeopardy: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

BREAKING: Activist and filmmaker Avi Lewis has been elected NDP leader. CBC's live page is following this today! #cdnpoli #canpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

N.B. maximum price of gas a year ago, just before the carbon tax repeal: $1.64 per litre. After the repeal: $1.44. At start of January 2026: $1.33. Now: $1.82.

Analysis from me: what if it were budget time all the time? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death

Man. Allan Legere's six months of terror—hiding in the woods then stealing, attacking, killing—happened when I was a little kid and visited the Miramichi 6-7x a year. I remember my extended family talking about it all the time; I was afraid of the woods for *years* after www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW: Before the Iran War, Trump ignored warnings that Iran could retaliate across the region and stop oil shipments. Now, with energy markets in chaos, some aides are pessimistic about the lack of a strategy to end the war. But they haven't told Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

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Coming in the Harbour, Saint John, N.B. Lucius O'Brien 1896

🚨BREAKING: Carney calls byelections in two Toronto ridings and Terrebonne. Voters will head to the polls on April 13. Liberals will need to win all three races to get a thin majority government. #cdnpoli #canpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Very timely to have finished this yesterday. Five stars; recommended.

I mean — the very last paragraph in the book:

I can't get over this, from @jonathankarl.bsky.social. Trump is working the phones to journalists, talking about his war as a "performance."

Our podcast episode on New Brunswick’s $1.3 billion problem: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Green Moose Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq n.d.

NEW Poll: Fewer than half of Canadians believe the end of CUSMA would be bad for Canada. Only 45% say it would be bad. A majority think it would make no difference or even be good. That’s a striking perception gap compared to business and policy elites. Details: abacusdata.ca/fewer-than-...

Iranians in Shiraz, Isfahan and Yazd, April-May 2000.

Remembering the frequent comments from a couple of years back that there was no point in the US/Canada/Australia etc doing anything to decarbonise because what about China. Well, indeed, what about China?

Schoolgirls in Persepolis and Isfahan, Iran, in Spring 2000.

You know how far things have gone when the top front-page story in the New York Times is the sort of headline you would have seen in Counterpunch or The Nation 25 years ago. When times get weird, yesterday’s hyperbole becomes today’s starched-collar analysis piece

Analysis: How N.B.’s online premier ‘throws out’ government proposals www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Here's the list of ideas the province put in front of university and college presidents & CEOs last week for budget cuts. Story coming soon.

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Major news for Canada: the USMCA exemptions will continue under the new tariff regime *GREER SAYS IEEPA EXEMPTIONS WILL BE EXTENDED UNDER SECTION 122

From Bloomberg's live blog: Trump's late night tariff threats will be much more difficult to actually carry out now

(Bloomberg) -- The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, undercutting his signature economic policy and delivering his biggest legal defeat since he returned to the White House.

Why the New Brunswick legislature removed two colonial-era portraits: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

BRONZE FOR CANADA 🇨🇦 Courtney Sarault, Kim Boutin, Florence Brunelle and Danae Blais skate relay bronze. It’s a historic medal for Sarault, as she becomes the first woman from Canada to win four short track medals at a single Olympics.

New Brunswick government deficit now projected at $1.3 billion this fiscal year.

Don't utilize "utilize". Use "use".

My favourite Robert Duvall is newspaper editor Robert Duvall. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6V7K...

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

SILVER FOR CANADA 🇨🇦 COURTNEY SARAULT HAS DONE IT AGAIN SHE WINS HER THIRD MEDAL OF THE OLYMPICS The beast from the east wins 1000m silver after finishing 11th in this event four years ago.

Another medal for Moncton's Courtney Sarault.

Winter Morning on the Green Molly Lamb Bobak n.d.

Trump has been privately asking aides why he shouldn't just exit the USMCA, colleague Josh Wingrove reports. It's fairly typical behavior from Trump during trade talks -- but also a sign of how difficult and volatile this process will likely be. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Moncton's Courtney Sarault:

the following drone shot that NBC has for the downhill skiing feels like a paradigm shift in covering the sport. it really changes and lets people see just how fast they're going and how much these guys are just on the razor's edge of complete disaster at all time

Holt Liberals drop N.B. company from virtual care contract: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Susan Holt’s N.B. Liberals want to know what trade-offs you’d make to lower the deficit: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I took Elly’s fourth-year political reporting class at Carleton in 1989-90. It was amazing. He came in every Friday with the latest intel on the unravelling of the Meech Lake agreement. I continue to apply the lessons from that class to this day. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Premier Susan Holt on the N.B. government's decision to abandon X: "We've just seen that it used to be a forum for more dialogue and we used to see better engagement and back and forth with New Brunswickers on the platform. But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore."