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Pronounced 'bye-rack'. Fail whale expat and former editor, now work in comms. #Coffee enthusiast. Passionately curious; obviously wrong views my own.
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Challenge accepted. My great-grandfather was a self-taught painter, but the results were anything but amateur. He left us dozens. Here's one framed in my bedroom (another can be seen on my profile banner). He was clearly inspired by the Group of Seven and the Ontario countryside. #CanCon #Canada

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Between the Toronto construction traffic and economic headlines this morning I am staying focused on the best news this morning. The Jays made Vladdy a Blue Jay for life! There is joy in Mudville this morning. #BlueJays

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Note that this is all contingent on the bank(s) not collapsing. Then it doesn't really matter much how you store your money – RRSP, TFSA, mutual funds and all. There, now you know more than a lot of Wall Street right now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarant...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Charts That Basically Go Vertical, an occasional series

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

If you're wondering, no, I'm not going to restart the tariff thread again. You can only touch the stove so many times.

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Addendum: Live your life in such a way as to avoid the Kremlin immediately coming to your support for having committed a crime. #subtweet

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And here's the near-identical Humber Bay Arch Bridge. (Curiously enough, one of its co-designers was Terry Montgomery of Montgomery Sisam, while the new Walterdale Bridge in Edmonton was designed by a Jim Montgomery.) #BlueSkyArtShow #Arches #architecture

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First Pulitzer ever awarded for lurking in a group chat

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And it's a goddamn Monday.

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