John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁

Independent #Softitute #Java #developer #cloud #architect since 1997 He/Him/His. Married to a lovely lady. #ottawa #cats #dogs #fishing #hunting #onpoli #cdnpoli #ottawa #barrhaven #aquarium #geology #onstorm #antihate #gardening #MMT #canada #NoWarButClassWar

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2026-03-30 14:06:25 UTC

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*David Attenborough voice*
"Shackleton's photographer dragged a sled of glass plates 2200km across the Antarctic ice to capture these images of ancient meteorites embedded in the ice cap. Later, the photographer was eaten by his shipmates, who in turn were eaten by a seal, which escaped before the surviving shipmates could eat it."

2026-03-27 19:38:19 UTC

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now your dining companion will be identified during the heist. Also, I think wool is indigestible.

2026-03-24 21:22:42 UTC

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that looks great, where did you find it? I am all for pub+turkish breakfast fusion...

2026-03-23 22:37:42 UTC

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tipped the cart and spilled about 100L of sap on the road! 😱😭🤬
Using a new cart this year and loaded 100kg all in one end and it wheelied.
Oh well, I don't think I had room for it all, huge run of sap in past 24h. I have 24h worth of boiling to make more room.

2026-03-23 21:48:04 UTC

First boiling sap for 2026. #canada #ottawa #maplesyrup
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/280/684/861/776/706/original/6f8c9b3bce444836.mp4

2026-03-22 18:14:53 UTC

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you should nag the Senate IT to start up an official instance for official accounts of Senators.

2026-03-19 11:50:21 UTC

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that's just the door where the garbage comes out.

2026-03-15 22:26:32 UTC

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watch your step, hope it goes better than you than in the Sublime song.
https://tidal.com/track/62096429/u

2026-03-14 17:02:13 UTC

😂🤔😮😍
AI job losses free up time for unemployed mobs to burn down tech CEO‘s houses - The Beaverton
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/03/ai-job-losses-free-up-time-for-unemployed-mobs-to-burn-down-tech-ceos-houses/

2026-03-12 15:24:43 UTC

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looks like the kind of place that would be full of rotating knives.

2026-03-11 03:06:14 UTC

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when I was 18.1 years old, we would make fun of "old" people who went hiking with poles. Anything up to 55deg incline was "just walk".

2026-03-09 14:15:30 UTC

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he thinks the same of you

2026-03-07 19:59:22 UTC

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tbe perfect place to drop in after 9 pints of lager alternating with 9 pints of cider

2026-03-05 17:41:33 UTC

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oh, I thought you had HighT at the Chateau Laurier. Probably normal thieving levels where you are.
Hopefully it was just a misunderstanding for that guy and they aren't too hard on him.

2026-03-05 15:40:57 UTC

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Don't leave any photos lying around there, that place has a bad reputation for thievery.

2026-03-04 15:33:20 UTC

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it could be that the crashing software has created a large volume of information, for example by a non-terminating regression or loop.
Since mass, energy, and information are all equivalent, a large blob of information causes time dilation just like a large mass.

2026-02-19 16:13:40 UTC

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"The Classic" is indeed the tail with the best nutritional profile, having relatively little added fat/sat-fat/sugar from desert toppings.
Not a champion's breakfast unless you're looking to weight up for the sumo or cannonball championships.
For anything else, you'd be better off eating the beaver's diet of tree bark.

2026-02-18 18:27:30 UTC

Baskets are good for catching heads.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-osap-cuts-9.7094009

2026-02-16 04:09:25 UTC

Go kiss Kissinger, Thatcher and Kirk's asses in hell Green. #ottawa
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/longtime-ottawa-radio-host-lowell-green-dead-at-89-9.7091476

2026-02-10 17:23:45 UTC

It seems the builder of the Amazon abomination on Leikin in Barrhaven will disassemble the steel erected last summer and re-do it. The site was undergoing furious construction activity from last Jan to about Oct, activity dropped to almost nothing. Many millions worth of heavy equipment and materials slowly buried in the snow, with the west exit entirely unused all winter.
A bit of activity this week, a crane is visible.
#ottawa

2026-02-09 22:15:28 UTC

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FT also has a paywall

2026-02-09 16:38:54 UTC

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I wonder how the self-driving cars are doing out there in the self-driving car test area. It was supposed to be part of Ottawa's economic supercluster, repeatedly announced but never apparently causing any real-world activity. And a movie studio too!

