Associate Director CTET at Royal Roads University. Learning design, OpenEd, critical pedagogy, graphic arts, sustainable and livable communities, bicycles, climate, eats plants, he/him.
alt-text for profile: I'm wearing a grey cap, outdoor shirt, and my usual weirdly goofy smile. A peaceful lake behind me.
alt text for header: Street art found on the side of a building in Port Melbourne, with stylized text 'greetings from Port: Boon Wurrung Country'.
More proof that traffic lights should have reflective tape or a high-viz coating to avoid this type of random accident...
Police say a motorcyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash near the Surrey-Delta border Saturday afternoon left a motorcycle dangling from a traffic light above a busy intersection.
60% of Albertans say it’s difficult to meet monthly expenses: CBC Poll
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cbc-news-poll-alberta-affordability-9.7180193
Anyone in BC remember BRIC shares?
(how many of us still have those useless pieces of paper at the bottom of a drawer somewhere...)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sovereign-wealth-fund-carney-major-projects-9.7178238
“The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.
Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement. I agreed with it entirely. So, it seemed to me, did most of the non-Americans.
… it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.””
So the hottest years ever recorded are officially:
2023
2024
2025
and all were over 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial target.
Welcome to overshoot.
I'm pleased to see AP News actually reporting that Canadians took exception to the annexation threats; it's far more than just a tariff dispute.
"Canada, where a boycott started after the Trump administration suggested annexing the country into the U.S... [the] dramatic decrease came in U.S. spirits exports to Canada, which fell 85% in the April-through-June quarter"
Jim Beam is pausing production at a Kentucky distillery for at least a year starting in 2026. The decision comes as the whiskey industry faces tariffs and declining demand. The company plans to use this time to invest in improvements. The bottling and warehouse facilities at its Clermont location will stay open, along with the visitors center and restaurant. Jim Beam’s larger distillery in Boston, Kentucky, will continue operations. Bourbon makers have been struggling with tariffs, a Canadian boycott and decreasing demand as fewer Americans drink alcohol.
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