There are many places along Newfoundland’s East Coast Trail where, in winter, strong onshore winds blow seaward streams and brooks backwards, turning the surrounding area into a beautiful, frozen sculpture.

Fait maison #2: saumon fumé+chèvre sur endives, pâté en croûte finnois+sauce de crème sure, betteraves rôties, cornichons. Eclairs. Pinot Noir Ontario. Home-made #2: smoked salmon+goat cheese on endives, crusted Finnish meatloaf w. sour cream sauce, roast beets, pickles. Eclairs. Ontario Pinot Noir.

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Designed by the same architect responsible for NYC's Grand Central Station, Winnipeg's Union Station is a beautiful building that doesn't get nearly enough use. #Winnipeg

Sick of Epstein news, but this is fascinating. Staggering immorality in rich + powerful men. They don't care, they are immune, except to con artists like Epstein who got wealth and immense influence. This podcast lifts veil off the world of those who RULE us. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/p...

Dear PM: All I want for Xmas is for you, your government, your new Ambassador to the U.S. to maintain and strengthen food marketings boards in the face of the American will to destroy them. Protect our farmers and the quality of our food! *All* food products must have their origin clearly labeled!

A sad, familiar tale. Researchers discovered old-growth forests in Algonquin Park that have been thriving for 350+ years, sheltering some of the oldest trees in the area. By 2031, they could be cut down, according to a new report by the Algonquin Park Old-Growth Forest Project. By Sadeen Mohsen

More than lovely, this is *great* and beautiful music!

At the Falls (A Northern Nativity) William Kurelek 1975

Pink Ghost Pipe plant at my hometown, Logy Bay, #Newfoundland Canada. Ghost Pipes are most commonly white, but some have pink or even red colouration. Pic from a couple of years ago, in August. #wildflower #flower #botany #plants #fungifriends

Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122... Many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge.

Leotia viscosa (Green Jelly Babies aka Chicken Lips Fungus). A pretty uncommon find. #Newfoundland Canada #fungus #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom Specimen is about 2.5” high (6 to 7cm).

Finding JOY in daily life is an act of resistance against the obscene dark powers rising in the world.

"But there were some P waves that should not have been there if the center of the Earth had only a liquid core. Lehmann concluded that the most likely explanation was that the P waves had encountered an even more dense, superheated inner core." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...

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This round, delicate Christmas ornament is actually a 214 million-year-old asteroid scar in Quebec. The crater is 72 km across, now filled with water for hydroelectric power. When I was an F-18 pilot, we flew around it 200 ft above the ice. False-colour image by @esa.int esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Canuckle 1317 3/6 ⬜🟥🟨⬜⬜ 🟥⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 🔥 streak: 1 www.canucklegame.ca 🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #1096 🌟 Length Score: 100% 💫 Rare long word found! 🚀 Letter Score: 14 🔗 Play Wordiply: www.wordiply.com 🎬 Today's starter: 🄶🄻🅄🅃

Elegant orange sunburst #lichen, Rusavskia elegans. This photo was taken at around -40C/F…amazing how they thrive in pretty extreme environments. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends.

Menu du Solstice: Bouchées de spanakopita, Poulet rôti sur farce, Carottes rôties, Gâteau au citron. Vin Ontarien. Yule menu: Spanakopita bites, Chicken baked on stuffing, Roasted carrots, Lemon cake. Ontario wine.

The idea that in the past the U.S. were great friends of Canada, knew something about it, respected Canadians and wanted a relationship for anything other than their own benefit, that idea is wrong. Things didn't suddenly go bad with tRump, they just accelerated.

Hareshaw Linn in December #nature #naturephotography #autumn #ForestFriday #mushrooms #northumberland

Elbows up, Canada! 🇨🇦

A shout-out to all those wishing for a White Xmas in Southern Ontario. It could be 8 C and sunny here on Thurs., Xmas Day.

This morning's sunrise in Oshawa. #Photography #Sunrise #EastCoastKin

Physician & suffragist Elizabeth Anderson died #OTD in 1917. She was the: * First woman to qualify in the #UK as a physician & surgeon & first MD in France * Co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women * First dean of a British medical school * First female mayor in the UK #WomenInSTEM

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The Ranch View 1 Erin Elizabeth Ross 2024

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"It doesn’t have to make sense; it just has to make news and do damage." Jane Martinson, The Guardian Wed 17 Dec 2025. Sums up whole tRump plan, domestic & international, from science to the arts to social policy. Canada will have to be *very* strong, especially that we have traitors in our midst.

17 décembre 1706 : Naissance d'Émilie du Châtelet, femme de lettres française et physicienne française. Figure du Siècle des Lumières, elle prouva expérimentalement la théorie de Leibniz selon laquelle l'énergie cinétique est proportionnelle à la masse et au carré de la vitesse. #CeJourLà

"The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border" i.e. Canada. Terrifyingly accurate. How do get out of this catastrophe? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

As Carney inexorably climbs toward a slim majority, it occurs to me that the defecting Conservative MPs would have been Progressive Conservatives before their party was eaten by Reform.

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Canadians should be interested in a wider world than just the current U.S. craziness. This article in China-biased, yet still full of information and ideas we must be aware of, if only to understand what is going on in the developing world. asiatimes.com/2025/12/chin...

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The U.S. demanding access to 5 years of social network history from tourists is seen as stopping anyone from hurting little tRump's feelings. But it would also (mostly?) be a bonanza of DATA for the tech broligarchs that run the government there. And the media. And the business world. Etc etc etc.

A snowy little #mushroom on a morning #hike, today. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungus #fungifriends

Lights of Wonder Annual Christmas light display, Victoria, BC. #yyj #lightsofwonder #christmas #night #eveningwalk #december #rainy #britishcolumbia #photography #eastcoastkin #vancouverisland

For Ralph Alex Janvier ~ Denesuline 1988

I am dismayed that most children don't have the opportunity to engage in group singing and thus aren't interested when are adolescents or adults. William Byrd said it well in 1588.

As an artist, I know engaging in the physical work *creates* ideas. Technique isn't simply ability to make existing ideas reality, but opening of the imagination. Practice discipline leads to freedom, as tools become ever more powerful. Letting AI do the work is the worst form of "conceptual art".

I took a detour to the edge of the city to take a picture of these amazing sundogs over Winnipeg caused by ice crystals blowing around in the sky.

Still think AI will be good for the world?

Snow Dancers Leah Dorion ~ Métis 2006

The Great Gurdeep of the Yukon!

Getting older: I'm mostly just kookier & crankier. Ya know, the manosphere has ruined Marcus Aurelius. Every manly man influencer (read: supplement salesman) now a stoicism "scholar". Apparently, being stoic = regressive masculine norms, embrace of pseudoscience, & beards & tight black t-shirts?

The lobster trap Christmas tree is a staple on shorelines around the Maritimes. 🦞 https://ow.ly/ubTV50XvRsv