I know I was shocked to see their support trending in my Twitter timeline.
I’m not sure why I’m more so much more offended by Trump today than usual; I think it’s because over the last year I’ve tuned out him his tweets and Mrs Sanders, but his extra economic entourage spouting insults on CNN makes it clear this is a group government effort.
The Supreme Court of Canada has come out with a tremendous parallel decision in a couple of human rights cases cases that says it is OK for law societies (the bodies that govern lawyers in Canada) to not accredit a Christian law school that has been discriminating based on sex by specifically prohibiting sex outside of straight marriages, contrary to our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. No accreditation for you, Trinity Western, until you start following the law that you are teaching. Let’s hope that your institution, your faculty, and your staff learn to respect people rather than discriminate against them.️
https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2018/2018scc33/2018scc33.html https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2018/2018scc32/2018scc32.html
Kudos to the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario for standing up for human rights. 
Variety store incident on Friday in Spruce Grove, Alberta. Keep track of the woman. It starts with her being thrown to the Mountie by her man, and ends with, well you’ll just have to see for yourself (Let’s just say that she wasn’t having the best of days). TRCCTB.COM SPRUCE GROVE INCIDENT - YouTube . And kudos to the officer who did not shoot the man.
Happy Canada Day tout le monde!
All you Canucks are special to me. Enjoy your day and reflect upon how very nice we have it here in The Great White North.
ETA: I think we live in one of the top 5 countries in the world.
Happy Canada Day everyone!
We’ve spent it very quietly. Mrs P and I both had big projects at work this weekend and just wanted down time. The Cub wanted to burn his eyes out on screen time. We may go watch the fireworks at Wascana later tonight.
Best to all!
Tabarnak de cuuuuuhhhhhhhhhlllllliiiiiissssssssssssse!
I’ve spent so much time in Canada, I’m practically a Canadian. I’ve ridden the Via Rail “Ocean” route from Montreal to Halifax four times. (Via Rail is badass, by the way - their sleepers put Amtrak’s to shame.) I’ve also traveled there by ferry from Maine.
I have close friends who live in Canada who I visit, and each time I go there, I meet new friends, to the point where I basically have a Nova Scotia social circle. The part of the province that I spend the most time in is the area around Antigonish and northwards towards Cape Breton.
Every time I’m there, I feel like I’m in Moonrise Kingdom. It’s so perfect, it almost feels unreal.
Happy Canada Day, all!
It was a quiet day here too. I went to the sports bar and met up with some friends. Back home now, with no interest in our city’s fireworks, since I’d have to park about fifteen blocks away. Just happy to be living in the greatest country in the world, and I’m raising a glass to it. Cheers, Canadians!
“I love Canada. It’s a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.” Yann Martel
Happy Canada Day! (We’re having a blistering weekend here, over 30C and humid as hell!)
Just got back from a cruise to Alaska, but in Skagway I took the train ride to white pass so I technically was in Canada
One of the cruise stops was in Victoria, BC. We walked to Craigdorrach Castle and toured that. On the way back we ate at a Pirogi bar and stopped in Munro’s Books
So now I have arrived in Canada via:
Bicycle
Car
Train
and Ship
Brian
As expected, we didn’t do anything major. Burgers on the grill, then around 10.15 walked over to Wascana to watch the fireworks, and home. A cozy Canada Day.
Chief Duncan Michano`s film on the significance the Biigtig Siibii (Pic River, Ontario) has to the Biigtigong Nishnaabeg who have lived on and paddled it for thousands of years.
Cool – that is just outside Pukaskwa. Nice trip – wouldn’t mind doing (at least a part of) it.
Brian
There are a few access points along the way courtesy of logging roads, but which roads are open and which are washed out changes regularly. Kevin Turner of Northwood Adventure Tours in Manitouwadge might be able to advise on which roads can get to the river. The sections upstream of Manitouwadge has many steep sand slope banks and several nice waterfalls.
If you’re driving from MN and camping along the way to and form the Pic River, there’s a nice little sand beach at Jarvis Bay 48°07’00.2"N 89°21’16.8"W between Thunder Bay and the border.
Jackfish’s Pebble Beach (not Marathon’s pebble beach) is a terrific place for lunch on a magnificent cobble beach or for camping out on it’s gravel and sand eastern beach (the downside being that it is close to a railroad), vid, 48°47’19.9"N 86°57’44.2"W.
If you’re out Marathon/Mouth of the Pic way and have a day or to two burn, consider a day or overnight visit to Foster Island (Neys Provincial Park permit required from the office on the other side of the penninsula) pic, 48°43’31.3"N 86°33’38.6"W, which is about three beautiful Lake Superior kilometers from Port Caldwell (but it is a bit of a carry to get down to the water and a less than pleasant carry to get from the water back up to the road). You might see some wildlife. One time I came upon a caribou at Devil’s Gap, and another time a bear destroyed my Jeeps’s canvas roof down by the water at Port Caldwell. There are pre-contact Pukaskwa Pits on the cobble beach of Detention Island on the way there.
Also in the Marathon/Coldwell/Neys area are a couple of terrific lookouts accessible by vehicles with decent ground clearance (but not requiring a lift or 4wd) above Wolf Camp Lake vid from 48.794628, -86.434598 to 48.811070, -86.434346 and above the store (which used to be owner by a fellow who was raised in the North West Territories and spent his twenties prospecting by canoe in the Torngat Mountains, eventually retiring and building a lovely cabin mostly from found materials (e.g. parquet floors from telegraph cross-pieces, beams from mine timbers etc.) at the base of a waterfall upstream of Coldwell Harbour. He and his wife put a friend and I up for the night. We were about to set camp in Coldwell Harbour when they turned up on their ATV – he in his pajamas and her in her nighty, and insisted that we stay with them, so we loaded the four of us and a 60l barrel pack on their ATV and rode up to their home for a most delightful night. 48.811070, -86.434346 to 48.781559, -86.568317.
Thanks for the info, but probably not in the cards this year. I certainly enjoyed my backpack trip last year.
Brian
Time for another Ottawa dopefest? I do believe it is.
Heck, we could use another one here in western Canada.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of my family arriving in Canada.
I am eternally grateful to my dad for making the difficult choice to emigrate to Canada from the UK.
We live in one of the best countries in the world. I’m proud to be called a Canadian. Thanks dad.
If I’m in town, count me in!
Happy Belated Canada Day everyone! I spend most of my summer off-the-grid on my island in G-Bay near Parry Sound but come back for a few weeks to check in to work, etc… 
What did everyone else do for August long weekend?
It was a hot, clear day here, so the Pipers went off to the local lake. Mrs Piper spread a blanket and caught up on her reading. The Cub and I sprayed each other with super-soakers at the lakeshore, then rented a couple of pelican-kayak type things and went out for a paddle. Then ice cream at the local sundae shop, and home. Steaks and pork chops on the grill and off to bed soon.