Ryan from The OC going hard on how crypto is a scam is the wildest silver lining in this timeline
My fav claim about the federal spending power is that it lets feds intrude on provincial areas of jurisdiction by "abusing their power of taxation"... as if provinces don't have taxation powers.
Reality: provinces keep their taxes low on the backs of their demands for federal money!
CANADA 🇨🇦 FOR THE WIN
It’s a 4-1 victory for the Canadian para ice hockey team over Czechia in a physical battle between the two teams.
Canada undefeated at the Paralympics.
I have spent 43 years watching, reading, and studying baseball past and present, and the story of Ondrej Satoria and Shohei Ohtani is the most incredible baseball story of all.
CANADA 🇨🇦 FOR THE WIN
Canada scores FOUR in the 7th end to defeat China 9-4 and stay undefeated at the Paralympics. Now 5-0 and in first.
That was the most complete game I’ve ever seen by the Canadian wheelchair team against the two-time Paralympic champions. Incredible curling
Central Dallas, before-and-after government-funded highway construction, a process which displaced thousands during the 1950s-80s in the primarily Black and Latino neighborhoods surrounding Downtown. More info, maps, and historic photos/plans at: www.segregationbydesign.com/dallas/highw...
🎵 Alberta’s music sector has waited a year for movement on the Music Action Plan. We’re calling for an independent Music Commission, based in Calgary, with real sector input and a focus on rebuilding the venue ladder. Alberta music deserves action. joececinewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/it-s-time-...
Hello I would like to share with you my new-and-improved website that compiles 46 years' worth of baby-names data in Alberta:
albertababynames.com
It now includes the latest data (for 2025) and a similar-names function to easily browse through various spellings in naming trends.
Happy International Women's Day!
Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general).
arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465
🧪🔭☄️👩🔬
Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps:
1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups.
So even small supply changes = big price effects
This scene from The Magnificent Ambersons hits in a whole lotta ways rn
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
It is International Women's Day.
There have been many, many amazing women who have shaped Canada's history.
I have chosen to feature ten of those women.
These are their amazing stories.
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Calgary Central Library, Snøhetta and DIALOG, 2013-18.
#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs
If there was a surface, Maud Lewis painted on it.
She turned her small home into a colourful work of art.
While she was born with birth defects, she never let that stop her from capturing the beauty she saw in the world.
This is her story.
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Part of why it feels different crossing the border from the US into Canada
Some of us tried to warn them 🤷♀️
The theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #StandingInWater.
Gone for a bit of an arty one today. Two waders which I think are probably redshanks; bills a bit short for godwits.
#birds #photography
WATCH: Think 15-Minute City conspiracy theorists are just unhinged tin-foil hat nut jobs ranting about global overlords? Well, drop everything and watch this hard-hitting story by the @thedailyshow.com to be proven… um… #UrbanTruth
Congrats @culdesac.bsky.social
(ps, walkable cities can have cars)
PARALYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY DAY
Good morning sports fans across Canada and around the world. The waiting is finally over. The Winter Paralympics have arrived
Here in Cortina the excitement is palpable. Team Canada 🇨🇦 is ready. I’m ready. I know you are too. Here’s your preview
Music and art. They persist. There is no technical reason why they survive. They require effort, yet don't in any tangible way contribute to survival at a organism level. We might expect that evolution by way of natural selection would not have resulted in their persistence. And yet here we are.
On March 4 and 5, 1919, Canadian soldiers began to riot at Kinmel Park in North Wales after their voyage home was postponed due to a number of factors.
The riots led to five deaths and 25 court martials.
This is the story.
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A nice evening in the neighbourhood pub.
It was great catching up Oly. Plus... music!
Pierre Poilievre’s great reset. I would add a ? "But make no mistake: this is still the same person, even if it’s not, for now — the same politician. We shouldn’t confuse any of this for genuine change, not least because Poilievre himself has already rejected the possibility out of hand." t.ly/gA3fY
I was in Newfoundland the summer they tried double daylight saving time. That was weird. They only tried it that one year.
I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it
just listened to it... agree!!
