John Belshaw

The Who released "Won't Get Fooled Again" forty-eight years ago and I suspect we did, actually.

I owned something very much like this in Warwickshire in the 1980s. It was an old Post Office bike. Weighed a metric tonne. (Also, Brian ... white pants vs chain grease? Really? You're trying too hard to look cool.)

LEFT ON THE DRAWING BOARD-UNBUILT CIVIC DESIGNS 1912-1950- BRONWYN SMYTH YouTube video by Vancouver Historical Society

Ever wondererd about plans for dramatic changes to your city, changes that didn't get off the drawing board? Happy to circulate this video of last week's Vancouver Historical Society presentation by Bronwyn Smyth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFAO... #vancouverhistory #urbanism

Drat. It's the return of the world's least attractive superhero, the Human Cough. "Phlegm on!"

Conservatives rant about government "overreach" but their ideal environment is a 1960s suburb of single detached homes with verdant front lawns, both of which were mandated by civic gov't. The locals got a ban on apartments expressly to "keep out the poor." This, in a working class suburb.

This looks like a labor of love.

Welcome to Vancouver.

Soooo, he approves?

Yeah, no. That's what-about-ism. The point he's making is absolutely fair: we've always policed the margins of integrity but AI has built a fortress -- a big box store -- at the heart of the teaching relationship. And I suspect that's in every teaching-learning relationship now. It's a crisis.

Good one.

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

la subtilité, la précision:

All the resentments and grudges dragging their knuckles out of the cellars of America are ancient, none of them ever went away, not really. All you need to understand about this moment in Can-Am relations is that our nation's existence is a rebuke to their founding mythology.

Worth a shot!

And for the many pedestrians and cyclists who are 'merely' injured by automobilists, there's a wall of no-fault jiggery-pokery that pushes some to and others beyond the point of penury. If we want change we have to make the status quo to damned expensive to tolerate.

Summer, winter - apparently it's always the weather

Harry Jerome: The Fastest Man on Earth YouTube video by NFB

Harry Jerome.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDbj...

ANALYSIS | U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next | CBC News Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intention...

American attempts to destabilize Canada and to undermine its sovereign stability have accelerated. We are now in the war before the war (probably have been for some time already). Alberta is not the prize here, it's the wedge. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Bugged by the fact that the signpost for USA in the first cover is planted in SW Ontario. Boo.

I'd want to know the intentions first. They could be fun.

Yes and yes.

I'm N. Everyone says I'm negative. (Somedays it's so bad, I find that life has R.)

Victoria, BC: “You can pretend, in Portland and Vancouver, that no one bikes in those cities, because you don’t see bicyclists – they’re off on side streets. So politically, they’ve vanished. And I think that’s a big reason why Portland and Vancouver have stalled and we haven’t.”

Section 46 of the Criminal Code lays it out. Give the RCMP a call: it's their job to check it out and bring charges.

Do Archives Matter? There has been much talk lately of defending BC and Canada. Canadian flags are flying in apartment windows and on lawns. There’s a giant maple leaf pinned to...

If we accept that BC/Canada’s history tells us how we might succeed in this moment, one might expect to hear about renewed government support for the cultural institutions that help explain who we are – especially in the face of annexation talk from our neighbour.

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To my cycling pals out there. I've met cyclists who are absolute zits, but they are vastly outnumbered by the cyclists who are filled with inexpressible joy in the world. Can you look at this guy and not think he'd be fun to hang with?

Canadians: the Second American Civil War is underway.

Credit to Tomflood.bluesky.social

In Kamloops 30 years ago I would challenge my students to get through a day without putting a dime in Jimmy's pocket. Radio, television stations, groceries...he has a big footprint and his interests are stealthy.

More tariffs? Bring it on.