Photo Memory of the Week
Poetry of the Week
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm damned if I see how the helican!Source: A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican, Dixon Lanier Merritt
Posted: 2023 Mar 17
Music of the Week
Posted: 2023 Mar 24
Tweet of the Week
Australia plotted by every mapped stream and river... all 1.3 million of them pic.twitter.com/7sx7LgemOM
— Amazing Maps (@amazingmap) March 11, 2023
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Veteran Tom Boneham, 100, reflects on his time as part of the 30 A-U, a secret WWII unit. Boneham, who has lived in Canada since 1952, was one of the 35 original members of the top secret commando unit created by James Bond author Ian Fleming. https://globalnews.ca/news/9591437/the-last-commando-turns-100/
I want to live in a country, and a city, where I can afford to buy a house and raise a family, and where it's safe to walk down the street or use public transit. I feel like it's a reasonable expectation, and yet in so many places across Canada this feels like it's slipping away.
627 @JonathanWNV @PattyHajdu Mar 29 and there are 32 long term advisories, 25 short term advisories, and an additional 21 advisories in BC. 2 more short term advisories added in as many days. FNMI people deserve better. Especially as we are 2 years after your promised fix date.
"...this gov't is a 7-yr story of a deteriorating rel'ship with businesses that make their own decisions in competitive mkts. But desperate times lead to desperate measures. Suddenly Trudeau & Freeland are willing to trust CEOs. Will wonders never cease." https://paulwells.substack.com/p/chrystia-freelands-invisible-hand?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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