Chris Corrigan

lol!

Anyway. This is just a preseason game

I don’t. Which is why I don’t consider this preseason!

I mean it’s preseason but it’s not the Allstate Mickey Mouse Hot Boys Tour of American Cup brought to you by Budweiser.

Okay bro. lol.

Yes. Much more balanced.

DAZN commentators expressing surprise for the PSG kickoff tactic tells me they have done zero scouting for this game.

Being together as a radical act I'm not sure that this shows up in the training set About 8 years ago I remember Dave Snowden coming to Vancouver directly from a conference of security experts where they were discussing the top existential threats to humanity. In ascending order, at that time, they were: nuclear war, climate change and AI. At the time I remember thinking that how strange that seemed given that climate change is an absolute certainty and at least with nuclear war, we could actively try to prevent it.

Being together as a radical act

I'm not sure that this shows up in the training set About 8 years ago I remember Dave Snowden coming to Vancouver directly from a conference of security experts where they were discussing the top existential threats to humanity. In ascending order, at that time,…

Excited to see TSS Rovers Delana Friesen and Erin van Dolder back playing professional football in Europe, this time for U. Olimpia Cluj in Romania. That club is chasing a return to form and a return to UEFA Champions League qualification.

Cc @wsoccerca.bsky.social @abroad.canucks-abroad.ca

League1 Canada Women's Review: Week 18 - Northern Tribune A weekly recap of every single League1 Canada women's match across the country.

A League1 Canada national champion 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒆𝒅!

...and playoff action is still happening in other ranks, too!

David Parkes has your recap for 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 women's game hailing from Canada's pro-am divisions ⤵️

The Ballad of Wallis Island and the lonesome touch

While on holiday we usually program a little film festival for ourselves and watch independent films that get great ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. I'll share the complete list once we return home, but in the meantime, I'm really excited about the…

Principles for difficult conversations Peter Levine shared a video today of a panel he was on back in June, discussing practical ways to have difficult conversations. We could all do with a little more practice in this these days. I know I certainly could. I found the audio hard to hear, but Peter's post helpfully summarizes what each presenter practices, and I have gathered these principles here in a list for future reference.

Principles for difficult conversations

Peter Levine shared a video today of a panel he was on back in June, discussing practical ways to have difficult conversations. We could all do with a little more practice in this these days. I know I certainly could. I found the audio hard to hear, but…

They were beautiful and subtle. Little indicators of huge physical processes at work.

August 11, 2025: comings and goings, of rivers people and philosophies.

From my friend Kavana Tree Bressen comes this story of 120 Indigenous youth who kayaked down the Klamath River. It sounds impressive on its own merits, but it is amazing becasue these were the first people ever to do so. Until…

ROVERS WIN!! Simcoe County Rovers win the League 1 interprovincial championship. Well deserved win for a clinical squad full of quality top to bottom.

A parade of lenticular clouds. (Looking west from Lund). @ensembleator.bsky.social are these gravity waves?

Toke Paludan Møller retires Me and Toke in Montreal in 2013, on the back of a 120 person Art of Hosting. Twenty three years ago, in November 2003, I sat next to Toke Paludan Møller in a circle called by Peggy Holman to discuss how we were going to carry on the work of practicing peace that we started in a remarkable gathering at the Whidbey Centre…

Toke Paludan Møller retires

Me and Toke in Montreal in 2013, on the back of a 120 person Art of Hosting. Twenty three years ago, in November 2003, I sat next to Toke Paludan Møller in a circle called by Peggy Holman to discuss how we were going to carry on the work of practicing peace that we…

The language of labour in the woods Yer man posing beside a fully assembled steam donkey including mounted on a sled. We're on our annual retreat in Powell River, a place we have come to for the last five years to rest and reflect on the year that has been and think, ever so gently, about the year to come. Every year when we visit here we do many of the same things - walk the same trails, buy food from the same farmers, paddle or swim or visit the same places.

The language of labour in the woods

Yer man posing beside a fully assembled steam donkey including mounted on a sled. We're on our annual retreat in Powell River, a place we have come to for the last five years to rest and reflect on the year that has been and think, ever so gently, about the year…

Aw man…condolences Griller.

Maggie?

OneSoccer and also showing on their channel on Fubo.

Well congrats to the Simcoe County Rovers. That was a very professional performance against Altitude, our derby rival and the team that ran riot through League 1 BC this year.

My Rovers heart goes out to you. Good luck in the Interprovincial Final!

Yup. It is now. lol. Couldn’t get it working earlier. Thanks!

Has anyone got a link that shows the lineups for the League 1 Canada Women’s Interprovincial Championship?

It’s rare to see her so clearly. Usually she’s just a blur.

The Swanguardians chat was a buzz with this photo of our former TSS Rover and current @ottrapidfc.bsky.social player Stella Downing crate diving in Vancouver. She posted it on Instagram.

#OneOfUs

For me

North: Whitehorse
West: Digby Island
East: Sydney
South: Point Pelée

From the Parking Lot: August 3 – 8, 2025 Crossing Jervis Inlet on my way to the Tla'Amin lands. The weekly summary of notes, links and thoughts that passed through my world. August 4, 2025: tests and seasons: things change in the world of sport, planetary science and community. August 5, 2025: surviving enshittification: becasue when people are making good things and then wrecking them, we need to know if we can make it through.

From the Parking Lot: August 3 – 8, 2025

Crossing Jervis Inlet on my way to the Tla'Amin lands. The weekly summary of notes, links and thoughts that passed through my world. August 4, 2025: tests and seasons: things change in the world of sport, planetary science and community. August 5, 2025:…

August 8: you are not as old as you seem to be

I’ve always thought that my internal age was 23, which puts me younger in my own mind than both of my children are now. Which is a very odd sensation now. At any rate, I haven't seen such a good set of thoughts on aging as these 27 Notes on Growing…

Big projects and local jobs and “nation building” This is not a well funded health care system. We are heading into a period of austerity in Canada. The federal government is working on a budget that will provide a 15% cut to government services and spending and a tax cut primarily for the middle and upper classes along with legislation to fast track large resource development projects. The idea, I suppose, is that these large projects will stimulate the economy and protect us from the shocks of the destruction to the global trade system generated by the US’s arbitrary trade policies.

Big projects and local jobs and “nation building”

This is not a well funded health care system. We are heading into a period of austerity in Canada. The federal government is working on a budget that will provide a 15% cut to government services and spending and a tax cut primarily for the middle…