Omg yes. This summer, taking my cousin and Mom to dinner. Options were $7 in coin (I mean c’mon!) or joining their stupid parking app in Winnipeg - a city I don’t live in. Best part was gifting coin I did have to next people struggling. Also my Mom does not have a cell phone, what were her options?

If you are not wearing a respirator mask in all situations of potential contagion during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, you are on the wrong side of everything that truly matters.

#COVID19 #respirator

The economics of AI (LLM) data centers continue to be utterly unworkable. This whole thing is going to crash sooner rather than later and leave a giant smoldering crater where a big chunk of the economy used to be.

Golden Dome signals change to Canada’s long-time opposition to joining U.S. missile defence Canada opted to stay on the sidelines in 2005 as the U.S. developed defences against ballistic missiles

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law.
Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

I love Canada Post. I send letters, mail packages to loved ones. For my birthday my Mom got me 50 stamps. Best birthday gift!!! Can someone with vision get in there and take over. There is so much more Canada Post could do!!!! Essential social infrastructure!!!! Yes!

Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training funds Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has found

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Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

Gobsmacking how fucking corrupt the Ford government is.

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A green corded bodice made of twists, braids, coils, and macrame like weaving. Displayed on a brown wicker mannequin top.

I so enjoy your approach to life. Miss Glasgow so I get a taste through your posts. Inspired me to bullet journal (I make the rules - not the insane YouTube girlies). It takes tremendous courage to be vulnerable.

Sadly I didn’t note artist of piece but it is awesome.

Frontenac Provincial Park. Trees turning red orange in the fall. Big Salmon lake in the background.

Hiking really saving my sanity. Frontenac Provincial Park. Open all year so we’ll see.

My first job was at Orange Julius. For 25 cents we would put a raw egg into your drink. We don’t do that now because we know better. We no longer let people smoke in restaurants because we know better. We wear seatbelts because we know better.

Catching Covid is terrible. Act like it.

Watching everyone I love hasten their death by refusing to protect themselves from Covid is an almost unbearable burden. Their lives will be shorter and the life they do have will be poorer. I’m at a loss. Total failure of Public Health.

#CovidIsAirborne

REMINDER: We all NEED downtime to rest & recover. Exhausting ourselves will NOT help. Please make sure to do one thing you absolutely LOVE (off Social Media) & remember to take care of YOU. You are precious & important. (Yes, I'm talking to myself too.) NEVER GIVE UP & LET'S TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER!

Orange emblem with the words Every Child Matters.

Today on our National Day for Truth and Reconciliation I’m thinking about the community of Grassy Narrows. Living an ongoing struggle with mercury poisoning. There is no reconciliation without truth and there is no truth without justice.

A little known cooking fact is that in order to preheat the oven you have to actually TURN IT ON.

This image describes Ontario's COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025 which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Ontario's COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] Ontario's COVID INDEX SCORE 6.3 About 1 of every 62 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 244,150-382,025 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: MODERATE; 4.4X higher Long COVID: HIGH; 5.7X higher Hospitalizations: HIGH; 8.1X higher Deaths: HIGH; 6.4X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: "UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks" Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca

Canadian COVID Forecast Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025

ONTARIO

HIGH [no change]

About 1 of every 62 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 4.4 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.7 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 8.1 x higher
-Deaths: 6.4 x higher

Postal union launches strike as Ottawa moves to curb door-to-door mail The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is declaring a nationwide strike, hours after Procurement Minister Joel Lightbound announced door-to-door mail delivery will end for almost all Canadian households...

Canada Post doesn't need to be financially viable. It's the goddamn federal postal service. Stop calling it 'bailouts' and just... fund the damn thing.

This is your regular reminder that Covid is airborne.

It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people.

It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging.

Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.

Protect one another.

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Excellent interview by @drgorfinkel.bsky.social on the importance of masks

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Yes I am in a temper but I will add - email your MP and tell them that cuts to Canada Post are a non-starter. I support CUPW in their strike action.

Listening with disgust as my fellow Ottawa citizens complain on the CBC about encampments and their complaints are about “garbage“ and
”mess” and not about the fact that their fellow human beings have no where to live.

For fucks sake people, Canada Post is a service. It is meant to provide a service to Canadians. If it costs 10 million a day then it costs 10 million a day. In a temper.

art doesn't necessarily topple empire on its own as a force. but it is a danger to empire because it enables us to collaboratively imagine, envision, and dream how to build a better world together. I'll always insist on art's importance to our collective humanity. we need that now more than ever.

She was so grateful to be treated. It is harsh to say the interaction
meant nothing to me. That’s not quite right. I saw an opportunity to do something. I did it. I
work at a restaurant where we can treat.

Where you can/when you can - be kind. You can’t know how welcome that kindness can be.

I can see on the slip that she’s already tipped. I’m questioning the need for more $. She repeats again that she might cry. I say again it’s our pleasure to treat her. I tell her to enjoy the rest of the weekend. She leaves. I am wondering tonight about this woman’s life. My life.

She tells me she might cry. That it is so nice. No one has ever done something like that. I’m like, you’re celebrating we‘re celebrating. She is totally sincere in her possibly crying. I leave her with the machine and say I’ll be right back. When I come back she’s getting some cash out for a tip.

I bring the dessert, white chocolate cheesecake - my personal fav of all our desserts. She enjoys. I ask her can I get her anything else? No, she’s ready for the check. I comp the dessert and tell her that dessert is on us. She is surprised. I say I’ll be back with the machine. I get back.

Humbled tonight with a reminder that you never really know anyone’s story. Single gal at the table. Wearing Special Olympics shirt. She orders, she eats. She’s very precise with her ordering. Orders dessert - shares with me that it’s International Day for Hydrocephalus and that is her condition.

a man in a suit and tie is on a television show Alt: Jon Stewart with a gold star and the words the more you know.

When someone states that “I didn’t think what he said was so bad.” they are missing the point.

Bad/good/whatever - he gets to say what he wants.

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Fight hunger in children. You could make this place beautifu.

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