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TORONTO STAR article except reads: “"It has recently come to my attention that Mr. Yves Engler has been sharing with the media that he has not yet been approved ... to stand as an official leadership candidate. I would like to clarify that we are not in receipt of an application from Mr. Engler, and as such he has no current standing within the leadership contest," chief electoral officer Éric Hébert-Daly said.”

YVES ENGLER HASNT EVEN APPLIED TO RUN FOR NDP LEADERSHIP???????????

And he’s been accepting donations while implying he applied but hasn’t been approved yet???

Omg 🤦‍♀️

Article here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

I wish Canada were taking notes. If we want to talk projects of national interest to boost the economy, basic income would be an incredible win.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I read this book a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed its perspectives and insights. Great read.

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An extreme close-up photo of a tiny snail with a translucent orange shell crawling across reddish wood. The snail's eyestalks are out, and it is turning around in its movement. There is a large human finger to the left, providing a sense of the snail's small scale.

Look how tiny!

#snail #stylommatophora #gastropod #invertebrate #macro #macrophotography #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extreme close-up photo of a tiny snail with a translucent orange shell crawling across reddish wood. The snail's eyestalks are out.

A tiny snail. No idea what kind, except that it's very cute! Love these things.

#snail #stylommatophora #gastropod #invertebrate #macro #macrophotography #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extreme close-up of a stand of mint-green lichen trumpets, rising from a substrate of pebbles and moss.

Another nice little stand of Cladonia in the Okanagan.

#lichen #cladonia #okanagan #bcparks #inaturalist #macro #macrophotography #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A science-fiction book cover featuring a drone dropping pizza toppings onto a pizza-shaped crater on Mars. The title reads A Slice Of Mars, and the author is noted as Guerric Haché. The tagline is "The revolution promised pizza. Delivery's late."

I grouse a fair bit about politics, but I also enjoy thinking about how things could be different. Science-fiction is a great medium for that, so I wrote A Slice of Mars as a story of regular people in a substantially different society (not without flaws of its own). #booksky #books #scifi

An extreme close-up of a tiny stand of lichen. The lichen is growing in minty-green, knobbly stalks capped with smooth, shiny, bulbous brown caps.

Cladonia is such a diverse and fascinating genus of lichen.

#cladonia #lichen #macro #macrophotography #bcparks #inaturalist #nature #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extremely close photo of a tiny springtail, a round-bodied six-legged arthropod, walking across a flat white surface.

Didn't find a lot of springtails in the Okanagan last spring, so this Bourletiella hortensis (garden springtail) was quite exciting!

#springtail #collembola #bourletiella #arthropod #invertebrate #bcparks #macro #inaturalist #macrophotography #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A photo of a mule deer, with no antlers, standing on a steep, arid hill and looking directly at the camera. A small purple-flowered bush grows in the background.

A mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) spotted from the truck in the Okanagan!

#deer #odocoileus #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A close-up photo of a large sphinx moth on textured black plastic. The moth is facing down, creating a V shape. It is mostly pale brown along its front and the front fringes of its wings, with shaded, veiny patterns of darker browns further back on its wings and body.

Another beautiful sphinx moth from the Okanagan, Smerinthus ophthalmica (a Western Eyed Sphinx; too bad I didn't get the eye!).

#moth #smerinthus #sphinxmoth #sphinx #insect #macro #mothing #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A very close photo of a moth on a white fabric sheet. The moth is a mottled mix of pale grey, browns, and black, with a very fuzzy brown-grey ruff around its back and underside.

One day I'll really get into mothing. This toadflax brocade moth (Calophasia lunula) was one of many pretty finds earlier this year!

#moth #mothing #insect #invertebrate #macro #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extreme close-up of a puffball fungus growing on dry rocky ground. The puffball is split near its top, like a barely open mouth.

Fungi are so interestingly weird, I love them. I think this is in the family Lycoperdaceae.

#fungi #lycoperdaceae #mushroom #fungus #macro #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A black-speckled grey, fuzzy jumping spider sits on some black and grey lichen.

Another charming jumping spider (Habronattus hirsutus) blending in with the lichen.

