From the Hamill House to your's: MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! 🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶

Sultry Canadiana The Layers of Snow at Mount Seymour Provincial Park, BC, Canada🇨🇦📷© by Adam Gibbs

From the Editorial Board: The American Booksellers Association reported that more than 420 new bookstores opened this year, part of a rebirth of bookshops after the initial Amazon/big-box shock that caused so many to go under.

She’s got it right. Notice each other. Compliment each other. Connect with and lift each others spirits.

Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter (1881-1942) "The Midnight Mass" #Art

Canada’s team is on it.

Nature teaches us what Leadership means!

I just want everyone to look at this majestic Bactrian Camel 🐫

GREENLAND UPDATE: 🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱 Message from the Premier of Greenland

Village on the Lower St. Lawrence Randoph Hewton c. 1925

We just saw Kate Winslet‘s movie that she directed called “Goodbye June”. We were very moved by it. The reality of the actor’s performances was amazing. Kate herself, who is a wonderful actress knows how to get performances out of her actors!

We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼 Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech. Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼

🇺🇦🙏 9-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Oleksandra Paskal, who lost her leg during the war, won a bronze medal at the gymnastics tournament. 💬 "We were unable to fully and properly prepare — we spent a lot of time in a bomb shelter. I took 3rd place, and for me this is a special victory," she wrote.

It ain't about science. It ain't health. It ain't community. It is politics, politics, politics. Vaccine beliefs tied tightly to political identify. 👇

Phenomenal story Merry Christmas, indeed! 🎄

Untitled, Chicago, 1950 | Yasuhiro Ishimoto Gelatin silver print

The Grianán of Aileach near Derry on the winter solstice. Spectacular! The birth place of Irish myths and legends for almost 2,000 years 💙

Why Isn't Canada a Full Member of Trump's 'Pax Silica'? Canadians won't like the answer Answer: Trump thinks Canada is a raw materials hinterland whose job is to supply the industrialized US. Not a peer. Not important. @mark-carney.bsky.social #cdnpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/why-isnt-c...

A solid bit of TV journalism from Al Jazeera's Phil Labelle here: Texas town battles nonstop noise from bitcoin mine www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

For decades, concerns about the erosion of state sovereignty have primarily been related to the implications of voluntary authority transfers to supranational or international institutions such as the EU or the WTO. What a profound shift within a comparatively short historical time frame.

If you really want some bourbon during the Canadian boycott,I heard of a distillery in Saskatchewan. It's called Black Fox Farm & Distillery, and they’re doing something wild: The are aging whisky outside, braving −40 °C winters and +40 °C summers. youtu.be/UvrN99p10ec?...

Turning 44 made me think about how life becomes the sum of choices. I wrote a personal piece about the decisions that brought me here. open.substack.com/pub/davidco...

Houses in Winter Lawren Harris 🇨🇦 Oil on wood ~1920

Amazing what people do with rocks. 💙

Happening in Phoenix So glad I am not around there Turning Point USA Here is the grieving widow Erika Yes She got it correct the first time GRIFT... YES ALL GRIFTERS

If Gander is going to shape how people talk, organize, and participate in public life, we need obligations you can see and measure. We’re legally required to: → Pursue our stated public benefit → Consider users, communities & the public interest alongside profit → Report on it publicly every year

I invested in Gander and all I got was this lousy t-shirt… I mean equity (we aren’t doing merch). We officially surpassed our goal of $1.5M CAD in equity crowdfunding last night, and we're now 1,800 Canadian co-owners in Gander Social. Crazy.

If you want to know more (or maybe even join us), here are the links: www.frontfundr.com/gandersocial gandersocial.ca/blog/just-gi...

Ukrainian traditions on Christmas Eve. Many have faded over time, but some are slowly returning, like the Didukh (I even bought one instead of a Christmas tree this year). Sunday Letter (please like or share, posts with links reach fewer people): www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

This is so beautiful and here I am ugly crying again!! 😭

Local woman wakes up, sends all the Alberta and Saskatchewan separation enthusiasts to a pocket universe so they can truly create something new and independent for themselves and leave the rest of us out of it, makes oatmeal.

2025 was a great year. #ForeverCanadian volunteers accomplished so much. During the holidays, take a break from politics, rest, and enjoy your time with loved ones. 2026 will be busy and we’ll be ready to show the world that Alberta’s future is in Canada. #ableg #cdnpoli

I started reviewing the Alberta Next report by looking at their polling results. The numbers in the sample table don't add up. Can anyone make it make sense? If not, I'm not sure how we take the analysis seriously. 🔗 open.alberta.ca/dataset/2919...

Unless I missed it somewhere, I don't see any details about the Alberta Next survey methodology. This leaves me with a lot of questions.

Winter Solstice Lee Claremont ~ Mohawk n.d.

The Stillness of Winter Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2025

He is treating the US and China in similar but not identical ways If Canada wants to be a nation - We must be able to protect ourself, provide for ourself, and not be beholden to one nation Canada has acted like a colony long enough Time for us to be a Nation

The Eaton's Window, Montreal Adrien Hébert 1937

We’re looking for the next generation of leaders to help our Members of Parliament deliver results for Canadians. Help build Canada strong. Apply to the Summer Leadership Program before January 5: slp2026ple.infolib.ca

I watched Rosemary Barton’s year end interview with the PM. She was every bit as awful as people have been saying. The aggressiveness, badgering and argumentative demeanour is not what I expect to see from any reputable outlet let alone from our public broadcaster.

"Seeing how dramatic some of the nutritional changes were, and how this differed across plants, was a big surprise"... We aren't seeing a simple dilution effect but rather a complete shift in the composition of our foods"... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/8 🇨🇦 FORMER UCP MLA LAUNCHES "PROGRESSIVE TORY" PARTY 🇨🇦 Peter Guthrie has announced the #ProgressiveToryParty of Alberta, bypassing a provincial ban on the word "Conservative." The UCP is suing over the move. CP / Rob Drinkwater reports... #AbLeg #Alberta #CdnPoli #AbPoli #UCP

Tried the candied cranberry trend and they are actually pretty good. Not too sweet, not too sour. This is the recipe I used. 9/10 would recommend. kirbiecravings.com/3-ingredient...

Here’s a whole lot of feels.

www.canada.ca/en/departmen... Now this is very interesting

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art." -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Behind the scenes developments in public service leadership.

1/9 🇨🇦 TIFF MACKLEM: YEAR OF TRADE WAR CHAOS 🇨🇦 Bank of Canada governor was deep in a policy meeting when the world changed. Trump threatened "Liberation Day" tariffs, sending markets into a tailspin. #Macklem checked his phone, the threat had been paused. Mark Rendell #Economy #BankofCanada #Trade