On August 9th 2021, Canada opened its border to all fully vaccinated Americans allowing tourists from the United States to visit the country once again. The US border remains closed to Canadians, however, and American authorities recently extended the border closure until September 21st citing COVID-19 transmission rates south of the border as well as […]

Most Canadians are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Consequently, Canadians are starting to think about international travel again, and are beginning to research possible vacation destinations. This leads to the question, which countries can a fully vaccinated Canadian visit? As of July 2021, Canadian citizens who have received two doses of the Pfizer, Moderna, or […]

This marathon will be exhausting.Pierre Poilievre hasn’t even been Conservative leader for two weeks yet. By the time the 2025 election finally arrives, we’re all going to be as shell-shocked and tired as those marathon dancers in Evergood’s 1935 paint…

Well, the great Roger Federer played his last match today – it wasn’t “one for the ages” but it was pretty nice, a doubles with Nadal at the Laver Cup in London. I didn’t get into watching tennis until just a few years ago, when we got a big-scree…

It’s been a terrible night and day in Atlantic Canada as they grapple with that bitch Fiona:

Ferocious #Fiona, from the #Caribbean to #Canada pic.twitter.com/SriO3U2WhO

— Stu Ostro (@StuOstro) September 24, 2022

Moment of impact #storm #surge #pab #nlwx #fiona wow (Not my video). pic.twitter.com/F0Yt7EkYBu

— Donnie O’Keefe (@DonnieOK) September 24, 2022

Thinking of everyone in eastern Quebec and Atlantic Canada this morning as #Fionahurricane makes landfall. Stay safe. Hope the damage is minimal and no lives are lost. https://t.co/w7kZgPCgyW

— Toula Drimonis (@ToulasTake) September 24, 2022

This apartment bldg gone pic.twitter.com/ToqaS9LNBr

— Charlie Harris (@Charlie85915085) September 24, 2022

Poor Port aux Basques. The ocean is swallowing homes. #Fiona https://t.co/V8GXZoTsCR

— Gerald Butts (@gmbutts) September 24, 2022

One thing a storm can never wash away is a Canadian sense of humour… #Fionahurricane #FionaNS https://t.co/NCxCMYXSIb

— Ryan Lindley 🍁 (@ryanlindley) September 25, 2022

From @kattukexpeditions —
Report in from Sable Island NPR is that everyone is safe and uninjured but tired, they still have power and internet and will assess damages this afternoon. #sableisland #fiona https://t.co/9LlbpL7yFf pic.twitter.com/st00FDDpeN

— halifaxnoise (@halifaxnoise) September 24, 2022

But what impresses me most right now is how Canadians are all wanting to help:

Text FIONA to 20222 and donate $10 to @redcrosscanada to help those affected by #HurricaneFiona.

Because around here, we look after each other.

— Seamus O’Regan Jr (@SeamusORegan) September 24, 2022

A convoy that all Canadians can be proud of. https://t.co/ATmXS4r4qF

— Bernard Roulinski (@roulinski) September 24, 2022

A convoy of power trucks from Quebec on their way to Nova Scotia to help out with the massive power outages. This is a real convoy with a real purpose. Take note #FreeDumbConvoy pic.twitter.com/2otH0zbcTK

— Bernard Roulinski (@roulinski) September 24, 2022

Very heartening to see the support from all over Canada for the Maritimes. Power crews from PQ and Ontario on scene to help. Federal Government prepared, This is Canada, #Fiona

— Michael Cowtan supports Ukraine🌐 (@MichaelCowtan) September 24, 2022

They’re here in Cape Breton to put the power back on after the storm. Our hotel in Sydney is overflowing with electrical line crews. #Fiona pic.twitter.com/yBgevMXIIm

— Anthony Farnell (@AnthonyFarnell) September 24, 2022

Feds to send military assistance, match Red Cross donations for Fiona recovery https://t.co/hJu7GVoFEm pic.twitter.com/A5NWuBkEGD

— CTV News (@CTVNews) September 25, 2022

If your device is low on power or data, you can get #HurricaneFiona updates on CBC Lite. It’s our low-bandwidth, text-only website. https://t.co/11fiGnw59v

— CBC News (@CBCNews) September 24, 2022

Absolutely – outstanding!

