Because they don’t care. We have an electoral system that allows parties to capture a majority of seats without a majority of votes and a parliamentary system that essentially creates a temporary, semi-elected dictatorship. And they know we probably won’t do anything about it.

England is the whiniest football nation.

England played well. Mexico made them work for it. Now it’s up to Erling Haaland.

There are English players lying all over the pitch.

I’m proud of my kids. They’ve learned that lesson that, in the World Cup, you always cheer for colonized nations over colonizing nations.

May God's will be done, whether that means a victory for Mexico or a loss for England 🙏🏽

Vamos México!!!!!

Sometimes I feel like government and business in Alberta take a look around and decide that there's just too much nature here and someone needs to put a stop to that.

"¿Y si sí?" A brief explainer of Mexico's new World Cup mantra

Even the friggin pipeline companies know it’s a bad idea.

There are no words for how much I’m looking forward to seeing Mexico beat England in a few days’ time.

I had a chat with a group of Colombians last night. They were telling me about their coins and the images on them. I told them that our coins usually have an animal on one side and the king or queen on the other. And when they heard Canada has a king, they all recoiled. It was…interesting.

It’s a good summer for swallows.

I may have 1% Portuguese DNA…but I sort of wanted to see Ronaldo lose.

Cabalgando por el camino con la yegua.

On a year like this, I can totally see how a 19th/early 20th century European settler could be suckered into thinking the prairies are lush and fertile and definitely a good place to settle permanently.

I see pronghorns most days, but they rarely stand so nicely for a picture.

You know- I might not cheer for the United States, but I didn’t have an opinion on their World Cup squad. But actually….watching this game, I’m not sure I like them very much. Not that Bosnia-Herzegovina is coming off great at the moment either…

Back on my bullsh

With my colleague this morning at the office.

Ganó!!!

Pausa de hidratación.

Gooooooooooooal!

Vamos México!!!!

No sé si tiene una cruz en su brida porque es una yegua cristiana o para repulsar sus impulsos demoníacos.

TSN likes to show world cup celebrations in Vancouver from a plaza named for my great uncle. It’s deeply weird to me to see his name flash across the screen over and over again. He was rich and I didn’t really know him well. But he always sounded kind of cool.

So many sad Dutch people on television right now.

They’ll never admit it, but something that unites many committed supporters of Alberta Catholic schools and many committed opponents of Alberta Catholic schools is that they believe the Catholic school system indoctrinates scores of committed Catholic youths. And it just ain’t so.

“Lost art” implies it’s a thing at which people were once skilled. And I’m just not sure that’s the case.

It was time to turn the bulls loose.

So, I get the impression that quite a lot of people have no problem with wars so long as they’re legal.

Greasy Grass Premonition by David Paul Bradley. www.mfa.org/entry/2017/g...

This morning with the cows.

¡Vamos México!

Yo! I’m looking to talk to a renter in Canmore. It’s for a story idea i’m exploring.

Yesterday afternoon.

You know, for all the rain that’s fallen over the past couple of weeks, it’s shockingly not wet. Lots of dry potholes still. But it’s getting better.

Your last saved meme is who you are at your core:

Lionel Messi 🇦🇷 is the second player in history to score 17 goals at a World Cup. Marta did it first! 🇧🇷👑

I will never quite be able to forgive the Canadian government for getting into a pissing match with Meta over news. It achieved nothing except making it harder to share information. I shouldn’t have to contact friends abroad to ask them what they’re posting.

The first 20 years of my life saw 3 British prime ministers. The second 20 years of my life have seen 8. At this rate, I expect we’ll see almost a prime minister a year between now and my 60th birthday.

Watching Colombians discuss the results of the election yesterday. Left-leaning voters are saying things like “we must respect the electoral process and work together to make a better country.” Victorious right-leaning voters are saying things like “now we must exterminate the leftists.”

Looking at you, Liberal Party of Canada.

Tell me 5 random things that you love (not people/pets) 1. The smell of the dust that comes off horses. 2. Eating berries right off the bush. 3. Being with anyone who wants to be with me too. 4. Portuguese tarts 5. Listening to frogs croak.

And one more country falls to the far right.

I can list so many parts of the local ecosystem that have taken a real decline in my lifetime. BUT When I was a kid, it was extremely unusual to see an eagle. I never saw ravens. And vultures were just a rumour. And I see all of them every day now. And that’s interesting to me.

Buddy here must have studied at the Neville Chamberlain School for Diplomats.

This is your periodic reminder that Primitive is not a synonym for Evil and is Enlightened and Modern ABSOLUTELY DO NOT mean ethical or moral.

If you sell your soul to make a deal with the devil, chances are high that you’ll leave with no deal and no soul. Which is, by the way, basically how the world ended up with the Trump Presidency in the first place.

Who knows what Carney actually thinks. But this is definitely just kissing American ass.