Heads up #yycbike: 5 of my family’s bikes were stolen from our garage last night 😔. Please keep your eyes open for these bikes and please repost widely. 2019 Rocky Mountain Instinct 2006 Brodie Fury 2008 Trek 1500 2019 Trek Marlin 6 2022 Trek Marlin 5

New Perspective - Canada’s landscape fires spreading into uncharted territory Canada clearly needs to do more. More to prevent & mitigate wildfires, more to increase our initial response capacity and capability to protect communities & critical infrastructure. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

While most eyes are on Jamaica and #HurricaneMelissa, central Vietnam just received over 1m of rain (>39”) in 24 hours

There simply aren't words to describe what's about to happen in Jamaica. Our thoughts are with our friend and neighbors to the south.

Watching 4th inning and they pan cams to how pretty and quiet Seattle is tonight. Lovely.

The last three years (so far) account for more than a quarter of all hectares burned by wildfire in Canada over the last 43 fire seasons.

My mother in-law visiting so I put CBC news on and I cannot believe how bad it is. Huge supporter. Have the mug! Just streaming crap news. Ugh

Minister Loewen’s interests are made plain here.

🤔 What happens when you divide the total wildfire burn area for each year in Canada by the total number of wildfires across the country? Oh.... Using this metric (so-called 'average wildland fire size') the three 'worst' years in the CIFFC's record would be 2023, 2025, and 2024.

Here’s the warming stripes graph with axes for Edmonton, AB. I moved here in 1995 so looks like I have experienced 6 blue bar years here, lolsob showyourstripes.info/c/northameri...

Danielle Smith, who rode to office complaining that vaccines weren’t supported by evidence… Is now revoking people’s Charter rights to force treatment that she openly admits she has no evidence to support. Read that again Then watch this clip. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

You can ignore climate change. The political system can ignore climate change. But the insurance industry cannot ignore climate change.

Here's a map and post from Crowsnest Headwaters "Where do you live and play? All land coloured in blue, pink and mauve removed from moratorium." #ableg #abpoli @cpawsnab.bsky.social @cpawssab.bsky.social @albertawilderness.bsky.social

forgot about this classic

Useful chart from Bloomberg. Trump says bilateral deficit with Canada means we're subsidizing them. But more than all the imbalance is energy. This means they send us oil & gas, we send them IOUs. This is a subsidy?

Science Win! This AI video of a dog eating spaghetti uses the same amount of power as Haiti!

“Where there are beavers, fires don’t spell a complete ecological wipeout, Fairfax said. That creates a zone where other animals can also survive — not just beavers and plants.” #Biology #Beavers #Ecology 🧪 www.nationalobserver.com/node/44127

No pressure 2025

The police helicopter is up over the ‘hood burning fuel and keeping folks awake. Sigh.

Thanks to AB "Health" Minister Lagrange, we're under 90% of last year's poor flu shot coverage, and headed to worst year since 2010-2011. • deceitfully ending community medical clinic coverage, which hurts age 65+ most • cutting ad campaign, and showing contempt threadreaderapp.com/thread/18709...

Stressed reindeer exhibiting a 2024 holiday vibe

It's going to turn out he has a thing against countries with three a's in their name

www.cbc.ca/newsinteract... A wonderful, happy story.

To recap 2024, Alberta has effectively ended wind and solar investment in the province with asymmetric permitting and reclamation rules across energy projects, while announcing we are "Open for Business" for coal mining.

he's posting at 3am about annexing Canada but ok

Alberta’s privacy commissioner has opened a second investigation into the provincial government’s refusal to share the results of its public consultations regarding potentially leaving the CPP (this time re: a request I made for pension workbooks) edmontonjournal.com/news/politic... #ableg #abpoli

Alberta Health Services refused to spend $240,000 more per year to keep elective hip and knee replacements continuing at Edmonton’s RAH OSC, resulting in postponement of an estimated 1,000 surgeries so far www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbHealth #Ableg — by @taylorlambert.ca

elf is short for elf i'd like to fuck

The Globe and Mail

My new piece: Danielle Smith’s Bizarre Bid to Legitimize Homeopathy thewalrus.ca/albertas-emb... This interest in homeopathy is emblematic of the broader anti-science ethos. The populist playbook: Create distrust in systematically acquired knowledge to create room for alternative narratives.

Thank goodness there isn’t a US tariff on Jordan Peterson.

Asshat. Dreeshan typifies UCP stupidity. ‘Hey, I know, let’s do the opposite of the policy that seems to be working.’ www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/85a0d33...

Great column. And for once in my life I agree with CPS Chief Neufeld: "We are very concerned at what we perceive to be glib and perhaps inappropriate communication" by Minister Dreeshen that "serves to trivialize and effectively diminish the seriousness of an important public safety issue".

YËNDIS, a clever and pretty little mat for napping and stretching

She fights the Feds on every, inconsequential, little thing and then totally capitulates to 47. She’s s traitor. #AbLeg #AbPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #DanielleSmithIsARussianAsser

This pupper dislikes her winter wear…can you tell?

Sloga was wild tonight.

Calling the Lethbridge by-election for Dec. 18? This government is so gross. Hoping it backfires badly

‘Foster’, by Claire Keegan, was the short, thoughtful, beautiful, well-paced book I needed when not sleeping the last few nights.

Oh boy, the UCP are sooooo not done trying to get ahold of the pension money. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

A reply of mine received 12 likes and I’m suddenly walking around uttering ‘slay’.

Weirdly tired of Halloween radio. Must be the aging. Like usual the house will be Halloweeny (and big bars!). One bonus this eve: no World Series conflict.

Not sure the Dodgers should be playing an injured Ohtani?

So excited to find my wife a giant boursin at Costco…well, should have read the label. Seems weird. Happy for lactose intolerant folks; it just looked like a giant boursin, packed full of dairy/fat and yum.

Subscribed to the WaPo on the strength of Martin Baron’s memoir of his time as editor during the Trump Presidency and now I’ve unsubscribed. They’ve lost their way in a thicket of $$$$ and BS.

Should someone set-up a gofundme?