@Techmeme@techhub.socialCanadian law enforcement seizes $40.5M in digital assets after shutting down TradeOgre crypto exchange, making it the largest Canadian crypto seizure to date. (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/340310/canada-confiscates-56m-bitcoin-xrp-c…
@barijaona@mastodon.mgThe U.S. ambassador to Canada is expressing frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in this country.
And Trump hasn’t even chosen a new name for the US Department of Commerce…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us-ambassa…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
In 1905, when Alberta joined Canada, a temporary provincial legislature resided in Edmonton and they were given the task of choosing the capital. Edmonton, by a vote of 16 to 8, was selected over their southern rival Calgary. This choice was despite Calgary's larger size and incorporation as a city a full decade before Edmonton. But the new capital had used their history as an important trading post established on the fur trade route and federal relationships to secure their status as the capital. In 1941, Edmonton was still a relatively small city, ranking 9th in population in Canada. Oil would transform the entire province, and Edmonton would rapidly grow as the gateway to the resource rich Alberta north.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/edmonton
@dkomaran@social.linux.pizza
@teledyn@mstdn.caMP says group 'has engaged in actions and have made statements that are contrary to Canadian values and laws'
'has engaged in actions and have made statements that are contrary to Canadian values and laws'
'are contrary to Canadian values'
And THAT particular Canadian MP decides YOUR values.
In Canada, as of today, you no longer need commit a crime to be criminal. And honestly what the fuck are "Canadian values"? Oh wait, never mind, I've seen the Jewel of Canadian Art aka Dundas Square aka Sankofa and yeah, standing up for the underdog is gross violation of Canadian Values, long live Yorkdale Mall, our other most precious shrine😔
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kneecap-ineligible-canada-1.7638108
@aardrian@toot.cafeI feel like this Masto post will be evidence in yet another claim against Air Canada for wrecking someone’s mobility aid.
https://mastodon.social/@mollyanglin/115228115467133057
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizza
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotI'll never understand why they are so terrified of a tiny, tiny minority. So terrified that they would enact the emergency 'notwithstanding' clause
#RightWingBrainRot
https://www.<…
@brian_gettler@mas.toI knew I was cranky about AI, but I guess I didn't realize just how cranky until I filled out this obnoxious and wildly boosterish questionnaire from the government of Canada.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-co…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaCRTC consults to help Canadians resolve Internet, cellphone and television service complaints faster - Canada.ca
https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-teleco…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alPeak neoliberalism. https://kolektiva.social/@adub/115395745174476749
@timbray@cosocial.caWe just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combo of AWS, OVH, and DO to @…, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit based in Canada and with no US dependencies. Already fe…
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@emd@cosocial.caCrazy that the same people answer these 2 questions like this.
https://mstdn.ca/@CanadianPolling/115742985914702440
https://
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Are you still looking for that perfect Christmas gift? Years ago I found myself shopping for my wife's Christmas present on December 23rd. Never again. For those of you still shopping it's inevitable that you're going to be standing in front of the Gift Card rack and mentally convincing yourself that the recipient will love a full gas tank or a Timmies coffee and donut. Canadians will buy close to $12 billion in Gift Cards in 2025, with a lot of that in the next 5 days. Recent changes to legislation have made it illegal to charge processing or activation fees on cards purchased with cash and there is no expiry date. That last point is important because companies are betting that a certain percentage of cards are never redeemed and it's estimated that approximately 40% of all cards are never used. I personally like getting a gift card as it allows me to choose something I want, and I always thank the gifter once I've used it.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GiftCards
@jerome@jasette.facil.services
@fgraver@hcommons.socialGreat comment by @…:
«[…] private institutions are fundamentally extractive. Decisions are made on the basis of profit or some similar self-serving motivation. They provide as little as possible for the revenue they receive. Public institutions, by contrast, are fundamentally constructive. They exist to promote the social good or (if we believe Mark Carney) s…
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaMallard making waves on a pond. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5 Macro. #descansogardens #duck #mallard
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom The Walrus
This Is the Moment Canada Should Stop Playing It Safe
Real sovereignty starts with a little swagger
by Dan Gardner Updated 9:01, Nov. 13, 2025 | Published 6:30, Nov. 13, 2025
https://thewalrus.ca/this-is-the-moment-canada-should-st…
@cdamian@rls.socialFriday Links 25-20
If you have a weird fascination with trams, you should probably check out the full World Tramdriver Championship video.
