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If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.

This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

Short but sweet How do you toboggan in a flat city such as Stratford? Where there's a will, there's a way.

No. 4 in my Stratford Like a Local series - how kids in Stratford find a way to toboggan in a hometown without real hills.

Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

YouTube video by Dear Lara Dear Lara Trailer

I've met Lara St. John a few times. She's from @londonontario.bsky.social : I remember her & her brother Scott St. John as whiz-kid violinists. Since 2018, she's been public about sexual abuse she experienced at 14 at the Curtis Institute. This is her documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wUK...

A weekly grocery shop spread out on a cherrywood-topped kitchen island. Canadian items starting at left: Stonemill sourdough sprouted rye & 12 grains bread; seven red potatoes; blue plastic tray of cremini mushrooms; bunch of radishes; bag of mixed greens; bag of carrots; hamsteak; tray of five chicken breasts; Bag og Irresistible lime and black pepper chips; Clear spray bottle of Eco Max tile cleaner; Nature Clean glass cleaner; Small jug Selection bleach; Oikos greek yoghurt; Clark baked beans; President's Choice taco sauce; three Summer Fresh dips in green plastic tubs (red pepper hummus, tzatziki, and baba ganoush); Que Pasa taco shells; Grissol melba rounds; Breton crackers; glass bottle of Miller's 2% milk; Smart Food; bunch of greenhouse-grown tulips. On the non-Canadian side, but also non-U.S.: celery, two bunches of alstroemeria, one melon-toned, one pink toned; two broccoli crowns; bunch of banans; small plastic box raspberries; small plastic box blueberries; pack of salted licorice; bottle of olive oil; a red pepper; four pack of Fever Tree low sugar tonic water.

Travelling on Saturday, so did weekly #ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian shop on Sunday. Farmers' market, specialty shops closed in #Stratford: grocery stores only. Everything left of the celery and Peruvian alstroemeria is 🇨🇦. 🇲🇽 broccoli, pepper & raspberries, 🇬🇧 tonic water, 🇬🇷 olive oil. Details in alt.text.

Image of one black Bogs neoprene winter women's boot.

Temps did a big drop (again) in my part of Ontario. I've always had cold feet in winter. No boot worked. Not until a salesclerk at Werthers in #Stratford ON convinced me to buy Bogs neoprene boots. Lightweight. Easy to slip on. Totally toasty toes even in "feels like minus 30 C" weather. #winter

Signed.

A portrait of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.

A portrait of Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante.

A portrait of Barcelona Deputy Mayor Janet Sanz.

A portrait of Brussels Mobility Minister Elke van den Brandt.

What do Paris, Montreal, Barcelona and Brussels have in common?

“If you look at the cities doing the most to reclaim public streets from the automobile and give it to people, they often have one thing in common, and that's strong female leadership.” @thewaroncars.bsky.social

LISTEN: bit.ly/3MdP82L

Very proud of this work from @parachute.ca - practical tools and a structured, comprehensive approach for those who provide care to an older adult to prevent falls and have those sometimes difficult conversations. #FallPreventionCanada #TurnSafetyOn

Even the Mayflowers were immigrants. No white person is indigenous to North America.

Technically, Stratford is a city. It was incorporated as such in 1886 because a boom in growth due to its location as a railway junction, and also because it was the county seat. That being said: There will be a good capacity of hotel, inns and other accommodations in March, pre-theatre season.

More than 1,000 truckloads of snow hauled to Stratford snow dump As clean-up efforts continue across southern Ontario, the City of Stratford said more than five Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of snow has been hauled away from their streets.

More than 1,000 truckloads of snow hauled to Stratford snow dump

Thursday: soup and sandwich lunch, schnitzel, sauerkraut, sweet potato & green bean dinner. Also bought supplies today for a next-weekend dinner party that will feature smoked salmon canapés on a cucumber slices base, mushroom risotto, arugula salad and some kind of chocolate-raspberry dessert TBD.

Menus, you ask? Tonight, stuffed mushrooms, salad, steamed mussels & baguette. Sunday: ham-egg scramble brunch, out for dinner. Monday: ham-pea soup lunch, Eggroll in a Bowl dinner. Tues:,"Eggroll" lunch, Veg biryani dinner. Wed: biryani lunch, chicken fatijas dinner. Continued in next post ...

