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YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims & PRGT Pipeline

The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

A plaque for tourists in French and English about shipwrecks in Saint Pierre. Text from the plaque: “Source of pillaging : On May 18th 1971, because of a thick fog and a failing radar, the Transpacific, a 3865 tons cargo ship coming from Québec and property of the company Poséidon Line, ran aground on the Marie-Rose reef, next to Trehouart cove. After several unsuccessful attempts to get the cargo off the reef, the captain and his crew abandonned the ship. The looting of the cargo started, an opportunity to a hundred savvy and fearless people. They loaded in their dories all kinds of goods: hundreds of lawn mowers, juke boxes, engines, food, beverage... and a part of the ship equipment : tableware, furniture, compass, wheel and bell. Fearing a pollution, the ship was partly burnt and nature took care of what remained, leaving only the bow as a reminder.”

The rusted front hull from the Transpacific cargo shipwreck in a shallow section by a rocky coastline and grass covered hill. Taken in July 2015, Île Aux Marins, Saint Pierre Et Miquelon

There were still shipwrecks after ‘68. I visited Saint Pierre in 2015 and took a picture of this one from 1971.

The "drill, baby, drill" slogan belies the relatively small role of *all* mining, quarrying, O&G extraction activities in the Canadian economy.
It's hugely capital intensive (only 1.2% of all jobs) but rip, strip and ship activities contribute just 5.1% to GDP... not even in the top 10 sectors.

ANALYSIS: Ontario’s auto sector is faltering. What’s Plan B? | TVO Today We thought we could protect auto jobs with subsidies and tariffs. Trump had other ideas.

"The real nightmare for political leaders, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of autoworkers throughout the value chain north of the border, is: what if Stellantis is just the beginning?" — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

Who Visited Epstein Island? Find out by watching 'The Onion Investigates: Jeffery Epstein' on The Onion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

I got my 2018 Leaf just before Ford was elected and ended Ontario's EV rebate, paid $35k. I was hoping by now, nearly 8 years later, there would be better options in the same price range. There would be if I was outside North America.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Haunted Elevator (ft. David S. Pumpkins) - SNL

Happy Spooky Season! 9 years of my favorite Halloween video... David S Pumpkins.
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I discovered you via BlueSky then searched for Volts in my podcast app. Don’t think I’ve been to the substack page.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

He’s flown home today, but he was only able to get help by going to the airport, which is what Air Canada said not to do. He went 2 days ago and got switched to Saturday, then went this morning and got on a flight at noon that was half empty.

One month until the new season of Heavyweight begins on September 18th. Here's a post to get some buzz going.

My visiting friend's flight was cancelled and #AirCanada won't even put him on hold, they just say no one is available to take his call. Even though the general advice is not to take a refund, the website still tells him to call in for a refund, which again leads nowhere.

I find it mildly suspicious that this is in my feed the same morning as a Wall Street Journal article on the same topic. bsky.app/profile/amer...

I’m pretty sure the cyclist in yellow is in the Uptown King St. bike lane and the other is on the sidewalk.

Wrote about Substack not just being the Nazi Bar, but promoting itself as such.

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Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

Western World to recognize Palestine as a state in September if it's still there PARIS/LONDON/OTTAWA – The governments of France, the UK and Canada have said they will do what’s morally right and recognize Palestine’s right to exist as a nation as early as September, providing som...

Western World to recognize Palestine as a state in September if it’s still there

Still blows my mind that my parents saw that production.

Passing legislation that violates Indigenous rights, spits on privacy, and now, appeasing Trump.

Why the fuck did we want Carney again?

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Thanks to @planetmoney.bsky.social I went to Nut Hut while visiting my brother in Vancouver for some quality pecans and hazelnuts

I would so want to do this in Uptown Waterloo or midtown.

In Seattle, a group of friends wanted to live together—so they built their own apartment building Eleven families joined together to create a new development filled with shared space.

So f'ing jealous.

Owner in two provinces due to a work move. Still have a mortgage. Prices definitely need to go down, rents too. It would suck for my net worth, but my Ontario house should probably go down to early 2010s value for the good of society.

I visited for the first time last October and really enjoyed it. Good food, reasonable transit (including the airport), nice parks, architecture tours. Would recommend after 2028 pending election results.

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Mark Carney will surpass the prime ministerial tenure of Liz Truss on Saturday.