2026-02-09 16:34:36 UTC

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get up there with the snow brush

2026-02-04 19:10:21 UTC

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"oh, my very own qubit!"
*enters dark hard vacuum to observe it*
*dies before observation*

2026-02-03 20:26:20 UTC

The RAMpocalypse has jacked the price of a basic 64GB used server by 60%. RAM is now half the cost ($700 of $1400). #homelab
I can probably just out wait the RAMPocalypse and overload the stuff I already have, as I work to replace US cloud services with self-hosted options.

2026-01-29 17:21:40 UTC

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how was your presentation received by the Digital Govt Leaders?
I'm one of the 6138 that pushed back on C11 and other Canadian DCMA legislation. What a mess!

2026-01-29 01:38:06 UTC

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ad fraud?
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/115/975/822/849/744/968/original/72b9c05c17c62450.mp4

2026-01-26 00:31:44 UTC

Legislation advanced by @npub12j4…vque, Canada's political Mastodon pioneer, is in the news.
Getting Canadians out of Nexus for non-US travel seems like a great idea.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-trusted-traveller-program-airport-security-9.7058664
#cdnpoli

2026-01-17 00:15:02 UTC

Every winter, every Canadian suffers from the grim horrors of extreme cold. Few have any fingers or toes left by age 40.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/115/907/551/365/952/328/original/e97981dcc6ea29e1.png

2026-01-14 19:10:12 UTC

800 vulnerability notification emails/day, all for systems and hosts I don't and can't work on?
Is that how we're doing this now?
#IT

2026-01-14 18:06:53 UTC

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I hope they were using a better package photo than the commercial section of Grenfell Dr. (or whever that is)
Maybe the Spanish don't want their weed to taste like it was grown within 500m of 27 auto repair and tuner shops.

2026-01-14 17:56:24 UTC

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legal grow op?

2026-01-12 21:07:49 UTC

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"I will transcend matter to avoid being left alone"

2026-01-12 03:06:07 UTC

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you can drill a hole in the roof later. It won't matter in the end.

2026-01-07 19:05:11 UTC

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can't decide if St. Laurent or Rideau, but I know it's not Bayshore, since Bayshore was built before they started with the deliberately confusing angled layouts. It's all 90deg corners.
Maybe you can straighten it out with a set of special mirrors and lenses.

2026-01-06 14:06:49 UTC

Mou 😄
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/115/848/536/961/485/889/original/a8e9dc100c7645ed.jpg

2026-01-02 16:53:21 UTC

Straight up lies in the CBC article about Canada's finances.
Canada does not "borrow cash" - it creates cash. There is no fundamental debt limit. No "debt wall" exists, and the "credit rating" for Canada in Canadian-dollar debt is meaningless. These are all weasel words to advocate for austerity, to put more wealth in the hands of the wealthy.
Canada's "debt" is all in Canadian dollars and the bondholders could be paid in full tomorrow.
So why do these bonds exist?
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/115/826/538/246/198/686/original/abdde260cf7a7098.png

2025-12-29 03:50:51 UTC

Take care not to scratch your goggles with your hand crampons if you're going out tonight in Ottawa

2025-12-27 21:50:39 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@galacticstone/115792998097504583
Attention Mikes
#note1lhw…wpgh

2025-12-26 10:41:32 UTC

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530am...is your neighbour blasting kareoke too?

2025-12-24 04:49:10 UTC

The suspected flu continues. I might be hiding out in the garage while our guests are here tomorrow.
Super annoying timing, but what can you do.
It came on slow. I'd call this day 3 or 4, but had only very minor throat horseness until late yesterday. Today, a broad selection of symptoms, more in the sinuses than in the throat or lungs.

