Peter Mansbridge’s The Bridge continues on with this weeks Your Turn and Peter’s question about the Olympics, he reads out my answer:

Our sweet little raspberry cream chocolate bars at Chocolatier Chocolate Popp, 180 Provencher~ ♥️

America: why do you enable your President to continue in so many deeply destructive and despicable ways?

ah Noah Reid… for her…

I visited the Kennedy Centre, in the time before. ✨

just so you know, these are my very fave chocs that we don’t make:

This MOST INCREDIBLE human - gone. 🫨 Super full of life, exceptional talent, and very very kind & lovely. 💔 Deep condolences to Catherine O’Hara’s family and friends and the rest of us that admired her so very much. 🕊️

Peter Mansbridge’s The Bridge continues to inform with his very insightful panelists throughout the week, each week. For a change he offered an “Ask Me Anything” instead of his “Your Turn” program and I submitted, “Who would stand up for Canada in event of any occupation”, here’s Peter’s answer:

floating art houses~

for him~ 🍓

we find each other~

This *must* go beyond the artists, protesters & journalists that do the heavy lifting but to the legislatures & leaders to *stop* this madness!

The girl who cried pearls.

happy weekend~

Bored of Peace: sold, piece by peace.

super cold in our little prairie forest~

hegemony: leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.

a drummer dies while a prime minister warns about burning democracies… 🔥

love is…. our chocolate.

a song for just because~

that’s a wrap for our Christmas tree 2025~

As it rains in Winnipeg today (Jan 11/26) we are reminded yet again that the climate is changing. 🌎 We ought to be working together throughout the entire planet and not witnessing our glaciers melt while ice agents kill innocent people etc etc.

@davidwcochrane.bsky.social isn’t the first to state this, but he did so on CBCs P&P and its a statement of our time: "America isn't the way it is because he's president. He's president because America is the way it is."

Another year begins with the smart & credible podcast, “The Bridge”! Hear my answer here to the first Your Turn question of 2026:

Former Mayor @betsyhodges.bsky.social Just saw your interview with @davidwcochrane.bsky.social on CBCs Power & Politics - such a reasonable & succinct summary of what happened yesterday in Minneapolis & occurring in America right now. Thank you dear neighbor!

Handmade’s Tale…

National Security Strategy: “restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere.” 🫨

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025 is "slop”. Oxford University Press named "rage bait" as its Word of the Year. Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year for is "parasocial”.

We underestimate the tectonic shift in geopolitics in our hemisphere today at our peril. ~Flavio Volpe

still loving our winter~

you can take the worst of times and turn it into who you really are~ ✨

my chocolate shop in winter~

happy new year & cheers to all of us~ ✨

happy to host~ ✨

a song for winter this time of year~

we become who we are~ ✨

Merry Christmas~ 🎄✨

Thoughtful questions with thoughtful answers (including mine here below) on Peter Mansbridge’s “Your Turn” on The Bridge:

Tis the season for chocolate Santas~

The little ornaments on our tree are sweet.

I will miss this man with all my heart. 🕊️

Sometimes our custom chocolate orders are super cool!

Christmas at my chocolate shop~ 🎄✨

a song for us~

a chocolate CMHR designed & made by us, approved by Antoine Predock:

Julian Taylor an exceptional singer/songwriter writer/guitar player~ ✨💫