Kim Sutherland Mills

"The law...must not be subject to regionally-based, populist-infused jealousies and recriminations of a separatist-enabling ideologue like Danielle Smith. ...her threat...is proof she’s not qualified to weigh in on Carney’s breakfast order, let alone the federal selection process for courts..."

Murder most foul!

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

History of Warfare
Intro to Classical Studies
Intro to Anthropology
Children's Literature
Philosophy of Librarianship

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...

Always read @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. A lot of problems I think about would be less intractable if we talked to real humans.

Imagine how much deeper the NO2 reductions would be if we ban gas powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/top...

Travels with "Senegal Expeditions" - Part Three Another early breakfast at 7 a.m., bags packed, so we could hit the road early. It's game day, and no one in this car wants to miss the mat...

Two recent blog posts. bacciogelato.blogspot.com/2026/01/trav... and bacciogelato.blogspot.com/2026/01/afri... #travel #Senegal

YouTube video by Visit Cabo Verde As ilhas de Cabo Verde-Do Coração

Off to another African nation tomorrow for a week of adventure! youtu.be/zi7xgFnIidQ?... #CaboVerde

Artificial Intelligence is here, and it's changing the world. But when it comes to climate change, whether those AI changes are going to save us or doom us depends heavily on who you ask. I take a… Climate Scientist Reacts to AI Overlords

This is SUCH a good @climateadam.bsky.social video - the quotes here from tech CEOs are beyond belief. I didn't even know about a bunch of these......go watch:

The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.

It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.

Here’s what I mean 🧵👇

"The combined 'disruptive' and 'ecological' impacts of climate change will drive an additional 123m 'clinical cases' ... even if the current climate pledges are met, the study finds."

EVEN IF THE CURRENT PLEDGES ARE MET.

The world must work together to eradicate malaria.

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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ANALYSIS | Canada's icebreaker pact looked great until Trump started threatening the Arctic | CBC News Canada is a party to an agreement to work with U.S. and Finnish counterparts to produce icebreakers for the U.S. Coast Guard. Those ships will give the U.S. greater ability to operate in the Arctic. W...

"Canada has long talked about strengthening its presence in the Far North, and is now paying the price for its failure to follow through on that commitment, say the experts."

Not to mention die.

Curious. When does something like this become the purview of international courts? How many roundups, incarcerations and executions until the Administration's actions constitute crimes against humanity?

All scholars of history know that every great civilisation and empire falls. Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the empires of Europe.

Watching it happen in real time is terrifying.

Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

People in 2050 would give trillions of dollars just to have the climate that we enjoy today.

I don't know how to do this But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.

Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.

Right? I didn't have any before I was 8?! Digging through the box for my favourites is a core memory.

Richard Osman. We Solve Murders. Image of a cat sitting on a gun barrel against a red semi-circle. Quote from The Washington Post:"a fiendish mystery and rollicking adventure."

Made my choice!

Stack of 8 books on the edge of a bookshelf.

Good morning! I just finished The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa and contemplating my TBR pile to decide what is next... 💙📚

If someone else wearing the same shoes steps on your toes, and someone steps on theirs, etc... how tall can you build your tower before it falls over?

“There was no standing back. Only standing side by side, together on the front lines with our allies. From 2001-2014, Canada joined allies in the fight against terror in Afghanistan. CAF men and women were on the ground from the beginning, not because we had to, but because it was the right thing to do. Canadian troops led allied efforts in the perilous Kandahar Province. Combat operations were regular duty, demanding sacrifice from our soldiers. ​ 158 of our personnel, along with a Canadian diplomat paid the ultimate price. Lest we forget.”

David McGuinty, Canada's Minister of National Defence, has responded to Donald Trump's claim that America has "never really asked anything" of NATO, that the alliance sent only "some troops" to Afghanistan and that "they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines."

It's pretty blunt.

Map showing colder than average weather in the U.S. and Europe today and warmer than average weather in most other places Source https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=t2anom&ortho=1&wt=1 2m Temperature refers to air temperature at 2 meters above the surface. 2m Temperature Anomaly refers to the departure of the current day's forecast temperature from a long-term mean for the same day of the year. The anomalies here are calculated from a 1979–2000 climatology from the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR). This 22-year baseline, which is used instead a 30-year 1991–2020 climate normal, represents the early part of the CFSR record prior to significant warming observed across the Arctic since the early 2000s. Users are encouraged to learn more about reanalysis — approach, strengths, limitations, and product comparisons — from the NCAR Climate Data Guide. Additional information about reanalysis can be found at Advancing Reanalysis.

“It’s cold outside where I live today, therefore climate change doesn’t exist” is like saying “I had breakfast this morning, therefore hunger doesn’t exist”

One year I forgot and the top of the tap blew off and now it leaks whenever I use the hose in my garden.

I turn the water off and drain them and leave them open

Inside the Brutal Center of Copper and Cobalt Mining in the Congo When Odilon Kajumba Kilanga got home, usually late at night, it was hard for him to get any rest. He lived with his brother, Amos, and another man in a tiny one‑bed room. It was the mid‑2010s, and …

Inside the unsavory cobalt mining operations wreaking brutality in the Congo.

Netanyahu skips Davos over fear of arrest for Gaza war crimes Israel’s President Herzog has accused the Switzerland body of “rewarding terror” as Netanyahu faces allegations of war crimes

Saw a post saying Switzerland was prepared to arrest Netanyahu on those pesky war crimes charges, so he couldn't attend. www.newarab.com/news/netanya...

OPINION | Canadian TV needs to get weird again | CBC Arts In the ‘80s and ‘90s, English Canadian screens were filled with bizarre, fever dream-like shows. Writer Niko Stratis argues that we need to back to that

For CBC Arts, I wrote about why I think Canada needs to revel in the beauty of its weirdest impulses www.cbc.ca/arts/canadia...

Perfectly sums up everything that is wrong with this "Board of Peace". @mark-carney.bsky.social should not be part of this hypocrisy.