2025-12-20 03:30:50 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gnomon/115749015911513360
In the 1980 constitutional negotiations lead by Trudeau Sr. There was bargaining about trading the federal disallowance for the notwithstanding clause. It failed, NWC and disallowance went ahead.
Disallowance is not some ancient loophole that should never be used, it was retained exactly for this possibility, where provinces abuse the NWC to attack minority rights.
This is a petition calling for disallowance to be used to counter the NWC abuse that provs are using to attack trans people.
#note13us…5lzc

2025-12-19 19:27:23 UTC

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I hope not, that's my daughter's phone!

2025-12-19 17:06:45 UTC

What TH is "access specified by the device's manufacturer"?
#android
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/115/747/321/653/159/683/original/f9f588bf2f5cfcd8.png

2025-12-18 17:28:46 UTC

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Red Santa brings toys to good children
Dark Santa, Santa's cousin, drives a black van and will go smash toys of any asshole kids if Santa made a mistake...
This should be Green Santa.

2025-12-18 02:50:04 UTC

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SaunaCar(tm)

2025-12-14 04:50:26 UTC

Travelled in #Quebec today, the place where they won't allow serving Kosher food at a Jewish hospital, but they'll let a militarized Christian church setup a roadblock to solicit church donations on a public road.

2025-12-04 17:38:56 UTC

😂
Poilievre asks BC Conservative leader for tips on just refusing to leave - The Beaverton
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/12/poilievre-asks-bc-conservative-leader-for-tips-on-just-refusing-to-leave/

2025-12-03 14:53:44 UTC

Is this why ham is associated to some Christmas traditions?
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/656/201/274/533/604/original/1b4c4368aa2523a1.jpg

2025-12-03 11:49:55 UTC

Wednesday December 3, 2025 – mackaycartoons
https://mackaycartoons.net/2025/12/03/wednesday-december-3-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wednesday-december-3-2025

2025-12-02 22:19:17 UTC

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when I first moved to Nepean, PP was a young MP under Harper and my first exposure was him speaking in the House about allowing a mine in Quebec to export asbestos to developing countries where it was still legal to install, where it would be certain to kill thousands of people.
So yeah.

2025-12-02 13:00:26 UTC

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my hunch was completely wrong. They'll need to achieve a market cap of $700B 2025 dollars to reclaim that 2000 peak valuation.
Maybe the accumulated dividends help, but if one bought at $82 in 2000, they'll be waiting quite a while yet to turn that around.

2025-12-02 12:54:55 UTC

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how does a chart of inflation-adjusted market cap compare? With 25 years of dilution and inflation, they would've crossed the valuation ATH long ago. Maybe around when they started paying dividends in 2011?

2025-12-01 18:21:32 UTC

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it's surprising how many bags of chips are needed for a proper vehicle repair. 2-3 per hour, more if it's snowing.

2025-12-01 02:26:21 UTC

Doing some shopping at AliExpress and found this fleece "sleeping helmet".
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/641/934/187/296/913/original/8f4aa3a9288cf1b8.png

2025-11-29 20:43:15 UTC

I don't GAF about some drug dealer CBC.

2025-11-26 00:17:32 UTC

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if only there was some photography technique that could help

2025-11-23 19:10:15 UTC

The Voldemort of crocheted snowmen is back and stalking the forests.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/600/586/304/870/281/original/e92eb225cf503031.jpg

2025-11-21 20:32:04 UTC

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is @npub1cds…8luu into broad swathes of radar coverage or good conditions for astronomical observations? Why else would he want to get so high?

2025-11-20 00:46:30 UTC

A fine deAdder
Trump and the media
https://deadder.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-media

2025-11-19 19:02:56 UTC

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$12.5k for each of Ontario's 16M residents.
The article also points out they had a jump of 20% in 2024.
Did everyone else get a jump in net worth of 20% last year? Did I miss the memo? 😭

2025-11-19 18:19:34 UTC

A few unfamiliar names in here. #ontario
This group of Ontario's richest people have a combined wealth of over $200 billion
https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/11/ontarios-richest-people-combined-wealth-over-200b/

2025-11-19 14:01:37 UTC

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but that's a Nuthatch. In the Nuthatch community, the proverbs are "keep a stiff lower beak" and "chin down" and the positive expression "things are looking down"

2025-11-16 20:59:25 UTC

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nice cigarette lighter, do the fans run slower when it's heating up?

