Photo of a landscape comprised of dark, jagged rock. The sky above is full of dark clouds with the sun visible behind them. A light dusting of snow is on the ground.
Hiking the rugged, glacier-carved high barrens hills of the central Bay de Verde Peninsula. #Newfoundland, Canada.
#hiking #backpacking, no #trail
In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.
Fairly good treatment of the (IMHO very dumb) idea of Canada joining the EU. It is important to emphasize BOTH:
a) The transition would be very costly. (e.g. 10 years of 'harmonization' of our law with the EU acquis)
b) the end point would not be good for Canada. (e.g. Euro currency, e.g. CAP)
A pretty cool doc about Waterloo's Perimeter Institute
youtube.com/watch?v=nY39...
Laura Stone from the Globe on X: #BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is selling its $28.9 million private jet, a senior government source tells The Globe. The purchase set off a firestorm of criticism when the Star revealed it last week. with critics calling it "the gravy plane."
We did it! We stopped the Gravy Plane! Let’s keep fighting to save our waterfront from jets. #onpoli #topoli
On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.
This was taken from the canoe, just as the morning mist was lifting. #blueheron
A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite." The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""
A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur.
And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops).
Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...
an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭
Let's have a GARDEN thread. Show me your flowers or botanical gardens or what you see on your walks. We all need some beauty.
What a lovely way to mark belles rencontres!
‘Luggage’ is an everyday word I don’t really think about and then I realise it means ‘stuff I lug around’ and now I am very fond of the word luggage.
Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
Tale of flight stuck on 'freezing Canadian island' gets warm laughs in Newfoundland
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfo...
I *think* I've finally found all my tax receipts for 2025. So many camps to track down. Sigh. Now to start my tax return...
A servyce wher people come to your hous and convince you to keepe the thinges you were goinge to throw awaye. "You will misse thys pile of cinderblockes when it ys gone." "You are nothinge wythout thys capybara t-shirt." "Smell these Dragonlance novels. Heaven! That ys the 80s and that must staye."
The Trump administration finds every aspect of Canada a trade irritant. Our existence is a trade irritant. I wish more news coverage reflected that reality.
The alt text here is art.
A new 'type' of business is opening up in the Cotton Factory in Hamilton. Jonathan Marshall is counting on nostalgia to make the Hamilton Typewriter Company successful.
This is why I keep pitching Octopus Jeopardy, a 100% all-octopus spinoff. Everyone tells me it’s a terrible idea but I think it has legs.
Because I am a hopeless nerd, I tallied the operating budgets of all 8 governments in Waterloo Region (7 townships+the region) to look for a # this op-ed disguised as reporting should have. Folks: council remuneration makes up *0.1%* of total local operating budgets. Literally, a rounding error.
AI deployment is at the heart of Carney's economic policy and his government cutbacks. The problem is structural. Firing a minister or civil servant won't make much of a difference in the long run.
The government needs to abandon its current AI policies or we can expect more bad outcomes like this.
This is from last March, but I'm bringing it back because it makes me smile so much. This is on the trail across the road from where I live. Crank your volume to hear the lynx calling its mom with the cutest meow ever. #mammals
As with most "smart" devices, a smart TV's features exist to benefit the manufacturer, not you.
Gob, a one-year old male Vancouver Island marmot with a white nose, brown fur, and styling ear tags. In the grass with fall wildflowers, mostly white Pearly Everlasting.
Meet Gob. Gob was born at the Toronto Zoo in 2024, and traveled across Canada to spend his first winter at the Tony Barrett Mount Washington Marmot Centre. We released him nearby to Mount Washington last June.
The federal government *dramatically overcompensated* for abuse by some colleges in international student visas, and now Canada's long-term prosperity and its university systems both get to suffer unnecessarily as a result.
Screenshot of an article from BlogTO. The headline reads: The popular Canada Strong Pass is making a comeback for summer 2026.
If you’re starting to make summer plans, there's even more to discover with the Canada Strong Pass. Starting this June — free admission to national parks, free experiences for kids, and more:
www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...
Today, I tabled the Invest in Ontario's Infrastructure to Ensure Economic Growth petition which calls on the government to invest in water infrastructure and immediately pause relentless commercial water taking permits. #onpoli
www.catherinefife.com/invest_in_infrastructure_to_ensure_economic_growth