Otherwise, the podcast with the author of Code Complete is great, so is the one about a train ride through Canada.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/09/fr
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaScotiabank restructures, employees laid off across Canada. Here’s what you should know
https://flip.it/nQrfkB
@Caerfinon@mastodon.socialThe odd thing about being in solidarity with Americans who don't want a king seems odd coming from the citizen of a country that has a King as it's head of state.
He's relatively new in the job, but we kind of had a fondness for his Mum, who incidently served in WWII against you know who
So #NoKings except perhaps for
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cagood grief those are large animals 😬
It always make me laugh (nervously) that they are as happy plucking berries from a bush as they are killing a black bear. 🐻
#banff #grizzly #bear
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/the-boss-bow-valley-grizzly-bear-split-lip-9.6979193
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRivian launches Universal Hands-Free driving for second-generation R1 EVs, expanding coverage from 135,000 highway miles to 3.5M miles across the US and Canada (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/rivian-rolls-out-new-un…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Listening to Christmas tunes and watching the snow fall.
Notable Canadian snowstorms:
- 1913 Great Lakes Storm. The most destructive natural disaster on the Great Lakes, causing 250 deaths & destroying 19 ships.
- 1941 March Blizzard: Brought 100 km/h winds and temps of -45°C to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, leading to the deaths of 72 people.
- 1944: 47 cm of snow hit Toronto in a single day. Unfortunately, the Canadian Army was overseas.
- 1971 Montreal: 45 cm of snow on March 4th & wind gusts of 110 km/h. 200 Ski-Doo owners provided emergency transport.
- 1977: This blizzard struck Southern Ontario January 28 to February 1. Toronto DID NOT call the Army.
- 1999 Toronto Snowstorm: A series of snowfalls paralyze the city, total snowfall for January reached 118 cm. Yes, the mayor called the Army.
- 2007 February 2007: Storm hits Central and Eastern Canada, with Ottawa setting a single-day snowfall record of 35.7 cm.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowmageddon
https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/worst-snowstorm-in-canada/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCheck out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Trump to hand some offsec ops against adversaries to the private sector, report,
--Canada to probe billboard facial recognition use,
--Pope Leo weighs in on Italian spyware scandal,
--Oracle bug led to theft of sensitive NHS docs,
--Coupang founder will go MIA at parliamentary hearing,
--Asahi will change cyber posture after ransom…
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.socialI am glad this old shipwreck hasn't been entangled in equipment over the years. This zone of Lake Ontario regularly has active surveys using a variety of equipment, including bottom net trawls. Must luckily be in-between standardized stations.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/lake-onta…
@brian_gettler@mas.toI wanna live in that alternate English Canada where the Weakerthans and not the Hip are the default national rock band.
@UP8@mastodon.social🔥 The unexpected upside of Canada's wildfires
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/09/23/climate-change/canada-wildfire-upsides/
🆓
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz#Sentinel6B "was delivered into orbit just under an hour after liftoff, and at 07:54 CET ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany received the all-important signal via the Inuvik ground station in Canada, indicating that Sentinel-6B is alive and well": https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-6/Sentinel-6B_launched_to_extend_record_of_sea-level_rise
@roland@devdilettante.comwe should (sorry for the "s" word :-) ) have our own ice hockey league just like the CFL, let's call it the Stanley Cup in Canada league :-). #BringStanleyHomeToTheStanleyCupInCanadaLeague
@sean@scoat.esThe SAQ (Quebec's liquor monopoly) is doing a Spotify style year-end round-up this year. Some of it is a "fun" quiz. Zzzzz.
One of my questions was “did you buy more products from Canada or Sweden this year?”
Hanlon's Razor must have a corollary… right? I can't tell if this is AI slop or [a different kind of] incompetence.
