Meanwhile, in Québec... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is another reason to consider the power of missions like this, it’s a chance to highlight the humanity that we are all capable of in a difficult world. And to show people, in this case particularly young men, how emotion and vulnerability are inextricable from bravery.

Hey folks - humanity just raised the bar. We (specifically the 4 people on Artemis 2) have now gone farther from our home than anyone before, in the history of humanity.

I'm honestly really excited that we're once again actually expanding the frontiers.

I, an adult, exist around teenagers who play sports. Hence, I arrive home at least once a week with someone's jewelry in my pocket.

In a clip from Instagram, the Truro 7s account has posted "The Truro 7s 2026 men's recreational champions, @halifaxrugby". The photo shows 12 men in a horse barn, holding a plaque, in front of a scoreboard. 5 of them are wearing rugby jerseys. 4 of them are shirtless. At least one is wearing only rugby socks and a "budgie smuggler" Speedo-style swimming suit (?) One man is on one of the other men's shoulders. They appear to be celebrating, as several have arms held high in celebration. One is wearing a shirt proclaiming "CUTE AS A BUTTON".

My rugby club is weird and awesome.

That's a fun sports to go to!

I don't suppose that I explicitly *thought* that NS Virtual Care would be using AI agents but, y'know - it's easy to fall into a kind of cynical "nothing online is real" loop...

...then the doctor I'm messaging with turns out to be someone I coached in high school rugby 20 years ago... :-)

Completely agree! That phrase that drivers sometimes use, about something "coming out of nowhere"? That never happens to me when I'm biking, because I'm just overwhelmingly more aware of my surroundings. And it's not just avoiding accidents - I notice the weather and the new paint jobs - everything.

Fun: the school had to block CBC Gem on the school network today, due to the number of students streaming the hockey game.

Good thing we have TWO national broadcasters. Radio-Canada was never as popular in our school as it was for those 2 hours...

Thanks for covering this, Pat! The kids are so excited to get some real competition in the middle of winter!

Bathurst latest northern community to launch public transit system | CBC News Bathurst has become the latest northern community to introduce public transit after Edmundston, and buses for the Campbellton and Grand Falls regions are planned for later this year.

Something good in the neighbourhood - more transit for more people, and not just in the big centres!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I don't mean to be rude, but I really don't think you do. Outside of the central corridor, trains can be dozens of hours late, and run only a couple of times a week.

WITHIN the "good part" of our rail network, there are still frequent delays & cancellations.

Agreed. I feel like Android is a bit better, but I have no confidence Google isn't just a half-step behind Apple (and is probably *more*likely to be doing stupid AI-focused stuff with any of my data - notably emails - that it ever gets to see).

My daughter has convinced me that setting up our own family server in our basement is a better choice, though. I'm kinda excited - it has generated she and I learning Ubuntu together, so we'll see if we can pull it off.

All the same, all her first drafts (fanfic) are still on paper (typewriter).

Boy, do I feel this. I'm migrating my personal notes-to-self back off the Internet already (labelled notebooks!), as a start, but I think I may end up where my uncle was. He died in 2021, basically never having accessed the Internet. He typed skillfully, published four books, corresponded by post.

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Holy hell, what an obituary

I love my word-nerd kid, and she brought me two words which are phenomenally valuable in Halifax & Dartmouth:
* cispontine - on this side of the bridge.
* transpontine - on the far side of the bridge.

From now on, these are the only adjectives I will use to clarify which Costco I'm talking about.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Home visiting my parents. Went to someone's 75th wedding anniversary party with them tonight. 75 years! Man that's a lot of time. When they married, he was 22, she was 18, in 1951.

The event was in the local Legion hall. It was a pot luck. There were 12 plates of devilled eggs. Small towns rock.

Right, and it's not zero, I totally agree, but I feel like it's retreated to the *actual* conspiracy theorists, rather than every confused right-wing boomer who watched a bit too much YouTube, like it was for a while.

I kinda feel like the "triggering" effect of that phrase is a bit past, now, except for the people who effectively keep an inventory of everything they've ever been mad about on speed-dial in their brains.

I'm sure you're mostly right, but it can be unplanned and still kinda no one's fault, like a bird hitting a window, or something blowing into them while they're tied up, or a passenger puking all over one of the seats.

Very excited! My kid turned 14 this morning, and we're doing a book store crawl to celebrate!

Agricola Street, Bookmark, Trident (also lunch!) and Strange Adventures, with a cameo by the Central Library along the way.

Distant family sent gift cards to spend, and she's very excited. Me too!

Whoosh!

I agree, with so many people being able to live closer to their work, it should take a decent number of cars off the road!

Absolutely - I hold no illusions that I'm "convincing" a driver to stop by seeking out eye contact - I'm just making myself more confident in what the heck is actually going on. (Also - good point about road type - I don't really do this crossing Robie or Barrington, say - different strategies.)

I am also human, and so seek out opportunities to positively interact with other humans with whom I share space. Just like thanking a cashier at a shop who gives me my change - they actually legally had no choice, but I'm still going to say thank you, and treat them better than a vending machine.

I totally disagree with this. While I *wish* that the driver would stop (and for that wish, I should never make eye contact - they stop more often if you don't), I *need* to know - with confidence - whether they actually are or not, and eye contact helps to confirms that.

Yeah, you're right - pipe dream.

If you're in Yarmouth or Port Hawkesbury (or even Windsor or Truro), that sounds pretty good.

Unfortunately, the people most affected - suburban Halifax - are some of the loudest voices in our politics.

They're the only ones who actually enter and exit regularly.