Bought these shoes back in ‘86 for a formal at university. They’ve seen several black tie events since then as well as my wedding and my brother’s wedding. Now, thanks to some TLC from Stephanie at Starlight Shoe Repair in Gibsons they’re looking spiffy for my niece’s wedding!

Bit of lake time before the weather (supposedly) changes

A happy case of genealogical serendipity... #familyhistory #genealogyserendipity #genealogydiscovery #KentEnglandFamilyHistory #genealogymethodology #heritage #lineage

The temperature has officially crossed the vodka-tonic threshold… pairing it with the latest Wakeland

First time in at least 20 years that we’ve had two Canada Goose families nesting on the pond. Now that the goslings are big enough they’re frequent visitors to the yard.

"You know how farmers make food for us that we eat, and it helps us grow healthy and strong? Well, this is sort of like that, but it's called 'engagement farming.'"

Excellent segment here (near the end) on the precarious future of campus radio. In owe my career and, in no small part, my mental health in my 20s, to my involvement in Canadian campus radio… www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Great piece from Kevin Newman in The Line. loved this bit: “The gallows humour, the hypervigilance, the compulsive need to know what was happening right now — these weren’t personality quirks. They were occupational adaptations, shared and therefore normalized.” www.readtheline.ca/p/kevin-newm...

Got my annual ski day in last Friday… very sunny, slushy and warm and no lift lines!

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #manosphere

It is the Canadian way…

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids https://theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-can-t-believe-she-ended-up-movi-1825827223/

Yeah, but my deck chairs have been rearranged several times now, so I’ve got that going for me

No, AI summaries will not make you a better reporter Morning File by me

Peter Jackson giving up movies for his real love, cleaning up World War I newsreels and Beatles concert footage, is a perfect guy-in-his-60s move. Something for us all to aspire to.

Won’t lie. I’m kinda disappointed that all the BC media producers diving into the record library to find songs to use with their time change stories have been missing out on this banger ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLlo...

We’ve entered the season of dramatic late evening light here at the homestead.

The Canadian women can leave Italy with heads held high. To take a team that dominated you all year, and pasted you 5-0 in the prelims, to OT in the final is a thing to be proud of and sends a message to the US squad that they too are mortals ;) #MilanoCortinaOlympics2026

I think I’ve finally figured it out. Someone told POTUS that Gordie Howe’s play in the corners was the inspiration for “elbows up.” It would have been a pretty short journey from there to getting mad about a bridge named after Gordie. It’s the only way it tracks!

Between the Rivalry Series rout and this afternoon’s thrashing I think it’s pretty reasonable for Team Canada fans to expect resignations or firings from the Women’s program within 24 hours post Olympics, even if there’s a turnaround in the final #MilanoCortina

Here’s the rodent prediction you need @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social !

Cleaning up and rearranging my shop space today and I came across these two gems: My BBC World Service guide for stringers circa 1996 and my @cfrcradio.bsky.social staff card from 1990 (which would have been my final year there).

If my great grandfather (Eckville’s namesake) was alive today I’m not sure how I’d explain the concept of “Your town is trending on X” to him. Let alone the apparent reason. 🤣

Radio friends, especially those that lived in Ontario in the 80s, I highly recommend the TVO documentary on the life and times of CFNY; Spirit of Radio. A bit melancholy if you miss radio as it was, but a good hour nonetheless tvo.org/video/document…

Official New Year’s Eve photo featuring tree and moon

Today at the airport Teresa got me a coffee featuring a phonetically logical, but uniquely off piste spelling of her name :)

“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry

Props to Environment Canada for their new colour-coded weather warnings, but my inner 10 year old will never stop laughing about being under a yellow snow warning

Hittin a little too close to home there McSweeney

Now with some festive AI, Charlie Brown

My latest Left Coast Dispatch: Libraries At Their Breaking Point buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #bcHist

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

*sigh* I’ve always been partial to Times New Roman, but I guess I’ll have to move to another font… maybe Electra which I’ve become fascinated with after reading this note in my copy of a collection of Dashiell Hammett novels :)

Kicking myself for not adding this to my 2025 revenue stream

I can’t look away… also loved this line “In the American imagination, Florida is where you go when you’ve done something wrong. California is where you go when you’ve done something wrong and want to be pretentious about it.”

Our pretend facts are just as good as the real thing. If not better.

Thank god they got that sorted…

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

They say everybody has that one teacher… I just learned mine, the one who inspired me to study history, has died. Michael Smith also introduced me and many of my classmates to the cinematic classic Zulu (and its admitted flaws as a historical document).

Best read of my morning so far!

Cleo is keen on the fire… she did not love it as a young cat, but like so many of us has grown to enjoy being near heat in her old age!

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Ian Fleming, though he named his famous character after the author of a birding book, never said if his Jamaica home, Goldeneye, was named for a bird. Bob Marley was a later owner of the property. So I say we unofficially add all that to the lore behind the team’s new name just for fun

I’d love to see the venn diagram of these and things ruined by millennials 🤣

In Mexico, I asked Lewis Hamilton about what pet ownership taught him about himself. A simple question... but one with a LOT of baggage in the #F1 paddock. This is your sign to ask your questions, no matter what others think. open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...

I still have my special double cassette of Outlandos and Reggatta da Blanc :)

As we brace for a rainfall warning haunted hallowe’en here on the west coast I recommend this series of Wallace the Brave comics by Will Henry that started Monday www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-...

Pumpkin cat is ready for action