(The SAQ carries 14 products from Sweden; 13 of which are different flavours of Absolut vodka. I did not purchase any of their prod…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
@cdarwin@c.im
@arXiv_astrophEP_bot@mastoxiv.pageNew Orbital Constraints for YSES 1 b and HR 2562 B from High-Precision Astrometry and Planetary Radial Velocities
Jonathan Roberts (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA), William Thompson (NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada), Jason J. Wang (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwes…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlExclusive: U.S. businesses are getting throttled by the drop in tourism from Canada | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2025/12/10/us-businesses-canada-border-throttled-drop-canadian-tourism/
The US is isolating itself...
@brian_gettler@mas.to"What's Fuelling White Nationalism in Canada?"
A new episode of the Rundown from TVO.
#cdnpoli
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCanada loses its measles elimination status, and the US is close behind (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5606830-vaccination-rates-decline-americas/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251116/p7#a251116p7
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaDonate archival material - Canada.ca
Please, don't throw out your photos/negatives/slides. Check them out so that part of our history is preserved.
https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/corporate/donations/donate-archival-material.h…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations fear another ‘worst-case scenario’"
#Canada #FossilFuels #Climate
@arXiv_csDC_bot@mastoxiv.pageElasticMoE: An Efficient Auto Scaling Method for Mixture-of-Experts Models
Gursimran Singh (Huawei Technologies Canada), Timothy Yu (Huawei Technologies Canada), Haley Li (Huawei Technologies Canada), Cheng Chen (Huawei Technologies Canada), Hanieh Sadri (Huawei Technologies Canada), Qintao Zhang (Huawei Technologies China), Yu Zhang (Huawei Technologies China), Ying Xiong (Huawei Technologies Canada), Yong Zhang (Huawei Technologies Canada), Zhenan Fan (Huawei Technologies Canada)
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialOrcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/11/orca-killer-whale-dolphin-hunt-salmon-study-british-columbia-canada?CMP=Share_AndroidA…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialOrcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/11/orca-killer-whale-dolphin-hunt-salmon-study-british-columbia-canada?CMP=Share_AndroidA…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online@… Oh, I imagine you understand. Canada and the US are not so deeply culturally divergent in many ways.
You witness the fuckery we're doing and suffering.
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesHas anyone seen in an article the full complete list of artifacts being returned and which Nation they belong to?
https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/kitchener-q0c2oi5az/-/a-L8ja728ETmOvwWyO7_wAOQ:a:2823982346-/0
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Boards of Canada:
🎵 Roygbiv
#BoardsofCanada
https://lone.bandcamp.com/track/boards-of-canada-roygbiv-covered-by-lone
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Hf2h59YLInKlic7ooWZVd
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.pageNatural Disaster In Canada (2024)
H. Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08594 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08594
@teledyn@mstdn.caBut can these neighbours afford the high prices small shops must pay for small-batch wholesale and rent? Will banks finance small enterprise or treat them like restaurants?
I'm all for a walkable ward, but mine is already conspicuously littered with boarded up small shops and gentrified boutiques.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-council-votes-oppose-ford-government-bill-60-9.6976288
@newsie@darktundra.xyzCanada’s privacy regulator to probe billboards equipped with facial scanning tech https://therecord.media/canada-privacy-regulator-to-probe-face-scanning-billboards
@newstik@social.heise.de"Right now, a lot of condos [are] coming online that people don't really want to live in."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unsold-condos-metro-vancouver-bc-2025-1.7647776
@brian_gettler@mas.toI CANNOT WAIT for this book. Emilie is brilliant and her work has been an inspiration and beyond helpful as I try to write a very similar history but of Canada, rather than the US. Out next week!!!
Emilie Connolly, Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States (2025)
https://
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to @paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.pageRAISE: A self-driving laboratory for interfacial property formulation discovery
Mohammad Nazeri (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada), Sheldon Mei (Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada), Jeffrey Watchorn (Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Canada), Alex Zhang (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada), Erin Ng (Department of Chemical Engineering and A…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caSigh.
No comment.
#Palestine #University #VIU #Israel
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaWestern Honeybee on an African Daisy. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5 Macro. #descansogardens #honeybee #bee …
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration began what could be a contentious process
to rework the trade deal that governs North American business this week,
as it began hearings about the
U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump signed into law in 2020 during his first term.
Farmers, academics, trade groups and others assembled in a government building south of the National Mall on Wednesday
for the first of three days of hearings
to share their assessment of the deal.