2025-11-16 20:37:58 UTC

Industry Canada's Corporations Canada website has a facking popup at the final, pre-payment step for filing various corporate reports and returns.
Modern browsers don't even hint that they are blocking a popup anymore, so when you click the "pay" link...nothing happens....cancel link...nada...."save and continue later"...nope.
The kind of thing I expect to go from "not great" to "really bad" under pointlessly hacking the public service budget.
#Canada

2025-11-11 00:42:02 UTC

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don't agree with this assumption that AI-generated music isn't copying/stealing from artists. It's just doing it at a scale and with a technique that makes it untraceable. The program is trained on a vast library of unlicensed, copyrighted music, arrangements, lyrics, voice characteristics.
Of course, human artists have been doing the same forever, which puts it in a strange place.

2025-11-09 22:38:52 UTC

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goalkeeper helping out
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/522/134/802/149/914/original/c908d4de344ac8e2.jpg

2025-11-09 22:35:48 UTC

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Canadian Premier League final. Game is paused so that they can clear the lines.

2025-11-09 22:33:56 UTC

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no white kits and they have an orange ball. Snowing at 5cm/h

2025-11-09 22:32:06 UTC

Proper soccer game underway in #ottawa
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/522/109/596/280/410/original/49d5975a101517c5.jpg

2025-11-09 21:38:35 UTC

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always find all lacrosse variants interesting with their allowance of stick blows to the upper body and head, provided it's while attacking the ball carrier.

2025-11-06 16:49:10 UTC

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so French books don't count against the packing total?

2025-11-02 22:19:02 UTC

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it was a beautiful pink and orange sunset as I drove down Hunt Club tonight. But great art demands sacrifices, so #blackandwhite it is.

2025-10-31 23:08:30 UTC

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I've been trying to figure out how to do an air-gapped update, to get latest firmware with bettebr SFP compatibility and it's not straightforward. Not just downloading a package and updating via webui.
Experiments are suspended for the Jays game. Don't want to knock out my own internet tonight!

2025-10-31 15:04:14 UTC

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hard to manage without WAN, and I don't want cloud management anyway... that's asking for trouble. I'm not sure it could be setup without WiFi, they don't make the default IP obvious. And the default IP conflicts with the existing gateway, which is necessary to use WiFi.
Eventually I managed to change the IP and get into the local webui to manage it.
Not loving it so far.

2025-10-31 15:00:49 UTC

After fiddling with a Mikrotik HexS for a while, I decided to get a Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Fiber, which actually has the processing guts to effectively route my 1.5Gbps service.
I wasn't successful getting the HexS to run the SFP ONT in 2.5G mode, but I think I would be eventually.
I expected the CGF would be easier, but I was wrong. It did manage to connect once to my ISP, but quickly dropped it. Generally no light on the SFP+ slot. The management approach is a mess.

2025-10-30 15:35:16 UTC

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the friendly confines of Slack/Woodroffe.

2025-10-29 17:51:06 UTC

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are you sure it wasn't a dream?

2025-10-27 02:20:01 UTC

A bit sad today, our 18 year old cat is on the way out. Has been living with some managed chronic diseases for a couple of years...just slowly declining physically and mentally. We don't want to push it any further into the bitter end stage of kidney disease.
Tomorrow will be her last day. Had a long and full life. 🥲

2025-10-23 18:54:21 UTC

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banks definitely count mortgage principal as an asset

2025-10-23 15:55:07 UTC

Heard today the most grumpy old man complaint ever: "Who keeps moving the shoe horn?!?", from d13 🤣

2025-10-22 18:28:15 UTC

Excellent report by Canadians for Tax Fairness on the economics of the western oil industry, since 2021. 60% US owned, 26% Canadian. Over 3x more taken in profit than paid to AB labour. Minimal investment of $15B in recent years.
Why should Canadians accept grand national scale projects to make this situation even worse? Why should only US and Chinese companies be getting the sweet deals?
https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/reports/exporting-profits
#cdnpoli

2025-10-22 12:43:56 UTC

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no details link or mention because it's not hard to find.

