Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar

Let me introduce myself. I'm a professor @usask.bsky.social at the University of Saskatchewan. My group works on invasive wild pigs, caribou, wolves, and other beasties. I take the responsibility of my academic freedom very seriously and use it and good science to hopefully have some influence.

The birds have found the new feeder!

The why is simple in Saskatchewan. The SaskParty has been in government for close to 20 yrs. They have done so by leveraging their rural con. base vs urban voters. However this base is urbanizing and relatively shrinking. In 2007 67% residents resided in urban Sask. in 2026 82% of SK. is urban.

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New polling from Environics on Canadian attitudes toward the United States. environicsinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

This is my first line of defense if someone breaks into the house. I'm not sure she has the killer instinct but I'm ok with that.

I'm 8% done my christmas shopping y'all.

My new bird feeder with AI is very exciting. Though even I could have done the ID on my own but this is going to be a ton of fun!

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"Indigenous people are key partners in this. They're not stakeholders, they're partners on a government-to-government level. Where were Indigenous folks in all of this, would be my question." BROOK www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Screwworm in wildlife. Not good. www.drovers.com/news/screwwo...

Just rolled a big joint. It was my ankle but still.

This is insane. Parks Canada is getting gutted again just like Harper did.

The one thing they don't tell you about being in your 50's is just how much nose hair there will be.

Saskatchewan has reversed the decision to cancel CWD testing. Stand by a few minutes while they figure out how to make their next stupid decision.

We lost a good one. John Anderson made some amazing music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8sh...

Lots of talk today about massive job cuts at Parks Canada. Carney waited until after the referendum.

Kim Lebel in my lab is presenting her research on caribou reproductive rates at the college research day. Posters up in the ag building until 3pm.

On this day in 1904, Tommy Douglas was born. As premier of Saskatchewan, he brought in North America's first single-payer, universal health care program. 📸 LAC Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 canadaehx.com/2026/04/28/t...

Who won the vote? No one. Nobody won. It was a big ugly loss across the board.

The part of the CBC commentary that burned me the most was the one person saying 'we can't call the separatists losers'. We sure as shit can.

Anyone that thinks Alberta came out of this looking like a shining star is living in a particularly wild state of denial.

BREAKING: Albertan separatists vow to try again once US Republicans teach them how to rig elections

CBC has already called it. Alberta remains in Canada and its not even close. Alberta passes its IQ test. Sort of.

Ok but I'm only waiting nine more hours then I'm calling it and going to bed.

i'm no expert, but i assume that First Nations running out of ballots as residents show up in record numbers is probably an indicator of how things are going politically in Alberta.

As Canada awaits the Alberta separation referendum results, let’s remember how stupid this all is. Huge public money spent on a Russian & American-fuelled separation movement for an awfully-written and badly managed unbinding referendum on whether to hold a binding referendum that would be illegal.

Why am I staying up? 1. We pretty much know what the result will be. 2. There will be nothing 'definitive' until tuesday. 3. The results are not even binding.

I naively turned on CBC looking for some reasonable coverage of the referendum but that is a bridge too far for CBC. They keep trotting out loser after loser saying the most trite/inane things, as if Alberta isn't looking like a backwater hillbilly joke that the rest of Canada is laughing at. #sad

CBC has an endless 'nutbag rolodex' they can use to get commentary tonight.

I was diagnosed with a deep paranoia about german sausages. I feared the wurst.

Alberta is currently taking an IQ test. It will be interesting to see how it does.

Cow and calf caribou always brighten my day. These are Eastern Migratory Cape Churchill caribou in Wapusk National Park in northern Manitoba on the Hudson Bay coast. This spot is just over 1 km the Bay and they stay close to shore through the post-calving season.

I'm 54 but I'm still up at 11:30pm because: A) just arrived at an all night rave B) making home made salsa with my wife who ditched me and went to bed C) pulling all night study session for my real estate license

I have been diagnosed with "Saskatchewan Burnout" a feeling of lost hope when dealing with a grossly incompetent Saskatchewan government that doesn't care one bit and doesn't care that we know it.

There was proposed national Chronic Wasting Disease strategy developed in 2011 for Canada that was never adopted but could and should be. www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/docs/technic...

Everyone is in agreement: stopping Chronic Wasting Disease monitoring in Saskatchewan is stupid. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Anthony Scaramucci is laughing his ass off saying 'dude I lasted 11 days'.

Here is my interview on the 306. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

A bittersweet day. Today marks the end of an era with the last ever RCAF Snowbirds demo with the CT-114 Tutor ✈ The Tutor has served Canada well and should be celebrated. Thanks to all the pilots and technicians who served with the team 🇨🇦 #Snowbirds #Tutor #CT114 #RCAF #AirForce #aircraft #Canada

I've never before called for someone to be fired over the many other bad decisions made by the Saskatchewan provincial government over the years but this time I did explicitly say Darlene Rowden the Minister of Environment needs to be replaced. Cancelling the CWD monitoring program is bullshit.