CBC News : Students from 2 Canadian schools published Holocaust denial quotes in their yearbooks. Why it went unnoticed www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Excellent news that Canada will host Our Ocean Conference in Halifax in 2027. Smart priorities: The blue economy & ocean-dependent communities; Indigenous and community leadership in ocean protection; ocean observation and climate services; and sustainability in the high seas. #WorldOceanDay

I can hear it now. "Sleepy Joe got Obama to plant that stuff."

Yeah, we've never been there when they needed us. Sure.

They say this will become blue later. For now the lab is grey once more

Plastic seats on buses. No.

He's upset there's no cage fight planned.

Carney: Canada is very pleased to be accepting your invitation to join this exceptionally important initiative, Ocean Eye. The European Union, as is often the case, increasingly the case, stepping up to help solve global challenges.

Gee... we're number 1? So...all those international students we denied entry (dropped 22%; 5700 in Hfx) means we solved the problem, right? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Arghhh... GeoSurveillance strikes again! All those decades of developing tech for good (ok, some not so good)....all to do what? We're creating a real "Minority Report"

I'm going to be the guest expert for CBC Halifax's Maritime Noon calling show on June 30th The question: What Canada in history do you wish you knew more about? (No one will say "tax history") I'm prepping by thinking about great resources that are more accessible than academic journal articles

It's Monday. There's fog outside the lab and inside my head. Ugh

What? C'mon @theguardian.com ....."marred?" I think we can agree the White House and the USA's 250th was marred by Trump and the whole event!! www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

We can hear this, from our house in DC. Back in the Carter era, I was (politely) reprimanded, for "disrespect to the office" when I wore blue jeans when called in to work late on a Saturday night, for revisions to a Monday a.m. speech. Now, Nero and Caligula.

Massive Ocean Sanctuary Just Created—And the #MarineLife Discovery Inside Will Blow Your Mind www.goodnewsnetwork.org/french-polyn...

Can't wait to see this. One of the most moving books on climate and family I've read. @andrimagnason.bsky.social The film has a tough job matching the images the book brought to life. www.lbc.co.uk/article/worl...

Something's amiss; a disturbance in the force. The street's predictably, the pattern of people in their proper place at their appointed time is slightly askew today. If there were a large cruise ship in port, I would accept it. Damnit, why is my spatial mind always seeking order in disorder? Sunday!

Happy #ObamaAppreciationDay everyone!

My niece... 29. And still making uncle James handmade b-day cards.... sweet darlin'

Family birthday dinner and my nephews scare me...both 6"7". My other nephew won't fit in the picture. He's a football coach. Ginormous. I got protection :)

Reality strikes like a gut punch. Looking for #WestHam news on bookmarked site but....they aint there! Premier League tab now has to be switched to Championship. Oh the humanity!

Serendipity? Going through photos as family dinner for birthdays (4 of us within one week)...and came across a picture from Halifax Public Gardens. The Parkinson's Tulip. Took it two years before I was diagnosed. Whoa!!

That's a first. They need to look at Japan to see what happens. It won't end up being a cap. It will be a decline. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Had a quick lunch of yogurt and a banana. That may have been the wrong choice. Stumbled across this. Now my screen looks like a baby spit up. This goes to show just how much he's hated. A live stream taking his name down from JFK Center. Can't wait for future videos; deadstreams? Happy #250th #USA

There should never be such as thing as a Trillionaire! And, if there has to be one (or soon more) then the crop of people in the category are the least worthy, most evil. And, Canada's GDP is $2.5 Trillion. Puts it in perspective.

Happy days before Saturday.

Who doesn't love geospatial football fans!

This mornings bus driver.

Three cheers for Nimbus Publishing, King’s Co-op Bookstore, and all other Nova Scotia publishers and bookstores holding the line against generative AI.

If another provider doesn't do this and says they won't, then watch a huge shift in clientele!

I really don't like following his diaper-rash-induced mania, but it's like watching a fire. You don't want folks to get hurt and you cheer on the firefighters trying to stop it and save all the property they can. And so, go firefighters! Do your job well and put these flames out, saving all you can!

In DC on June 24? Online from anywhere that day? USC Annenberg with program on local civic engagement. Deb Fallows and others (including me) will be speaking. Join us! annenberg.usc.edu/events/cclp/...

"Darwin" Serendipitous irony strikes again. Maybe name change to Gerry.

Really need a better view from my work station in the lab. "Hot town summer in the city..."

Knicks vs Spurs. Biggest lead! Biggest comeback! What a game for all time! 76-49 become 106-107 Knicks up 3-1 in series Holy crap. Radio made it so much more!

Despite attacks on climate science and the rise of disinformation, meaningful climate action continues to move forward. On June 16 at 2PM ET, I'm joining @globalecoguy.bsky.social, with @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, to talk about where climate action goes from here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

What are the chances? Huge thrill to reconnect with great Canadian astronaut... moon traveler.. Col. Jeremy Hansen ... (I used to be taller than him... damn PD ;)

Did he just drop an L-bomb? Maybe a lesson in that for some folks in these here parts?

Flight tracker has a half dozen "pings" on air refueling tankers just hanging out...refueling...

Remembering how few Americans could find Vietnam on a map. Or Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada, Iran, Greenland, etc., etc. Geographic ignorance makes conflict easier to carry-out as it's far away in an unknown land. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Assumptions and Alberta both start with the letter "A." Assumptions also starts with letters "ASS," or better yet, let's just use "AS", as in asinine! It is these realities that need to be spoken of and dismissed so that the debate can focus on the real issues.

Geospatial data geek here. Love checking official gov't data that classifies picnic area in a park as "parking area." "parking" your bum on the grass? Multiple sources, dates, methods of collection, mixed metadata quality (in same dataset). Ugh. All those standards meetings we had way back when...

Wednesdays are much more enjoyable when you get a text message from someone who flew around the moon. Just saying :-)

War crimes will need to be accounted for! And you can't hide it from the satellites. Full sliding images via: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

Ocean Data! Yeah...biased here... but for me it's the most critical source. #Ocean #spatial #GIS Congrats @oceantracking.bsky.social @jdpye.bsky.social and partners: MOSAIC: Multi-disciplinary Ocean Sensing for Adaptive International Conservation oceantrackingnetwork.org/connecting-s...

A cold splash of reality. www.newsweek.com/americans-be...

This transition will affect roughly 2.5 million civil servants as part of a 2026 strategy to achieve "digital sovereignty." France already has a successful precedent; the national police force has operated 100,000 computers on Linux since 2008, proving that such a massive shift is feasible.

NASA named the crew for Artemis III today. Check out my Substack about this exciting mission: open.substack.com/pub/terryvir...

British Columbia Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social has invited Somali referee Omar Artan to referee in Vancouver, after he was denied entry to the US