Cheerful ghosts in my neighbourhood.

‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

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I got obstinate about never seeing Annie Hall. Still haven’t seen it. Will probably die first.

The hat, the posture and the clenched hands are disturbing enough, but Trump’s expression is particularly eerie, even for him.

Did the great wall of China really work? At any time? Because the great black wall of Mexico is not unlike - in purpose, at least.

Extreme cognitive dissonance: Ted Forth has chest hair?

Why is it that YouTube adverts are just like leafing through back issues of the National Enquirer?

Trump reminds me of Saparmurat Niyazov with his inordinate love of gilt.

20e anniversaire du mariage pour tous au Canada Le 20 juillet 2005, le Canada devenait le quatrième pays à légaliser le mariage entre personnes du même sexe, après la Belgique, les Pays-Bas et l'Espagne.

Grâce à des luttes acharnées des militants, le Canada devient le 4e pays (20 juillet 2005) à légaliser le mariage entre personnes de même sexe.

Mariage pour tous au Canada : 20e anniversaire d’une loi historique.

YouTube video by David Carlin Hidden Fossils In Plain Sight

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Abacus Data Poll: Optimism reaches a multi-year high as Canadians ease into summer. Carney government maintains strong support, but vote choice remains tight. - Abacus Data %

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La Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique Un pays, des millions de cœurs. Aujourd’hui, on célèbre le Canada avec fierté, tout en reconnaissant les histoires, les cultures et les voix qui le composent. 🍁 Bonne fête à toutes et à tous !...

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Phillips Square Montreal at 5 :30 AM, looking for coffee. Thank you transatlantic flight schedules.

Boarding the Eurostar at St Pancras is not like taking the train down to London from Downton. Chaos, crowds, colourful roll-on baggage!

'That' look at the V&A.

Air fainting. A woman fainted at our feet on our Vancouver to Montreal flight just as we were landing. A woman fainted at our feet on our Montreal to London flight half way through the flight. « They just drop like flies » said the Air Canada attendant, « happens all the time. »

Wonderful gamelan concert last Saturday here in Vancouver. Note to self: gamelan is best heard outside or in a very large hall. 21 people hammering and drumming away in a 150 seat capacity facility make a LOT of noise...

Requiem Alexander Borodin, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Ian Boughton, Geoffrey Simon · Borodin: Requiem, Polovtsian Dances, In the Steppes of Central Asia, Nocturne, Petite Suite · Song · 2000

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My favourite municipal park happens to be in Anacortes, with feverish Gaudi-like mosaics by the French-Canadian architect Jean-Baptiste LePage.

What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t The Canadian federal election, on Monday, which culminated in Mark Carney’s retention of the Prime Ministership, was won by defying Trumpism.

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A favourite clump of cherry trees.

A wonderful political period piece. Great convention floor action scene at the end. Politics comme nos pères en faisaient.

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries It is with a heavy heart that we let our fans know that the magnificent Kerry Greenwood passed on the 26th of March 2025. She was our friend, inspiration, and the kindest & most supportive human we.....

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A favourite author. We did a road trip in Australia with her Miss Phryne novels (all the published ones at the time) as our sound track.

Headlines like these make me wonder if Canada will have to demand proof of vaccination from US citizens trying to visit as their country turns away from science, research and public health.

Massive layoffs begin at top US health agency Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr announced last week that the health agency would cut 20,000 employees.

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Listening to a perfectly nice history podcast about the Nok culture when BAM! an advert for a Dr Jordan Peterson event in nearby Abbotsford, BC. Oddly, the language makes it sound like a self-help seminar spiced with a dash of evangelical revival tent fervour.

Fighting the good fight in my neighbourhood.