Zazzoo 🇨🇦

Your typical Canadian social democrat living in the capital. Software architect. Dog lover. Rank amateur photographer. Rusty artist. Nintendo nut. He/Him.
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2024-09-14 20:09:31

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Just wanted to say this thread has turned into a coffee/horror story while I was away. I'm with you, Celeste, I would *rather* drink luke-warm coffee than microwave re-heated. I won't even get into the stab wound Stéphanie's plot twist left when she said "Tim Horton's instant." 😱

2024-09-14 18:09:23

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I always had a great deal of sympathy for my sister-in-law. Absolutely she was always the target, failing to meet the needs of her perfect boy. 🙄

2024-09-14 17:59:38

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Ummm, that's actually really horrible. My parents would at least wait to get home and then complain to each other and I thought that was judgy and bad enough.
I should probably explain that I knew my parents did this because they'd do it to my brother and his wife while I was with them.

2024-09-13 19:49:46

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Montreal is such a quick trip. Never done that route in business class, you'll have to post your review of it!

2024-09-13 19:40:54

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Honestly it's pretty much the same but a bit more space, a meal and booze in the afternoon. It's actually a pretty good deal, I find. WiFi still sucks!

2024-09-13 19:34:42

Via Rail business class, baby. Free flowing booze and acts of debauchery. Not bragging, but I'm riding like a 19th century billionaire (actually thousandaire but adjusted for inflation). My goodness, is that Prince Harry here on train 66? It's been simply ages, darling. Has anyone seen Harry's pants?

2024-09-12 17:30:34

Oh, just great.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/eeev-equine-encephalitis-mosquito-resident-death-ottawa-1.7321168?cmp=rss
#Ottawa

2024-09-04 17:36:46

To be clear here:<li>Rail workers threatened strike</li><li>Corporations ask for binding arbitration</li><li>NDP draws line in the sand on labour rights, threatens to kill deal</li><li>Liberals prance across the line</li><li>Poilievre calls for deal to end</li><li>Deal ends</li>
Poilievre's opinion was not a factor here. He merely 'predicted' something that everybody saw as the next step.
Poilievre is a guy seeing a yellow traffic light and saying "I demand you change this light to red!"
#CdnPoli

2024-09-04 17:27:22

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I love how this coverage is taking place in the context of Trudeau taking credit for the NDPs school food program, lol.

2024-09-04 17:02:31

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Live coverage happening now at the link
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-ndp-ending-agreement-1.7312910

2024-09-04 16:58:23

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Yes, I'm 100% sure this was factored into the CPC's calculation.

2024-09-04 16:56:39

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It's because the Liberals forced the rail workers to binding arbitration. Before it happened Singh drew a line in the sand, and Trudeau walked across it.
The timing sucks though.

2024-08-28 14:03:21

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Not that many jobs will even schedule you for 40 hours a week, of course.
One thing I find particularly annoying is that basic income in Canada is $15,000. So even though minimum wage is nowhere enough to live on, more than half of it taxable. I mean, c'mon!

2024-08-27 19:43:14

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Sadly so many seem to only get into politics because they're looking for opportunities to enrich themselves. Generally this is along party lines, though I know BC is a special case.

2024-08-27 19:21:30

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That is a good summary of my jaded opinion, lol.

2024-08-27 19:16:31

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I don't think they turn a blind eye, necessarily. Probably hard to do that with Jagmeet sneering into your ear all day. But they are likely being over-cautious.
I mentioned elsewhere a few days ago that cutting off Medicare transfers entirely might be the provinces' plan B.
Plan A is to keep getting federal money to shovel at private clinic, Plan B is have justification for full privatization.

2024-08-27 16:27:10

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Typical corporate behaviour. Insert themselves into a hot issue then play both sides.

2024-08-23 15:22:53

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It's so hard to tell, but I think this is the pileated woodpecker that's a common sight in our neighbourhood. Can't see any red on its head though and they're so close to the lens they're all blurry.
Wish he'd go off and eat some Japanese beetles.

2024-08-23 15:14:28

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Do we even have termites in Ottawa?!?!

2024-08-23 15:12:08

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Now I'm all paranoid though. Do I have to be worried about termites or something?

2024-08-23 15:07:20

The hell. This guy comes to my door, rings the doorbell and then starts pecking at the door. He only stopped because I opened the door to see what all the racket was.
So insistent, must work for Bell.
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/113/011/949/614/636/105/original/abdd303e262147d0.png

2024-08-22 15:28:33

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Our squirrels say they're absolutely starving. Are you calling them liars? 😂

2024-08-22 15:22:23

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But... but... our local squirrels come to our back door and stare at us through the glass with their little hands tucked into their chest like they're clutching a purse and it's both so sad and totally adorable.
I give them peanuts.

2024-08-20 18:14:24

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"But what about Iran and Uganda?" I know she's not a right-wing loon, but she's using the right-wing tactic of misdirection.
Where the concerned ally becomes the gatekeeper and people aren't allowed to work toward anything positive until all the other "what abouts" are addressed.
See also: Uyghur genocide? What about Canada's indigenous people?

