The Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour (NLFL) today released its analysis of party responses to its 2025 Election Questionnaire, providing workers with a critical tool to inform their vote.  nlfed.ca/nl-federatio...

Don’t recall this messaging in the election ads.

Incredibly brave and selfless act. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Water is a little low.

The head of the Department of War is live streaming his pre-game, amp up speech to all of the top military brass in front of a giant flag. Ominous.

Late in the season to bloom but we’ll take it.

Not much going on at The Village these days. I remember it much differently when I was a kid.

🚨 2025 NL Labour Day Events 🚨 Marches, BBQs, family fun, and, of course, solidarity! All are welcome. St. John’s, Grand Falls-Windsor, Corner Brook and Lab West. Details in the second image below.

Water levels are way down.

Brought the kids to Bannerman - toque and two layers on.

Let’s see if rolling over will work.

“The world's leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip's largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid.” www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

First run in the rain in many weeks. Glorious.

Conservatives in power and Conservatives as the official opposition.

From sweltering heat to a frost advisory in one day.

The welcome smell of wet soot - like a campfire that’s been hastily doused with water

Rain!

Flights attendants are somehow crucial to the Canadian economy but not crucial enough to be paid properly for their work.

Left the bathroom window open, so now I’m cleaning up wildfire ash like John Lithgow’s character in Interstellar.

Dairy Queen makes you walk through this greenhouse blast furnace to hammer home your desire for a cold ice cream. Brilliant.

The smell of manure is now stronger than the smell of smoke in Kilbride. Hopefully, a good sign.

Downy woodpecker.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Yellow warbler.

Smoky.

Air quality. Environment Canada says low risk, most others say high risk. Assume Environment Canada is most accurate, but discrepancies seems odd.

Air quality. Environment Canada says low risk, most others say high risk. Assume Environment Canada is most accurate, but discrepancies seems odd.

The kind of light and shadows that happen during sunrises or sunsets. It is, however, the middle of the day.

Not ideal. vocm.com/2025/08/02/2...

Trump boosts tariffs on Canada to 35% www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Purple finch in the backyard.

Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the #Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. The crisis remains entirely preventable. Deliberate blocking and delay of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid has cost many lives. Statement from WHO. www.who.int/news/item/27...

A small cone at DQ is $5.50 lol.

Perseverance.

Always wear socks in your Dunlops.

The @theonion.com is obsolete.

Evacuation order for Musgrave Harbour is lifted now. Effective immediately. Great news.

Cuts to MUN (and more to come, I fear). - 20 jobs. - Harris Centre cut - Office of Public Engagement cut - Reduced operating budgets across the board - Hiring freeze - Reduction in contract teaching positions gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-c...

The entire catalogue of music ever made in the palm of my hand? Better listen to the same stuff I used to listen to in the 90s on repeat.

“A report published this month by the Community Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador (CFNL) and Annex Consulting says only 0.3 per cent of the province's total occupied housing stock represents non-profit units.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For most of my adult life the Fraser Institute has been putting out a report about increasing tax burden. For most of my adult life, this report has been debunked. Yet, here we are again. Circle of life.

This whole tariff debacle is nuts.

These coconut yogurts are half delicious and half like eating sun tan lotion.

We are entitled to our entitlements “N.L. cabinet quietly approved new cash benefit for departing ministers” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We’re gonna need a new y-axis.

This is quite the read. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Kids will wait until you’re as far away as possible before yelling out to you for something.

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...