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The voices in my head come out my fingers. Three-time award-winning Dave Smith. Both legendary and mythical. Egregiously Dave Smith. My favourite Canadian Guys are Gavriel Kay and Vanderhaeghe. Ottawa, home to the coldest hot air. www.onlydavesmith.com
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Why has the amount of fentanyl seized at the US border dropped by 97%? We asked the drug dealers to stop. You know … not cool. Or maybe it’s the fact that there was f&$@ all in the first place. None of Trump’s lies are difficult to debunk. Willful blindness is another issue.

This is a really smart observation, and too many have NOT realized the truth it embodies.

Watched The Conclave last night. You’d think the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the time and effort required to have a pee while wearing those heavy cassocks, would have more empathy with women. But … nope.

I fixed a snow shovel today by disassembling two broken ones, and then sanding, screwing, and pounding disparate pieces together to make a new better snow shovel. A Canadian Heritage Moment. And a Red Green episode for anyone over 60.

Happy March! Headlines I expect to see? Trump Buys Russian Arms “They’ve done really good things in Ukraine.” Measles Wipes Out Texas “We’ve saved like never before on vaccines.” Executive Order Changes Oath of Allegiance “An oath to me would be the greatest oath of all time.”

X? I’m out. Instagram? Forget it. Amazon? Gone. Perhaps a nice California Cab Sauv with dinner? Not a chance.

Macron and Starmer show up and kiss Trump's orange ass. Zelensky has integrity. The contrast is striking and the whole world can see it. It's time for everyone to stand up to this demagogue.

Dear American Friends; Your President, today more than ever, has proven himself to be an absolute dick, an asshole, a bully, a liar, a cheat, an egotist, a piece of shit as he puts My Zelenski through a public wringer. Why did you do this? Ukraine is the first line of your defense. Shocking.

Good Friday morning! So … the election here … I guess Toronto gets a tunnel and we all get the shaft.

It is Black History Month and each day this month I am sharing stories from Canada's Black history. Today it is the story of Hipple Galloway. A gifted baseball player, he was kicked off the Woodstock Bains due to the colour of his skin. Let's learn about his life. 🧵1/7

H habilis: Use an innate ability for a million years. H erectus: Get a clever idea and use it for two million years. H sapiens neanderthal: Get a clever idea but keep it to yourself. H. sapiens sapiens: Get a clever idea and allow it to get in the way of innumerable other clever ideas.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Starry Curry by Dave Van Gogh

The Skating Rink, Dufferin Terrace Robert Pilot 1948

Can't believe I've never heard of this before. Stupid Ontario-centric histories don't include it.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Study for America Greg Curnoe 1989-1990

www.bbc.com/news/article... The purge continues.

Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Sticking it to them www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Man who was happy to see snow for climate change reasons now back to angry

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Winterspell Jeff Dillon 2020

Some sort of Shakespearean thoughts ahead of tonight’s hockey game…https://pattersonian.ca/2025/02/to-boo-or-not-to-boo-that-is-the-new-question/?access=YuLymaVqWFUzAju

When I discover that I have written in a novel something strongly supported in the historical record as plausible, I make a sound. "OoooooooOh." #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritinghistory

Bow Lake, Winter Ted Raftery 1983

This ... person ... has spent the last TWO YEARS telling us what a shithole we live in. Nerve. Or hypocrisy. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

More questions, fewer answers.

Like ancient peoples they would feel that there was something greater than themselves at work, not necessarily a god and not necessarily a quantum principle, but something not-us that is ultimately unknowable.

For the record, this is nothing to do with me. Aside from anything else, that lettering is a travesty, the ‘i’s all have serifs. Ugh.

HOLY SHIT! This is batshit fascism.