Canada needs its CBC. https://t.co/jLNv56E7D8

— Heather Mallick (@HeatherMallick) September 24, 2022

And here’s the ridiculous story of the day. So for some reason, Fisheries and Oceans Canada thought today would be a good day to remind people about the rule against picking up a washed-up lobster on a beach:

pic.twitter.com/cFEDRKPMmb

— Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) September 24, 2022

Twitter rocked with laughter:

Describe Canada in a single tweet.

— Gham (@gham11) September 24, 2022

Hello officer…. Why do I have butter, garlic and a pot on the beach? No reason.

— gregmacp (@gregmacp) September 24, 2022

Pinchy would have wanted it this way… pic.twitter.com/Z73TJCnILk

— David C (@dacaldar) September 24, 2022

Twitter concluded that eating a dead lobster wouldn’t be very healthy anyway. But then someone worried about all the seagulls that will show up to feast on the dead beach lobsters, and it went downhill from there. Anyway, finally Fisheries and Oceans deleted it:

We would like to apologize for the ill-timed tweet regarding #HurricaneFiona from earlier today. You can be assured the safety and security of Canadians in the region is our priority.

— Fisheries and Oceans (@FishOceansCAN) September 24, 2022

So only this remained:

So today’s ridiculous fake conservative outrage is about a lobster tweet? Am I getting that right? #cdnpoli

— Matthew Forbes (@VaughanPappy) September 25, 2022

Seen in a tweet!What I cannot understand is why so many people think Covid is “over”, though thousands are still getting it and dying from it around the world. We have our next booster booked now – scheduled for early October, it will be our Moder…

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. ” Revelations 6:7-8 I’m thinking tonight of the Ukraine Russia War — once again, history is “galloping riderless across the landscape…

The original tweet, from 2015: ‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.— Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn) October 16, 2015 It has mostly been used for Brexit and for Trump — when the peop…

Today, here’s some of the interesting stuff I bookmarked recently: This is fascinating – its a visual representation of the world population and the webpage also has much more detail about specific continents. This is epic 🚀 https://t.co/7zn3MZL9…

Sept 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also called Orange Shirt Day – for settlers, it is a day for thoughtfulness, remembrance, acknowledgement of wrongdoing, apology, and promise to do better.Here are some tweets and stories to sha…

“Reconciliation is not the responsibility of Indigenous Peoples. It is the responsibility of all Canadians. It is our responsibility to continue to listen and to learn,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. #NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation http…

The news has moved on so much in the last week that we haven’t been seeing as much recently about the Hurricane Fiona recovery on the east coast. But it has been terrible for them this last week, and it continues to be difficult – this recovery wi…

First tonight, what the heck is going on in Britain? The  new Truss government seems determined to destroy the British economy in the name of some looney libertarian conservative craziness, while the British people are facing horrific heating…

Well, this is terrifying, isn’t it? It sounds like Russia is getting set to try to play a game of Nuclear Chicken with Ukraine and the west: It comes as sources told The Times that Nato had sent an intelligence report to its members and allies alerting…

Does anyone still remember that 1997 Mel Gibson – Julia Roberts movie Conspiracy Theory?   It was supposed to be just a thriller – comedy. Turns out, it was also predicting the crazy now in too much of our society. So maybe this is…

 Beautiful illustration from The Globe and Mail, by Chippewa/Potawatomi artist Chief Lady Bird 🦅 ᐅᑮᒪᑫᐧᐱᓀᐢ Inquests were just announced into the massacre of Sept. 4: BREAKING: Sask. chief coroner announces inquest into James Smith Cree Nation death…

After being closed for nearly 19 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on November 8th 2021 the United States land border officially opened to all fully vaccinated Canadians. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced they will be staffing their border at pre-pandemic levels, but warns that wait times may be longer than in […]

As of April 1st 2022, the Canadian border will no longer require a pre-arrival negative COVID-19 test from fully vaccinated travellers entering or returning to the country. Previously, a rapid antigen test or a PCR test indicating a person does not have COVID was required by border authorities. This rule change should encourage Canadians to […]

It has been just a week since the James Smith Cree Nation was shattered. After the death of Myles Sanderson and his brother Damien, it seems like the world has moved on to other news stories. But of course the story will not really be over so…

As I scroll Twitter, I often bookmark interesting comments and funny tweets. But I don’t always get the opportunity to include them in my nightly blog post — sometimes they are too much off-topic, other times I want to collect more before I blog them….

