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Merry Christmas from our family to you.

Trump literally bombed another country on Christmas Day. The day of the Prince of Peace.

We in the #UMC wish you a blessed first Sunday of Christmas. Today's Gospel reading about Herod's slaughter of innocents is a reminder that Jesus was born into a world as brutal as our own. On this day, we are asked to remember the children whose parents could not protect from a ruler's cruelty.

“The words speak of suffering, hope, justice, consolation and renewal — experiences that are as present now as they were nearly three centuries ago.” Great article by my friend Stephen Borys: Why Handel’s Messiah still matters www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

I mostly agree with this - MB is a conservative province. But this type of conservative doesn’t exist in our prov parties - the MB PCs and NDP are both Liberals in the classic sense and worship the free market at any cost. Political harmony against the odds www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Christmas Eve 2025

Ten years together ❤️ Ten years ago, Anaïs said yes to a date just before Christmas. I am the luckiest man on earth because of it. We’ve been through so much together but we grow stronger every year. Building a life with you and with our children has been the greatest gift. I love you so much.

My (satirical) piece in the Winnipeg Free Press suggesting that Canada should become a narco-state. Any similarities between the arguments used to promote fossil fuels & a domestic production of illicit drugs ('recreational chemicals') is purely intentional. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

What an astonishingly dishonest piece of propaganda for the fossil fuel industry, including its citing of Obama's extremely outdated energy policies and its misrepresentation of Norwegian public opinion.

Just going to leave this here. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

Stay at home if you can today! A lot of highway closures.

Nice day to wind up with a heart attack. Take it easy on the shoveling folks.

Be safe out there! ❄️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

No mention by Brodbeck of the idiotic decision to follow through on Pallister's tax cuts. And then even worse, cut the gas tax, terrible environmental policy that bloats the deficit. The Mb NDP should change its colour from orange to petrol blue. #MbPoli www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/1...

Yeah. How about no? I doubt that anyone in Lorette West wants this, nor were we consulted. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

« With several defections in the last few weeks, the Liberals are now just one Mennonite MP away from a majority government and, of course, they’re looking for MPs who might be receptive to crossing the floor. “Obviously Ted Falk is at the top of our list,” said Prime Minister Mark Carney. » LOL!

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

If the MB NDP thinks that they can balance the budget by 2027, I would say that they have to go back to school to take some more math courses. Oh wait, the MB NDP also got rid of math courses for math teachers. Maybe that is also a bad idea. #mbpoli www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2025/...

The Trump administration caused seismic disruptions to the world's premier scientific superpower in 2025 go.nature.com/4q1IkDq

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This is an absolutely heartless and insane thing to say after someone has been murdered. I wish there was some decency in the White House to feel any sort of compassion for others.

Smith somehow got this role of being an angel.

A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, its puzzles are pushing physicists to redefine reality—with themselves at the center. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4q06leq

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Susan Monarez was fired after less than a month as Director of the CDC for holding the line on scientific integrity She is part of Nature's 10 - our list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/44p0Hdn

Sio Silica isn’t done. Mining companies plan for decades. They can wait. The MB NDP can say no to the new proposal at any time but they are instead listening. Sio will keep lobbying until they get what they want. We get our water ruined for generations. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Seriously? www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Canada already has plenty of top researchers, it just sees them as a very low funding priority. Instead, let's blow a billion to entice people from abroad, with no long-term plan to support them and researchers already based in Canada. Optics over substance.

It never was about drugs.

The look you get at 10 pm when you let him have a 5 pm nap.

So Florida IS Mordor?

Evidence of a particle made up of four tightly bound quarks tests physicists’ understanding of the force that holds protons and neutrons together go.nature.com/3MbRvCV

« As the late NDP MP Rev. Bill Blaikie once said on the CBC program Tapestry, we need to be clear, that while the so-called “Christian Right” gets media attention, there is also a Christian Left. » May sees hope in the rise of the first female Archbishop of Canterbury broadview.org/elizabeth-ma...

Well then. Academic conferences in the US are doomed.

Canada is making an aggressive effort to attract highly skilled immigrant workers, including those facing increased restrictions in the U.S.

North End Christmas at St John’s Cathedral. Thank you to all the volunteers that helped. We had over 150 people.

« A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. » - MLK Jr

Seems like I've seen this story before. The price of VCRs & VHS tapes also plunged before their demise. But by all means, let's squander tens of billions of tax dollars on pipelines & carbon capture doomed to be stranded assets for another sunset industry. #EndFossilFuels www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Happy 2nd Sunday of Advent! Today our licensed lay readers were recognized with certificates from the diocese and medals. Congratulations to all!

Yikes. Maybe we don’t poke the wall that holds Chernobyl’s radiation in? www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/e...

Academia is unprepared for the rise in chatbot use among students go.nature.com/4iPtlKz

Maybe activating Skynet was a bad idea. This is just the start of what AI will do, unfortunately.

They died because they were women. December 6, 1989. National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

“The spaces where art thrives carry value beyond money, but without money, they cannot exist. The more they bleed away, the fewer places there are for art to thrive, and the more it slips out of our lives.”- @doubleemmartin.bsky.social Many fond memories-let’s support WECC to hold many more.

The MB NDP bragging about a permanent gas tax cut is not a great look. I thought that a lot of these folks were environmentalists before power was dangled in front of them? Kids try to find Elf on the Shelf this season. I’m trying to find the old NDP that used to be environmentally friendly.

Might not need much convincing.

The UWSA's Foodbank Holiday Donation Drive is collecting food, hygiene products, menstrual supplies, and clothing. Donations will be accepted until Tuesday, December 9. Click below for more info on what to donate and where to drop off your contributions. LEARN MORE ➡ buff.ly/SRjerwD ️

Very proud of this statement from my church denouncing Christian Nationalism. « We denounce Christian nationalism as a distortion of the gospel of Jesus and a threat to Canadian democracy. » www.anglican.ca/news/stateme...