Correctly, Mr. Mason pulls no punches for petulant peewee piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre.
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The top ten highest grossing movies that came out when I was 18:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Love Bug
Midnight Cowboy
Easy Rider
Hello, Dolly
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Paint Your Wagon
True Grit
Cactus Flower
Goodbye, Columbus

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Big congratulations from Red Deer!

SPECIAL REPORT - Your Neighbour Canada Has Changed And You're Not Going to Like What is Happening The unvarnished truth about Donald Trump, Big Business, Big Media

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Arts and Culture Sector Contributes $131 Billion to Canada's Economy - Canadian Chamber of Commerce New report Artworks reveals how the arts and culture sector drives economic growth and Canadians’ quality of life

Arts/culture employs more Canadians than oil/gas.

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#Canada, share this widely‼️

The #Conservative Party of Canada pulled this political stunt in #HouseofCommons this week~ using bibles in #voting.

All #religions and no religions are on equal footing in CDN Politics and there isn’t a symbolic stance of belonging in this #civicspace. #cdnpoli

Climate Change Gets Strikingly Visualized by a Scottish Art Installation What does it accomplish to talk about climate change? Even those who talk about climate change professionally might find it hard to say.

Climate Change Gets Strikingly Visualized by a Scottish Art Installation

You will be able to (and should) spend days at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Canola Project-Prairie Graveyards YouTube video by Jeff Woodward

This one's for @crabbycrab.bsky.social who challenged me a while back to share some pictures of old Grain Elevators. I was part of a group art thing called The Canola Project and edited this video with lots of them. Enjoy buddy.
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Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Carney: Canada supports the United States…

Canada: no, we fucking do not.

I Don’t Recognize Alberta Anymore - Macleans.ca My province has always fought with Ottawa. What’s new is a premier who gives legitimacy to separation.

Maclean's approached me about writing a personal essay on Alberta Secession and my opposition to it.
It was published today.
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Molly Lamb Bobak

My sentiments exactly!

The perfect response. This is the 🇨🇦 I recognize.

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Local woman approves of this SO HARD. Fucking fantastic good trouble.

At Davos, Trump’s Speech Stood Out—but Another One Mattered Much More The Canadian prime minister started to outline what comes next.

Proud of PM Mark Carney, who says ‘the “bargain,” which the middle countries have observed with their protector all these decades, “no longer works. … We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality,” but now, the gaps have grown too large.’

The painting is anchored by a large piece of corrugated cardboard most of which is painted black. There are two other pieces of corrugated cardboard towards the top of the canvas, The background of the work is painted white over yellow over an early painting which had a strip of handmade paper long the right side from top to bottom.

December 24: "Steam Garden" (2025) mixed media on canvas, 30 in. x 15 in. #ArtAdventCalendar

Swathes of white cover much of the canvas though two sections of underlying brown of the original painting have been left untouched; one section in the upper left corner and another close to the lower right. There is a wonky ladder in black with four rungs on the left side of the canvas.

December 23: "The Anticipation of Consequences" (2024) mixed media on canvas, 24 in. x 18 in. #ArtAdventCalendar

Three birch trees, left of centre, sans leaves and branches, extend from the top to the bottom of the image against a background of three irregular triangles of ground and sky.

December 22: "Birch Trees" (2023) charcoal on paper, 26 in. x 20 in. #ArtAdventCalendar

An irregular rectangle of red criss-crossed with black lines a la a paned window in the centre of the canvas surrounded by irregular shapes in shades of blue, green, and tan. on a background of white with hints of red at the top of the canvas. The title refers to a former studio address.

December 21: "4930C" (2022) mixed media on canvas, 60 in. x 60 in. #ArtAdventCalendar

A band of mottled greens and yellows across the top third of the canvas. The rest of the canvas is mottled white and yellows. Three irregular rectangles to the left of centre. They are mixed green, yellow, and blue, outlined in pencil

December 20: "Fragments, #5" (2021) acrylic on canvas, 11 in. x 14 in. #ArtAdventCalendar