Northern Truth-teller 🇨🇦🇺🇦
@shock-and-awe.bsky.social
Co-owner of Canada
Searingly angry at America right now
100% Pro-Ukraine
Gourmande and voracious reader
Scholar.
Searingly angry at America right now
100% Pro-Ukraine
Gourmande and voracious reader
Scholar.
Finally got some snow in Montreal, along with a 14-hour power failure in my neighbourhood... 😂❄️
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Finally got some snow in Montreal, along with a 14-hour power failure in my neighbourhood... 😂❄️
We do Thanksgiving lunch so we can go for a long walk afterwards. Believe me--we need one.
#HappyThanksgiving, Canada 🇨🇦🍗🍁🥂🍾🥧
#HappyThanksgiving, Canada 🇨🇦🍗🍁🥂🍾🥧
October 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We do Thanksgiving lunch so we can go for a long walk afterwards. Believe me--we need one.
#HappyThanksgiving, Canada 🇨🇦🍗🍁🥂🍾🥧
#HappyThanksgiving, Canada 🇨🇦🍗🍁🥂🍾🥧
The table is set for a modest Thanksgiving for two tomorrow (we no longer do the huge ones with friends and cousins; food costs too much now)--I'll be cooking all day, so I like to get some of it done ahead of time. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all! 🇨🇦🍁🍗🥂
October 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The table is set for a modest Thanksgiving for two tomorrow (we no longer do the huge ones with friends and cousins; food costs too much now)--I'll be cooking all day, so I like to get some of it done ahead of time. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all! 🇨🇦🍁🍗🥂
Thresholds:
August 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Thresholds:
Montreal gardens in August
August 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Montreal gardens in August
And these are the faces of those men who make everything about our global lives far worse than they need to be:
August 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
And these are the faces of those men who make everything about our global lives far worse than they need to be:
These are the faces of men of courage and integrity in 2025--men who don't kneel or bow before Shitler's fecal reign--today's Churchills:
August 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
These are the faces of men of courage and integrity in 2025--men who don't kneel or bow before Shitler's fecal reign--today's Churchills:
Funny that... 35C = 95F. Nothing's turning red here, North of Maine.
August 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Funny that... 35C = 95F. Nothing's turning red here, North of Maine.
B&W shots of Montreal:
July 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
B&W shots of Montreal:
Ghostly shots, Montreal:
July 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Ghostly shots, Montreal:
More Montreal shots:
July 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
More Montreal shots:
Montreal shots:
July 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Montreal shots:
Montreal--terrible air quality this morning, especially, and into next week. Stay indoors or wear a mask. (Between the heat, the torrential rains, and the smog, this is a summer you can throw into the can):
July 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Montreal--terrible air quality this morning, especially, and into next week. Stay indoors or wear a mask. (Between the heat, the torrential rains, and the smog, this is a summer you can throw into the can):
Hey Canada--we're cool. The Economist salutes our economic renaissance and our human- and civil-rights-based tolerance. Still wanna gripe against Mark Carney?
July 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Hey Canada--we're cool. The Economist salutes our economic renaissance and our human- and civil-rights-based tolerance. Still wanna gripe against Mark Carney?
Today as I waited for a bus in Montreal in front of a private park, I saw some wild strawberries in the grass--they were the size of my pinkie nail, bright red, warm from the sun. I trespassed, and then gathered and popped four into my mouth. Pure pleasure. "Heart Berries," their Indigenous name.
July 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Today as I waited for a bus in Montreal in front of a private park, I saw some wild strawberries in the grass--they were the size of my pinkie nail, bright red, warm from the sun. I trespassed, and then gathered and popped four into my mouth. Pure pleasure. "Heart Berries," their Indigenous name.
Don't suck, BattleRiver-Crowfoot. Do Canada proud instead.
July 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Don't suck, BattleRiver-Crowfoot. Do Canada proud instead.
This *should* be us, except it's raining buckets in Montreal...
Happy Canada Day anyway. ❤️🇨🇦
Happy Canada Day anyway. ❤️🇨🇦
July 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This *should* be us, except it's raining buckets in Montreal...
Happy Canada Day anyway. ❤️🇨🇦
Happy Canada Day anyway. ❤️🇨🇦
Meanwhile in Montreal, Canada, lol:
June 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Meanwhile in Montreal, Canada, lol:
Open-air markets are now open across Montreal--let's stick it to the Orange Man down South! Summer's coming, keep #ElbowsUp...
#cdnpoli
#Canada
#CanadaSky
#cdnpoli
#Canada
#CanadaSky
May 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Open-air markets are now open across Montreal--let's stick it to the Orange Man down South! Summer's coming, keep #ElbowsUp...
#cdnpoli
#Canada
#CanadaSky
#cdnpoli
#Canada
#CanadaSky
American ambassador to Canada makes veiled threats, finds working with Trump "invigorating," and says our ban of US products is "insulting" to the US. This is what the old fool looks like... Highly invigorated... 🙄
May 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
American ambassador to Canada makes veiled threats, finds working with Trump "invigorating," and says our ban of US products is "insulting" to the US. This is what the old fool looks like... Highly invigorated... 🙄
Two Canadian Indigenous memoirs to learn from--well written, evocative, and captivating, too--because their history is our history, and their defeats and victories teach us about humanity, endurance, tenderness, beauty, and pride:
May 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Two Canadian Indigenous memoirs to learn from--well written, evocative, and captivating, too--because their history is our history, and their defeats and victories teach us about humanity, endurance, tenderness, beauty, and pride:
Even Google...
April 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Even Google...
In other words, "We haven't a clue in Hell, but we'll pretend we do." Forget the polls and the margins of error and the people who make MONEY off them.
Just do YOUR thing: vote.
Just do YOUR thing: vote.
April 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In other words, "We haven't a clue in Hell, but we'll pretend we do." Forget the polls and the margins of error and the people who make MONEY off them.
Just do YOUR thing: vote.
Just do YOUR thing: vote.
Why do I have a glazed ham in the oven at 10 PM? Election anxiety...
April 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Why do I have a glazed ham in the oven at 10 PM? Election anxiety...
We're almost there, Canada: stay the course, hold the line, and on the 28th, everybody goes flying over the boards, and it's gloves down and go time... #GoCarneyGo.
April 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
We're almost there, Canada: stay the course, hold the line, and on the 28th, everybody goes flying over the boards, and it's gloves down and go time... #GoCarneyGo.