It's summer and you might be heading out camping or hiking and stocking up on gear. Here's a list of companies that sell outdoors gear in Canada and their nationality, so you can choose to avoid sending money to the US. #elbowsup mckay.pub/2025-09-30-n...

Geraint Thomas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in Arreau, stage 14 of the 2025 Tour de France #tdf #photography

High falls hike trip report mckay.pub/2026-07-02-h...

Six pictures from May mckay.pub/2026-07-01-m...

We need to stop dedicating a disproportionate amount of public space on city streets to cars. I rarely see drivers driving on many streets, but the tax payer subsidized “free” car parking & dangerous car driving greatly hampers traffic flow & safety. Most people drive on the highway anyway.

Julian Alaphilippe, stage 5 of the 2025 Tour de France in Caen #photography #tdf #tdf2025

Biniam Girmay at Peyraguades, stage 13 of the 2025 Tour de France. #photography #tdf #tdf2025

The last pipeline we paid to build didn’t stop the separatists. This one won’t. It will destroy the planet and make US oil companies richer though. #cdnpoli

Tadej Pogačar at the time trial in Caen, stage 5 of the 2025 Tour de France #photography #tdf2025

Taking my daughter on a ride across town to show her how to get to her job safely by bike. It's not lost on me that two days ago a cyclist was killed on this very route in North Vancouver. @visionzerovancouver.ca #dnv

So the US who are allegedly running Venezuela are doing good work helping them out after the earthquakes, right? Right? #uspol

Starting roll out of day 1 of the Tour de France in Lile, 2025 #photography

As Canadians we should be way past “might cause pushback from the US” when deciding upon policy for our country. #cdnpoli

Tour de France starts this weekend, wish I was there again travelling around France. Team Soudal Quick Step on the processional the day before the start of the 2025 race #photography #tdf #tdf2025

Stained glass on the other side of Sagrada Família #photography

Gave Blood yesterday. Quick and easy, with nice people. You can probably give blood too. www.blood.ca/en

One calculation that blew my mind: When I push a pedestrian beg button to cross an arterial road w/ 40 mph spd limit. Wait of 90 sec means a car 1 mile away gets to priority to clear the intersection before I am allowed to cross the road. I am standing roadside breathing particulates

As the light was fading tonight we found a Tree Swallow and a Bullocks Oriole nest right next to each other. I’m now waiting to see what the weather does tomorrow, because if the light is good, I know where I’m going… #photography #birds

The amazing stained glass at Sagrada Família #photography

Plants inside boots that didn't make it all the way on the Camino de Santiago #photography

Six pictures from April #photography mckay.pub/2026-06-24-a...

Was trying to photograph a dragonfly taking off. Using precapture, a tripod and 1/16000 shutter I got a some. Their wing do weird bendy things I didn’t expect.

Dragonfly #photography

Friends don’t let friends use Facebook #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada Jay on a tree #photography #birds

Northern Yellow Warbler #photography #birds

Can't resist reposting this after a flurry of "what about people who live in the countryside and need to drive massive cars (into the city)?" replies

That’s the Tenderfoot Boogie 26km trail race done. So half of my half marathons done - to meet my 2026 goal of a half marathon every month. ✅✅✅✅✅✅☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ Beautiful race around Whistler, rivers, lakes and snowy mountains. #running #bc

Complex man hates bikes when he’s driving, hates cars when he’s biking

Crow in front of the mountains #photography #birds

Morning visitor - an Anna’s hummingbird now stops by our feeder regularly #photography #birds

This week we got hope. Russia might lose in Ukraine. US lost in Iran. Being a superpower and having a big military doesn’t mean you can just act like an imperialist and take over whatever you want.

The default seems to be "use Lightroom" to post process your photographs. I don't want to send money monthly to US companies for software. Perhaps you don't want to either. Here's some choices for processing photographs and the nationality of the companies that make them: mckay.pub/2026-06-17-p...

It’s a beaver 🦫 #photography #canada

Local man willing to overlook the military-industrial complex for two hours to enjoy Top Gun

Just like physical goods, software should clearly be labelled as to where it's made. #cdnpoli

Race report from the Noosa 10km #running mckay.pub/2026-06-16-n...

Aiguille du Midi, France #photography

Race report from the Rockhampton Half Marathon in Australia #running #australia mckay.pub/2026-06-15-r...

Pileated Woodpecker #photography #birds #vancouver

Trump insists it's very normal for the winners of wars to pay billions to the losers

So the US just lost another war? #uspoli

Canada Jay at sunset with the West Lion behind it #photography #vancouver

Quick stop out in Tsawwassen yesterday for 30 minutes and I found this Anna’s Hummingbird #photography #birds

There are many things wrong with this picture, the over exposure, the graininess, the low shutter speed. But I like seeing the Azure kingfisher being distracted by the bug. #photography #birds

Sometimes being up at 3:30am Vancouver means I get content from one of my Australian YouTube channels nice and fresh. In this case, 31 seconds after it was published. #duadepaton #photography #birds

Song sparrow to cleanse your timeline of FIFA and its corruption and greed. #notfifa #photography #vancouver

Deer in back garden. Probably the one that my Fuschia the next day. #photography #vancouver

Looking at a tour that is described as "more comfortable for old people" yep that's me.