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Since it's snowing in #Edmonton, I would like to make everybody aware of our snow plow tracker. Yes, we name our snow plows, and yes, they're delightful.
(Currently, having a little laugh over "Edward Blizzard Hands" 😅)
gis.edmonton.ca/portal/apps/ex…
Edit: Looks like they've already (mostly) finished up the major roads this morning, but definitely check back over the weekend
's apt and dreamy call to arms:
We could be a disenshittification nation. We could seize the means of computation. We could have a new, good internet that respects our privacy and our wallets. We could make a goddamned fortune doing it.
pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/dis…
#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #disenshittification #enshittification
It turns out that a lot of "impossible" things are really just fights you'd rather not have.
@pluralistic nails it. pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/dis…
#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #enshittification #disenshittification
"It's like punching yourself in the face really hard and hoping the downstairs neighbour says 'Ouch.'"
I mean, if there's gonna be a state, at least have @pluralistic be PM of it.
"#OTTAWA – A broad coalition of groups from across #Canada is sounding an urgent alarm in advance of a critical parliamentary vote on Bill C-12.
The👉 bill would open the door to discrimination and violations of human rights and due process in...immigration system, authorize sharing of sensitive personal immigration information, and expand dangerous approaches to drug policy.👈
Yet it is being pushed through parliament with minimal debate... "
ccla.org/equality/rights-group…
Rights Groups Issue Urgent Warning Ahead of Critical C-12 Vote - CCLA
A broad coalition of groups sounded an urgent alarm in advance of a critical parliamentary vote on Bill C-12. The bill would open the door to discrimination and violations of human rights and due process in Canada’s immigration system.Tamir Israel (CCLA)
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#FeaturedServer #LGBTQIA #Canada #GoToSocial #GTS #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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• We’re both Arctic nations.
• We’re both NATO allies.
• We care about democracy, the rule of law, and not casually invading our neighbours for content.
• And we’re going to build stuff together instead of just buying American forever.”
—Dean Blundell
deanblundell.substack.com/p/br…
#canada #sweden
BREAKING: Canada Close to Deal With Sweden to Manufacture GRIPEN Fighter Jets After Signing MASSIVE Trade/Security Pact
Thanks to Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney can't be stopped.Dean Blundell
"At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue:
Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new."
- Lycidas, Milton
#photography
#trailrunning
#hiking
#Manitoulinisland
#Manitoulin
#Canada
#poetry
This article really takes a hammer to the BS from conservative think tanks, the UCP and the like who denigrate public education. Well done McGill OSS.
“Because when we stop investing in education, we stop investing in ourselves.”
#Canada #Education #PublicEducation
mcgill.ca/oss/article/student-…
The False Economy of Education Cuts
Why This Matters (Even If You Don’t Live There) A public education system is the scaffolding of any democracy. It’s where young citizens learn not only arithmetic and grammar, but curiosity, empathy, and the habits of coexistence.Office for Science and Society
Good Morning #Canada
If you haven't been living in a cave this week, you know that the #NorthernLights were putting on a show across Canada. As you know, a solar eruption sends billions of tons of superheated plasma into space and traveling at more than 45 million miles per hour it can reach Earth in less than a day. That plasma, drawn towards the magnetic pole, interacts with our atmosphere, and we get a spectacular light show. The Aurora Borealis, named by Italian astronomer Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, is not unique to Canada, but so much of our land is in the Northern Hemisphere that most Canadians have the opportunity to experience it. This is particularly true in the Northwest Territories, where the Northern Lights are visible for 240 days every year on average. The phenomenon has a special meaning for Indigenous Canadians, some of whom believe it shows them ancestors dancing in the sky.
🇨🇦 Moving to Canada meant new holidays — and finding my own place within them
The holidays I didn't grow up with taught me the true meaning of being Canadian
Stop everything and watch these highlights of the most incredible soccer final you have ever seen!!! It is Snowball! No, it is BlizzardBall!!!
The Canadian Premier League final was played in a blizzard. Even though they played with an orange ball, it was still hard to see it. They had to stop play 5 times to shovel snow. At one point one of the players shovelled snow while the game was playing.
Before extra time they stopped to allow snow ploughs to clear the pitch!
The players did not hold back through all this. The intensity of their play was incredible to behold. They slid through the snow, they tackled hard, and the goal saves were incredible. The star of the blizzard game was Rodriguez, a Mexican. He got one goal with a bicycle kick while it was snowing.
Thank you Chris @atomicpoet for your hilarious commentary that alerted me to this game - Chris's posts are worth reading.
And here are the highlights - albeit missing the snow shovelling and snow ploughs: youtu.be/O56wF0Sf4DU?si=hHe28P…
#football #Snow #CPL #Canada #soccer #BlizzardBall #SnowBall #blizzard
