Snow Laden Spruce A.J. Casson n.d.

You had me at “petrostate frathouse”

I had been waiting for a cartoon showing his skull through the combover, rather than a thick thatch of yellow hair. Well done!

American chicken exporters seem to be getting good-quality meat across the border by fraudulently labelling it as lower-quality "spent fowl," and Canadian chicken farmers are having a cow. Colleague @joannasmith.bsky.social explains. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Well, Bannon *did* say they would "flood the zone with s**t"...

“Before they changed it to hockey, Heated Rivalry was about doubles luge,” reports an IOC official. “But then they realized they literally couldn’t make a show any hornier than the actual Olympic event.”

2/13/1903 — b. Elizabeth Homer Morton, Canadian librarian, author. Secretary/treasurer, Ontario Library Assn(1936-43); exec sec, #Canadian #Library Council (1944). Co-founder, Canadian Lib Assn (1946), exec director/editor ('46-68). Order of Canada('68) #womenshistory #LibrarySky #BookSky #WriterSky

Connections Puzzle #978 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

One Black Cat Maud Lewis 1964

13 février 1871 : Naissance de l'écrivaine et poète ukrainienne Lessia Oukraïnka. Elle traduisit de nombreuses œuvres de la littérature. Elle est également une pionnière du mouvement féministe ukrainien. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessia_... #CeJourLà

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Le saviez-vous ? L’arc Nastapoka n’est a priori pas un cratère d’impact 🤔. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Nas... #LeSaviezVous

3 meetings with the Alberta traitors? That’s a goddam conspiracy! Imma lose it on Wednesday’s OShow 🤬🇨🇦

Carbon Dating xkcd.com/3205/

now, the discover feed is full of cartoons that look like little girls with enormous breasts. Is this reflective of the times we live in? I certainly don't have any interest in this and hide or block every one, but @support.bsky.team keep posting them...

Grass Pink Orchid on a misty day. If you like rain, mist, fog or dewdrop scenes, #Newfoundland is the place for you:) #orchid #wildflower #flower #botany The orchid is about 4 to 5 cm high.

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Nice to see my cartoon from early last week in the Toronto Sunday Star. Forever relevant: www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...

Wait, the Superb Owl was today?!? Honest, I didn't know. Did the laundry, some difficult crosswords, some reading. Prepped dinner. Discussed opera with my DH. A good day!

Curry-devilled eggs, shrimps Dijonnaise, endives w. smoked salmon+goat cheese; salmon Coulibiac, dill cream, green beans; beets+orange salad; cheese platter (brie, cheddar, blue) w. onion-nut bread, butter, red brapes, apple, chocolate. Ontario Gewürztraminer-Riesling, Munich Gold beer. Tea.

Oeufs au cari, crevettes Dijonnaise, endives saumon fumé+chèvre; Coulibiac de saumon, crème d'aneth, haricots verts; salade betteraves-orange; fromages (brie, cheddar, bleu), pain aux noix et oignon, beurre, raisins rouges, pommes, chocolat. Gewürztraminer-Riesling Ontarien, bière Munich Gold. Thé.

Skater Alex Colville 1964

Morning Light Elizabeth Lennie 2025

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach.

#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography Marasmius hudsonii (Holly parachutes) with raindrops yesterday, Herefordshire UK. The reflections are of the trellis behind!

Media have "A million other priorities. The abused women and girls are nothing but a plot device, just like they always were. It’s the pussy-grabbers’ world – we just live in it." Marina Hyde Fri 6 Feb www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don't understand the Discover algorithm. Half its "suggestions" are people and organisations I already follow!

I wrote this piece as a commission from the Duet Club's Women of Song choir and it has now been published by Cypress Choral Music. It is a secular seasonal piece for SSAA and piano. The choir in the recording is the Healey Willan singers of Toronto. cypresschoral.com/composers/da...

Three miniature movements accompany drone footage of historic buildings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVl-...

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Spending is up in Ontario? they build hospitals, but don't staff them, except with agency nurses. $ for developers and private for-profit agencies, nothing for patients. All an excuse to privatise, because the system Cons have broken "doesn't work".

⬛️🟥🟨🟩🇨🇦 Honouring PORTIA MAY WHITE Nova Scotian contralto who was the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international stardom en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_... www.historicacanada.ca/productions/... youtu.be/0tsePsYArA4 #blackhistorymonth #blackbrilliance #BHMcanada #BHM2026 #canada

This CBC article explains what ICE can and cannot do in Canada (yes, they're in Canada, no they're not armed). Which is *weird* given I thought Border Control department did this role previously (article explains it), but maybe I'm mistaken? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Sun's Return Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1993

An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all

There are three camps within the Alberta separatist "movement" (all fringe minorities): Those who want an independent constitutional monarchy, those who want an independent republic & those who want to join the US. The first two are tools of the third.

Did you know: Snowshoe walks and races were once the most popular winter sports in Canada. https://ow.ly/81Kv50Y7KEw

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3 février 1909 : Naissance de la philosophe humaniste française Simone Weil. Également militante syndicale, elle tenta de comprendre la « condition ouvrière » et proposa une lecture nouvelle de la pensée grecque. #CeJourLà fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_...

1929: Mussolini imposes *tariffs* on imported wheat, declares that pasta makes Italian men weak, lazy. Tries to force everyone to eat rice, but despite brutal exploitation of women working rice fields, there is a near-famine. Fails to make Italy food-self-sufficient. Eating pasta becomes resistance.

If Ontario had an actual Minister of Health, we could have helpful things too...

When I first heard about the groundhog predicting the length of winter, the story said: "If it sees its shadow, 6 more weeks of snow! If it doesn't, a month and a half." Nobody seems to remember that joke...

Peut-être que le froid soutenu des derniers jours aidera à contrôler les populations d'insectes envahissants arrivés avec le dérèglement climatique. Perhaps this recent cold snap will help to control populations of invasive insects which arrived with climate change.

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You can count on most of Canada’s news media to sell our country out to the United States, especially Postmedia.

Each time we sidestep a difficulty, we hand it the keys to our kingdom. Fear thrives on our retreat — the shadows we refuse to face stretch and distort until they dwarf the landscape of our lives.

@qntm.org explains the effects of the malevolent entity in his masterpiece There Is No Antimemetics Division. "It turns people into people who do not see people as people." p.268. In my view, it describes perfectly how authoritarian regimes use police and army against their own citizens.

"Knowledge about and affinity with others are things to be excised under authoritarianism." @nesrinemalik.bsky.social in The Guardian Feb 2 '26