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Tweet by: @AnitaAnandMP The latest consular information and travel advisories are immediately posted on @CanadaFP and @TravelGoC. The Emergency Watch and Response Centre (EWRC) in Ottawa is available 24/7 and can be contacted: • by calling: +1 613-996-8885 • by text message: +1 613-686-3658 • via WhatsApp: +1 613-909-8881 • by e-mail: sos@international.gc.ca. I am in touch with the Mexican foreign minister and we will continue to provide updates. Anita Anand * @AnitaAnandMP • 17h Please see my statement on the security situation in Jalisco State, Mexico: pic.twitter.com/ptPbYyrhzw • Last edited 5:11 PM • 2026-02-22 from Earth • 171K Views

She has yet to post it here. In case you, or someone you know, needs it #Canada #Mexico

Pas rassurant du tout. 😬

A sign in Japanese and English reading: We can't pick up the thing you drop in the toilet.

Fair warning.

Hold Me, Noah Wyle | The Tyee The medical staff in ‘The Pitt’ heal us in dark times.

When dystopia becomes reality and daily footage is of those competing at who is the meanest and cruellest, we turn to shows like The Pitt again and again to remind ourselves there's another vision of humanity. Great article.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

The Pitt trauma patients #478 and #589.

Photo of a fairly generic modern bathroom with a shower/tub combo, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, and a demonic entity coming out of the mirror

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96: The Documentary Legend Was One of Cinema’s Greatest Masters Wiseman's 50-plus year career started with a bang, "Titicut Follies," and only got better.

Bad day for cinema. Goodbye to Frederick Wiseman, whose sharp eye documented social and economic issues in the US and elsewhere.

Robert Duvall was a vigorous and subtle actor who always performed with passion and conviction From his steely self-effacing consigliere in The Godfather to his surf-crazed Wagner enthusiast in Apocalypse Now, just to see him on screen made me smile

The passing of an acting legend. Hard to forget Robert Duvall's calmly lethal consigliere in The Godfather.

The public hearing will be held tomorrow, February 17 at 6pm.

Say no to City Council and keep more harm from hitting Vancouver.

Ooo, burn about the current White House in the boardroom. #Industry

Emergency Warming Tent Open

❄️ The City is opening an overnight emergency warming tent in response to freezing temperatures in Victoria.

📍 Location: Bridgehead Green, on Wharf Street at the foot of Johnson Street, across from the Salvation Army
🕗 Hours: Tonight, February 15, 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.

From Chicoutimi, Quebec, apparently.

Come for the hallucinatory look, stay for the mad skills.

Listening to the Gisèle Pelicot interview on CBC Radio's Sunday Edition. What an experience, and such courage.

YouTube video by Andrew Bird Andrew Bird - Need Someone (as heard on MAX Original The Pitt)

This song closed The Pitt this week, after staff take a moment to remember a beloved patient. So haunting.

Viktor Frankl on Humor as a Lifeline to Sanity and Survival “Humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.”

Viktor Frankl, shortly after his release from the concentration camps, on humor as a lifeline to sanity and survival even, and especially, amid the most unsurvivable circumstances www.themarginalian.org/2019/08/19/v...

San Josef Bay is in Cape Scott Provincial Park, close to the northwest tip of Vancouver Island. I travelled there with friend, and fellow photographer, @drakedyck.bsky.social on January 30th. We arrived with only 1.5 hours of daylight left. Contre-jour lighting can be a challenge.

#vancouverisland

Big-heart Valentine's Day.

Who is this "you" they're addressing.

No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba Whether you blame the US or the communist regime, there is no doubt that this is an island spiralling into tragedy

This is an extraordinary piece about the grind and hopelessness of life in present day Cuba, by
Ruaridh Nicoll who manages to be by turns romantic, wistful and clear eyed. It is a piece about loss and gross incompetence in the face of that loss. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Just saw the footage of the five party leaders standing shoulder to shoulder, alongside locals, at the memorial in Tumbler Ridge, a small town I've been to many times. I think it's good we have a country where a moment like this can occur. I think we should strive so moments like this don't need to.

New Meta smart glasses just dropped.

Oysters from Stellar Bay Shellfish brand recalled for norovirus risk | Globalnews.ca Mostly distributed in British Columbia, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned that the oysters possibly have a 'microbial contamination' involving norovirus.

CFIA notice: recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-rec...

This is huge.
Europeans spend about $24 trillion annually through USA owned payment systems.
This "breakup" started right after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Visa/Mastercard stopped transactions in Russia.
The EU realized the risk to themselves.
They
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

"After adjusting for factors such as age, sex and education, researchers found higher scores in lifetime enrichment were associated with a 38% lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease and a 36% lower risk of MCI."

*PLEASE* sign up to speak against an expansion of predatory gambling in Vancouver. A vast majority of Vancouverites opposed & defeated this in 2011 but Ken Sim & ABC Van are paving the way to quietly undo all that. Hearing is this Tues: please sign up! In person or by phone (& email) #vanvpoli

Delighted to find David Lebovitz here and hoping he posts more often.

Parisian food chronicles, wanderings and delectable recipes 𝘱𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘤𝘪.

The exuberant tone of the Olympic reports on CBC BC radio is feeling somewhat jarring when interrupting the local programs dealing with the aftermath of the Tumbler Ridge tragedy.

Never mind the story, this is quite the photo.

Credit: Lindsey Wasson / AP

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Some good news from Ireland.