Timothy Harvie

We should all be alarmed

B.C. MLA wants statutory holiday to honour Freedom Convoy A B.C. legislator who previously argued Truth and Reconciliation Day should not be recognized as a statutory holiday is proposing a new one that would celebrate the self-described “Freedom Convoy.”

This is why we can’t have nice things.

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I’m a Holiday Gift Guide Writer, and I Really Need You Pricks to Start Playing Backgammon On the whole, I love my job writing holiday gift guides. I get to curate beautiful lists designed to help you, the consumer, bring joy to your love...

"Your pattern of reluctance cannot hold; the dam will break at some point. Every year, you read 'backgammon set' as one of my lovely gift suggestions, and every year you scroll right past it as if you know better than me. Let’s be clear: you don’t."

Launching hundreds of thousands of satellites will threaten space research, scientists warn | CBC News We've all come to appreciate the beautiful images space telescopes provide us of galaxies, nebulas and more, but they also provide astronomers with important scientific information about our universe....

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Omg Matt Berninger is coming to Calgary!

A Practical Guide to Phylogenetic Paleoecology The burgeoning field of phylogenetic paleoecology combines paleoecological data with hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships to tease apart the roles that ecology and relatedness both play in the evo...

Out late for #FossilFriday, it's our invited @annualreviews.bsky.social paper with @sarahlsheffield.bsky.social and @bigfacecats.bsky.social on why Phylogenetic Paleoecology is useful and how to do it.

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Is this the greatest film ever made?

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Cater to fanatics and you reap what you sow.

Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C. Prime Minister Mark Carney disagrees with the concept of a premier of one province unilaterally taking over a different province but his hands are tied by his unwillingness to do anything about it.

Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.

Great picture of a finch on the bird cam.

As an alternative, the Canadian Theological Society, and the Canadian Corporation for the Study of Religion are meeting in Winnipeg this year.

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I’m glad I’m not the only one.

Six more of Premier Smith's UCP legislature members face recall… National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

It's a good day for democracy when the UCP are on the run.
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I stand by my decision to not travel to the States this year, but I’ve been missing connecting with great scholars and hearing quality papers.
#aarsbl2025

Chart shows the religious distribution of US adults.

More US adults identify with no religion (29%) than with the Catholic Church (19%) or evangelical Protestant denominations (23%).
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World strikes climate deal but fails to agree to a roadmap away from fossil fuels after contentious, chaotic summit | CNN The COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, came to an agreement Saturday, but the final document makes no mention of fossil fuels, the primary cause of global climate change.

The petrostate is hijacking the future.

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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)

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Are astronomers wrong about dark energy? New study casts doubt on universe’s accelerating expansion | CNN A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

As if we needed more evidence.

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Reading a friend’s new book by the fire is a good way to spend the morning. @janebarter.bsky.social

I hate naked consumerism.

The victims' testimony? Hoax. The hundreds and hundreds of references to Trump in the emails? Hoax. The FBI agents who said they had to redact his name in them? Hoax. Trump's creepy birthday poem? Hoax again. All the photos and videos of them yukking it up together? You got it: H-O-A-X.

The Politics of Pagan Christianity Today’s nationalist Christians should heed the message of the anti-Nazi theologian Henri de Lubac.

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Post your favourite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.

I stand in solidarity with the Starbucks workers on strike.

When a corporation can pay $96 million to its CEO for just four months of work, it can afford to pay its workers a living wage and decent benefits.