Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar

They have deep pockets after sucking at the Tom Cruise teat for decades.

338Canada🍁federal update | February 8, 2026

🔴LPC 175
--------------------majority: 172 seats
🔵CPC 134
⚜️BQ 26
🟠NDP 7
🟢GPC 1

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All the numbers → 338canada.com/federal.htm

Food is too expensive! - Gardening at USask - College of Agriculture and Bioresources Practical tips to keep dinner on the table

'Food is Too Expensive!' free webinar coming up: USask - Gardening at Usask hosting gardening.usask.ca/gardening-ad...

Chart shows life expectancy (3-year rolling average) from the pre-pandemic year 2019 through 2024. The SK govt declared COVID over in Feb 2022. But the chart shows Saskatchewan’s worst year for life expectancy was actually the next year, 2023. Saskatchewan started the pandemic with the 3rd lowest life expectancy among the provinces, ahead of Newfoundland & Manitoba, but by 2024 was second lowest, ahead only of Manitoba.

How are we in Saskatchewan doing with life expectancy through COVID? Pretty awful, actually.
New Statistics Canada report shows SK life expectancy is 2nd lowest of 🇨🇦’s provinces in 2024, down from 3rd lowest in last year before the pandemic.
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Photo of 4 olympians giving a press conference. They’re all wearing white respirator masks

Olympians are masking up with N95s because they know a covid infection can derail their chances of competing.

They know it could derail their careers.

They know it could disable them.

They’re practicing self care and community care.

Give them a gold medal in public health!

Get vaccinated with whatever and every vaccine offered.
When possible get them from a pharmacist or nurse :: Sorry docs :: physicians give the most painful shots.

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Just heard Little Red Riding Hood has been found in critical condition. Paramedics have her stabilized but she's apparently not out of the woods yet.

Canadian agriculture depends on research vist.ly/4qhsb #cdnag #westcdnag

Alberta research centre closure called ‘catastrophe’ | The Western Producer The cattle industry is mourning the loss of Ag Canada’s research centre in Lacombe, Alta., part of sweeping cuts to the department.

Alberta research centre closure called ‘catastrophe’ vist.ly/4qhck #cdnag #westcdnag #ABag

The more you groan the more I'm posting! The ultimate goal of a good dad joke.

Very awesome!

Meet USask’s 2026 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence: Ryan Moccasin - News The University of Saskatchewan (USask) has announced Ryan Moccasin as the 2026 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence in the USask Library.

Ryan Moccasin is the 2026 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence at USask Library.

“It's an incredible honour to be part of a program built on the shoulders of great artists before me, and I look forward to sharing this next chapter with all of you.”
news.usask.ca/articles/com...

As an aside, the worst polar bears I've encountered in my three decades of fieldwork along the Hudson Bay Coast are those with blood on their face like this guy below. You can see bugs all over the face and blood on the cheeks--mosquitos and black flies have been driving them crazy.

Uh, I coughed up a rook, a knight, and two pawns. Think I have a chess infection.

If you know any senior undergraduate students or graduate students interested in my Arctic field course this year please have them reach out.

ryan.brook@usask.ca

Course starts and ends in Churchill, August 11-25.

Hands on research. Connecting with Indigenous knowledge keepers. Walking the land.

It would be a lot easier if the small band of low IQ separatists just moved to the U.S. or North Korea. Done and done.

Begs the question --is there even any testing going on in Saskatchewan and Manitoba? My best guess is no.

Very powerful and important. The Alberta separatists are a low IQ collective living in a fantasy of their own creation. Alberta is not separating. It just isn't.

I have a full page of questions already!

Say what you will about CANVAS, but I did a quiz this morning and posted all grades for n=110 students this evening. Done and done.

Figure of Western U.S. snow cover area from 2001 to 2026 illustrates a staggering decline in current coverage compared to historical norms. While the historical data for mid-January typically clusters between 400,000 and 600,000 square miles, the line for 2026 sits in unprecedented territory at the very bottom of the graph. On January 15, 2026, the snow cover area plummeted to a record low of 142,700 square miles—less than one-third of the median and the lowest point in the entire 25-year satellite record. This visual gap emphasizes a severe "snow drought," with the 2026 data point trailing significantly behind even the previous record lows, highlighting an extreme and alarming anomaly in winter precipitation.

The western U.S. faces its lowest snowpack on record despite average or above-average rainfall. Warmer temperatures mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, and will worsen droughts in areas like the Pacific Northwest and the Colorado River Basin.

science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

The original program required people to complain their local RM and then hopefully the RM forwarded that to SCIC and that was very slow and inefficient. This new approach is more direct at least. As far as I can tell they only are taking action in two spots in the province.

This program has been around for about a decade or so, though their communication approach is pretty new.

Yeah I remember park staff would ditch them for regular clothing when we were in the backcountry.

We stripped everything from the helicopter that we could remove and sent him out on his own. He came back hours later and indicated that he was flying toward the fuel cache, got a warning light that there was 30 seconds of fuel left so he landed and spotted a glint of fuel drums in the distance.

The University of Saskatchewan has been stepping up efforts to support Indigenous students and I am so excited to hear today that my current NSERC funded undergraduate thesis student Kim Lebel has been awarded the Sprott Indigenous Graduate Scholar Award. This will cover their stipend for 2 years!

Fieldwork Flashback:

One summer along the Hudson Bay coast, my helicopter pilot flies us into the middle of butt nowhere, lands and informs me we don't have enough fuel to get back...