Soupir -- Terminées, les études collégiales dans les pénitenciers fédéraux du Québec Le Cégep Marie-Victorin et les professeurs qui enseignent à la population carcérale à Cowansville et à Joliette dénoncent cette décision de Services correctionnels Canada qui va, selon eux, à l’encontre de la […]

Btw. Chinese EVs won't be eligible for those EV subsidies. Way to "open" the market #cdnpoli

.... my automatic translation tool just translated this, and I can't even... 😆 - That is goooooooood! => C'est de la bouillie pour les chats!

La laïcité, sauf quand c'est la religion catholique 🙏 -- Malgré l’interdiction des prières de rue, le ministre Jean-François Roberge donne sa bénédiction aux cortèges funéraires, qui pourront continuer de se faire sur la voie publique. Les maires craignaient de devoir porter l’odieux de […]

At least he's not Harper! Wait... --- "Carney said Harper came to Ottawa as a "conviction politician," but emerged as a "pragmatist," praising his stewardship during the global recession of 2008-09, which Canada weathered relatively well compared to other developed nations. While committed to […]

We only have one prime minister. How much worse someone else could have been *does not matter*. Our lives and our future are not being shaped by a hypothesis.

I hope the birds appreciate because this was a COLD seed refill. Also added the new food in the old/new feeder. So they can enjoy some bark butter bits and some mealworms!

"'’Backwards’ was my first thought,' said Cathy Holtslander, director of research and policy at the National Farmers Union (NFU), after learning about the email. 'Obviously, they made these cuts without knowing what they were doing — which is a big problem — and also [the cuts] suggest they […]

Can't wait for Carney and his Minister of Digital Asbestos Integration to shove Palantir-adjacent AI into Canada's public service. www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants

Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”

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We want to go to Bruce peninsula for our yearly trip in the fall. Maybe go on the 17 from Ottawa, stop at Lake Nissiping for a day or two. We can reserve our parking to Bruce/Grotto tomorrow (this is what we've been waiting for before booking everything else lol) Anything else in the area […]

So thankful for vertical greenhouse technology. Being able to get fresh Québec greens in February is amazing. It's also one of the things that thankfully still gets government funding. #BuyCanadian

I removed the suet cages in my second big caged feeder (the birds hated this one, no idea why), bought a treat bowl, and Kyle glued it in 😅 ... Now to buy treats for the biiirds (because surely they don't have enough food choices yet).

Someone made a new website, in both languages, of Canada's historic places :) https://heritageguide.ca/ 'When Stephen Taylor read a CBC Nova Scotia story about the imminent closure of Parks Canada's Canadian Register of Historic Places website, he knew he had to act. The register is a […]

Spot the morning birds (There are also at least 10 juncos around)

Ehhh. Québec is not happy about this speech that Carney made in Québec City today. Trying to erase the history of the British trying to assimilate the French. It's subtle, but it's incredibly insulting. -- "New France had fallen. British North America had begun. It would have been easy – […]

I'm glad he made a nice speech. I'll wait for actions

I don't know why but the birds couldn't figure out the suet in the cage feeder and just... didn't eat any. I got the old feeder back and Miss Downy spent so much time chirping and eating and chirping!!! Message well received my friend

This felt like a perfect representation of #Ottawa

No more starlings stealing Miss Downie's suet!! (That was right after she almost flew into my face 😆) #SKyard #BirdPhotography #DownyWoodpecker

Look at this gorgeous bird! A white-crowned sparrow, which is a new bird to our yard! #SKyard #BirdPhotography #Sparrow

Hummingbird clearwing #SKyard #moths

Look at this perfectly round junco!! :face_holding_back_tears: Just stayed there for me for so long! #SKyard #BirdPhotography

So.. This is a thing apparently? Lol!

"Insects, bats, rodents and other pests have been spotted in federal buildings more than 500 times in the Ottawa area this year, as the government makes plans to get public servants to spend more time in the office." Sabourin said the pests included — but were “not limited to” — bats, birds […]

This is horrible. Do not buy AI translated books. Please. --- The French literary translators association (ATLF) and the collective En Chair et en Os (In the Flesh) have just published a press release (in French) relating how translators working for Harlequin were recently told that the […]

Christmas 🐦

Even the Alberta NDP is all about oil and pipelines... fun “This MOU is good for Alberta. We need more pipeline capacity, energy exports, and the oil and gas jobs that come with it." https://www.albertandpcaucus.ca/news/post/nenshi-responds-to-canada-alberta-mou

Nenshi responds to Canada-Alberta MOU

Engaging Albertans to build an economy for the future.

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I'm doing some training... this is supposed to be a translator!! Whaaaat. Translating on a laptop, with no ergonomic stuff??? 😂

Husband is gone for a whole week for work. First time in... A decade? What do I do? Paint the downstairs bathroom, finally 😆

Little friend visiting on the porch! #birding