Ben Coli

Put down your phone and go outside. You can learn about geopolitical strife after the sun goes down.

Like through my brewery? They can't, there's a university in the way.

I didn't realize. Virtually all of Canada's seaborne oil exports flow under that bridge. Kind of a big deal.

It's broken? How broken? They're still taking trains over it and taking oil tankers up the inlet, as far as I know.

It's very simple: if a young man wants to be beautiful so badly that he hits himself in the face with a hammer, the Globe will run a profile on him.

Last few days I've cycled to work with my hands aching from cold. Today I finally bit the bullet and put on an old pair of ski gloves. Felt a bit like a horse playing a piano operating my Shimano brifters with ski gloves, but so much warmer.

That sucks, but if I had to choose, I'd rather have a functioning democracy than a gold medal in women's hockey.

Look at that club! Beacons of democracy like Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan... Did Kim Jong Un's invite get lost in the mail?

Are you mid-sneeze?

Gutted to hear that our Halifax pals at 2 Crows are closing.

Beer nerds often tell me that good beer will always win in the end, but it's not true.

Good financing is more important than good beer. Good cost structure and sales are too. You don't win by being pure of heart.

Pour one out.

They are terrible, but this isn't talking about greenhouse gases. It's about more local air pollutants, like NO

I just got there in the exact same way and hauled my bike up the stairs.

Great spot for a bike rack, bro!

Staples on Grandview Highway. Not that it matters. Only a maniac would ride their bike on Grandview Highway.

How about a tropical island without enough food? Or one that's ruled by a repressive dictatorship? Or both?

A little bit of fruit to disguise how bad the beer is. Sweet as hell, all three of them.

Put an orange slice on a Hoegaarden and I'll let it pass (it's garbage beer anyway) but on a hefe? Blasphemy!

We have a standing joke in my family: When guests are leaving your house and you have a long, drawn-out goodbye with hugs and thank-yous and so on, as soon as you close the door behind them you say, "who WERE those guys?"

I think it's derived from a joke in National Lampoons European vacation.

I got your back, @jmcelroy.bsky.social

Are you counting horsemen of the apocalypse? I assume that's #3

Naw, the Tories in Teslas can't drive their Teslas over that.

We need a third party to come in and advocate for one. That should really slow things down

I honestly don't know, but the Conservatives think it's not too far for a U-turn. Back to the bridge!

It'd have to be better than planning bridges and tunnels that get scrapped every time the government changes.

The George Massey replacement is now a political marker. If you support limited government and traditional families, you like bridges. If you support a social safety net and diversity and inclusion, you like tunnels.

BC needs to stick to one party for 15 years or nothing will ever be built.

Naw, we don't really have any way to clean it properly. Thanks for the offer, though.

Was the beer good?

Are you talking to someone named Tim? Don't listen to him, that's my older brother. He blames me, but we'll still eat together at Thanksgiving

When my Alberta relatives bash the Liberals, I always tell them, we built you a pipeline. The least you can do is say thank you.

That drives them nuts.

Come to think of it, maybe I'm what's causing Alberta separatism.

I drink coffee in the morning and beer in the evening, and the rest of the 24 hours is some form of waiting for one or the other.

I think so? Except for the 90s, when I was a teenager in the suburbs and the evil empire had fallen and democracy was going to spread across the world and everything was going to be okay.

Not yet. The eyebrows are still brown.