When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

It's Friday... And on Fridays we dance 💃🕺 danceworld

Huge sea stacks - another feature of The East Coast Trail, Newfoundland, Canada. This pic is from The Spout Path segment. The trail is divided into 25 segments - total length is 330km. #trail #hiking #backpacking

Merry Christmas from Canada! 🇨🇦

Water is a human right yet communities are being asked to conserve while data centers expand without limits. The system is broken.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Covered Bridge in Winter Maud Lewis c. 1967

The lobster trap Christmas tree is a staple on shorelines around the Maritimes. https://ow.ly/G7uI50XK1Kt

In my youth midnight mass on Christmas Eve started somewhere between 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm, so that it would conclude after midnight on Christmas Day. These days, the service time has increasingly crept around the clock to be earlier each year. Tonight, 'midnight mass' is at 7:30 pm. Sigh. 🎄

East Coast Trail - a large sea arch. I’m in the pic:)...for scale. Newfoundland, Canada. #hiking #trail #backpacking

I had not heard of Canada’s Great Beaver but I like the concept. #Xmas

Finland to expand its reservist force to 1 million. The government will raise the upper age limit for reservists from 60 to 65 years, effective January 1, 2026, adding around 125,000 reservists over the next five years to strengthen national defense.

Have a wonderful Christmas! 🎄🎁🥂🎉💖 #MerryChristmas

Some good news to end the year on. The Supreme Court today blocked Trump from sending the National Guard into the Chicago area — finally setting a limit to Trump’s executive power. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/finally-the-supreme-court-stops-trump

I went for another walk and ended up covering about 15km around Downtown Vancouver / the Seawall when all was said and done. It was such a good winter day out there. #canada #vancouver #photography

Canada is looking to establish a permanent military base in Latvia. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada proves it IS possible for a first world country to have a solvent national pension fund. Go figure.

Photographs help us look back on the moments that defined the year. Taken by NPR photojournalists nationwide, this collection goes beyond the headlines to reveal quietly powerful human stories. n.pr/3KLI1Ot

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Corporate food 🤢 www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

How do you get her to pose in so many different ways? :)

#Alberta, are you paying attention? #AbLeg @lukaszukab.bsky.social

2025 marked #Canada’s worst year for #measles infections in decades www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...

This is a hand-carved wooden Dogon door lock from Mali, Africa

Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.

Hours before airtime on Sunday, CBS News' "60 Minutes" held a planned story on President Donald Trump's deportation policy at the order of the network's new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

Canadian humour

Made Nanaimo bars! Recipe from the city of Nanaimo ( on their website)

#GVerse What a lovely tribute! #RobReiner Incredibly powerful and moving!

Lovely to see. If only more people with money cared about their community like this, we’d be in a much better place.

In the days leading up to Christmas I always like to share some old Christmas cards and photos that @feistywaters.com and myself have done over the years together. This was 2012's festive offering and it remains a favourite of ours.

CFIA recalls prepackaged food products over possible listeria contamination #RECALL #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Panetonne, Italian #Christmas Bread, is a must-have in our house. An easy, beautiful dough that makes great toast.

The golden rule of the natural world

The ‘deck’ in “Deck the Halls” means “to decorate.” But, it is not related or a shortening of ‘decorate.’ It comes from the Dutch word meaning “to cover.” You also use it when you’re all “decked out.”

The CMA is looking to recruit physicians leaders to the CMA Board of Directors, Awards Committee, Committee on Ethics, Governance Committee, Nominations Committee, and the AGM Vice Chair role. Help us shape the future of Canadian health. Deadline to apply is December 29. Learn more: bit.ly/3HvTsYV

Yesterday played out exactly as many expected a cover-up. When 119 pages of grand jury documents are released entirely redacted, that goes far beyond protecting victims’ identities. A court ordered these records released, yet what the public received was effectively nothing.

Washington Post's new headline is still wrong. 1. The release was not "huge." 2. DOJ missed the deadline to release all the files. 3, No mention of extensive redactions. Support independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Pretty much sums up America today.

#StreetArt Inspiration Creativity

“The most transparent administration in history” only released 10% of the Epstein files yesterday. The DOJ must be confusing transparency with cover-up.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Corb Lund reaching to the man himself: Peter Lougheed. #ableg #abpoli

Media lying is now utterly commonplace.

Grassy Mountain (version 1) is officially dead. A long time coming. #ableg #abpoli @cpawssab.bsky.social @albertawilderness.bsky.social @cpawsnab.bsky.social

Merry Christmas Pickleball fans.