From the archives: doggie at the King Eddy diner lunch counter, Ottawa.

Ready for my abstract #art lesson.

Thomas Cooper Gotch, The Lantern Parade. 1918

From the archives.

It's a wonderful feeling when 5 years of research and writing comes to fruition. The thought that immediately follows is that the work is not done because you now have to promote it. I am grateful for all the help I received along the way. #HeDidNotConquer #Dundurn #cdaUS #cdnpoli #Canada250

listen, i'm not in the business of making agitprop but it feels like the subway-throwing lawyer gave everyone a pretty useful symbol

Remember Smokey Bear ? Just discovered this American fire prevention mascot for 81 years and counting, was retired in Canada a few years ago. Replaced by Ember the Fire Smart Fox. Who knew?

My latest #collage titled Lady Liberty We miss you.

GOLD (#3) FOR 🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD Summer McIntosh breaks the 200m butterfly world championship record to win her third gold medal. She nearly broke the WR She posts a time of 2:01.99. Another extraordinary swim by the 18-year-old Canadian phenom.

Rosemary!

Love this post!

'Arenig, Sunset.' In 1911, James Dickson Innes accompanied Derwent Lees and Augustus John to Arenig Fawr, a mountain in Snowdonia, North Wales; it was soon after he had returned from the south of France. In this work, he has painted Wales as if he were still in the Mediterranean.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

Perspective is all.

A delightful story to bring a ray of joy into your day, especially if you #garden (or try).

So excited for my friend Madelaine Drohan. Time to pre-order her new book about the last American who tried to annex Canada.✍️ 👇

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism. https://www.commondreams.org/news/david-huerta-arrested

Headline/chyron if this were happening in a foreign country: "Far right president calls for arrest of opposition party provincial governor, raising further questions about democracy & the rule of law" Headline/chyron when this happens in 🇺🇸: "Trump Takes Questions As He Returns To The White House"

Just to be clear, Governor Newsom hasn't broken any laws. If this line is crossed, and the President has a sitting governor arrested, then the choice for Democratic leaders, senior military officers and federal employees becomes one of accepting dictatorship or taking drastic action.

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Looking for pushback south of the border here's one.

Mannequins at The Bay Rideau in Ottawa look so orderly in contrast to the shelves and racks which appear ransacked during the bankruptcy sale just days to closure. May 2025

ICYMI as I did. 🫥

Old lady willow looks like a floating island. She is enjoying an annual flood on the banks of the Ottawa River near Fitzroy.

Ex-Washington Post editorial cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social, who quit her job because the paper killed her cartoon mocking billionaires - including Post owner Jeff Bezos - for bowing to Trump, just won the Pulitzer Prize.

Here's the Reuters work that won a #Pulitzer prize. The shocking ease of producing fentanyl.

Here's the ProPublica work that won the Pulitzer prize for Public Service for reports on deaths of pregnant women in abortion-restricted US states. "How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths."

Congratulations to Moises Saman for winning the feature photography Pulitzer for this powerful essay www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Paper #collage showing Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney with birds on his arm and an orange (think NDP) bird house hanging from his hand. Originally titled Chattering Classes. Post-election They Were Right.

Donald Trump Jr thinks Poilievre made a mistake by not campaigning on how it's a great idea for Trump to annex Canada and end the country's sovereignty 🥴

… Oh that’s cold

French Canadians refused to join the American Revolution 250 years ago, laying the foundations for Canada to become an independent country. Yesterday, they weighed in at another decisive moment in Canada’s history….

Good news. Https://ottawacitizen.com/news/how-bruce-fanjoy-somehow-beat-pierre-poilievre-in-carleton

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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

Aaron--couldn't have said it better myself. 🇨🇦

I might not win our pool but I'll take it!

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

America is now just the creepy guy in the club telling random women they’d be a lot happier if they were dating him

“It makes me want to scream,” the 74-year-old Nobel laureate told the Guardian. “Landmines do not stop an invasion. Landmines don’t influence the outcome of a war. All they do is mutilate or kill your own people. That’s why it blows my mind – it’s so stupid.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

If this happened in any country in the world, the strongest concerns would be expressed about human rights and democracy. This should be no exception.

A reminder, if it happened to slip anyone's mind, just in time for the Canadian federal election Monday 28 April. One more sleep (or maybe two if it's a close call).

❤️❤️❤️ #nanaimo #nanaimoinfusion nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/04/26/i...

'Outside St Peter's, Rome.' (1957) Edward Seago visited Rome three times in the 1950s. This watercolour is a worthy contender to some of John Singer Sargent's work. Both were influenced by the ancient grandeur and monumental architecture of the Italian capital.