My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.
π¨π¦πΊ Happy Birthday to Robert Clothier, CBC's unforgettable Relic on The Beachcombers, who was also a decorated WWII pilot.
After surviving a 1944 crash that killed three crewmates, he spent two years paralyzed before learning to walk again.
Born Oct. 21, 1921.
Did you know his remarkable story? β€οΈ
The biggest threat to Canada at this moment may be Alberta voters who believe media messaging that the referendum vote to separate will be easily won, leading no-voters to stay home.
Itβs true that separatism is very unpopular in Alberta, even with Conservatives.
BUT TURNOUT WINS ELECTIONS.
Vote.
Please donβt assume anything, Alberta. Vote against the Russian and American-fuelled separation self-sabotage. Send a strong message to the rest of Canada that weβre in this together. Foreign actors want you to vote for your own Brexit or Trumpβ¦ or to help them win by just staying home.
Lise Meitner was the 2nd woman to earn a physics PhD at the Univ of Vienna and Germanyβs first female physics professor.
She fled Nazi Germany, helped explain nuclear fission, and has an element named for her.
49 Nobel nominations, she never won. Her male colleague did.
#SheShed#VivaHerAlliance
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is calling out Smithβs claims she had no idea separatists were meeting with the US State Departmentβ¦
While pointing out they raised the alarm on this months ago.
With receipts.
#abpoli#ableg#cdnpoli
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd.
Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves.
Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. π
I am the very model of a modern day typographer
A font take on the tune βModern Major Generalβ by Gilbert & Sullivan
#typography#fonts#graphicdesign
I am the very model of a modern day typographer
A font take on the tune βModern Major Generalβ by Gilbert & Sullivan
#typography#fonts#graphicdesign
#OTD 6/9/2005 #RememberRCN -HMCShips ATHABASKAN, TORONTO, VILLE DE QUEBEC & the CCGS Sir William Alexander leave Halifax for relief operations, following Hurricane Katrina's devastation in the US Gulf states. #OpUNISON
Itβs one of those companies which I am delighted exists.
I canβt really imagine myself needing a pair of stone-coloured 18th Century buckle shoes, but I am glad I could buy some if I did...
#OTD 4/9/1953 #RememberRCN -The movie, βThe Cruel Seaβ premiers across Canada. Canadian Naval Reserve divisions host displays & act as ushers to large crowds of invited dignitaries. In Ottawa VAdm Mainguy, CNS presented an introduction of the movie with Nicholas Monsarrat the author of the novel.
#OTD 28/8/1942 #RememberRCN -HMCS OAKVILLE's famous battle with U94 in the Caribbean Sea. Corvette attacks with guns, DC's, ramming & coke bottles. Two RCN sailors leap from OAKVILLE's deck, boarding the U-Boat & force their way into the control room before the Uboat sinks. Marc Magee painting
84 years ago today, two naked canadian sailors successfully boarded and captured a U-boat while the rest of their crew threw coke bottles at it.
turns out it's hard to defend a conning tower ladder when there's a sweaty canadian butt suddenly sliding down it at speed.
an "out of context" problem.
Waking up in Canada, trusting my food supply, my neighbor battling an illness & not paying a dime for their healthcare , excited for kids to go back to a safe school, welcoming new Canadians , trusting my vaccine schedule knowing that itβs based in science.
Oh Canada, π¨π¦
"Americans should take the president's anti-Canadian saber-rattling so much more seriously than we do. We should treat it not as a joke, not as a quirk . . . but as a genuine threat to our neighbors." @jamellebouie.net is exactly right www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPs9...
Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia
When reality surpasses fiction!
Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming.
Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.