“Speaking your mind” carries with it the duty actually to use one’s mind, not just to spew hate. Hate doesn’t emerge from logical, rational thinking.

I made a green curry for dinner and mid-way through eating was able to lower the furnace thermostat at least three degrees Celsius.

#NorthBattleford This guy can really write! You’ll enjoy the event.

I may print this letter and send it to her in lieu of writing one about her latest policies and forthcoming budget.

Kevin O’Leary credits acting chops to years of convincing people he wasn’t driving the boat

Brazen revisionist lying here by Danielle Smith, blaming AHS for screwing up the procurement. She personally announced the purchase. At her behest, Jason Copping directly oversaw the contract and defended the high cost. This is from a March 20, 2025 Globe story by Carrie Tait and Alanna Smith.

A quick jaunt to Canmore to see my cousin-in-law from Edmonton over lunch. Somehow I am always 'surprised' to see the mountains again, even though I can see them from home. Up close and personal, they are different entities. Gorgeous sunny day, and NOT minus 40 with windchill!! 1/2

Looks as if Someone doesn't like what their own corruption and complete lack of ethics are writing on their face. Or they're prepping for another trip to M-a-Lago.

Found this book recently in my neighborhood Little Free Library. Bumping it to the top of my TBR list given Danielle Smith’s awful address to the province last night. #ABPoli

Dear Alberta, In advance of the budget disaster, Turkish Tylenol, crumbling health care and education, coal mines, book bans, swan hunts, and deep, deep corruption, we would like to you blame immigrants. And Ottawa (always Ottawa). Yours separate but together, Premier/Governor/Her Ladyship Smith

Oct 19 2026 Referendum in Alberta is going to be a referendum on reading comprehension more than anything else. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

We don't have any money and we don't have any migration. I have the perfect idea -- let's spend millions on a referendum.

If members of the women’s teams are “ladies” then are the NHL players “gentlemen”? I think the term people are searching for is the word “women.”

Listen:

The University of Prince Edward Island is hiring a historian in Atlantic Canadian history! Details below… www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...

Shades of Alberta.

BEYOND LOCAL: MP Matt Jeneroux leaves Conservatives to join Liberal caucus

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧 The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement. May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

Facelifts, breast implants, breast reduction surgery, penis lengthening, nose jobs, lip jobs, flappy underarm fixing and now limb lengthening Nobody bats an eye about all this But when trans folks want surgery, it’s suddenly considered wrong or unethical or whatever. 🧐

People in charge of murders, pepper-spraying ppl in the eyes, kidnapping children, breaking limbs, stealing lives can’t take any critique.

#livinginAB The new Alberta Views magazine arrived, and I page through, excited about planning revisits to sites around the province this year: galleries, Writing-on-Stone, a 🦕 museum and field trip, Japanese garden in Lethbridge. But I’m also thinking of the UCP stranding cancer patients 1/2

Wise Canadian Stomping Tom said it best in this song 🎶 🫶🇨🇦 “Goodbye Jim & Jackie, goodbye John & May We hate to see you leaving, bound for the USA But if you don't believe your country should come before yourself Ya can better serve your country, by living somewhere else” Together we stand 💪& 🆓 🇨🇦 🕊️

The Plant Initiative's free monthly e-newsletter for February 2026 is now available online at the link below, containing many events, resources, and opportunities related to the human-plant connection. Visit plantinitiative.org to subscribe. mailchi.mp/plantinitiat...

I made honey-vanilla-lemonzest roasted fresh figs for the first time and served them over a scoop of Chapman's premium ice cream.

Roses are red Shakespeare's dad was a glover Your avian love connection is the piping plover.

Sweetpeas are red Sweetpeas are violet I hope you like me And are not just on auto-pilot. Happy Valentine's Day early evening version, 2026

“[Defeated separatist politician] Mr. Collver turned his back on Saskatchewan. He moved to the United States, where he worked as a funeral director in Sun City, Ariz.” It is possible just to move, eh.

Hey EDMONTON, let's have an Urgent Conversation about Health Care. This isn't about politics or ideology... its about objective facts! Is HC going in the right direction? What can we all do about it? Please help spread the word: www.friendsofmedicar...

Louise Bernice Halfe / Sky Dancer has a new book of poems, memoir and essays coming out March 2, 2026, from U of Regina Press: uofrpress.ca/Books/W/wiht...

Had a great visit with two other people wearing masks in London Drugs. It turned out the woman and I both taught, both English lit, and we are all from Friendly Manitoba, and the man’s dad grew up in the next town to my hometown. None of us have had COVID either. Same type masks too, Canada Strong.

We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Indigenous Environmental Governance and Management. Very excited for this position. Please circulate widely among your networks: www.sfu.ca/rem/about/em... #academia #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Great points ⬇️.

6 people have been killed at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. Two were airlifted to hospital, a third victim died on the way to the hospital. 25 others have been hurt.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.

Decades ago when lit profs and others were building careers touting our new post colonial era, Stolo writer Lee Maracle wrote an essay in which she said that non-Indigenous CDNs were “still lurking about old forts” and not much had changed for Indigenous people.Rustad seems to be lurking. 1/2

English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.

Sitting on a bench in the last rays of the day with a young magpie pecking away on spruce tree cones just above my head.

Are there any doctors in the Bluesky house?

Health Canada is warning Canadians to check their medication after two lots of MAR-Amlodipine 5 mg tablets were recalled, as some bottles may contain the wrong drug. #RECALL #Canada globalnews.ca/news/1165789...

A few years ago the province of Saskatchewan put a bounty on coyotes……. They’ve been thigh high in #gophers ever since. And Alberta has held coyote-killing contests. #strychnine 💡💡💡💡💡

UCP reported planning to vote on publicly acknowledging separatist program – but not until after separation referendum! albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/ucp-... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Are you concerned that Pierre Poilievre refuses to get national security clearance? We are facing unprecedented level of threat from external forces and internal traitor groups. Please sign this petition calling on all national leaders to put their nation first. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

@jukka235.bsky.social A big call out and thanx to the Swedish "Infectionists" 🔊🔊 At some point they ought to be called to account, perhaps? Sadly, they are but the canary in everyone's coalmine. No country will be left behind in the race to chronic diseases and disabling Long C-19

Signed.

So crazed that people who love guns are afraid of needles.

The bees next door are out and housekeeping their hive, jettisoning their dead and doing general tidying.

Dear cbc, Jovani is pulling a stunt. Pamela

Someone could helpfully point out to the 23% where the border crossings are. They don’t seem to know.

thetyee.ca/News/2026... The Premier has ordered the termination and payout of over 15M in HC leadership alone since taking over. This is obscene. Think of the frontline care this could have bought. 1/5