Robert Mills

Hoekstra's alcohol-fuelled rant against Canada has now been added to his official Wikipedia biography. It turns out, what happens in Ottawa doesn't always stay in Ottawa.

U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports | CBC News The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.

If you are a Canadian who thinks that visiting the U.S. is okay, you just may be dumb enough to win the Darwin Award.
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Is that Colonel Sanders in the crowd behind the plate? #worldseries #bluejays

Let's Go Blue Jays! ...with a little bit of arithmetic and geography mixed in.

When Donald Trump lies, history is the truth serum.

Updating my LEGO White House

Gravity is natural.

This was Isaac Asimov's vision for exploring and terraforming worlds around other stars. It may also be the most efficient way to explore worlds in our own solar system.

ESOblog: How old is our water? How old is our water?

The water you're drinking could be older than the Sun! 🚰

New ALMA observations show that water molecules carry the same chemical fingerprint all the way from star-forming clouds to planet-forming discs and comets, meaning these molecules remain unaltered.

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🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

Winter is coming.

This move seems a tad-political.

Final Frontiers: space With the global population now well over seven billion people there are few remaining parts of the world relatively untouched by human activity. We assess the current state and future prospects of fiv...

'Historically, space has been seen as the very last frontier, ripe for colonial conquest. Just as on Earth, the motivations for colonisation are not just about curiosity, or an “urge to explore”, but about finding new resources to exploit for terrestrial markets'.
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Its main function seems to be to collect rain water but it also works as a sundial.

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

Gestapo at work in Chicago.

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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The Blue Jays signed young Vladdy when he was just 16 years old. That's got to be one of the greatest signings in MLB history. #bluejays

We sure are proud of our maple trees. :-)

RIP Jane Goodall

Losses for Ukrainian astronomy date back to Russia's invasion of Crimea, which is home to the Shine Mirror Telescope, the largest optical instrument in Ukraine. Many other facilities have been damaged or destroyed, including the Braude Radio Astronomical Observatory in the Kharkiv region.

Glad he got away from those clowns. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Run pigs, run.

I tried to post this on Facebook but it seems that Zuck and company have banned Slate articles from being viewed in Canada. What a shame. Good article, worth a read.

Alberta has banned graphic books before. In the 1950s, 'salacious' comics were the target | CBC News In 1954, the province established the Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications to investigate "crime comics" that supposedly inspired undesirable behaviour in kids.

In 1954, Alberta's Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications, working with parent, teacher and religious groups, removed hundreds of comic books from newsstands, claiming that they "glorify crime and criminals," and present a "distorted, unhealthy and immoral concept of sex and marriage."

Stephen Hawking called Smoot's research into the origins of the early universe "the scientific discovery of the century, if not all time." Plus he was on the Big Bang Theory. #cosmology #CMB

The Moderna plant in Laval delivers its first COVID-19 vaccines

Moderna’s Laval plant has delivered its first doses of messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines. The fed govt hopes the plant, which was built at a cost of $180 million will enable Canada to achieve pharmaceutical self-sufficiency.
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OMG, this afternoon's ANTIFA Board of Directors meeting went on and on. I thought Jesus would *never* stop talking!

Canadian here. Do you know something that we don't know? The Swedish jets are excellent, but as far as I know, no decision has been made yet.