Jonny Wakefield

My sample size is still like <40 games but yeah, this one is pretty singular

Even though I’m pretty sure a person who’s never watched curling can understand how completely dope this is

Very grateful circumstances turned me into a curling guy because now shots like this have the same effect on me as watching a prime Steph Curry three

By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order | CBC News Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramati...

What books did Alberta schools *actually* pull off the shelves in response to a provincial order? It took a lot of work to find out. We still don't have a complete picture. And some schools are still pulling material.

Free speech advocates say it's ban unmatched in Canadian history. #AbLeg By me.

So funny that the Alberta provincial government introduced its budget about a week and a half ago.

One in central Edmonton had like a 2004 AutoCAD manual

Alberta independence is a minority idea but the politics around it are already shifting. New polling shows most Albertans oppose separation yet many believe their premier would support it a perception that is reshaping federal politics and creating risks for the UCP coalition

From @davidcoletto.bsky.social: Only 26 percent of Albertans say they support Alberta becoming a sovereign country. Just 13 percent strongly support it. Meanwhile 64 percent oppose independence and a majority of all Albertans, 56 percent, strongly oppose it.

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‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood In 1976, Suzanne Heywood’s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ‘adventure’ – and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger …

Delighted to find this under the recommended tab. I assume the Guardian calls this type of piece a “mad dad” story www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This is an ideal weekend read imo: dads, madness, eggs

It’s all curling Patrick, top to bottom

I am experiencing a crisis of confidence

WATCH: How traffic dried up in the Strait of Hormuz since the Iran war began The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is "about as wrong as things could go" for global oil markets. Iran achieved it not with a naval blockade, but with cheap drones.

“We're now facing what looks like the biggest energy crisis since the oil embargo in the 1970s.” 🙃https://www.npr.org/2026/03/04/nx-s1-5736104/iran-war-oil-trump-israel-strait-hormuz-closed-energy-crisis

I’ve gone looking but have yet to find anything explaining Trump world’s use of the word “kinetic.”

I’ve been surprised how often the morning featured game on TSN is a manitoba team, it feels like they sent seven

Wheelchair curling drama: 2 rocks stolen from Paralympic venue ahead of competition | CBC Curling drama has arrived at the Paralympics even before the first competition rock has been thrown. Two curling stones have been stolen from the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.

JUST IN

Two curling 🥌 stones have been stolen from the Cortina curling venue ahead of Paralympic competition.

Authorities are investigating. Competition will not be affected. Here’s what we know at this point: www.cbc.ca/sports/paral...

Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C....

A BC court found an Alberta separatist movement leader misappropriated $1.3 million of his elderly aunt and uncle’s money. Their niece says Dennis Modry hasn’t paid it back.

Giving up a steal of 5 rules somewhat less

Team PEI rolling with just three dudes kind of rules

Thought I’d take some time off from curling but we have a baby who likes to wake up at 6 am and you really can’t beat the brier for that

Advocates call for public inquiry into alleged corruption within Toronto police Project South police corruption probe led to arrests of seven Toronto officers and a retired constable

"Investigators said members of organized crime were buying data and addresses from Toronto Police officers, which were then used to co-ordinate shootings and other crimes – including an attempted hit on a corrections officer at his home."

From Molly Hayes:
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Feel free to borrow!

Among other things the guy just liked antagonizing people for basically no reason, he would have loved microblogging apps

Urbain Grandier - Wikipedia

Basically you reallllllllly have to suck in a lot of different ways en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_...

One chapter in and based on the cover you’d think this is a book about the occult when in reality it’s a book about how big of an asshole you have to be to be burned at the stake as a priest

Woman guilty of killing eight-year-old gets 8-year manslaughter sentence Woman guilty of manslaughter in death of 8-year-old girl gets eight-year sentence

From @liamnewbigging.bsky.social: the woman who killed 8-year-old Indigenous girl Nina Napope Dumais has been sentenced to 8 years.

Judge said the Edmonton Police Service’s decision to criticize the Crown’s handling of the case was a mitigating factor meriting time off the sentence.

Yeah here’s the pyre, very strange, just tucked behind a wall in an absolutely ruined temple. One of the most famous guys in human history, and they just let this sink and turn into cow pasture

It was 19 c today and people were wearing puffy jackets. I can’t imagine being here in July

I did but thought that’s where they killed him, apparently that happened at what’s now a cat sanctuary?

Watching HBO’s Rome in Rome … no one’s doing it on my level

Sunset on the Roman forum 🥲