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E-bike scheme gives 67-year-old joy and a new lease of life Frances King, 67, who lives with osteoporosis, was referred to Cherwell District Council’s Move Together programme to support her in becoming more…

Is riding an e bike cheating?
No, it's just like doing 20 reps at a low weight instead of 10 at a heavy weight in the gym. You get the exercise anyway. AND you might be more likely to get on the bike in the first place.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2586115...

Reflections in the Creek
A.Y. Jackson
c. 1914

THAT'S RIGHT

Plum blossoms in Victoria BC that feel a little hopeful after the big L.

There’s always hope.

Village on the Gulf
Albert H. Robinson
c. 1947

Crépuscule d’hiver (Baie St. Paul)
Clarence Gagnon
1915

Curling in the Back Lane
Terry Annany
n.d.

Another grandbaby for Wisdom the albatross. Congratulations, N333! 😊
#birds

a graph that illustrates the point in the post

Incredible to me that all but two major tipping points have uncertainty intervals that dip into heating under 2°C—w coral reefs, the basis for human systems that affect billions, already tipped under 1.5C of heating—and people are out here saying temperature goals for halting heating don't matter.

This adds a new frisson to the cheese shop sketch

Screenshot of Radio-Canada's website showing the diffusion of the hockey game in Inuktitut and Atikamekw

CBC / Radio-Canada is broadcasting the hockey semi-finals in Atikamekw, Innu, Inuktitut and Cree - that's what public broadcasters are for!

(Due to the lingering trauma of the whole blue jay thing I am not able to watch playoff-type situations per doctors orders but i understand and feel your olympic pain)

The Edge of Town, Winter Sunset
J.E.H. MacDonald
1914

"Get Your Ash in Here" white print on black sign board at the bottom of 3 steps up to the doors of a brick cathedral

Saw this incredible sign outside St Andrew's Cathedral this afternoon. Happy Ash Wednesday! #YYJ

If I'm ever elected PM I'm going to force the entire country to run on Pacific Time

New Southern Resident killer whale calf L129. Photo taken under permit by the Center for Whale Research.

Here's a photo from @whaleresearch.bsky.social of the new calf they documented with L-Pod on 2/16! Look at that saddle patch 😍

Cautious optimism is the name of the game for newborn Southern Residents, but we sure hope mom and baby are able to thrive.

#orcas #whalesky #salishsea

Photo of a tuft of red-tipped Cladonia lichen growing on a slender, dead tree branch. A field of cotton grass is in the background, looking like large falling snowflakes.

Cladonia lichen on a stick, in a field of cotton grass. #Newfoundland, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends #wildflower

here you go

An expressive watercolour painting of a female northern cardinal

Here is the finished female cardinal. The original and prints will be available on Friday :)

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

No

Especially when it’s not even my cooking night and I can just enjoy the pancakes

The following paper provides estimates of the economic value of unpaid household work in Canada for 2015 to 2019. This study was completed by the National Economic Accounts Division at Statistics Canada, and was funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE). According to this study, the economic value of unpaid household work in Canada was between $516.9 billion and $860.2 billion in 2019 depending on the valuation method used. These values amounted to between 25.2% and 37.2% of Canada’s nominal gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019, which is more than the contribution of all the manufacturing, wholesale and retail industries combined.

Low birth rates is a manufactured crisis that was always about control of women’s bodies. Specifically, maintaining the level of unpaid labour which is at the heart of our economic system:

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/13-60...

Pasteurization!

Low Foothills
Takao Tanabe
1982

A raccoon curled up in a big tree.

A raccoon curled up in a big tree.

I’ve begun checking the known nesting locations around town. I didn’t find owls, but I did find a snoozy raccoon. 🦝 #yyj

La petite rue Champlain, Québec
John Little
1964

Legally crossing Joe Howe @ Springvale with OH
Heard the screech of tyres
Saw a driver blowing through the red light & coming at us before realising their error
Feared for my life
Cursed the elected officials who refuse to make road safety a priority.

This is #ZeroVisionHFX Every. Single. Day.

We tried for 17 years.

I was just looking at the Cook Street bike lane and traffic calming designs. That project starts now.

We spent so much time and effort begging for infrastructure in Ottawa when we had little kids that we invented “Bike Advocacy Date Night”. We would go hand-in-hand to give our input on projects that mostly never happened. #OttBike