@brian_gettler@mas.to @UP8@mastodon.social📉 Record-Low Canadian Natural Gas Prices Prompt Production Curbs
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Record-Low-Canadian-Natural-Gas-Prices-Prompt-Production-Curbs.html
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaSounds like divide-and-conquer to me.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-trade-us-canada-mexico-cusma-usmca-jamieson-greer-9.7010300
@StephenRees@mas.toOrcas and dolphins caught on video collaborating to hunt salmon
Orcas listen to dolphin echolocation, dolphins feed on salmon scraps: new study
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/video-research-orc…
@dkomaran@social.linux.pizza @paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
December 15th, 1964, the Canadian House of Commons votes 163 to 78 to approve the red Maple Leaf flag. The vote put an end to years of conflict over the Liberals proposing a new flag, and gave Canada a new symbol for its upcoming 100th birthday celebration. In 1960, Lester B. Pearson, then Leader of the Opposition, declared that he was determined to solve what he called “the flag problem.” To Pearson, this issue was critical to defining Canada as a unified, independent country. As the newly elected Prime Minister in 1963, Pearson promised to resolve the question of a new national flag in time for Canada’s centennial celebrations in 1967. Traditionalists fought for their beloved Union Jack while a younger generation wanted a new modern design to represent Canada. Thousands of designs, some truly ugly, were considered and rejected, including Pearson's preferred flag. I think we did OK in the end.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://youtu.be/qTMdH9-kmDk?si=9G9ykcp7wpxihKQR
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations tribes fear another ‘worst-case scenario’"
#Canada #FossilFuels #Energy
@jerome@jasette.facil.services @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caPerhaps we should have more than one relatively fast trans-Canada option for travel!?
#accessibility #Transportation #Affordability #trains #rail #westjet
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-power-wheelchair-weight-limit-9.6982990
@paulbusch@mstdn.caBagels and Sourdough battling to be Canada's BBF...
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeBefore you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metcurity for the crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--US, Canada warn of Chinese-linked Brickstorm malware that gains long-term access,
--Intellexa had access to personal data of Predator spyware targets,
--Int'l partners release AI security guide for OT orgs,
--Phreeli cellco doesn't ask for identifying info,
--Taiwan suspends Rednote over fraud cases,
--Alb…
@teledyn@mstdn.caThe traditional strategy to address social problems in canada is to jail anyone with a viable solution.
#posiwid
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dulf-compassion-club-guilty-drug-trafficking-9.6972135
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Baldwin:
Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds.
A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada.
Those have shot up because of tariffs.
About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage.
This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.
htt…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPolice in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-facial-recognition-axon-edmonton-21f319ce806a0…
@newstik@social.heise.de @jerome@jasette.facil.servicesA Story About Bypassing Air Canada's In-flight Wifi Network Restrictions
https://ramsayleung.github.io/en/post/2025/a_story_about_bypassing_air_canadas_in-flight_network_restrictions/
@paulbusch@mstdn.caBTW - If you are displaying the Canadian flag, make sure you follow the rules. You don't want the flag police knocking on your door.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/flag-canada-etiquette/flying-rules.html
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @primonatura@mstdn.social"Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature"
#Canada #Climate #ClimateChange #Nature
@StephenRees@mas.toKneecap, a music artist with a global following, is being unjustly denied entry into Canada solely based on their political stance supporting the 'Free Palestine' movement.
Kneecap has no record of criminal activity in any country. Preventing their entry appears to be a punitive measure stemming from their vocal opposition to policies regarded by many as oppressive and unjust.
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza @gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaBlue Dasher dragonfly resting on a blade of grass. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. June, 2024. #descansogardens #bluedasher #dragonfly
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
#Aaarrr ....
