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Of course, the Trump administration and their supporters will understand that statement to describe a grand success. In reality, both statements are succinct summations of the limitations of air power.

12.03.2026 21:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was reminded today that, as good as skating and skiing are for the legs and lungs, the bike requires those things to be used differently.

11.03.2026 11:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Further proof that hope is not a strategy.

(Hint: he won't be better, and could well be worse.)

05.03.2026 19:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Massively over budget for defence against a threat that was drastically diminished, manned bombers having largely been replaced by ICBMs.

02.03.2026 03:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our industry was not crippled. To this day Canada has the fifth largest aerospace industry in the world.

02.03.2026 01:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sleep deprivation would explain a lot.

24.02.2026 22:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Six weeks to cycling season!

24.02.2026 15:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All bikes are nice. Some are super-nice.

21.02.2026 04:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not enough. My wife and I come with four bikes. Of course two of them are never going to be left outside the unit we live in, so it's not as bad as it seems at first glance.

20.02.2026 23:43 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

From a very long list of great performances I have a soft spot for "Lonesome Dove" in general, and Duvall in particular.

16.02.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is There a Link Between Mental Health and Mass Shootings? Findings from the Columbia database help dispel the myth that having a severe psychiatric illness is predictive of who will perpetrate mass murder.

It is true we don’t have enough health care available for mental illness. It may be true that mental illness was a factor in this shooting. The (US) data says mental illness is a factor in just a 3rd of mass shootings (at most), which makes your final question particularly critical.

14.02.2026 15:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Real conversation from about 15 years ago.

Me: How long can I expect this refrigerator to last?
Salesman: About 10 years.
M: How about this fancy European one at three times the price?
S: About 10 years.

13.02.2026 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Longest civil airspace closure since the one after the 9/11 attacks. Decidedly not normal.

11.02.2026 13:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

"Doctor... It hurts when I do this."

"So don't do that!"

(Old joke, but I am willing to accept it as solid medical advice.)

10.02.2026 20:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They'll be the largest prisons in the country, in a country that has more prison than any other country on earth.

10.02.2026 04:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Official Site of the National Hockey League | NHL.com The official National Hockey League website including news, rosters, stats, schedules, teams, and video.

It's tricky to do and involved a hat originally.

Hockey's 'hat trick' traces roots to cricket | NHL.com share.google/oCEPbT4P7iiZ...

08.02.2026 15:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think I haven't made my point clear enough. I find it telling that the Conservatives are happy to have members who can join for virtually nothing ($15 annually), but apparently doesn't trust them to vote in a review of the party leader. That does not scream confidence to me.

07.02.2026 14:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That 87% of votes cast represents 0.3% of the party membership. Support for Poilievre might be strong in the party, but I find it telling that they chose not to test that in a leadership review.

07.02.2026 12:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The only rigged vote in Canada

04.02.2026 02:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"We were winning until they counted the votes!"

03.02.2026 21:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I disagree. Bovino may get lightly toss aside, since Trump's loyalty only goes one way, but until there is an actual, visible, permanent, and dramatic reversal of policy, nothing about this can be assumed to be normal.

26.01.2026 21:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahh, so the ignorance is willful and intentional. Got it.

24.01.2026 22:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Again, try to be less obtuse.

24.01.2026 22:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Don't be obtuse

24.01.2026 22:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The highly qualified and politically experienced black woman.

24.01.2026 22:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(Sorry I'm not a better Canadian, but learning French from an Anglophone in Mississauga in the 1970s didn't result in much of the second language sticking.)

24.01.2026 14:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sympathies. I just replaced my 2011 Volvo C30 with a 2011 Volvo C30 with 50,000 fewer Km. The car is in good shape but getting the instrument panel/menu language changed from French to English was shockingly expensive.

24.01.2026 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hardly a major insight. Ford essentially became a niche manufacturer when in 2018 they announced they would be phasing out passenger cars in North America.

24.01.2026 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just watched Carney's motorcade go past my house on his return from Davos, and while Trump's “speech” is on. I doubt a 24 hour period on the world stage has ever seen such a contrast in clarity, honesty, and intelligence.

21.01.2026 14:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've got a few years on you, but appreciate the company. I take solace in having just discovered Sam Fender. (Not sure if that means I am still open minded or he is doing something that's a bit of a throwback.)

13.01.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0