We sorta hate-watched the Emmys this year – we hadn’t seen very many of the shows nominated, so the awards didn’t mean very much to us really. I was disappointed that much of the time, the celebrities presenting the awards seemed to think the show…

I was trying to sort out the David Akin vs Pierre Poilievre contretemps yesterday and I couldn’t figure out what happened or who did what.

…the federal government has announced their assistance package for low-income people dealing the effects of high inflation, and Poilievre calls a press conference to react. And the spectacle begins. 

David Akin, one of the reporters present, takes offence that Poilievre insists he won’t take questions (and he hasn’t since he was made leader), and starts shouting questions at him. 

And what does Poilievre do? Call Akin a “Liberal heckler” (because the pool camera can’t see Akin as he’s behind it), and a few hours later, sends out a fundraising appeal to his base that plays victim, that the media is out to get him, and that they’re all protecting Trudeau, and that you need to send him money to take on both Trudeau and the media. 

It’s gross, it undermines institutions, it undermines democracy, but he doesn’t care. It’s his game. And most of the media in this country have no idea how to react to it, and it’s going to be a real problem going forward. 

On a side note, the Royals are having their challenges these days:

Reassuring to see that even a King gets embroiled in feuds with the inanimate objects of our culture. https://t.co/9ot1ZXjkg5

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) September 13, 2022

Had a dream I presented King Charles and the queen escort with a BIC pen and he kicked me in the nuts.

— Gary Shteyngart (@Shteyngart) September 14, 2022

Finally, yesterday I saw this tweet and the comments and suggestions that followed:

It’s hilarious to me that there are celebrities in their mid-20s who pay small fortunes to have PR consultants run their social media, and meanwhile, there’s Henry Winkler and Dan Rather just effortlessly understanding the assignment.

— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) September 13, 2022

So now I have put together a new Twitter List that I call “Tweet Masters” so I won’t lose track of the best tweeters on the Internet. You can follow this list if you want: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1569911596562137091?s=20

Day Four of Poilievre’s leadership and his true colours are already showing: The nasty politics of the “real Pierre Poilivrer”. This is what he did to one of his own high profile MPs who dared support his opponent @JeanCharest_What would this nasty ba…

Britain appears to have lost its mind over the death of a 96-year-old woman  The queen’s funeral is absurdly excessive at this point.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 16, 2022 Two football teams who played the weekend after the Qu…

Two very different stories this week, from different countries, and yet there is a connection at their core. Both the DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt and the Poilievre press conference freak-out demonstrate, I believe, the kind of corruption going on…

What a week! Here are some palate cleansers I have been collecting: The game will miss these two ❤️@serenawilliams | @rogerfederer pic.twitter.com/G630i4BlSL— ESPN (@espn) September 15, 2022 That is quite the photo. https://t.co/sdRxlvoVxJ— Davi…

To begin, I need to give a definition of “ratioed” – Merriam-Webster defines it as “A quantitative measure of how little they like your take.” 

Unbelievably uninformed

Belarus – subservient to Russia since 2020 protests, used to invade Ukraine
Cuba – see a history book
North Korea – ibid
Eritrea – wants Russia to block UN action against it
Nicaragua – Ortega gets aid from RU, hates USA
Syria – see uh the last 7 years https://t.co/n2qgEJ8Cpl

— Maximilian Hess (@zakavkaza) September 18, 2022

So today the Queen was laid to rest in a beautiful ceremony — here are a few of the tweets I flagged about the most-watched funeral in world history:The BBC’s montage at the end of today’s coverage of the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I…

Just a random selection of stuff tongiht.First, I just cannot understand why anyone in Florida would still vote Republican. Here is what the Hurricane Ian storm surge looked like, and the governor and country officials didn’t tell people to evacua…