If you're a follower of #Pastafarianism then you understand. Yes, it's #TalkLikeAPirate Day, which makes it a great opportunity to post about those scoundrels who sailed the eastern coast of Canada during the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the best-known pirates to make his mark on Canada was Peter Easton. In 1612, Easton embarked on a series of raids on European fishing fleets in coastal harbours in Newfoundland and Labrador. He turned Harbour Grace into his headquarters and destroyed a Basque fleet that was intent on capturing his fort there. Part of his myth involved capturing an Irish princess who later married one of his lieutenant and settled in Newfoundland. Easton was the rare pirate who retired in France with his wealth. He was succeeded in Canadian waters by Black Bart who captured more than 400 ships over 2 year period, but who met a bloody end when he was put out of business by the British navy.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://thisiscanadiana.com/episode-pages/2022/6/29/the-rise-of-piracy-in-canada-part-1
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesJe viens de terminer la saison 4 du podcast Dérives qui parle de la maladie de Lyme. Écoute essentielle
Je pensais être relativement bien informé sur ça, et finalement j'étais entièrement Š côté de la track
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/bala
@cdarwin@c.imAs rising tides eat away at the
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada,
plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20
@brian_gettler@mas.toCe matin, Š l'occasion de la Journée nationale des vétérans autochtones, je suis passé Š la radio de Radio-Canada pour parler de la participation des Autochtones au sein des forces canadiennes lors de la Première et de la Seconde guerres mondiales.
https…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caYa Germany... do better.
😂😂😭😭
#Canada #Rail #Transportation
https://mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/115706907838681701
@StephenRees@mas.to @Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft plans to invest CA$7.5B in Canada over two years to build AI infrastructure, coming online in 2026, taking its investment to CA$19B from 2023 to 2027 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-inv…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Our #CanadianCapitals feature today is the oldest European settlement in North America as well as the most eastern city on the continent. Despite a history that goes back to he 1490s, St. John's Newfoundland was incorporated as a city in 1921 and became a provincial capital in 1949 upon joining Canada. The natural harbour served explorers and fishermen for centuries, and the settlement survived pirates, attacks by the French, and several devastating fires. If the Portuguese had more influence, it would have been named Rio de San Johem, which is a missed opportunity.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/st-johns
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpotify rolls out music videos to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following a beta launch in nearly 100 markets last year (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spot…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesUS company purchases Parkland.
Parkland operates gas stations under the Esso, Ultramar, Chevron, Pioneer, and Fas Gas Plus, Husky. Also operates: operates On the Run, M&M meats
What remains Canadian
-Canadian Tire Gas, Petro Canada, Co-Op, Couche Tard, Irving
And Shell is Dutch based
…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaThere are no innocent bystanders in this. As long as TACO remains in power, calling us the 51st state, thundering his 'tariffs' on any any country who displeases him, unleashing the various departments to punish those who oppose him, masked & armed toadies terrorizing your people, ignoring the constitution and laws why the hell should we do business with a dictatorship and populace that allows that.
@brian_gettler@mas.toHow to put a positive spin on xenophobia.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-rebounds-as-a-top-choice-for-international-students-new-survey-finds/article_0c9e94c0-81d2-4a…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Happy National Homemade Bread Day for all those with enough dough to celebrate. There's no data on how many of us make their own bread at home, but there are 1,321 bakery product manufacturing establishments and more than 1,406 retail bakeries in Canada. Canada annually ranks in the top 10 worldwide in wheat production, 6th or 7th, depending on the year, but we don't eat a lot of bread. #StatsCan says we consume approximately 30 kg per person yearly, which doesn't put us in the top 30 internationally - Turkey's citizens eat 6 times as much as us. We spend about 10% of our grocery bill on baked goods, and that has increased almost 30% over the past 5 years. Canada exports $5.2B in baked goods annually with $5B of that going to the U.S. market.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Sandwich
My favourite type of bread: Please boost for scientific significance.
@brian_gettler@mas.toWhat a world.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Canadian Energy Innovation Call for Proposals
https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/artificial-intelligence-canadian-energy-innovation
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
There is a lot of news coverage about a USA president that lusts after a Nobel Prize like he attacks a family sized bucket of KFC. So let's celebrate that OTD in 1957, the first Canadian won the peace prize - Lester B. Pearson. Before he became our 14th Prime Minister, he spent the majority of his career as a diplomat. He was one of the founders of the United Nations and almost ended up as its first Secretary General. He was instrumental in ending the Suez Canal crisis by suggesting and helping to implement the first U.N. Peacekeeping Force.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1957/pearson/facts/
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
As #Halloween creeps up on us, we continue to highlight haunted abandoned towns. Today, we are in Rowley Alberta, a failed railway town near the gates of Hell. Maybe near Drumheller.... I wasn't paying attention. Settled around 1910, it once had about 500 residents but declined after the closure of its train station in 1965, and the construction of new highways bypassing the town. Today, it's a mix of private homes and preserved historical buildings, and the remaining 9 evil residents have worked to maintain its historic charm. They have added new features and even host monthly pizza nights to lure in unsuspecting tourists. Don't go in the old shed with all the sharp farm tools....
