Joe Dickenson

Glad to see you on here Senator.

The photo shows a person in a red jacket and black pants, leaning forward on an ice surface, delivering a curling stone. The individual is wearing a black cap and appears focused on the shot. Large yellow text in the foreground reads "SKIP BOB COLE," indicating the person is the skip (team leader) in a curling match.

With The Brier going on right now, I am sharing pictures from Canada's curling history each day.

Today, it is Bob Cole, the legendary Hockey night in Canada broadcaster, when he was skip of the Newfoundland team. He skipped the team at the 1971 and 1975 Briers.

#Brier2025

The painting depicts a woman dressed in 17th-century colonial attire, standing confidently on a grassy hill overlooking a body of water. She wears a black dress with a white collar, a wide-brimmed hat, and holds a musket in her right hand, with a sword hanging from her belt, suggesting a role as a militiaman or defender. Her stance is resolute, and she wears sturdy shoes and stockings. In the background, there is a wooden palisade and a few figures in similar period clothing, indicating a colonial settlement. The sky is dramatic with clouds, and the overall scene has a historical, heroic tone, likely representing a figure like Madeleine de Verchères, a Canadian heroine known for defending a fort during a raid. The painting is rich in detail and color, evoking a sense of bravery and historical significance.

On this day in 1678, Madeleine de Vercheres was born in New France.
When she was 14, she single-handedly repelled a raid on Fort Verchères and became a legendary heroic figure in the history of New France.
Let's learn more about this amazing individual!

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Charlie, in this vein (love your Musk petition, signed it) as a Canadian citizen, can we not charge Musk with treason to go with all the other proposed actions against him?

The disgraceful behaviour in the White House is not about Trump or Vance.
It is about the complicity of the entire political class of the United States and the American media.
It is about the very soul of America.
They either stand up for democracy or they stand for tyranny.
The world is watching.

Like, Post, Share, Comment if you love and stand in solidarity with Unkraine. 💙💛🇺🇦

Like, Post, Share, Comment if you love and stand in solidarity with Unkraine. 💙💛🇺🇦

Great Lakes Ice Concentration and Thickness. Source: https://www.weather.gov/cle/GreatLakesIce_Analysis

Great Lakes average ice cover by month. Source: https://www.weather.gov/cle/GreatLakesIceclimo

A line graph showing annual maximum ice cover by percent area of the great lakes from 1970 to present. Source: https://www.weather.gov/cle/GreatLakesIceclimo

As you can see here,

1. Most of the lake area is still unfrozen as of this week.
2. This is a low ice year; but not record low.
3. Lake ice is highly variable from year to year.
4. However, since 1995 there have been 8 years at or below 20% coverage -- and none before that!

Many areas are seeing record snowfall this winter, thanks to global warming--or rather, global weirding!

How so?

It hasn't been cold enough for lakes other than Erie to completely ice over yet. As cold air sweeps across them, it's picking up moisture and dumping massive snowfall on the other side.

Canadians are preparing to create a retail blackout on Feb 28 of all U.S retailers doing business here. For one day, show them we have the power when provoked. Absolutely no purchases from Walmart, Home Depot, Best Buy, Amazon, McDonald’s, Staples, Gap,Toys r Us, Costco or any other US retailers.

We're at levels of delusion never before seen.

These brave souls fled to Canada as American refugees in the 1800s. They are now my neighbours. I will NOT let their flight be in vain.

I think i did! There were a fair few. Apart from a very small group, he doesn't have support - even from the right. The last time Americans tried to take this land, they got the White House. The ratio over the years has fallen from 10:1 to 8:1 and I hear 200 year old lumber burns nicely

ON YEATS, TRUMP & PUTIN Dispatch from NATO, Brussels – Day 1

I am at the NATO meetings in Brussels. Trump and Putin are plunging the world into dark chaos. Here is my dispatch from day one of the meetings.
I decided that it was time to go over the boards for Canada. Please read and share.
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Thank you for your voice Charlie. We will miss you in Ottawa

Those are some epic signs! Standing in solidarity from their worst nightmare

Do any of my ag friends have info on how tariffs will affect grain contracts? Are buyers likely to invoke force majeure?

‘We have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours’: Trudeau reacts to U.S. tariffs After Donald Trump slapped strict tariffs on Canadian imports, PM Justin Trudeau warned the U.S. that the better path is to partner with Canada, “not punish it.”

Canada is ready. We will fight.
I thank the Prime Minister for his powerful statement in response to the thuggish attacks by Trump.
We are unified as a nation. Our American cousins are divided.
We will kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.

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Huh, elect a guy who hates immigrants, and then the fields aren't getting picked. Quelle surprise.

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Because you asked for it: Here's the video on tariffs that was too controversial for TikTok.

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I find the "cars=freedom" thing so funny because the history is actually very clear that the advent of mass motorism substantially weakened privacy rights and empowered the police.

Contemporary policing relies on roadside stops for a reason, the threshold for warrantless searches is much lower!

In 1994, he joined Pixar where he supervised the animation on A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. He died in 2002 from complications related to melanoma. Finding Nemo was dedicated to him. His colleagues paid homage to him by naming Lightning McQueen after him.

Dec. 24, 1960:
Glenn McQueen was born in Toronto.

My wife and I recently closed on a new (and smaller) farm in the historic settlement of South Buxton. The stones you see in this photo are in memory of American refugees who came to Canada to be free. #wecannotgobackward

How did each Prime Ministers time in office eventually end?
Among the 22 Prime Ministers prior to Justin Trudeau, 36% resigned from office, 55% lost an election and 9% died in office.

Exciting day for us! We closed on our new home today. While we'll have less cattle than before, and we have much less land, we are very much looking forward to providing grass fed beef to customers from our new home in South Buxton, Chatham-Kent #Ontag

McCrae was inspired to write the poem after he presided over the funeral of his friend Lt. Alexis Helmer, who died in May 1915 in the Second Battle of Ypres. Initially published anonymously, at the end of the year Punch attributed the poem to McCrae. The poem has since become one of the most famous poems in Canadian history.

Dec. 8, 1915:
In Flanders Field, a poem by John McCrae, was first published in the magazine Punch.

a woman is driving a tractor on a dirt road with the words farming written above her ALT: a woman is driving a tractor on a dirt road with the words farming written above her

There is a custom feed available for all agriculture interested people. Make sure to add #agsky to any ag based post you put up and follow the #agsky feed so you can keep updated on all Ag related matters.

You're welcome! I used to pick up the spent grains from both the Refined Fool and the Tin Fiddler in Sarnia. Unfortunately, I don't know what their current options are