Govt of Canada Communication: THEN vs NOW

I’ve really enjoyed everyone else’s playoff stress so far, hoping for none of that for the Eagles today!

GO BIRDS

The Vancouver Canucks having a William Nylander mashup is extremely confusing on commentary:

The Leafs have the inevitable David Kampf goal covered off now so that’s good news!

I really enjoyed those four years where I didn't have to think about America other than "I hope Americans don't do the stupidest possible thing again".

I've now broken two shovels from Wal-Mart in the past two weeks after the previous Home Hardware shovel lasted years. They seem to struggle with "snow" and especially "ice". The latter makes me question the reason for the metal blade on the shovel. Is this a murder shovel? It's not a snow shovel!

Winter hasn’t officially arrived until schools over react to a weather forecast and end up cancelling busses because it’s cloudy. Looking like today may be that day!

I feel like it’s a bad sign when you’re 40+ and a song called CPR comes on your air pods just as you finish shovelling. Hoping I’m wrong!

I’m informed that the NHL has this one on the books as well! Never seen it called outside of international hockey.

Amazing that international hockey has managed to find a penalty to call that’s dumber than the puck over the glass.

The Canadian government went from “elbows up” to “hands up” real quick like. Pretty much as soon as they won the election to be fair.

I see we’ve left our spines in the closet today.

Nothing like a ten minute snow squall hitting halfway through shovelling the driveway. It’s like mowing the lawn and watching the grass grow behind you.

Multiple hours with the power out is a surprisingly terrible way to spend a Sunday night. At least I didn’t have to watch the Leafs lose, I guess.

An ice storm plus a power outage around Christmas. We’ve already done this before, reality needs better writers.

As someone who has lived in Newfoundland and has lived in the snow belt in Ontario for ages I'm qualified to say that today's "snow" is the worst thing I've ever shoveled. The snow in the driveway was packed like cars had driven on it and it came off in massive slabs. Broke a shovel and everything!

Max Domi with all the time in the world to make an obvious decision and he ends up doing the least effective thing possible. A true Leaf to his core.

Absolutely nailed it on this one. The team that's always the last one to figure out the best decision and still somehow never makes it.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

This whole Berube era has been a fun experiment of “what if Randy Carlyle but with better players?” I can’t speak to the X’s and O’s or whatever but watching them feels the same.

I think I’ve seen enough of Craig Berube’s Toronto Maple Leafs.

Oaklinati made me laugh so hard. AI doesn’t seem to do much right but it nails unintentional hilarity from time to time.

I swear, 80% of the goals scored against the Leafs are either by guys who used to play for them, guys who haven’t scored in a ridiculously long time, or guys scoring their first NHL goals.

I'm really not enjoying the "if it's longer than a tweet then I don't need to read it all" rule that the planet seems to have adopted.

Anyway it's cool how real life is always just The Simpsons now.

"Shut up! Just shut up! He doesn't get it! He'll never get it! It's been 4 hours! The cows can tape something by now! Forget about it please!" This quote from City Slickers has always stuck with me and lately I've been feeling like I'm spending four hours a day explaining how the VCR works.

We shall not discuss how long this took.

WHAT

So far the only way I’ve learned anything about whatever the hell an ostrich convoy might be is by force and I think I’m going to stick with that learning strategy on this topic.

Verstappen coming out of the pits and it’s going to be close with Russell for P1 and we’re watching the midfield for some reason. F1 TV production is horrendous.

Anticipating a Max dive bomb if he’s anywhere close going into turn one.

Not too often you get to see F1 cars drifting around the track so this has been quite the thing.

Oliver Bearman locking up and hits a barrier.

That was the slowest crash that has ever happened

The guy who puts the yellow flag graphic on the screen is gonna be exhausted by the end of Q1

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Presumably the renazification squad will get him sorted out as soon as he leaves the room but this was tremendously accurate.

The fact that there's a commercial on the radio that starts off with something like "I'm Burt Ward, TV's Robin!" never fails to amuse me. I always feel like I'm in a Simpsons episode or something.

Looks like I'm going to need to learn Linux before Windows 10 self destructs or whatever because there is absolutely no chance in hell I'm ever "upgrading" to Windows 11 .

Seriously though what in the world is this?

It’s good that the default defensive move for the Leafs is smashing Lb+Rb. Just diving around the ice hoping the puck hits them.

I always get to find out what team ex-Leafs play for when they score against the Leafs.

I don't think you should get a penalty for crashing into Stroll.

John Schneider did poorly in the hitting report card I reposted yesterday. This went even less well. I still miss Gibby.

I’ve never been more informed about an election that I have next to zero interest in and I am so glad that it’s finally going to be over today. This is the last one right? The last time they did this and I hoped it was over it was just the primary.

I said earlier this year that John Schneider loves playing 4D chess but unfortunately he’s terrible at it. This doesn’t make me feel like that’s an incorrect statement:

My phone continuing to torture me with "WOW WHAT A GREAT WORLD SERIES!" notifications seems a little mean.

Just one hit into the outfield. Or two more outs. Or… So I’m not over it yet!