If you're in Alberta but haven't had a chance to sign the Water not Coal petition yet, find a list of signing locations by postal code here: sign.waternotcoal.ca Or hit me up as a registered canvasser 😁

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Behold, the first flower of my springtime - a "wild" strawberry spotted in the garden on May eve.

I hate having emotions about reality; I’d much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.

*Lewis wins* Nenshi: Even though Lewis was elected, we still like pipelines! Smith: they say they like pipelines but they don’t because Lewis is an eco-socialist And here is where I point out: automatically accepting the premise of your enemy’s argument before they even make it is a gift to them

men famously change genders to compete in women sports which is where all the money and support is

Happy Equinox! The air smells like David Francey's line "when winter finally breaks its bones". My garden plants are sprouting hopefully in the kitchen, and willows along the river are getting fluffy.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

-laughs nervously in Ukrainian- So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...

Fuck AI overviews. It’s thievery from journalists pure and simple

Happy winter solstice to all. Days get brighter from here. ☀️

Mayoral campaign platform idea: every municipal rec facility where kids have morning activities shall have coffee on site. 🫩☕☕

Incredible story that is a good reminder that hat we think of as generative AI usually has lots of real-life humans behind it.

Decorative gourd season! Hoping the little ghouls are scared by the decor and not the resident porch skunk. #abed

See ya in the spring, Sandhill Cranes noisy overhead this afternoon! (Google helpfully offered to remove the cranes from this picture when I was cropping it.)

For anyone feeling back to school/end of summer/start of everything Sunday Scaries (though it's Monday), here is a picture of my cousin's dog jumping into the local outdoor pool at today's end-of-season dogs only day.

‘Berta friends: don’t forget that today’s the day you can pre-order your COVID vaccine. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes

Hate this for us

Please file a complaint t if you agree that the CBC should not be hosting a show about canada becoming the 51 state jointly with American broadcast org NPR cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman...

Price comparisons of surgeries done at private facilities vs AHS costs, courtesy of the new documents obtained by the Globe and Mail. Given what has been going on within the public health care system, especially the ongoing closures in rural Alberta, this data is horrifying.

It's -25, so perfect time to plan camping for the summer. What have Alberta campgrounds got against potable water? Our fondest hope is a bit of shade and not to get beaver fever.

Never thought of it this way, but of course free trade changed what produce is available in Canada. We had oranges and grapefruit when I was a kid, but not avocados either. I recall encountering my first mango, in university, and trying to pop it off the pit like a big peach.

In the absence of family traditions for Imbolc / Bridgid's day / halfway between midwinter and the spring equinox, we did some spring cleaning. Spring feels far away in today's -20 snow, but brighter days, at least, are coming.

It’s been a real goddamned week and now my soul yearns for the simplicity of the mammoth hunt

Dipping a toe in here, questioningly. Social media has descended into bots and nonsense, so I'm not sure. Will we have fun here as humans (or very handsome cats)? Hello friends, anyhow, for now.