2024-08-19 15:03:28

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The deals they give the wealthy that keeps revenues away from government coffers circles back and ends up in party coffers.

2024-08-19 14:48:47

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They're probably not amateurs but GOP operatives from the US. "Oh, Northern Ontario? Sounds cold. Polar bears, I bet."

2024-08-17 17:16:23

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Ugh, that photo makes my blood boil.
The occupation left deep scars on this city. It will be a very, very long time before the CPC gets any votes in the urban area here for aligning himself with that - particularly if we work to remind them.
Outside the city is different of course. Poilievre's Carleton riding consists of rural areas that were forcibly amalgamated with Ottawa by Harris and resent having to pay for city services.

2024-08-17 16:48:07

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Not to mention both Trump and Poilievre have the same GOP operatives working on their campaigns, using the same approaches and often the very same language just barely adapted to our locale.
Trump's bombastic and divisive approach is developing cracks and people are seeing the CPC doing the same thing here, so...

2024-08-17 16:43:27

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Very true but I feel what I wrote was poorly worded. My point was intended to be aimed at the the Star, who made 'a project' out of reporting on Poilievre's premature campaign and hanging on to his every word as if we're a mere week from polling day.

2024-08-17 16:21:00

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Coletto, lol. "launched a project to examine how Canadians would react" to the advertising? Given how it's not a campaign, who does that without being paid by the advertiser?

2024-08-17 03:19:59

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#Weird how the more he talks the less popular he gets. 🤔

2024-08-16 16:03:44

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Maybe he's angry because it's so much work getting the seeds through the mesh?
"You out of bowls or something?"

2024-08-16 15:49:36

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Lol, me I'm getting more of a "I have seen things" vibe 😂

2024-08-14 13:53:21

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Impressive peanut shot. A very tricky capture. Too bad that bird is there, perhaps you can photoshop it out. 😂

2024-08-12 19:11:48

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These vaccines always feel so much like a game show, doesn't it? You can take *this* or wait and see if there's something better behind door number 2!
I'm probably going to end up going the same route as you.

2024-08-12 19:06:44

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I'll be coming due shortly myself. Earlier this year I thought they were talking about a shot this fall that would be more effective against newer variants - did that happen?

2024-08-12 01:31:09

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Completely, and even when not intentional like this one obviously is, polls rarely avoid the biases of those asking the questions. At very least you're locked into their framing.

2024-08-12 00:10:14

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Those questions, the format. The scenarios are to be taken as given? What's this even supposed to represent if you reject the premise? 😂
"Which party do you think would be the best for: BIPOC stole my wife and job?"
Lib 0%, CPC 90%, NDP 0%, Green 0%, PPC 10%
There you have, folk, 90% say they trust CPC!

2024-08-10 17:49:28

I made this so, dammit, I'm sharing.
Inspired by yesterday's post by @npub1spc…3gwu I'm now fully converted.
https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/112934145790193070
Poilievre's latest sloganeering has so totally convinced me that Poilievre is the future of our country, I have created a campaign meme for him.
Randy Hillier is just a little bonus. And remember: You can't spell soil without oil.
#CdnPoli
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2024-08-02 03:13:01

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Huh, TIL there's different types of milkweed. I grew up rural and, googling around, to me there was only 'common milkweed' and that's what I have. Bright pink flowers then spikey alien-looking seed pods. This is probably the best photo I can find of a healthy one. They're tall, leaves reminiscent of rubber trees - the white sticky, stinky sap as well.
Those orange flower look really pretty!
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/112/890/223/794/991/830/original/126344b0328233fe.jpg

2024-08-02 02:59:18

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So yours are suffering too then? Huh. Maybe they don't like the heat?
I think we'll be poking around fields for extra seeds come fall, hopefully they didn't all fail, saw a monarch looking sad on the weekend.

2024-08-01 22:34:18

One of the things I've always known about milkweed is that farmers consider it a pest plant. Spreads everywhere, extremely hardy. Hard to control.
It's native and butterflies like it though so I have a corner of my backyard garden put aside for it. It's self-sustaining, every year a new crop pops up from the dropped seeds of the previous year.
But what the heck is going on this year? Black rot on the stems, and half of them don't even look like milkweed.
Any ideas?
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/112/889/119/058/717/784/original/95b5a70cbcb56656.png
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/112/889/122/191/705/708/original/f6843a9d47740463.png

2024-07-23 21:29:02

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I think you live closer to downtown than me, and I'm actually in the City of Ottawa. 😂

2024-07-23 16:19:29

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I was getting caught up on Moonshine on Gem last night. Gem's cool and free and all, but the ads are disruptive and generally annoying.
That said, I enjoyed watching the ad for Quebec City Tourism. Funny and very well done. And yes, weird.
Edit: Oh, found it on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfO3gjazxW4