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Amy Scanlon Boughner (she/her)

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Lover of words, fan of schnauzers, mom to an amazing kid, taking a lot of pictures of birds recently. Canadian with a penchant for UK panel shows. I write and edit: https://www.amyboughner.ca/

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Pop Up Video was so much fun

02.03.2026 03:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember how proud I felt when Canada turned to George Bush and said no

02.03.2026 03:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Home alone, watching a documentary about the talk shows I used to watch when I was a kid and home along from school

27.02.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There was not a significant amount of booing

27.02.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep

27.02.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The booing I could hear on the radio paled in comparison to Heatley

27.02.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

(That was when we were the OLO, I think it was a security thing)

25.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Government buying downtown office tower for House of Commons staff The federal government is purchasing an office tower in downtown Ottawa as it looks to offload other real estate.

I loved it when we worked on the 10th floor of 131 Queen – and hated the third floor, where there were no windows

ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

25.02.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I just had a clear childhood memory of pita bread with Cheese Whiz, I could almost taste it.

25.02.2026 04:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, that point number 4 I really should have paused longer

24.02.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thanks!

24.02.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It just occurred to me that when people started hoarding toilet paper at the start of the pandemic it was a big news story, but a select group of men are hoarding money and it's celebrated as capitalism

24.02.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't seen a specific clip of him

24.02.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But he was in the locker room when the joke was made and the whole team laughed about the absurdity of women's sports

24.02.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's really scary

24.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was mad about this – and then I found out that Jack Hughes' mother won a silver medal in women's hockey (not Olympics, world championships) and I got even more angry

24.02.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So, this comment comes from AI, which I should have suspected given the source – but my question is how can you tell?

Honest question

24.02.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Brady Tkachuk on winning Gold for the USA
Brady Tkachuk on winning Gold for the USA YouTube video by NHL

Seeing this as a post-game, it's definitely not from the Olympics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_82...

24.02.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Saw someone mention that might have been AI

24.02.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That would be nice - I'll see if I can find that

24.02.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

So Brady Tkachuk, who plays in Canada and therefore lives here for a significant part of the year decided that "we own you, Canada" was an appropriate shout out at the post gold press conference?

24.02.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

(Yes, I realize this is a terrible but also apt choice of words)

23.02.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect their answer may have been the same before the video

23.02.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

With that back-hand at sexual assault victims

23.02.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just trying to imagine living in a country where successful white men who were on hit TV shows for years have to fundraise to cover medical expenses.

23.02.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is the House going week on, week off?

23.02.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would die for Ontario peaches

23.02.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'But we didn't win!'

No, but we can as close as possible to winning

23.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

People understand that Canada made it to overtime in both men's and women's hockey gold medal games, right? That this isn't a *crisis*?

23.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The ability to work from home was life changing for me for my own mental health. Having been through burnout it's not something I want to give up.

22.02.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0