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://youtu.be/6huskbX8Hh8?si=oowVXFI_s2RwVipM
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
If you are a vintage Canadian, you will remember a 1973 commercial comparing the health of a 30-year-old Canadian to a 60-year-old Swede or taking a #BodyBreak with Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod. The nonprofit organization #ParticipACTION has either motivated you to start an exercise program or caused you to feel guilty about being a couch potato. From 1971 to 2001, ParticipACTION operated independently, with government support, and focused on improving the health of Canadians through physical activity. It disappeared for a few years but was relaunched in 2007 as a nonprofit with guaranteed support from the federal government (funding and administrative).
Every year, they release the ParticipACTION Report Card, and for 2025, the data shows a failing grade in most categories. I acknowledge my contribution, or lack thereof. Despite the well documented positive impact of exercise, we are falling short.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GetActive
https://www.participaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025_ParticipACTION_Report_Card_Summary.pdf
@paulbusch@mstdn.caFood Banks Canada is the organization that supports the 5,500 food banks that so many Canadians rely upon. It's a great source on the impact of hunger in Canada, and you can use their guide to find a food bank near you.
https://foodbankscanada.ca/
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
You don't have to like numbers to appreciate Statistics Canada, aka StatsCan. Jean Talon could be considered Canada's first official statistician when he arrived in North America in 1665 on a mission for King Louis XIV to conduct Canada's first census in 1666. In 1918, the Statistics Act created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, a national statistics office that ultimately would become Statistics Canada. Besides conducting the Census of Population and the Census of Agriculture every five years, StatCan has more than 450 active surveys on virtually all aspects of life in Canada. Results are published twice a month and can be accessed via The Daily web page.
One of my favourite web pages is Canada's Population Clock (real-time model). It's fascinating to watch, and our population increased by 11 while I typed this post.
#CanadaIsAwesome #StatsCan
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
I finished my breakfast this morning only to discover that it's National Maple Syrup Day. A missed opportunity but at least I can share some important facts about Canada's sweet and sticky sauce.
- Indigenous People taught early Canadians how to harvest maple sap and boil it down into a sugary liquid.
- A maple tree can yield sap for up to 100 years, but the trees must be roughly 45 years old before it’s first tapped for syrup making.
- It takes roughly 40 gallons (150 litres) of tree sap to produce 1 gallon (3.8 litres) of syrup.
- Quebec produces 72% of the world’s maple syrup. In 2021, that equaled 133M lbs from Quebec.
- The big bottle of Costco Maple Syrup is from Quebec.
- Maple Syrup only has 1 ingredient. Sap.
- Maple Syrup has an indefinite shelf life but should be frozen if storing for more than 2 years.
And regarding the great Maple Syrup heist, this is still the best report on that famous crime.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MmmmSyrup #MapleSyrup
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/maple-syrup-heist?srsltid=AfmBOoq7fMx3GguT20T9cNrpZgrtVue4leiYZpZibZT_7S9WHWDfI0Ln
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
There are over 100 ghost towns in Saskatchewan, including Saskatoon in early February. One was Bonne Madone, a community founded in 1902 in the scary Rural Municipality of Woooo Boooo. (Editor - it's actually Hoodoo). The area was granted by the federal government to French settlers, the main contingent of which arrived in 1902 from Dauphiné and Franche-Comté, led by fathers Laurent Voisin and Jean Garnier. A convent run by the Sisters of Providence was established there in 1905. Nuns with rulers are very scary. A school was built there in 1908, and the town's chapel was first built in 1910, and the town also had a Royal North-West Mounted Police station and a Post office. It was an active community in the 1920s and the 1930s, but its population dwindled over the next few decades, and by the end of the 1960s, it was abandoned..... and haunted.
BTW - Some provinces have a Ghost Town Trail, like this one.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.prairiepast.com/blog/explore-3
