New research published in “The New England Journal of Exhaustion” 😁
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New research published in “The New England Journal of Exhaustion” 😁
Congrats to Gretzky, I guess.
I love that you’ve been doing this long enough to bring out the classics, like The Onion.
🧐 from 2017: “U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signalled their commitment to the Gordie Howe International Bridge Monday in a joint statement that said they ‘look forward to the expeditious completion’ of the project.” windsorstar.com/news/local-n...
I just listened to the Two Against the Ice audiobook (on your recommendation – thanks) and kept assuming the long titles were the start of the chapter. I was thinking ‘Wow, these are really short sentences and I don’t know what’s going on!’
That it so sad.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
Insightful piece by @stephenmaher.bsky.social. This section is especially eye-opening:
Stop calling people trying to protect their neighbors and their communities "protesters."
"Canada lives because of the United States."
That, that's some pretty trademark partner abuser kind of language.
Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion By Robert Fife, Gavin John
Canada does not have the number of military personnel or the sophisticated equipment needed to fend off a conventional American attack, they said. So, the military envisions unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military or armed civilians would resort to ambushes, sabotage, drone warfare or hit-and-run tactics. One of the officials said the model includes tactics used by the Afghan mujahedeen in their hit-and-run attacks on Russian soldiers during the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan War. These were the same tactics employed by the Taliban in their 20-year war against the U.S. and allied forces that included Canada. Many of the 158 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014 were struck by improvised explosive devices or IEDs. The aim of such tactics would be to impose mass casualties on U.S. occupying forces, the official said. The aim of such tactics would be to impose mass casualties on U.S. occupying forces, the official said.
Conscription has been ruled out for now, but the level of sacrifice that would be asked of Canadians remains a central topic, the officials said. General Jennie Carignan, Chief of the Defence Staff, has already announced her intention to create a 400,000-plus-strong reserve force of volunteers. The officials said they could be armed or asked to provide disruptions if the U.S. becomes an occupying power. A senior Defence Department official said Canada would have a maximum of three months to prepare for a land and sea invasion. The first indications that invasion orders had been sent would be expected to come from U.S. military warnings that Canada no longer has a shared skies policy with the United States, the source said. This rupture in the joint defence agreement would likely see France or Britain, nuclear-weapon states, being called on to provide support and defence for Canada against the U.S.
Globe & Mail reporting on Canadian military's modelling of how an extended insurgency against a US invasion would play out:
In short, we'd take cues from the mujahideen.
"The aim of such tactics would be to impose mass casualties on U.S. occupying forces..."
I found I had to pump it up more often than I expected because I used it so much. This was in Toronto before there were any protected bike lanes. Drivers basically think an 18-wheeler is about to hit them, so they NOTICE!
I used an early prototype of this horn for years (a friend helped design it). Immensely satisfying and effective.
There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
This photo!
The thing about being a runner in Canada is that there are like two days a year when the weather isn't crappy in some way, so you end up running in increasingly ludicrous conditions without realizing it, like a frog in boiling water.
Life After Cars book
At Furby House Books in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada @thewaroncars.bsky.social🚦
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
Bicycles travel at the speed of observation.
First-ever snowshoe run commute to the office this morning.
Samuel Dean completed the St. Jude Marathon in 2:49:56, 6:29 minutes per mile.
BREAKING JOGGLING NEWS: Sam Dean of Madison, Wisconsin, has set a new #joggling marathon Guinness World Record of 2:49:56 at the Memphis Marathon, breaking my previous mark of 2:50:12 from 18 years ago by just 16 seconds.
Polar bear approaching a 10 kilometre sign marker
Polar bear biting a 10 kilometre sign marker
Polar bear on its back playing with 10 kilometre sign
An orange Polar Bear Marathon 10km with a polar bear bite out of it
The Polar Bear Marathon in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, certainly lived up to its name this year. (Photos from a friend’s dad who was there setting up the course.)
New season of Arrested Development just dropped in Canada.
Where were you during the Great Sandwich Punning of 2025?
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
A hand holds a hardcover book, “Life After Cars”, inside a three-storey bike parking facility beneath Utrecht Centraal Station.
“You're not alone in wanting a better world, one in which cars are relegated to their proper use. Cars are tools that can be useful at certain times and places. They’re not gods. They’re not the foundation of our society. They should serve us. We should not serve them. There can be life after cars.”
I remember watching the Jays win in 1993 in the University of King’s College bar in Halifax, NS, and there was no stress.
MY EFFIN’ BIRDS LIFE by Geddy Lee
