Vanessa Mobeault

Remember when Stockwell Day was like, "this guy's old! Vote for me, I'm so young and energetic" and to prove it he followed Chretien for a day and Chretien ran CIRCLES around that sucker.

My cousins and I used to watch those on rotation! I've shown my 6 and 10 year old kids but so far no requests for repeats. They looove back to the future though, we had to buy that one on dvd.

I really enjoyed this story! The audiobook narrator's voice is so deep and like soothing? Loved it.

They don't have intro offers though, sorry!

If in Edmonton I like simply supper for something different, still cooking but cognitive effort is refuced, maybe keeps us from ordering in quite so much? Also a fan of inspired go, the quality of their salads has been consistent for me! My dairy free and gluten free friends have been happy too.

I hate it so much. But it is so much money that non profits simply cannot pass it up. Our day care costs are low largely because the casino funding pays the rent!

I grew up working in my dad's small town grocery store, I know how hard the work is, thanks for all you do! Nothing prepared me more for life than dealing with being bitched at by customers for the stupidest shit, haha. Still sucks though.

Winnipeg's rise in transit violence among the sharpest in Canada, data shows | CBC News Winnipeg has seen one of the sharpest increases in violence on its transit network among Canadian cities, and although the number of reported incidents dipped slightly last year, violence across the s...

Let's put this into context:
There were 15,149 violent crimes in Winnipeg in 2024 (StatsCan).
284 of them took place on or near transit. That's 1/168,229 journeys.
Meanwhile the average risk of being involved in a violent crime in Winnipeg in any given day was 1/20,326.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My boss rather proudly presented a chatgpt doc that didn't actually relate to our work recently. I think he inputted like 3 words. We showed him something we researched and put together 5 years ago on our shared drive. Our old one is relevant and bonus! easy to read but guess which he preferred.

Yes, I've been jealous of friends with low cost postsecondary options in Germany, but they were placed in that track at age 10. If they don't think you're suited for uni by that age, the hurdles are pretty big after that. Pros and cons to all systems.

My kid and I still laugh and laugh at a roald Dahl insult: you stagnant cesspool!

A masterful essay worth everyone’s time.

By using the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively - which, again, they *can* but *need not* do - the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights and bypassing the courts.

They are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a free and democratic society.

People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.

This is pretty incredible.

I called on the 🇨🇦 govt to guarantee, no-cost access to COVID-19 vaccines, including for every child under 12.

Under the Canada Health Act, every Canadian deserves equal access to care no matter where they live, or how badly their provincial gov’t ignores science, health guidelines & their citizens.

The olfactory nerves are different but my husband had sinus surgery and hadn't been able to detect smell for years due to polyps, one year after surgery his sense of smell came back!

I used a wheelchair briefly in 2019 and honestly everyone should try it out to gain a bit of empathy, it blew my mind how ridiculous everyone around me became. Not to mention lack of accessible spaces! Especially in healthcare facilities!

This is also my experience. Sometimes I wonder if it's a birth order thing? But most likely just personality.

Solidarity with the Madleen.
Solidarity with Gaza.
Solidarity with LA.

Also I love love loved Butcher in the Forest! Looking forward to reading more of your works!

Tree branch hanging rather scarily on the power line leading to the house

We were not unscathed😭. Might have to cut down the tree too, insult to injury.

‘Extremely graphic’ sexual content found in books at K-9 schools, province says Books found in some school libraries in Calgary and Edmonton had “explicit sexual content,” said the provincial government.

Let's be clear: three of the four books flagged by the Alberta government today as containing "inappropriate content" feature queer and trans people.

This is moral panic.

This is the same blueprint of book bans in the US.

And this is happening in Canada.

calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

Long text www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

"History ended in a sealed file, history ended in a silent scream, history ended with the last man warning you that if you tell anyone, you'd end too."

-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

RIP Virginia Giuffre

Hard to keep track too. I thought I was so prepared to drop a kid off at running club ON TIME this morn but jk! It's a PD day! For anyone else who sees this and thinks how could you forget that we are privileged to have day care in the school so often don't always remember until dropoff.

For four years, the Alberta government has buried the 2020 Medical Examiner's report on Substance Toxicity Deaths in Alberta.

I forced the report out through a freedom of information request.

You can find it here:
open.alberta.ca/publications...

Price comparisons of surgeries done at private facilities vs AHS costs, courtesy of the new documents obtained by the Globe and Mail.

Given what has been going on within the public health care system, especially the ongoing closures in rural Alberta, this data is horrifying.

Reminds me of when people would ask how far along I was when I was pregnant with twins, ha.

When people talk about there being so many more allergies now I let them know those kiddos used to just die so maybe can be more chill about accommodating their real, true, nobody's fault allergies.

Extra fun when they tell you how easy your job is.