Sleigh bells ring &c

I'm not an expert, but surely you can't just believe in international law now and then.

End of semester feels (albeit liturgically wrong)

A helpful exercise as it confirms Azaroff is the One City nominee who could win in Vancouver as it actually is.

This is admittedly Bluesky, but you won't stop Kemi by directing her to the Bibliography of British and Irish History (fine resource).

Delighted to find my essay on Morris for @lrb.co.uk on this list lithub.com/the-10-best-...

perhaps cowardly to omit www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A sad irony here: the despicable Aaron Gunn owes his federal seat to the NDP voters who switched to the Liberals to hold off the repellent Poilievre.

Thank goodness the Canadian lawmakers roughed up by Israeli soldiers were merely members of a 'private delegation', or we might have had an international incident on our hands! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excellent article, which expands a point Kriss's NYT thing on AI style made in passing (about Nigeria, not Kenya).

Oil and gas pipelines and burning the oil and gas did this. More pipelines and more burning will make it worse. For everyone. Just to be clear.

I'm going to be voting for William Azaroff as OneCity's mayoral candidate in February; I think he's the best chance we have at a mayor who will be great on housing. I'd strongly encourage you to join the party and do the same.

Future uncertain - many such cases!

Austro-Hungarian vibes today as the new daily Vienna-Trieste Railjet arrived in Trieste, part of the new services made possible by the Koralmbahn. www.ilpiccolo.it/nordest/tren...

Annals of Canadian place names

Jerusalem Shawarma on Robson the best place to buy olive oil in Vancouver right now: 30 dollars a bottle, grassy green, Palestinian (honourable mention, Jasmine Foods's own bottled stuff from Lebanon).

Climate change winning the war on cars (But seriously stay safe BC)

Every time the pendulum fails to swing in BC, the right hand gets worse and worse. Not great.

This is my religion

A very plausible Mayor of Vancouver given these answers. Could not COPE, Green people fall in behind such a person?

5 people have been killed on the roads in Metro Vancouver in the last week, including a driver, a cyclist, and 3 pedestrians, one of whom was a young child. Each of them had lives, families and friends, aspirations and potential that will not be realized. Each of them could have been me, or you.

Went down a rabbit hole and turns out I quite like Albertan Country www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCcW...

Pete Hegseth and I seem to have the same phone - cool.

Whingey but interesting, with an arresting characterization of America: 'an empire that decides what is real and what is not'. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

July 2024 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the summer weather." December 2025 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the winter weather." I don't know maybe our road design just isn't safe?

A seemingly endless feed of German modernist churches feels like the last productive use of social media.

This is quite right, but misses Carney's instinctive grasp of Canada's Presbyterian Jesuitry: only here could you be applauded for going, 'I care about climate change, which is why I'm doing a bitumen pipeline'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm afraid it is.

Vancouver Man: I cannot wait for our World Class City to welcome this World Cup.

Hoo Boy, the monopoly theme just keeps giving!

Thomas Carlyle energy: accidentally deleted three days writing about Tennyson but wrote it back from memory, and better.

Underlines that Vancouver's current council has wasted five years doing nothing significant on this file.

We go live to the BC Conservatives

ROUSTED

Are we calling sleepy people incapacitated now?

Canada has been (probably vainly) offering Stellantis huge sums to keep making cars here; Canadians love their Ford pickups.

Orrmageddon is coming

This is going to be a lovely building, but the pool proper, which is the point of the thing, is going to be too damn small. www.canadianarchitect.com/vancouver-aq...

Criticism does not get better than this.

Tennyson is a Christmas movie

Hate the Two Solitudes remake: 'Essentially, the MOU is saying that there’s a new version of two nations in Canada...The agreement happens between Alberta and Canada, and everyone else has to find their place—and that includes BC and First Nations.'

@maxfawcett.bsky.social: "One of the mistakes that that climate folks have made, and I suppose I include myself in that: an assumption that the broad public cares deeply about the future. It does not."

Have considered this : the least worst outcome of Carney's fossil mania is a threat to Vancouver.

This essay is the most convincing characterization of Carney I have seen - though it doesn't make any reference to his book length credo, Values.

Grafton Lake

Renowned composer of the Spin Cycle

Good on him

It’s amazing, really. The Prime Minister is looking for big bold ideas to nation build and he came up with paying for an outdated technology to supply an energy source (bitumen) the world does not want.