Next up: a letter or card about gerrymandering.

Just rattled off another letter to the Premier of what she herself calls "Uulllberta." We could probably keep Canada Post afloat simply by writing to Smith about all her blunders and bad ideas provided we send them in the mail (I usually do). This one is about DST, Danielle Smith Time.

Danielle Smith’s Daylight Savings Time year round means that if you get up at about 6:30 AM in December you’ll be awake for almost 3.5 hours before a ray of sun appears. She’s literally casting Darkness over the land.

Sunrise around 9:50 a.m. in December.

Who needs a water council when we’re replacing water with selenium?

Quoth one of the architectural gargoyles on Canada’s Parliament Hill.

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Whew!

I have given at least one of their previous books to children I know. The Lost Words, I think. A book a small child could almost literally climb inside.

Billions of Birds Have Vanished in a Generation | The Walrus To save them, we need to look and listen

Just listen to the beautiful prose and savour the paintings of this forthcoming (May 7, published in Canada by House of Anansi) book about #birds by #RobertMacfarlane and #JackieMorris: CC: @evoneuro.bsky.social

thewalrus.ca/billions-of-...

The Handmaid's Tale meets men's sweaterdom.

Smith says that she wants to redraw the maps to ensure that rural gets the representation it deserves because rural constituencies are complex & too big.

This compares the majority report & the minority report.

It's the cities that get carved up, rural barely moves.

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There is a lot of criticism of floor crossings to Liberals. I’m not a fan of it either, but it’s legal.

Partisan critics must be reminded that Danielle Smith holds a Canadian floor crossing record. For a Cabinet appointment promise, she led 9 Wildrose MLAs to cross to PCs.

#cdnpoli #ableg

Since it will be held on the Family Day Weekend it will be cold enough to have Kiss the Oil Drum contests. Whoever gets frozen onto it by the lips and ends up with Mar-a-Lago Lips 👄 wins.

I suspect only UCP MLAs will be able to go low enough to win the trophy, 🏆, which will be made out of an oil barrel 🛢️ of course.

And then to the sound of steel drums, which are after all cut from oil barrels 🛢️, we have limbo contests to see who can stoop as low as the UCP.

I had that same image in mind today just reading about the gerrymandering.

The ceremonial / ritual possibilities are running through my mind.

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Deer on the side of the hill quietly sharing a space with me.

Just this deer and I enjoying the last hour of sun.

A few minutes ago I looked up and two great blue herons were flying over my head.

This after thinking about how few birds there were..

green angel hair with garlic butter The greenest thing I know how to make is also the most delicious. It’s a celebration of roasted garlic butter and fresh greens, tangled with spaghetti and it’s the kind of recipe we mad…

Oh, I see it's online: smittenkitchen.com/2022/11/gree...

Do you have that book, or do you want me to copy the recipe for you and email it later?

It is delicious and very easy, my kind of recipe. I’ve made it a few times.

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There’s a brand new and very informative episode of Dr. Brian Goldman’s cbc radio program/podcast on the pitfalls of private, for-profit medical tests such as “full-body MRIs.”

I read it too, and I agree.

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Plus he’d almost certainly have been appointed as a Minister.