Travel on Friday 13th - my flight was changed and now a I've got a 4 hour delay in Toronto. Next week I'm in Edmonton at the Northern Lights Folk Club (sold out). The next day I'm doing a writing workshop and fundraiser at the Carrot Coffee House. Check stephenfearing.com for my March dates in BC.

A wonderful result

Laurent Dubreuil, 33, father of two, claims Bronze medal against “the kids” in 500 metres speedskating…so great #Canada #WinterOlympics

Denmark is up 1-0 against the US in early men's hockey.

Michael Buble says goodbye to legendary #Canucks broadcaster Jim Robson with full-page ad in the Vancouver Sun

A Love Letter to Tumbler Ridge via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Alberta separatists promoting Ezra Levant talking to Alex Jones tells you everything about Alberta separatism, and for that matter, Ezra Levant

As seen by Der Spiegel

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 22,1940

Some pretty significant stuff here….Scott Moe will be very happy, Doug Ford presumably less so…Like it or or loathe it, Carney is an adult, compared with Justin #cdnpoli #Canola #EVs

Wow! RT www.piquenewsmagazine.com/national-spo...

#vanpoli RT Should Sunrise Market Become a City-Owned Grocery Store? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy theconversation.com/searching-re...

Just about to play at The Sunflower Folk Club in Belfast. Drop in if you're nearby. Here are a few shots from the last couple of days. 1 The Crown” - Victorian gin palace restored to original splendour 2 Violin that survived The Titanic 3 The Nomadic surviving tender to The Titanic 4 Full Irish

Not a nice man! RT Climbing the Ziggurat www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

MOst of them don't appear to give a shit. I blame Kane, whose lackluster attitude has become a cancer. Also Hughes, whose pissy body language was getting tiresome. But Floppy Pete, DeBrusk, Boeser take blame.

The French take security seriously…#Paris

Of course not. That would make the tech bros that Solomon is sucking up to very angry. What an absolutely useless waste of a Cabinet minster.

Do the majority of #Canucks players care anymore, as they collect their millions in salaries no matter how poorly they perform?

Le Monde has it right !

I wrote about how China also loves everyone’s favourite show. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/15c699a...

Good! Rt www.seattletimes.com/life/culture...

Such sad news that Hal Wake has died…few have done more than Hal to promote Canadian authors and CanLit during his long book-centred career, particularly during the dozen years he served as Artistic Director of the @writersfest.bc.ca…a real loss…condolences to his family

A thing about the World Cup that is impossible to know until it happens is the gap between the city/FIFA saying "this will be the biggest thing ever for Vancouver!!!" and the lack of comparables for being like the 8th biggest host site for a 6-week long thing spread across an entire continent

To suggest it will be bigger than the 2010 Winter Olympics is laughable…a lot of people will come to Vancouver to watch its 7 World Cup matches…that’s it..zzzz

That’s not what “epicentre” means. Vancouver is hosting 7 of the 104 games, none after the round of 16. It will be a big thing. There will likely be a lot of bigger things happening.

I teach bystander intervention for a living and the audio of people yelling 'MURDERERS! DO YOU HAVE A CONSCIENCE?!' while they record the carnage, made me weep. There are millions of people who support fascism but there are also countless others who are standing up for justice, despite huge risks.

Why would one ever “panic”?RT theconversation.com/us-action-ag...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

It’s scary out there, and the big tech zillionaires are doing nothing to regulate their sites….in fact they fight tooth and nail, and donate billions to Trump, to make sure no one gets them to clean up their act

Trump is such a baby

So telling that Donald Trump is raging about people outside the embassy in Ottawa protesting his illegal invasion of a foreign country. Doesn't he have two countries to manage now? As I said to @cnn.com, it's like dealing with the tantrums Al Capone in his syphilitic phase.

The City of Vancouver continues to provide real-time text updates about council meetings exclusively on a website that produces mass amounts of deepfake non-consensual sexualized images of minors

The Illusion of AI Companionship for Young Males via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

@brucearthur.bsky.social nails it!! All those skilled players and they never melded into a team…#WorldJuniors #Canada

Huge insurance goal by their big gun Gavin McKenna, and that should do it #Canada #Worldjuniors

oh that's very interesting

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 05,1950

Hard to recall a time when the United States had a president who cared less about democracy, including in his own country #Venezuela

It’s a shame #Canada is so weak in its own zone…they have by far the most skilled players at the #WorldJuniors, but they give up far too many goals #Finland

And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations

#Canada 🇨🇦 outshot 37-24 and, sadly, beaten by the better team tonight…#Czechia was really impressive…too many giveaways and undisciplined play cost the Canadian juniors, despite their fire power…the Czechs were better coached, too