It's all about Wild Card baseball in this house this week, and then we move on to either Boston or New York playing the Blue Jays.

Reposting this important piece by Natalie Eilbert in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailing the dismantling of decades of progress for #disabled people and the hard fought, at-risk right to live in community. www.jsonline.com/story/news/2... #DisabilityRights #MedicaidMatters #DisabilitySky

Praying for the Philippines today.

People from countries with social democratic, and even socialist, parties sitting in their parliaments find it amusing/weird that the US Democratic Party is characterized as "Radical Left."

It is appalling that on the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, truth and reconciliation were largely absent on social media platforms flooded with an unprecedented volume of residential school denial posts, including those from opinion columnists and politicians.

I have visited the United Church congregation on the Curve Lake First Nation and heard stories from elders, but not in the detail that is in this new book on the Day School.

As a Canadian, I prefer that the US President not reiterate his hope of annexing Canada when addressing every flag officer in the American military, but here we are.

Years ago I attended a conference at the US Naval Academy and met young, committed midshipmen destined for long careers, which may have put them among the admirals listening to this today.

The road to reconciliation begins with truth Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe c. 2022

OpenAI's new data centres will require as much electricity as New York City, while the US government says that the power for the AI industry will come from burning coal. This seems fine, right? futurism.com/artificial-i...

I'm assuming that the new Wuthering Heights, starring two Australians, with a British director and filmed in the UK, is subject to a 100% US tariff, whatever that means.

Residential school denialism is everywhere on X, on the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Writing to newly ordained and commissioned ministers about the covenanting services with their communities of faith. Everton 1 West Ham 0 on the radio.

The news conference where Trump and Luttnick explain the "100% tariff on movies made outside the US" is going to be bananas. How would this even work? Would Star Wars: A New Hope, if made today, be tariffed as the Tatooine scenes were shot in Tunisia?

George Springer Mike Nguyen 2024

Reading the expression of grief and solidarity from the Canada Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has experienced the death of its president and a horrific attack on a church in Michigan.

My spouse is oblivious to online culture wars. She had never seen a Cybertruck until one came alongside us at a red light today. "What an ugly vehicle!"

For everyone who says that anti-vaccine sentiment is foreign to Canada and an American import, here's a thread on anti-vaccine riots in 1885.

Alejandro Kirk Mike Nguyen 2022

Drove through a colourful fall landscape, Fulham match on the radio, to Victoria United Church in Maynard ON where I am leading worship this morning.

We have so much to do around here that I missed breakfast, but there is still time for Canada vs. England women's world championship rugby.

Making chicken chowder, got the Blue Jays on. The game is only on Apple TV+ but I got one of the trial subscriptions so I could watch Season 3 of Foundation.

Selley does not delve into Track 2 MAID for disabled people (with mental illness coming in 2027), but does highlight the ethical dilemmas in advance MAID directives - unlike most Canadian pundits. nationalpost.com/opinion/sell...

The US Ambassador to Canada flew off the handle that Canadians would call the American President "uninformed," yet he proves our point every day.

I'm not an American, so I would appreciate much smarter people like the US Vice President and the owner of X explaining how their party controls every branch of the government but a shutdown is the minority party's fault.

I join allies from around the world who welcome this week’s ruling that found no basis for the charges brought against the #SantaMarta5 water defenders in El Salvador.

The US is imposing a 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities. Among the few Canadians crossing the border where I live are people doing home renos, as cabinetry, sinks etc. are cheaper in the US, so that's the end of that.

Almost spit out a mouthful of coffee at the sentence "McCullough is the chief scientific officer of The Wellness Company, a business that sells supplements it says can detox the body from vaccines." Chief scientific officer of an anti-science supplements peddler. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What immature, shameful behaviour by the President and his toadies. The United States has regressed from the world's cultural, economic and military leader to a clown empire.

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent has a disclaimer that the situations and characters are fictional. This episode features the release of a video showing the mayor of Toronto smoking crack.

You wonder what disabled Canadians, subject to coercion into assisted dying because governments keep disability supports well below the poverty line, need to do to get anywhere near the attention paid to ostriches.

I am always thrilled to find para and Blind hockey covered in hockey media - great article in @thehockeynews.bsky.social on the inaugural women's para hockey world championship. thehockeynews.com/womens/inter...

My favourite comment on X is "disabled people don't know what eugenics means." Um, WE'RE WHAT THE EUGENICS IS INTENDED TO ERADICATE. I think we know what it involves.

Trivia game on the starship Enterprise in the 23rd century. "The United States expelled the United Nations from New York City in 2025 because this didn't work." "Oh, I know this... Um, the escalator?" "Correct."

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

There's nothing like Vichy Canadians, their American friends, and Russian bots piling on autistic Canadians and parents with their rehashed Trump and RFK Jr. ableist talking points.

I get antsy about Christian nationalism, in Canada and elsewhere, because my mother grew up in Quebec when the Church was effectively an arm of the state. The culture was so stifling that the eventual backlash has excluded religion from the public square for the last 60 years.

Yes, I am a fan of the 4-10 Ottawa Redblacks. I am a man of constant sorrow.

C'est vraiment très utile.

Now that I have read what was said at the American news conference on supposed "causes" of autism today, well, take it from a Canadian - the country that coerces disabled people into assisted suicide - the distance from this thinking to full-blown eugenics is short.

So I'm just a "religious hillbilly" (according to a Canadian media personality who was trying to insult me), and this is à propos of nothing, but I have never led a memorial service that had fireworks on stage.

Shana Tova! Best wishes to everyone celebrating Rosh Hashanah this evening.

I arrived at 3:50 PM at Home Hardware to discover they close at 4 on Sundays. Helpful staff quickly located the screws I needed, out of a long aisle of screws, nails and washers. The store's in-person assistance has always stood out for me.

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent has the disclaimer that its characters and events are fictional, but Canadians know which CEO and corporation are being depicted in the episode with collusion in fixing the price of bread.

The US Commerce Secretary stated yesterday that there would be an annual fee of $100,000, and today the White House Press Secretary says this is not the case. Exhibit Number 13,759 in "why dealing with the United States is exhausting."

Insurrectionist Steve Bannon saying that Joe McCarthy was right and Soviet spies in the State Department handed China over to the Reds means that the US is now at the "jumping the shark" stage of political discourse.

I listened to an exciting Alouettes vs. Argos CFL game and now the BC Lions eating the Stampeders' lunch. And dinner. Mrs is happily watching a show with Chef Mary Berg visiting Chef Michael Smith in PEI.

"Not healthy normal" = the medical model of disability. I am certainly AB Normal, as Young Frankenstein put it.

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When I was at Woodroffe United Church in Ottawa, there were two women in the congregation whose husbands had been part of the escape. One was in the tunnel when the guards found it; in retrospect, if he had made it out he would likely have been shot with other escapees.