Stewart Midwinter

First to bike on all five Great Lakes: One army veteran’s extreme winter cycling feat Battling subzero windchills, cracking ice and mechanical failures, Eric McKinney became the first rider to bike across lakes Erie, Ontario, Huron, Michigan and Superior

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We need to come up with Canadian version of this featuring Northern Lakes.

"They look like Mexicans, send them back where they came from!… Oh, wait."😄

Clearly, his makeup is more important to him than his values.

On the Tibetan plateau, China has installed a 16-17 GW mega solar plant that is turning an alpine desert into a “micro-oasis”: more moisture, more grass, and soils with more carbon under 64 km² of pan... High on the Tibetan Plateau, a vast field of solar panels is not only feeding China’s power grid. According to new research, it is also gently reshaping a

It's inexplicable that the Alberta government doesn't even want solar panels in its dry southeastern area, where this technology could improve power generation as well as animal habitat.
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Now that's what I call a critical mass! Well done.

Even though that came over on the Mayflower were immigrants. Press 47.

So many people actively despise this obviously insincere, power lusting individual that the PC party will never gain power while he is leader.

What's actually crazy is that it has taken more than 50 years

Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever - Carbon Brief Sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs) overtook petrol cars in the EU for the first time in December 2025.

The rise of electric vehicles is now clearly unstoppable.
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@calgarytransit.com

Having now become a ♿️ user, I find that public transit provides me with freedom, flexibility, and even fun! Please keep doing preventative maintenance on the wheelchair ramps on your buses.

#Takethebus

@electricautonomy.com fyi...

Canadians call for a new automotive strategy to build Canada strong: new KPMG Canada survey - The Malaysian Reserve Seventy-two per cent want their vehicle assembled in Canada, signalling support for domestic capacity and jobsTORONTO, Dec. 29, 2025 /CNW/ - With as many

What Canadians think about the automotive sector?
#electricvehicles #evs
@electricautonomy

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Nenad Georgievski (@nenadgeorgievski) Winter barcode

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Winter #barcode

Garbage collection in Beijing, 2008.
#cargobike

French cyclist survives three days on wine after falling into ravine - Canadian Cycling Magazine A particularly wild commute

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Moral of the story? A smart cyclist always carries a bottle of wine in his or her backpack.

#Cycling #bikes #survival

Everyday fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico face extinction by the US military pirates.🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🇺🇸

How about investigating the commander in chief for his "alleged" sex crimes? Oh wait, we already did that, and he weaseled out of any jail time.

UK's Chargepoint Network Grows: 100k More Planned Discover how the UK's EV charging network grew 23% with 15,000 new chargepoints, making electric travel more practical. Charge in 33 mins nationwide.

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#Electricvehicles

The adoption of EVs is unstoppable, and accelerating.
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And Cycling is simply a more efficient form of walking.

Granville Island Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The road to Granville Island is underneath the Granville St. Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Smoky skies today from the fires in NWT. We have nothing to complain about here, our homes are safe.
#Forestfires

Lucas Prins (@lprins) on Threads No matter how often I see this statistic, it continues to baffle my brain.

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The global north is not all important.

Not a good day to be exercising or even sitting outside in Calgary, Alberta.

Cargo bike in Beijing

I saw a lot of these cargo bikes in Beijing when I was there. July 2008.

#cargobikes #Beijing

@bsky.app it's way too difficult to add an account to a list. You provide only 1 nonobvious method.

If I see an interesting post by a user, I'm given an option to add them to a list… But only to an existing list. Right there at that moment, there needs to be an option to create a new list.

Climate – WX

Sunset in Chinook conditions. YYC.

Did I ever tell you that my great grandfather, Charles Midwinter, was a counsellor in Winnipeg for many years in the late 1800s? There's a park and a street named after him in North Winnipeg.

Let's put the "fun" back in fundamentalism.