2025-10-21 21:09:04 UTC

Cory Doctorow is coming to #Ottawa and pushing out the #enshittification content on the 25th.

2025-10-21 15:01:54 UTC

Gold down 5% today. Suddenly investors realizing that gold is heavy, comes out of the ground, and isn't terribly useful. Can't even pay taxes with it.
Grabbing that cheap gym bag full of gold bars and effortlessly swinging it into the trunk of your car isn't like in the movies.

2025-10-17 20:03:55 UTC

As I continue to de-google in favour of my own email on my own domain, as I update my email on various services, I sometimes have to call into support.
Today it was Triangle Rewards, which involves Canadian Tire, Sportchek, and other Canadian retailers.
I called in and spoke to the legendary TriangleMan, and he updated my email. I didn't say anything about ParticleMan, thought it would be awkward.
#Canada #TheyMightBeGiants

2025-10-05 16:08:02 UTC

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what's going on there with the tape deck and kit computer?

2025-10-04 19:45:30 UTC

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I demand a tribute of rural or light industrial landscape photos at least every 3 days

2025-10-04 18:49:15 UTC

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stay active here or you'll be caught in my regular purges of inactive followers and follows. I don't like screaming into the void, nor listening out of it.

2025-10-04 16:10:37 UTC

New here from #Bluesky or #Twitter? Let me know and I'll follow you. The void must be defeated!

2025-10-04 16:07:44 UTC

There is already a pipeline from Edmonton to southern BC. What's the point of a northern route where nobody wants it?
If more capacity is needed, find a way expand the existing route. It's not like there are any customers further north.
It just seems like Smith trying to fan the embers of her dying separatist movement. Pick the worst ideas and blame federalism when nobody agrees.
In a few years, it will all be even more uneconomic, Smith will be gone.

2025-09-30 23:08:31 UTC

😂
Riyadh Comedy Festival opens with up-and-coming executioner - The Beaverton
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/riyadh-comedy-festival-opens-with-up-and-coming-executioner/

2025-09-30 16:20:04 UTC

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the victims and others continue to fight in the courts for the release of records. It's complicated, but some institutions aren't particularly cooperative about it.

2025-09-30 14:07:18 UTC

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credible artistic impression of a possible events during the forced residential schools period.
Notice the prominence of the institutions depicted. Many of the individual perpetrators have died or apologized, but many of the institutions have not done so adequately, to this day, IMO.
More details about the 2017 work and how it was shown.
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/kent-monkman/key-works/the-scream/
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/293/597/177/279/273/original/1f8173d5aa025f1b.jpeg

2025-09-30 13:31:56 UTC

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in #canada today.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/national-day-truth-reconciliation.html

2025-09-30 02:35:58 UTC

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have you accidentally welded youself inside something? 🤔

2025-09-28 19:33:01 UTC

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it's not money unless you can pay taxes in it, since modern fiat is a unit of tax credit, originally issued by govt, and that's the only thing that can settle a tax debt.
It might be money in Ecuador?

2025-09-27 19:54:03 UTC

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get well soon! d13 had a back to school disease, but its harder to find a COVID test now. Mom and I avoided it. Not sure what it was.

2025-09-24 02:23:26 UTC

😂
Danielle Smith invokes notwithstanding clause to win argument with spouse - The Beaverton
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/danielle-smith-invokes-notwithstanding-clause-to-win-argument-with-spouse/

2025-09-22 11:38:47 UTC

So the cold call to my cell from the CRA about a week ago turned out to be legit.
Some days after I refused to conduct any tax business over the phone, a letter appeared in my account, with name and direct contact info of the agent.
Of course, I couldn't actually reply to it in the messaging portal. Nor could I file the necessary amendment, due to the in-progress status of the return.
My options were to phone and leave a weekend voicemail, or to send a fax.
Ugh!