@ianhutchings
Newfoundlander. Canadian. Geek. Fly fisher/tyer. I work in a large academic library. Voiceover pro. Backgrounds in public relations, insurance, and history. My opinions are mine - you can't have them.
PoiLIEvre is a D!β¬k: Part 256
Pierre Poilievre was asked about property rights after BCβs agreement with the Musqueam First Nation.
Question: What, exactly, does he mean by βlegitimate Canadiansβ when it comes to property rights?
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A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says βtheyβre having problems with their economy again.β
This is from 1975.
It's that time of year again.
Popular perception is different from reality, and people argue from perspectives of ignorance. What a shock.
βThe percentage of people in Canada in pre-trial detention continues to go up, yet the demand for bail reform continues to grow louder. These two things are obviously at odds."
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as βYour Plastic Pal Whoβs Fun to Be With.β The Hitchhikerβs Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as βa bunch of mindless jerks whoβll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,β with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent. Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as βa bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.
its an iranian missile with a message written on it in Persian
the message, translated, reads "in memory of the victims of epstein island"
omfg
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Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children amounts to crime against humanity, UN says
Windy, but sunny and 11Β°.
I'll take it.
#nlwx
Five glass bottles shaped like maple leaves sit in a row on a wooden railing outdoors. Each bottle is filled with maple syrup in different shades ranging from very light golden to dark amber. The bottles have gold-colored caps. Trees and a house appear blurred in the background under a bright blue sky.
Between 2011 and 2012, several individuals stole 9,571 barrels of maple syrup, worth $18.7 million, from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec.
This theft from the Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve became known as The Great Maple Syrup Heist.
This is the story.
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Damn, it sure would be awful if a theocratic rogue state had access to nuclear weapons.
To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
If youβre Canadian please sign it.
If youβre not, please share β€οΈ
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Almost 90 people being cut.
Canadian historian Adam Chapnick, a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada:
βI donβt know how you justify this decision if you have any sort of commitment to history."
Late last year, a white supremacist dating platform was hacked and its users leaked. One of those users is Royal Canadian Air Force Major Tristan Armstrong, who CAHN has linked to thousands of posts made on far-right forums between 2019 and 2024.
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www.antihate.ca/air_force_ma...
The mind boggles that Israel's elected leaders and generals are not standing in the dock at the Hague in war criminal garb.
Bob Homme dressed as The Friendly Giant, seated and smiling toward the camera while holding a small string instrument and a recorder. He wears a simple costume with a brown shirt and a light tan tunic with a scalloped edge. Behind his shoulder is Jerome the giraffe puppet, painted in brown and blue with a wide mouth and visible teeth, wearing a harmonica. Rusty the rooster puppet perches behind him on the other side, with a red comb and patterned body. A small puppet theatre-style instrument setup rests in front of Homme, and the background is a plain light studio backdrop.
Bob Homme delighted generations of Canadians as The Friendly Giant.
While he was born in the United States, he adopted Canada as his home and Canada was a better place because of it.
Let's look up...waaaaay up...
This is the story of his life.
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24 hours? Not this year. π€·ββοΈΒ
International Womenβs Day comes up one hour short this year. Today, PWHL players who wear 24 are wearing 23 β a reminder that when women get less, the answer is to give womenβs sports more.
There are few things quite so comfortable as a freshly-rotated mattress
This stuff has been a godsend this past two weeks.
Heh
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.
This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.
Well that's some bullshit. #nltraffic
People get so bent out of shape over a 1-hour change twice a year. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. The changes to and from DST/ST are *not* a big deal.
π¨π¦βs political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senateβs sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! openmedia.org/C4Sunset-bsky @openmedia.org
The Van Doos museum at the Quebec City Citadel is an incredible facility. Worth the visit.
Remember when the oil industry told us it takes six months for fuel to work its way through the supply chain? And that changes in the price of oil wouldn't be reflected in the price of gas for up to six months? And how gas is (allegedly) priced on conditions of six months ago?
Wild...
#nltraffic
