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 […]

Today was Saskatoon Pride parade day – thousands lined our streets, in spite of the heat, for our first parade since 2019: In photos: Sun shines on Saskatoon’s 2022 Pride Parade https://t.co/WZWBfSdfEi— TheStarPhoenix.com (@TheStarPhoenix) June 18, 202…

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 […]

Busy day today so just some funny animal tweets to enjoy: pic.twitter.com/kxBADuoqhj— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) June 7, 2022 Bear sits next to guy 🐭💞 pic.twitter.com/0mkauOqsaL— 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐝 (@farhad55526050) November 8, 2020…

Over the last several days, I have seen a number of tweets and comments about authoritarianism as people try to understand what happened with everything from Jan 6 Insurrection to the FluTruxKlan, and what’s coming up. Here’s a roundup – Firs…

Wow, did you see this tonight? Carnage. Chaos. Criminal.#January6th wasn’t a random event. It was a coordinated, deliberate conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/mrzoJG6W4M— American Progress (@amprog) June 10, 2022 Here is the comp…

A batch of updates tonight – here we goJuneteenth:Drew Litton, The Colorado Sun #juneteenth2022 pic.twitter.com/EHo0SjG7v7— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) June 19, 2022 Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune @ThatSteveSack #june…

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 […]

Justin Ling’s column today made this observation about the Jan 6 hearings “We’re trapped in a hall of mirrors”What’s novel and disconcerting is the degree to which an emerging far-right ecosystem tooled itself into a totally insulated rapid r…

June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day – here are some tweets that I liked about this important day.Here is Trudeau;s speech: “such strength, such resilience” Miigwich PM @JustinTrudeau for this. It brought tears to my First Nations eyes. A’ho!🪶…

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 […]

Revisionism about the convoy insurrection:Remember Canada 5 months ago? The Convoy Insurrection destroying Ottawa’s downtown, border blockades messing up trade, protestors fanning out across the country to block nurses and doctors from going into hospi…

There are three important investigations going on right now — the Mass Casualty Commission (AKA the Portapique massacre) in Nova Scotia, the Jan 6 Committee hearings in Washington, and the Uvalde massacre investigations in Texas. They all had sig…

Another miscellaneous collection of news items tonight from hither and yon. First up, birds! One of the people I now follow on twitter is Saskatoon’s Tim Brown, who is doing a series of “Birds of Saskatchetoon” which is a portmanteau of “Sask…

I haven’t seen as much about the Russia Ukraine War lately. So tonight I wanted to highlight some recent tweets and articles to summarize the situation:Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 13 June 2022 Find out more abo…

Its hard to even think about how crazy the FreeDumb Convoy is getting, much less write about it.Justin Ling has a major article today in Vice that describes a leaked intelligence report about the anti-vax nutjobs who intend to try to overthrow the Cana…

Ontario voters sent a message tonight, and the message was: Meh! We’re good. On a side note.. once I saw at 5 pm that voter turnout was only 35%.. i knew the opposition parties were in trouble. Low turnout rates always favour incumbents. #onpoli— Scot…

Just a random collection of funny stuff tonight So who knew there could be TWO ranked bulldogs in North American Diving Dogs? But here is one of them, Chewy! This is Chewy. He competed in his first dock diving event last month. Proud to be one of …

FreeDumb Convoy:First, here’s some actual news from the real world – Covid vaccines saved 20 million lives: 20,000,000 https://t.co/NT4RfBMWuo— James Moore (@JamesMoore_org) June 24, 2022 Next, we are finally seeing some push-back to that awful meetin…

It has now been 100 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. The yellow markings on this map from Australian Strategic Policy Institute researcher Nathan Ruser show how successful Ukraine has been in retaking its territory from the Russian invaders…

Whoever this “someone” was… https://t.co/DD07Eluflj pic.twitter.com/JADr2lqewN— Mark Gerretsen 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 (@MarkGerretsen) June 14, 2022 Here’s one thing I noticed today — because Trudeau has Covid and has to appear on video in the Commons, he does…

The loss of abortion rights in the United States is the news of the day — the US Supreme Court has overturned Roe V Wade, redefining women’s rights and allowing states to stop women from getting abortions.  After deciding 40 years ago to mak…

So this is discouraging news: There’s a growing divide in Europe over what would constitute an acceptable conclusion to the Russia/Ukraine war. Macron is saying publicly what a lot of senior people say in private. https://t.co/5XIqEPEclI— Gerald Butts…

Just a bunch of observations today on the passing scene.First up, interest rates. And I do mean up.Now, perhaps there is a problem with the conventional wisdom that raising interest rates will stop “inflation”. The problem is – maybe it won’t.As Atrios…

Just a random collection of news tonight. First, from Uvalde: The more the media tries to dig into what happened in Uvalde, the less it makes sense. It is beginning to remind me of the confusion around the Portapique massacre, where 22 p…

It doesn’t quite scan like “Remember remember the 5th of November”, but remembering Jan 6 2021 is now a cottage industry in the United States and the Jan 6 Committee hearings are getting more fascinating with every passing day. Today we found out …

Follow this tweet thread for some sad photos of the brave Canadian boys who lost their lives fighting in D-Day 78 years ago. They were all so young: @CAFinUS has a remarkable, heartbreaking series today in recognition of the D-Day anniversary and the s…

The LA Times has a major article describing the gang of third-raters, rubes, grifters and gullibles who were trying to overturn Biden’s election. First, it’s all just one big tangled ball of string — the same bunch of fellow travellers keep turni…

First, in Canada, the Mass Casualty Commission into the 2020 Portapique massacre is continuing with RCMP testifying today. Here’s the worst of it: as shown in Tim Bousquet’s hearing coverage this morning, RCMP seemed overly focused on crafting Per…