Moments ago we passed these leave on our own little path... "Looks like the Group of Seven," said my wife... (Yes, I know Thomson's not, but!)

"In a speech that has gone well beyond his allotted time..."

Finally! After seeing the crucial role nurse practitioners play in northern communities, I've long puzzled on why their potential hasn't been used more everywhere. Here's hoping this model gets the support it needs to spread widely and quickly, including education and training capacity up front.

'Dubé described houses full of mould, a water treatment plant not fit for purpose, a new police station that can't open due to a lack of telecommunications service[,…] a temporary nursing station that isn't meeting the community's needs, [and a] small, aging school that only goes up to Grade 8…' /1

Autumn, Batchewana Lake, Algoma Sketches XXIX Lawren Harris 1918

I gotta get to work. I stopped reading halfway through but this line — yeah. This is the concern.

'The onset of war can be attributed, in part, to a group of political arsonists. These were the Southern “fire-eaters” who made compromise impossible, who portrayed coexistence as dishonor, and who fashioned a worldview in which violence was not a last resort but the only resort.' /1

Autumn Franklin Carmichael 1940

On Sept. 22, 1972, Team Canada took to the ice in Moscow to play Game Five against the Soviets in the Summit Series. After four tough games in Canada, their backs were against the wall. It was the start of something amazing. This is the story of Game Five! 🧵 1/10

The NYTimes has a feature today on a community greenhouse project in the Canadian Arctic, but if you can't get past its paywall, here's a terrific handling of the same story from 2023 by the Toronto Globe & Mail (which isn't to cast shade on the NYT -- it's a feature, not a scoop!). /1

"Le Hibou is a place of near mythical status in the Ottawa music community. A tiny coffee house on Sussex Drive where the likes of Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen played. Robyn Bresnahan hears memories from...its heyday and explores whether [it] could ever rise again."

So...then...MAGA are...Antifa...? I don't know if this incites people, but it sure as heck confuses me...!

Critical point: If signed, does it bind the individual journalist alone, or also the media organization they serve? Expect the latter in practice. They'll likely penalize any outlet whose Pentagon reporter signs if the outlet runs any unapproved story on defence, regardless who got it for them. /1

The only practical application of hacky sack skills in human history.

Great read.

If someone asked me to give them only one chart that explained the background conditions that facilitated Trumpism, this is the one I'd pick.

"May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humo[u]r in our lives."

1/2 More from Dnipro now where Russia fired numerous drones and missiles. The moment one struck an apartment block in the city was actually filmed by a member of the public. Terrorism. #RussiaIsATerroristState

' Redford, who grew up feeling economically insecure and suffered a bout of polio when he was 11, told me he thought of himself as climbing the hill, Sisyphus-style, never “standing at the top.” He quoted a favorite T.S. Eliot line: “There is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” ' /1

:-) "Their first World Cup win over six-time champion New Zealand was also only the third time the Black Ferns have lost in tournament history. The Black Ferns suffered their first World Cup loss in 11 years and their first loss in a knockout match in 34 years."

This is incredible. No evidence of training or leadership or plan. Just a bunch of The Guys in a role-play game they're bad at. And the big one who threw her to the ground—I'll bet he's fun at home, too: "I thought I told you to GET BACK IN THE CAR!" A man with more issues than The New Yorker.

"And the only condition for continuing to be a journalist here is that you stop being a journalist."

Journalists are people. They feel what others feel, and they want to help their neighbours. Those who scoff at this aren't worth your time.

Three days before today’s incursion into Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets…

Finding myself in a reflective mood today, I decided to reread Humberto Eco’s 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism.” Meditating on the definition & essential properties of fascism, Eco identified 14 key features, only one of which is needed “to allow fascism to coagulate around it." It is, perhaps, relevant. 🧵

Free Speech, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

Parachutes would be banned. And we'd all be forced to jump out of planes, anyway.

"All of these types of things, I'm sorry, that doesn't tell me that Canada is passionate about this relationship in the same way that we are…" …said the controlling would-be boyfriend living across the street who tried to park his boat in her driveway without permission. (Fascinating article.)

Singing One of the Oldest Secular English Songs (13th Century) youtu.be/12PDqrUiXOg?...

I did a quick calender check upon seeing that quote from the Assisi Project (just below this), and no, it's not April 1st. The quote really is from Pope Francis—from his time as a cardinal. Here's a link to the full five-finger prayer. Do it as intended, holding up each finger alone in turn.

"The middle finger is the tallest finger and it reminds us of our leaders. Pray for those who govern, legislate, and exercise authority over others. They need guidance and good judgment in order to serve the common good." #PopeFrancis #FiveFingerPrayer assisiproject.com/podcast

Good find: "(b) ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen;"

Trump: "When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."

"good-natured, decent and clean"

Trump on Russia's war on Ukraine: "It doesn't affect us because, like, we have a big ocean in between."

The Globe and Mail

As Karl Popper said "It is impossible to communicate in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.“ If you think that I am minimizing the catastrophic situation we Europeans are all in, trust me, I am not.

The killing of three police officers in in York County, Pa.: I can't imagine having any serious responsibility in an environment where you know—you KNOW—you could on any day encounter someone armed and equipped to act out a horrific "role-play" game if the opportunity or perceived "need" arises. /1

"It may have been conducting a routine training mission, providing enhanced security for an event, or ensuring the military has an up-to-date 'air picture' of the region." So...I don't have a bad feeling about this... Not at all... Really... /1

"It was that shot of skimming immortality," said Matthews. "The taste of victory was too sweet and the desire to hold up the Donald Melville trophy, which is what the winner wins, clearly had overcome them. And do you blame them? In many ways, I'm flattered."

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

this is good... maybe one day House and Senate "leadership" will say something too... well, a gal can hope...

September 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Mullin on Mullin: "The minute I can’t tell you’re being honest with me, I can’t trust you. From then on, everything you say is questioned..."

“A month before Pearl Harbor, the Army opened a small class… in an empty airplane hangar on Crissy Field at the Presidio in San Francisco. The first class graduated in may, 1942, the same month that the American government began to move Japanese-Americans into internment/concentration camps.”

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

In response to Trump’s DEI bans, Canada’s medical schools will now fall entirely under Canadian oversight.

'Redford also commented directly on Trump, after Woodward suggested Trump was trying to destroy democracy. “[Trump] doesn’t understand [democracy]. So it’s easy for him to destroy it. It’s easy to destroy something you don’t understand. You can claim it doesn’t exist.” '