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If it does, Carney should drink it.

Small sample of course, but just how much you would regress the batters % and the fielders (catchers) % toward the overall rate is a good test for how Bayesian you are.

I'm rejecting the premise. Having to endure a Leafs game with mining executives is among the most harrowing examples imaginable of the personal sacrifices that are part and parcel with public life.

Buddy, that’s why I voted for them.

This was… not easy! Time for a beer. www.gnb.ca/en/news/n-b....

“Dad, can you help me fill out my bracket?” My inner monologue: [omg omg omg. You’ve waited for this, you’ve trained for this. Just be cool. Engaged, but not too eager. Be cool, take a deep breath.] “Sure, let’s take a look”

The thing is, you can just skip to the end of the opinion and realize that the authors are Koch-funded bloodthirsty ideologues who would just as soon grind the bones of the poor for fuel as they would give this budget a good faith assessment.

At the budget lock-in and learning that they no longer make you give up your phone on entry. So on this occasion I’m celebrating the retirement of my dummy phone, which for years I’ve used for this purpose while my real phone stayed in my pocket. Thank you for your service 🫡.

Called it

Bracket reveal + Oscars + USA/DR, tv night of the year

Have now seen 9/10 of the Best Picture nominees. Frankenstein, F1: I don’t understand why these are nominated. Train Dreams: beautiful landscapes, a few good scenes but I didn’t really get into it.

Respectfully, this sucks. These businesses draw much needed human resources away from the public system. The healthcare budget is already strained. Adding in a profit margin for more private surgical providers should be off the table.

I’m like the cranberries in Graystone’s Springbrook Sour in that I’m bitter and from Tracy

Congrats to like 28% of Albertans I guess

15.6 km skate is tough on these [redacted] year-old legs, but what a great stress reliever and head-clearer that was.

“What, sorry, yeah could you repeat the question?”

Found some money stuck between the couch cushions after all

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Rewatching this now. Was wondering if having seen it in the theatre was causing me to overrate it slightly but nope. This is one of my favourite ~5 movies ever.

For some (bad!) employers, having an employee complete all of their assigned tasks isn't enough. They need daily, tangible reinforcement that they *own* their employees' time, because to them, the subordination is the point.

In Ottawa for meetings and buddy there’s no danger of me walking into the wrong meeting room today

Very excited to see this. How To with John Wilson is one of the best tv series I've ever watched (on Crave, it's funny, insightful, at times heartwarming, contemplative). www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Me to my American friends after seeing the Carney speech

I bought this before World Series game 6, sadly didn’t need it that night or the next. Opening it now to exorcise the baseball demons and celebrate NYE. Cheers to all for a happy and prosperous 2026. 🍾 🥂

If you thought that I’d procrastinate until the last possible day to report my continuing professional development hours for 2025 to the Law Society, well buddy you underestimated me (by 2 hours).

Cracking open a bottle of the good stuff

Marty DiBergi will be my guide for the next 82 minutes

The holidays are almost here! When you can, buy union — solidarity is always in season. 🎁 Checkout our list of union-made products and services: canadianlabour.ca/buy-union/

Hearing pitches today for NBU’s Charity of Choice for the next 3 years. All are very worthy of our donation funds but each presentation makes me angry that the organization even has to exist, because the services they provide ought to be 100% publicly funded and delivered.

When public dollars go to for-profit chains, families get longer waitlists, workers stay underpaid, and our kids lose out. It’s time for the federal government to hold the line and invest in the frontline workers and the public and non-profit centres that families count on. cupe.ca/federal-gove...

One of my little traditions is that every year, on the flight home from my last work trip before Christmas, I watch The Family Man (2000). It totally sucks, and I love it so much.

I think my favourite movie with a 51 minute Russian Orthodox wedding scene is probably The Deer Hunter (1978).

Smart of NB Liquor to schedule the Bar in a Box promotion for the same week ASD-W does parent-teacher interviews.

Me 5 minutes into this session on “mindfulness” after promising my colleagues I wouldn’t roll my eyes

Hi from the incredible Stanley Park.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

No amount of consultation will quell the haughty entitlement of NIMBYs.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

I’m a one-issue voter, and that issue is standardizing the size of these things

I’ve been in labour law for almost 20 years and “proactive subtraction” is the best euphemism for firing I’ve heard yet. Never change, Ross.

lol

Dad, my phone says I’m out of data for this period You’ll have to conserve it better next time. But I can’t text! Yes you can. [rolls eyes] well yeah Dad, in GREEN bubbles.

I was prepared for disappointment going into the series, but I wasn’t really prepared for the Jays thoroughly outplaying the Dodgers and losing anyway. The Jays hitting.269/.347/.398 and holding the Dodgers to .203/.294/.364 but losing anyway is going to bug me for the rest of my life.

No one has said it better: