Excellent speech by Governor General Louise Arbour (newly installed). Honestly, listening to first the PM, and now our new GG (I also admired former GG Mary Simon), I feel so proud to be Canadian. Very smart, kind people who represent the best of us

HiRISE 3D: A Wonderously Weird Dune Field This stunning image is part of a campaign to aid in classification and volume estimates of dunes not mapped in the USGS global dune database of Mars. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

we may think statements like this aren’t enough and don’t matter, but an extremely normie, super-Christian woman I work with is *obsessed* with Pedro Pascal and completely reworked her priors regarding trans rights solely because of his opinions on the matter

An algorithm that hates you so much, some of your posts just...disappear when you post them. Not because of any reply restrictions or because the person you're replying to blocked you, they just vanish into the ether!

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It's like being a conjoined twin and you're trying to live your life and work on yourself and the guy attached at the hip is smoking rock and covered in white power tattoos.

I think Carney's challenge is that he's trying to carry and balance a couple ideas at once: -That the world is experiencing a rupture and Canada must reduce it reliance on the US -That Canada and the US will continue to have a significant economic and security relationship

#PnP Con analyst should read this. Hes trying hard to spin that one line just as #Poliviere is trying to spin the line. #cdnpoli

Here's the full Carney speech today. The challenge in framing it is a dramatic change or contradiction is that, except for that line, it's largely a restatement of the big things he's been saying.

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"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit... "There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice...” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Glad to see them discussing, with younger Cdns, the need for regulations with regards to AI. (segment on CBC's Power and Politics)

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Bernoulli’s big personality plays well on social media but Bunsen is our legend. ❤️ 🎥 video clips of Bunsen

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Almost two months ago Pierre Poilievre seemed to turn a corner. Well, those days are gone, and this week the ‘attack dog’ politician seemed to be back. Bruce Anderson & Chantal Hébert discuss. 🔊 on SXM Canada Talks, podcast platforms. 📺 on YouTube: youtu.be/vsCtiwzYai8

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Which Conservative knows if Mark Carney was competent as Governor of the Bank of England? a) The former UK Conservative Chancellor who hired him and praised him in this 2025 interview; or, b) Poilievre, Canada's unpopular and desperate Conservative. youtu.be/C-YuPsmstLU?...

Communication methods, hardcopy needs & parcel delivery all changed radically >10 yrs ago, so #CanadaPost isn't the essential daily or door-to-door home service it used to be. Its massive debt cannot be justified. I support whatever efficiencies it will take to turn that around.

"Fraser said he’s considering taking up a proposed law by Ontario Sen. Peter Harder, Bill S-218, to amend the Constitution Act and establish conditions for Ottawa’s use of the notwithstanding clause."

Yes please. Words have meanings.

"This is why you're still flying RJ (regional jet)" 😅 But seriously, that chatter is probably a good way to lower their stress levels

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Good time for me to post this here It’s a list of US involvement in regime change starting in 1886 with Samoa

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Thanks for the gift! I was happy to read it. What amazes me is the touting of the CPC as one of affordability.Every measure that Trudeau introduced that made life more affordable was voted against by the CPC. Child care, seniors top up, even school lunches.

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A group from the Calgary Real Estate Board presented in #yyccc. I'm confused. They said R-CG won't reduce costs, but but shared this example of units dropping from $370K to $254K🤔 Their economist stated R-CG has had no impact 🤯 which begs the question WHY ARE WE WASTING TIME ON THIS?? #housing

If you're ad gets 10k impressions but 3 cart conversions that result in actual money it makes it harder to justify the ad. It's more important to spot and label AI as AI for other consumers to be weary of than to be worried about boosting a marketers impression rate imo.

Riverside County firefighters save cats from an apartment fire & then use CPR and oxygen to revive them: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

Now all they have to do is this, ~130 more times each day for the foreseeable future, and then everything will be tickety-boo and back to normal

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The quiet crisis Canada faces is bounded on one side by the collapse of middle-class progress and the hyper-concentration of wealth, and on the other by the accelerating power of AI-driven, algorithmically amplified disinformation @voiceoffranky.bsky.social

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CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

Eat it, Trump

I love this!

perfect for when we see something using AI, which we should ignore = ai;dr 📌

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Please do *not* observe in passing that Sir Jim looks like a banana that rolled behind the couch when the groceries were being put away weeks ago and went unnoticed until fruit flies had colonized the hirsute putrefaction oozing out his oily pores. Let us keep this discourse civilized, please.

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA. Sounds like Hegseth! www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

"By speaking out forcefully and regularly about these issues, Harper, Kenney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are making it hard for Poilievre to attack Carney on Canada-US relations, which is a ballot box issue for many Canadians."

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