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Bulrushes in the last of their winter finery. Jericho Park, Vancouver, BC. #wetlands #photography #NaturePhotography
So far I have found one (actual!) friend on Gander Social, now in Beta mode. Anyone else there yet?
Loving the civil Canadian discourse, and relative absence of American obsessives and their culture war.
gandersocial.ca
No deal is better than a bad deal. Do Canadians have the spine to resist annexation ?#Canpoli
Bluesky is American.
We can (should) assume that everything we put here is subject to the US administration’s laws and whims.
Ditto Substack, Medium, and the massive digital companies.
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
On this day of celebration of love, here is a still life that I made last year from my late neighbour’s garden.
Florence was a celebrated master gardener. When she passed, her family invited me to take roses from her garden for a photo series.
Happy Valentine’s Day. 🇨🇦❤️
The Bad Bunny halftime show is wonderful. On YouTube and Apple Music.
The New York Times story explains a few mysteries.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/a...
Yep.
“People are pulled into opposing camps. Which side they land on matters less than the outcome, which is polarization, fatigue (ignoring all the noise because, hard to know who or what to trust), and a reduced capacity for real debate and shared understanding. “
Tips to help:
Canada is NOT broken. Let’s not buy the manipulative lines of the Maple MAGAs.
First rant in a bit. From“quiet, piggy” to Trump’s daily threats, we’re obliged to standup.
On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials Donald Trump accused elected Democrats "of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death." Only George Santayana could have made this shit up.
Remembrance Day is really a story of hope and renewal … if only we remember.
I am a child of war.
So are you.
So will be our children and grandchildren – unless we remember, and change.
www.deborahjones.ca/2024/11/11/w...
The EU is far ahead on this threat. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Mamdani is a social democrat, as sane Americans and most of the Western world realize.
He is even a garden-variety social democrat.
This.
“Politics involves genuine relationships with people who are genuinely other people, not tasks set for our redemption or objects for our philanthropy.” - Bernard Crick
We need better than “preachy” or “crazy.”
We belong to the world;the world belongs to us.
“Looking back over the early Holocene – beginning 11,700 years ago – researchers have found that human presence was about as likely to increase biodiversity as reduce it.”
Canada is not broken.
Please let’s keep it that way.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
“10. The election may well affirm a passing of the identity-politics tide.”
please, yes. Please let this be so, so we can stop devouring each other, and converse.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
#identitypolitics
John Ralston Saul, in 2023 on “our experienced and stable democracy… the oldest continuous democratic federation in the world. “
This is as much about the fate of #Canada and ecological survival as it is about Europe, on which our own safety hinges.
A long but essential read.
We are on the hinge of great change and each of our decisions will matter.
Paywall
on.ft.com/4kjfQSC The fight for Europe’s future
“This should have been done a long time ago.”
On June 25, the Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine announced its formation in a dual press conference held in Vancouver and Toronto. @kristendejager.bsky.social reports.
#cdnpoli #topoli #vanpoli #CdnMedia
Katherine Graham, one of my heroes, has an eloquent heir.
“Real American patriotism does not force journalists to deliver government propaganda. My grandmother was a real patriot; she protected the rights of her journalists to deliver the facts and speak their minds—without fear…”
#speech #freedom
REPORTER: I have a document showing some of the fiscal plans for this year.
PM CARNEY: Look at that. It looks like it's written on a napkin.
REPORTER: I don't know whose napkin it is.
PM CARNEY: Is that the opposition's fiscal plan?
#cdnpoli
Democracy: use it or lose it. Poilievre is misusing it, and Canadians, for his own quest to win power at all costs.
#cdnpoli #albertaborn
NOT broken.
“when polarisation is increasing in many nations, Canadians are doing the opposite, coalescing and seeking to unlock the country’s economic potential…working together to safeguard Canada’s long-term prosperity, so it never again feels cornered, economically or existentially.”
#cdnpoli
