This is a great thread. So much of Canada's financescape on every level seems to have lost the plot and forgotten that profits should serve people and not vice versa. A reminder of the importance of balance is timely and essential.

Bud, at this point I'm just about to grab a Ouiji board and tell Jack to suit up. A hundred percent dead he's still sixty percent better than anything else on offer. If it's between Pipelines McPherson and Single Issue Santa Clause we could do worse than a ghost.

I'm involved with several of the conservation groups in Nova Scotia. I've been hearing a lot of people say things like this. Would it be helpful if I start forwarding our calls to action to Bluesky?

One of the organizations involved with this was Save Our Old Forests (SOOF). Our organizer, Nina Newington, spoke at the event. We've now camped nearly 500 nights since 2019 at all times of the year along logging roads to protect old growth in Annapolis County and catalogue endangered lichens.

"I'm going to be a lawyer. What do I need to learn how to research books for?"

- The 3rd year pre-law student in the library skills course I TA'd in 2020.

I imagine he's sending a lot of people to prison now. Mostly ones he's supposed to be defending. Twenty to life for jaywalking.

I'd like to think that was the plan from both Davies and May. Though it remains to be seen if Carney will see it that way. They did the right things, but anyone left of center gets to spend yet another night reflecting on how being the adults in the room tends to feel like getting totally screwed.

Oddly Don Davies is right on this one.

“We have decided to put the interests of our country first — to vote against the budget but to help prevent an election.”

This budget missed nearly every mark, but a winter election would benefit nobody. Firing a warning shot over Carney was the only move.

Setting the precedent that international law should be directed by vibes based self evaluation seems like it should be disqualifying for a diplomat.

The Polkaroo

Two MLAs spoke at Acadia today and there was a notable sigh of frustration in the room when they tried to defend their record by quoting Howe.

I had the opportunity today to confront Environment Minister Halman about this face to face. He passed the buck saying his department "has concerns", but that responsibility rests with Minister Masland. Let's keep up the pressure from all angles and we can crack them.

It happens more than you'd think! There's a hardware store in Mississippi that has the same name as the one I work at in NS. At least once a week I'll pick up the phone to a thick southern accent. Occasionally, if they just need advice, we're actually able to help out too!

In this story I'm talking about Middleton, but I grew up essentially pan-valley from moving around a bit.

I live outside Kingston now, but I spend most of my week in Wolfville at Acadia.

I was in Palenque, MX, hanging out intermittently with two different pairs of Belgians. On day four the whole group met up for the first time and we discovered that two of them from alternate pairs lived three doors apart in Ghent.

Also, in rural Alaska, I once met someone from my hometown in NS.