I was sceptical when I heard about the Alien: Earth series but it's the best thing I've seen on TV in a long time with a great score by Jeff Russo and excellent monsters. The horror is creepy rather than jump-out-and frighten. There'll be nightmares for some though, I'm sure.

Will CFL rule changes make the game less Canadian? https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/166365/ While it can’t compete with the NFL in terms of money, fan support or even player talent, the…

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

It's hard to understand, even at 46 years distance, how they could run this add. It's a reminder to never depend on the good will of large corporations who would give you cancer to make a buck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QJn...

"the most important thing for us to do is just actually ignore anything the Americans say or their feelings or anything like that because their feelings are of no relevance and make sure we plan for a world where they are in collapse"

“In a CENSORED society everyone needs debates about harmless topics,” says historian Claudia Koonz. (Like make-up videos and “reality” shows today.) Nazi Germany women’s magazines glorified housewives subservient to men and to the "nation's father". (Like "trad wives" today. U.S. is primed for it!)

I'd remind everyone that the Millerites (the ancestors of Jehovah's Wittnesse and 7th Day Adventists) sold all their worldly goods and dressed in white to await The Rapture on October 22, 1844 and we're still here. They're dead anyway.

Super concert by the HPO last night. Sibelius (En Saga), new to me, Prokofiev 1st Pno. Concerto, Eris, nice piece by HPO composer-in-residence Abigail Richardson Schulte, and 1st Shostakovich Symphony (mindbogglingly composed by the 19 year old.) New maestro, James S. Kahane on the podium.

Last night Listened to (watched) Berliner Philharmoniker play Petroushka on Mezzo TV. Everything Stravinsky put in the Le Sacre du Printemps is already there.

So the Ticat-Blue Bomber game was supposed to be a tribute to Ted Goveia who was seriously ill. He was the Ticats current and the Bombers past general manager. In horrifying turn of events his passing was reported a few hours before the game turning a celebration into a remembrance service.

New 24x30 palette knife oil painting by Peggy Ann Thompson-Mix It Up-Shortridge Gallery in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

Ransacking Troy at Stratford Festival. Closes Sept. 28. Don't miss this one! www.stratfordfestival.ca/offer/2025-R...

I live in Canada and shop at Costco. Their excellent French brie disappeared a couple of months ago. According to this article it's because of tRumps tariffs. Why French cheese has to go through Costco's operations in the U.S. I can't imagine but there you go. Thanks, Costco!

Democracies allowed U.S. (always vulnerable to authoritarianism) to dominate the economy, world defense and international relations. We're reaping the effects (breakdown of institutions, aggression, ignoring climate change) and opening the door to the dominance of China, a totalitarian dictatorship

... and a full page ad in the newspaper today promoting the "new" Ontario Place. What's he doing with our tax money? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Only a few days left to take this questionnaire and write in your own answers to let this Liberal government know that you don't actually want them to be a conservative government.

I don't suppose many bluesky types follow pop music or analyse pop songs but this is very interesting... www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93J...

Northern Lights, Great Bear Lake A.Y. Jackson c. 1950

We made it to the Helen McNicoll show at the AGH. Wonderful paintings.. A prodigious talent. The exposition included the painting which is the subject of the TV show below. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This explains Putin's negotiating strategy as pioneered by CCCP diplomats a century ago. I was able to read it with only a little help from Google Translate. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/1...

Good Morning Everyone 😊☕🌤️ Enjoy Your Saturday 🫶

Orange Turd sure is Taco, but he also benefits from it, since between a "big" tariff announcement and a climb-down (timing shared with his cronies), they can cash-in on the market reaction. This is not mere insider trading, it is criminal market manipulation. @laura-babcock.bsky.social

Well Said!: “And for those assholes who were on the phone yesterday talking crap to our staff – stop it. You’re the same people who trolled us during COVID. It was unacceptable then, and it’s unacceptable now.” vocm.com/2025/08/15/2...

🇨🇦 Here’s is Kev’s response to Senator Martin of Maine if you are looking for ideas on how to respond. It is perfectly worded with good old 🇨🇦ian sarcasm imbedded in an aggressively polite tone that tells him where to go.🖕🏼 @whatsgoingonanyway.bsky.social #CanadaSky #Never51 #CanadaUnited #elbowsup

Here's a playlist of music, in a variety of styles, I have written for short videos. I'm interested in writing music for other visual media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN8s...

Chicoutimi Falls Maurice Cullen c. 1920

Working-class movement!

Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.

Too bad oligarchs' pissing contest involves who can hoard money the fastest to a trillion$ personal fortune. Too bad their names being recognized for science research, free hospitals, schools, art, or libraries isn't important. Too bad their political influence isn't directed to societal betterment.

The capitalist class converts your life-time into leisure-time for themselves. Time to get organized, comrades. #SocialistSunday

i think both sides are to blame here

We watched the 1st act of Tristan last night on Mezzo (Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège). This led to a discussion on how Wagner's operas and music might have been different if he'd had to comply with the same conditions as everybody else or had an editor.

Harper says he was approached by the government two weeks ago and advised Ottawa to work out a short-term deal with U.S. President Donald Trump while expanding trade in other markets. #cdnpoli #canpoli

Again, read this story! The US Coast Guard crossed into Canadian jurisdiction, rammed this Canadians boat and he almost drowned, then arrested and zip tied him after dragging him into US territory. The US is pushing their limits and aggression.

If this is true... www.desmog.com/2025/07/22/t...

I love that the motto is not a grandiloquent boast, but a path to follow: A Better Country. That doesn't mean we should disparage Canada as being "broken" (as PP loves to yell) but that we know we will do continually better.

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

Really disappointed in Carney's policies and positions. Still, it's miles better than the devastation that Poilièvre would have wrought. Canadians, let's not wait for our governments to protect and promote the country: let's do it ourselves, boycott the bad, support the good. Community action!

Oh, good. I was worried that American consumers might not get any new tax increases today.

Unemployment in areas that are most reliant on exports to the USA is rising. According to the Bank of Canada about 2 million Canadian's job are directly tied to trade with the USA. A option, although not ideal, would be to temporarily shift those workers into building housing etc. Pay them ... 1/2

@laura-babcock.bsky.social Popper: the best political institutions can remove bad rulers/policies w/o violence = senatorial confirmations in U.S. are a bad institution, they entrench bad leaders in "all" fields of government. Resist Maple Magas who want to politicise courts, police, etc.

Happy *not* to be Murrican. But we must stand on guard against the contagion. It is already here, PP and his truck nuts, Ford and his "paving Ontario" crew, Governor Danielle and her sidekick Moe...

Another Brott Festival concert! davidsfawcett.blogspot.com/2025/07/rome...

So I guess Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will soon be the richest Hamiltonian.

Even for those who don't feel compassion, housing the homeless should make economic sense.