Peter Coffman

True. Problem is, it wasn’t meant to be.

See Trump’s Latest White House East Wing Designs The plans submitted by the White House include more windows, a new garden and an asymmetrical pathway.

I’ll tell you what the latest design shows: it shows that no one involved has even a rudimentary understanding of the principles of Classical design. To them, it's not about harmony and proportion; it's just bling carved in stone.
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To (slightly) paraphrase Oscar Wilde:

“To lose one caucus member, Mr. Poilievre, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.”

And:

“He’s heard some 'nightmare stories' about kids going out and 'buying fancy watches...'”

Which means he thinks that:

a) ‘Kids’ still wear watches, and

b) They actually think they’re status symbols, rather than what you use if you’re old or can’t afford a phone.

‘Man of the people’ indeed.

Ford tells students to not pick 'basket-weaving courses' in wake of OSAP cuts | CBC News Premier Doug Ford had choice words for students expressing concerns over cuts to OSAP grants Tuesday, telling them to "not pick basket-weaving courses" and to invest in education that gives students i...

I teach ‘idea-weaving’. It’s not on Ford’s approved list, but it’s the most practical skill a human being can have.
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View through a six-pane window of a broad wharf, surrounded by several wooden industrial buildings and silhouetted equipment. On the left is a riverbank, and behind is trees and mountains. Everything glistens with water and fog shrouds the distant mountains.

#WindowsOnWednesday

North Pacific Cannery, near Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Ford tells students to not pick 'basket-weaving courses' in wake of OSAP cuts | CBC News Premier Doug Ford had choice words for students expressing concerns over cuts to OSAP grants Tuesday, telling them to "not pick basket-weaving courses" and to invest in education that gives students i...

I teach ‘idea-weaving’. It’s not on Ford’s approved list, but it’s the most practical skill a human being can have.
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Ford tells students to not pick 'basket-weaving courses' in wake of OSAP cuts | CBC News Premier Doug Ford had choice words for students expressing concerns over cuts to OSAP grants Tuesday, telling them to "not pick basket-weaving courses" and to invest in education that gives students i...

Irony is in 10 years there’ll likely be more jobs teaching traditional crafts to seniors—occupational therapy—than coding jobs or most careers parents urge their kids into. The best advice you can give a kid today is “The job you’re going to have probably doesn’t exist yet so study what you love.”

View through a six-pane window of a broad wharf, surrounded by several wooden industrial buildings and silhouetted equipment. On the left is a riverbank, and behind is trees and mountains. Everything glistens with water and fog shrouds the distant mountains.

#WindowsOnWednesday

North Pacific Cannery, near Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

2026 Kesterton Lecture: Peace, Order, and Good Journalism (with a Side of Comedy) by Stewart "Brittlestar" Reynolds | School of Journalism and Communication

@brittlestar.com delivers this year’s Kesterton Lecture in the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University. An inspired choice. March 25.

Ford tells students to not pick 'basket-weaving courses' in wake of OSAP cuts | CBC News Premier Doug Ford had choice words for students expressing concerns over cuts to OSAP grants Tuesday, telling them to "not pick basket-weaving courses" and to invest in education that gives students i...

Just in case the recent announcement had fooled anyone into thinking that the Ford government had suddenly become a friend to higher education:
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A mottled grey cat with white markings sleeps peacefully on a wooden sidewalk.

Barkerville, BC. We hit it off splendidly.

'He was a man on a mission': Eddie Carvery remembered for keeping memory of Africville alive | CBC News Eddie Carvery, the activist who lived in a trailer on the site of the former town of Africville for over 50 years, has died. Carvery used his decades-long protest to call for reparations for the forme...

Eddie Carvery, known as ’The Hermit of Africville’, has died. His story is a remarkable one.
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Yikes, I haven’t that look on a bird’s face since a seagull shit-bombed me when I got too close to its nest near Giant Mine nearly 20 years ago.

Fair enough, and I really did enjoy the questions & answers! I just wish that scenery & wildlife wouldn’t suck up all the conversational oxygen. Or big cities, for that matter. There’s also Lunenburg NS, or Dorothy AB, or Haines Junction YK, or the North Pacific Cannery in BC... (see the blog links)

A large modern building echoing the forms of the traditional indigenous longhouse is finished in copper and glass.

There’s also lots of current architecture that makes opens the door to Yukon First Nations culture and history. This is the Da Kų Culture Centre in Haines Junction.
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A small, roughly conical structure with a front opening facing the viewer.

Incidentally, his guest @pinatravels.bsky.social does mention Long Ago Peoples Place, a beautiful and fascinating place to learn about the culture and history of the Southern Tutchone First Nations. It includes many recreations of traditional building types.
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That’s an agenda I’m trying to nudge along with this series of blogs about great places to visit in Canada - all chosen because of their memorable architecture.

I’ll be adding more to this modest list in the spring.
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Can Canada's travel industry seize a golden opportunity? | CanCon As you may have heard (over and over again), travel to the United States by Canadians is way down. Other countries are also avoiding the US, whether due to political stances or security concerns. But ...

I enjoyed @jordanhr.bsky.social's latest cancon podcast on tourism in Canada.

As usual, though, scenery/wildlife dominate the talk. But we also have unforgettable buildings, neighbourhoods, historic towns, etc. Our built places are destinations too.
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Interesting too that what he cites as a ‘great’ common culture is one with not one but two hyphens.

I imagine that is a safe assumption. This is tragic. At least I don’t see any indication that the Centre for Newfoundland Studies (part of the MUN library) is threatened (yet). Which means the door isn’t necessarily slammed shut for all time.

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

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Or a river – where even Heraclitus seems to side with the indigenous view!

‘Possession’, ‘Ownership’, and Tr'ochëk National Historic Site - Art and Architectural History The Tr’ondek Hwech’in fishing camp of Tr'ochëk once stood on the flat land in the left middle-ground, where the Yukon and Klondike Rivers converge. By

That’s a really interesting question, and it will be interesting to see the range of answers you get. If you asked an indigenous person in Canada, the list would even extend to things like land.
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I appreciate that the internet has made everyone into an amateur investigative journalist. But actual investigative work requires aggressively checking, double-checking, and trying to poke holes in your own work — not just rushing to publish because you want to believe it's true.

Shout out to Hintonburg’s newest eatery, Solomon’s Oven. Delicious food, very large servings (but I eat it all because it’s so good). A great addition to the ‘hood!
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Wood

A double potato in which two potatoes have fused into one like conjoined twins, forming the shape of a heart.

This potato was an outcast, but is finally having its moment in the sun.

Happy #ValentinesDay

Glad you like it!

😆! But you have to be a certain age to get that one….