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• Post #4103029

  "Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly." G. K. Chesterson

• Post #2542882

  Hello oil industry. It is just a MOU. it is not a binding contract. You can spark all the concerns you want. Headline from Global News -"There’s no action”: Alberta-Ottawa MOU delays spark concern from energy industry"

• Post #2542881

  Why does the National Post still publish Conrad Black’s pro-Trump rhetoric — loyalty among pardon-recipients being, apparently, a sacred bond?

• Post #2542880

  With all the support for the pipeline to North West BC where is the agreement and where is the money to come from with any environmental problems. Alberta seems to have a tough time just cleaning up its orphan wells. Are the oil companies putting up an indemnity agreement with some collateral?

• Post #2212945

  This is happening at American libraries. I wonder sbout Canadian libraries. • In 2025, 92% of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers, up from 72% in 2024. Less than 3% of challenges originated from individual parents.

• Post #2212944

  Just read an Substack where the writer puts human empathy in terms of "This is what America is." No, this is what human kind is, empathetic to people in need. Empathy is not a soverign characteristic and when bolstered as an attribute of a citizenry, the lack of humbleness shows its deficiency.

• Post #2212943

  Did you think this was the first time wisdom has been threatened with danger from these of wicked ways? Boethius 524 CE

• Post #2212942

  In the past 30 minute 4 large aircraft from Frankfurt x2, Tokoyo and Seoul have flown bbn. That is about 1,200 passengers. Will be a busy YVR international arrival area right now.

• Post #1716039

  ...that of the number of words we use in ordinary correspondence, nine words (I,' 'the, and,' 'you, "to,' 'your," 'of,' 'for, and 'in'), at one time at least, comprised a fourth of the total, whereas in telephone conversations 'and' barely makes the top ten in frequency of use. 'AND' Habitations of the Word William H. Gass

• Post #1716038

  200 years ago today the first York Factory Express arrived at the forks of the Spokane and Columbia rivers. They would eventually arrive at the Hudson Bay. James Douglas had left days earlier to return to Fort Vancouver. The shared history of Canada and the USA.

• Post #1716037

  Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy. Canada is on the 50% map. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html

• Post #1716036

  Is it possible to design and use drones for forest fire fighting? There's the lake for water, there's the fire to drop it. #forestfires #drones

• Post #1716035

  An excellent source for Canadian information. The Canadian Shield Institute is a non-partisan, independent policy institute committed to advancing strategic solutions that strengthen Canada’s economic resilience, sovereignty, and global competitiveness. https://canadianshieldinstitute.ca #sovereignty #canada

• Post #1716034

  "hurting our economy" say businesses. What does that mean? Usually the business is not making as much money as it would like to. A confusing "our".

• Post #1716033

  I wonder if a society could exist in which difference is not necessarily equated with inferiority or superiority.

• Post #1716032

  With the continual consoldiation of BC Credit unions to entities that become larger and larger the service levels gets worse. All the promises of better service and better products are just blather in order for members to think that merging will be better for them. NOT. They are now mini-banks. #creditunions #banks #beemcreditunion

• Post #1006969

  This journey of the Artemis sure brings back feelings of when you were a kid in 1969 and they landed on the moon.

• Post #1006968

  If you are a Vancity member voting for the board of directors starts tomorrow. I would heartily endorse Am Johal and ask you to vote for him. Here are numerous endorsements by notable people for Am. https://amjohal.ca/endorsements/ #vancity #vancityelection #vancitydirector #vancitycreditunion

• Post #1006967

  If you could go to dinner with one of these people who would you choose?

• Post #952753

  Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 21 is something listened to numerous times. Haunting, glad, brisk, demanding. A piano piece that never is limited to a fast description. It seems to move through your life as you hear it, each day the same but different. #schubert #piano

• Post #952752

  A daily doodle when the writing stops. #doodle

• Post #952751

  There are the voices of the powerful men in this world who have voices similar to those of the Sirens in Homer's The Odyssey. A voice so compelling for some it overrides reason and leads them to their own destruction. Listening to them will drive you mad.

• Post #952750

  I cancelled my Netflix subscription. Netflix supports a bill that would change Canadian bill,C-11. We do not wish to assimilate our culture but allow it to remain unique. Subscriptions are decisions to spend or not to spend. https://open.substack.com/pub/mgeist/p/the-online-streaming-act-in-jeopardy?r=7563fu&utm_medium=ios

• Post #952749

  The despair of a window, Awaiting movement Not action. Action would define the moment.

• Post #952748

  I write cursive with a fountain pen (journals, letters, notes, general rambling) daily. Always receive positive comments on them. Took a lot of practice in years to develop a calligraphy of my own. Printing seens to stunt my thought process. Letters to grandchildren are typed as they have difficulty in reading cursive.

• Post #952747

  Before the war the camp had been known as a camp for political criminals. National Socialism had created a new type of political criminal: criminals who had not committed a crime. Many of the prisoners had been sent here merely for telling political anecdotes or for criticizing the Hitler regime in conversation with friends. The charge against them was not that they actually had distributed political leaflets or joined underground parties, but that one day they might. Life & Fate Vasily...

• Post #952746

  ...whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good... whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed..... Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. Life and Fate Vasily Grossman

• Post #952745

  Transport Canada Survey asking for input on these bright glaring headlights that are causing driving problems. Only takes a few minutes to complete. #headlights #nightdriving http://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/F9WBTLZ

• Post #635297

  @gwenbeads the book arrived in the mail today. Unbelievable. This will be a delight to read and delve into. What a unique experience. Thank you so much. #mathematicalart

• Post #500230

  @NMBA @Wen It could be time to add something to the signage in our museums ie stolen from - unceeded land - colonialism - subjected to.