#spider #jumpingspider #habronattus #arthropod #macro #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A very close-up photo of a lumpy, curly orange little lichen growing on an orange, tan, and black rock.

Another charming little Okanagan lichen, quite unlike what I usually see nearer to home.

#lichen #macro #macrophotography #naturephotography #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A mat of small, bristly plants with bright green growing tips and brown-to-white older stems grows up against a rock.

More of my beloved Selaginella wallacei, I love finding it no matter where I am. Lycophytes represent a fascinating part of the evolutionary history of plants.

#selaginella #lycophyte #plant #macro #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A close-up photo of grey lichen with black divots, growing in a straight T-shape across otherwise bare rock.

I enjoy the curious patterns lichen sometimes grow in.

#lichen #macro #nature #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extreme close-up of a mat of moss, with a large, soft, circular blob of greenish-brown growing in the middle. The blob has a dimple in the centre, but is otherwise smooth.

One of my favourite things is finding something new and exciting in nature. This bizarre thing is a colony of Nostoc bacteria, sometimes called star jellies, growing amidst moss in a seep.

#bacteria #nostoc #macro #nature #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extreme close-up of a very small flower, with a hairy reddish stem and soft hairy pointed leaves. A single yellow tube flower with five petals blooms from the top. Moss and sand carpet the background.

This charming little monkeyflower, Erythranthe patula, was growing in a fascinating moist seep in an otherwise semi-arid cliff in the Okanagan.

#plant #flower #plantphotography #erythranthe #monkeyflower #inaturalist #bcparks #macro #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extreme close-up of a tiny jumping spider. It is mostly white, with a black pattern on its abdomen and a bright red horizontal line by its eyes.

I love the striking red face markings of this Habronattus sansoni.

#spider #jumpingspider #habronattus #arthropod #invertebrate #macro #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A large bighorn sheep, with a short, pale brown coat and small nubby brown horns, stands behind a fence.

Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) not really bighorning when I spotted it across the road.

#sheep #bighornsheep #ovis #mammal #wildlife #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extreme close-up of a tiny grasshopper with pale, translucent carapace, big black eyes, and short, segmented antennae. It is so small that a dozen grains of sand underneath it appear very large in the frame.

This adorable and fascinating little pygmy mole grasshopper, Neotridactylus apicialis, has established a tiny population on a small Okanagan beach.

#grasshopper #neotridactylus #insect #arthropod #invertebrate #inaturalist #bcparks #macro #wildlife #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A tiger beetle stands up on pale grey sand. Its mostly-dark carapace glints with purple iridescence and hints of blue. Its pale, cream-coloured markings stripe across its elytra.

Another beautiful Cicindela tranquebarica (oblique-lined tiger beetle) from the Okanagan this May.

#beetle #tigerbeetle #insect #arthropod #invertebrate #macro #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A tiger beetle, with a dark, vaguely shimmering carapace and pale yellow, curly markings on its elytra, stands on dry dirt amidst some grass.

I gained a new appreciation for tiger beetles this summer, like this Cicindela tranquebarica (oblique-lined tiger beetle)!

#beetle #insect #tigerbeetle #cicindela #arthropod #bcparks #macro #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A close-up photo of a tiny jumping spider, striped in various shades of brown, sitting on the underside of a leaf.

A close-up photo of a tiny jumping spider, striped in various shades of brown, sitting on the underside of a leaf.

Another super cute jumping spider (genus Phidippus) from the Okanagan.

#spider #jumpingspider #phidippus #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada #macro

A close-up photo of a black scarab beetle on pale brownish sand. The beetle's carapace is rather boxy, the joints between its segments are faintly golden, and it has two short, wide antennae like fuzzy ears on its head.

This charming little scarab, perhaps Cremastocheilus (an anteater scarab), has nice subtle golden lines beneath its carapace.

#beetle #scarab #cremastocheilus #insect #arthropod #invertebrate #macro #bcparks #wildlife #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A grocery store shelf label for eggplants that says "Product of Mexico" and an eggplant with a sticker that says "Product of California, USA"

Well, I saw this last week, at a Your Independent Grocer location.

#cdnpoli #canada