Judy LaMarsh was a remarkable person. In Parliament she helped lay the foundation of Universal Healthcare and the Canada Pension Plan and oversaw our Centennial Celebrations. She also wrote three books and fought for LGBTQ rights as a lawyer. youtu.be/grKpFleHJhw

This neither supports the strikes nor condemns them. It clearly supports stopping the Iranian regime from developing nuclear weapons. It's a very weird statement. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Tiny C18th pewter button found on the Thames Foreshore on one of this week’s two sunny days. Eight petalled flower design, so much pretty detail for such a small item. Always a treat to find haberdashery from the river #mudlark

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

Great photos!! #wildlife #fishers

Dear Toronto Ceol Kids is fundraising for such an amazing cause. It helps provide music lessons for kids/youth. Every year I donate. Every year i hustle for them regardless of what country Im living in. Follow @ceolkids.bsky.social

The @romtoronto.bsky.social has an excellent looking exhibition about Crawford Lake where they have found evidence from every epoch on the Earth. But... they mention the Anthropocene which IS NOT a recognized epoch. Why are people ignoring this science? stratigraphy.org/chart/

AI investors be like, "show me the money"

I didn't know this one. It's great. Thread on conspiracies which are more creative than when I was young, and more sinister.

"Art reminds us that life is worth living." Nick Cave

Sibelius vibes. www.nme.com/news/music/m...

😆 global reputation. What global reputation? The one that seizes innocent people at the border, wants to annex neighbours, kills its own citizens who get in the way of deportations, thinks everyone owes them something & bullies countries to comply?

What a mess. So many of us questioned why the internet was not regulated for years. Now it's too late because of privacy & issues of free expression/speech. A work around is needed cuz tech is never going to comply. #tumblerridge energeticcity.ca/2026/02/24/f...

This is what Jon Bon Jovi does with his money & status. He feeds people. ♥️ jbjsoulkitchen.org

This blew up on Twitter & the comments were all over the place but zero insults. They were mostly smart. That platform is unpredictable.

Just really tired of seeing artists having to defend their thinking. Thank you Nick Cave. www.nme.com/news/music/n...

Too exhausted & sore to find this funny.

SCTV will be available to stream next week

‘Milton saw theology as a collective endeavour. Every believer has the right and obligation to work out the truths of Christian religion for themselves, but they should refine and test these beliefs in dialogue with fellow believers.’ Tobias Gregory on the poet’s faith www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Women like this give me hope. Talented, resourceful, helpful, and a realistic ambition that includes helping her local communities. I have been following her for awhile now. I tend to like retro electronic music but she has made me more curious about current stuff.

William York Macgregor is remembered as one of the leading figures of the Glasgow Boys and co-founder of 'The Glasgow School' with his schoolfriend, the artist James Paterson. 'The Vegetable Stall,' (1884) is considered to be Macgregor's masterpiece.

'Talk Of The Town' back in 2014 at the iTunes Festival. Chrissie performed alongside Blondie on the bill, in support of her solo record 'Stockholm' released in the same year. -CHHQ

Family member on a shift at the sports bar she works at. People there better tip brilliantly. #CANvsUSA

Maybe we now know who the monsters and heroes actually are.

I regrettably missed Kurt Cobain's birthday yesterday but am still going to use the opportunity to post one of the all time great photos of him: in Times Square in 1993 with Jenny Holzer theater marquee

"Tech has figured out something that sells better than sex, rage." @profgalloway.com By a wide mile, the best thinker on tech right now.

Anthony Bourdain's Medium Raw has a chapter all about dating a very wealthy coke addict who takes him to St. Barthes where he mingles with "rich international f***tards"; the low, vulgar, shallow, petty, stupid & tasteless people who own everything on the planet.

OMG my niece teaches grade school & watched the game with the kids. She just sent me a video and OMG seeing six year olds jump up and down saying "yay! Canada" has me completely choked up. #TeamCanada #Olympics

The Wayback Machine is not intended to be a backdoor for large-scale commercial scraping and, like others on the web today, we expend significant time and effort working to prevent such abuse. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

At this point we aren't even streaming US content. It's all BritBox in my house LOL

The sun is shining, birds are here, it is warm! but we are getting how much snow tomorrow? Stupid winter. 🤬

Well, I got to hand to this Royal Family. They continue to be on brand for royal behaviour throughout history. www.cbc.ca/news/livesto...

February 17, 2026 Today begins the Chinese New Year - year of the Horse. It’s also the first day of Ramadan on the Islamic Calendar. It’s also Mardi Gras for partying Christians (mostly Catholics), signalling the first day of Lent. All derived from Lunar cycles. New Moon Today — 7:00am ET

This Olympics has everything.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Was Navalny poisoning by frog toxin meant to send a message?

Rural types! Join this thread. Interesting discussion on camping, and how private land has forced the issue of who gets to be 'in nature'.

There must be someone out there who can buy Ronnie's and not touch a single thing.

This is a great progressive idea to move forward: wealth inequity is not cultural, it is about class.

"We are made of ghosts, we grievers, and those spirits are forever beside us, as a protective force, part of the web of consciousness that interconnects all things." Nick Cave

I read the Sat. Globe and Mail for the first time in over a decade today. It was laced with pro US sentiment, & an enormous amount of fear mongering. Yeuch. Won't go near it again for another decade.

What I learned this wknd: never double touch the rocks after releasing beyond the hog line. #Olympiccurling

During WW1, Clare Attwood was commissioned by the Women's Work Sub-committee of the Imperial War Museum to produce several pictures depicting the activities of the Women's Voluntary Service. This work (1918) shows volunteers filing papers in the ballroom at Devonshire House.

Sorry? What is wrong with this image @bsky.app ??? I've never seen Richard censored before. Why???

One of my favourites and an influence.

Emile Claus' view of Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament is not only a tour de force of impressionist painting but a fascinating document of London’s riverscape in 1917. On the left stands the shot factory with its landmark tower, now occupied by the Queen Elizabeth Hall

The Australian artist Clarice Beckett's posthumous reputation rests to a certain extent on her soft, grey-pink coastal scenes of Beaumaris in Melbourne, Australia; she learned the principles of tonal painting from her teacher Max Meldrum. This is from 1925.

'Self-Portrait with an Apple.' (1902) A common thread throughout Cuno Amiet's career was his love of colour.  In Brittany in 1892, he met Paul Sérusier and Roderic O’Connor - we can see in this work how Amiet adopted their techniques and made them his own.

Just read a great story about a great Canadian couple David & Charlotte Thomson who mapped Canada. Earlier post! I have found over the years people generally have disdain for couples that work together. Collectives are fine, but a hetero couple? Problematic. It's super misogynist IMO.

From Craig Baird who has a great Cdn history account on FB & Twitter but not here sadly. Great story about an intrepid partnership. canadaehx.com/2023/01/17/c...