Groceries laid out on a cherrywood-topped kitchen island. From left, all Canadian products: block of Guernsey white cheddar, plastic package of enoki mushrooms, Brigid's Brie, wedge of Blue Moo cheese from P.E.I., baba ganouj, Danvita sesame seed crackers, pound of butter in 1/4 lb sticks, in cardboard blue packaginx, one English cucumber, three sweet potatoes, bag of arugula, bag of mixed greens, package of six, Kamut tortillas, mesh bag of yellow cooking onions, sandwich-style loaf of rye sourdough bread from Downie Street bakehouse, bag of mussels, small foil container of ready-to-broil stuffed mushrooms ($1 off coupon on top), box of Melba canapés, bag of Humble cider vinegar chips, bag of Covered Bridge potato chips, bag of Covered Bridge cheese popcorn, Miller's Dairy 2% milk in glass container, Rolling Meadow 10% cream, rectangular container of frozen beef bone broth, rectangular container of frozen mushroom soup, small container of Chapman's super premium butter tart ice cream, Earth's Own oat milk, Super F*n Drak coffee beans, two chicken breasts, one small pice of smoked ham hock (for pea soup this week), pound of ground chicken breast, pound of minced turkey, vacu-sealed package of a Grandpa ham slice, four slices bacon, 200g of sliced garlic chicken roll, a baguette. To right of baguette are non-U.S. items: jar of curry paste, rice noodles, grapes, bananas, Belgian endive, cauliflower, half a cantaloupe, coconut milk, three packages dried shitake mushrooms, Ryvita snack bread, arborio rice.

01-31-26 #BuyCanadan #ElbowsUp grocery shop: From the baguette (#Stratford Downie Street Bakehouse) left are 🇨🇦 including meats and cheeses from Wild Hog, mussels, soups, sweet potato, onions, greens, dairy, oat milk, frozen raspberries, chips+ popcorn. From non-U.S.: full description in alt.text

Think you're buying Canadian? That grocery item may actually be from the U.S. | CBC News The push to buy Canadian is loud and clear, but are those local-looking products the real deal? CBC Marketplace exposes how some popular foods that seem Canadian are actually made in the U.S. Experts ...

When I buy anything from the grocery store, I look for Product of Canada, this means it is entirely, or almost entirely, Canadian content (98% or more). I also buy locally made products, products from the UK, Australia, Scotland etc. #Canada

Read the labels carefully.

www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...

Start that Kitchener spur in #Stratford fer feck’s sake! Major tourism destination and part of the digital corridor with KW.

An ordinary garden-shed door, made extraordinary by the adorable #bichon. #AdoorableThursday #DogsOfBlueSky #DogSky #RubyTheBichon #Stratford

Entering the INNERChamber For 16 years now, a local man has been making unique music in a unique remnant of Stratford's once-mighty furniture factory days.

No. 3 in my Teahen Tales blog series, #Stratford Like a Local: Entering the Inner Chamber. A look at the quirky and long-running chamber music series founded by Stratford local, Andrew Chung.

This is so disappointing. Le sigh.

From #Stratford artist Carlie Pearce.

And Ruby loves you.

Typeface: A Concert of Characters Typeface: A Concert of Characters - INNERchamber Season 16 concert

Direct link to buy tickets: www.innerchamber.ca/typeface-a-c...

INNERchamber’s ‘Typeface: A Concert of Characters’ to explore the history of typeface inventors and designers When it comes to history, there is no shortage of niche areas of interest to explore and appreciate, offering those who do a glimpse into how just one piece of the world we live in today has come to b...

#Stratford area alert: We are subscribers to the Inner Chamber concert series; for this one, my husband, Chris Moorehead, is narrator. The theme is Typeface: relationship between music & type design over the centuries. Sun. Feb. 1, 5:30 dinner, 7 p.m. concert. www.granthaven.com/post/innerch...

A kitchen island with cherrywood top, on which is spread out a grocery shop. Canadian-made items from bottom left: tofu, Atlantic salmon, greek yoghurt, whipping cream, coffee cream, Miller's Dairy 2% milk in glass jug, box of Pita Bites, jar of Soup's on Lentil-vegetabl sup, bag of Humble potato chips creamy dill, Value size bag of Smart Food, Patrick's "Dark & Brewing coffee beans, bag of Three Farmers roasted fava beans, sweet chili, bag of Three Farmers roasted Chickpeas, Summer Fresh red pepper dip, garlic clove, bag of radishes, small bag of white mushrooms, green pepper, red pepper, Green Beaver toothpaste, bar of lavender soap, bag of green beans, bunch of green onions, bag o spinach, Boursin cheese, Balderson cheddar, Castello smoked havarti and Castello dill havarti. On the right side are items from other countries excluding U.S.: Bag of snow peas, bunch of asparagus, three bananas, small mason jar of bulk peanut butter, bottle of soy sauce, package of guacamole (Mexico), can Cream of Tomato soup (Sainsbury UK), eggplant, brown basmati rice in a canister, box of Barilla orzo (Italy), kale and frozen Sliced Haggis.

Jan. 24 #ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian shop with a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Robbie Burns add-on (Haggis, kale; tatties & neeps already in stock). 🇨🇦 dairy, salmon, tofu, cheese, some greenhouse veg, eggs, snack bits, toothpaste (Green Beaver), soap. Non-🇨🇦 (& Non U.S.) to the right of the fava beans & chickpeas. Details in alt.txt.

Observe the winter fence phenomenon known as squirrel-run scallops. ❄️ 🐿️

I will miss travelling to New York for the rest of my days. Also Boston. There were so many places I wanted to see that I have never been to, and that now I likely never will experience: New Orleans; the New Mexico world of Georgia O'Keefe; California wine country and the Pacific Coast Highway.

My morning view. #Bichon #DogsOf#Bluesky #Dogsky

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.