Well, that was a mostly dull three hours.

Ah, crap

It’s October. The easiest time of the year to acquire costumes!

Sign in background cut off, ICE thugs not covering their faces, backgrounds that look off. There are still plenty of tell signs, if you’re looking for them, but it keeps looking more convincing.

This is bad.

Apart from the usual traffic around Barrie, it was a very pleasant drive to visit my parents, one of my siblings, and my nephew in Sudbury. Drove up two other family members from Toronto as well. That, along with a fall drive in Caledon on Friday made for a nice weekend.

Canadian Thanksgiving is just one of the best holidays there is.

Held at a nice time of year, when travel to visit family and friends is still easy.

Relatively low stress.

Little historical baggage (compared with US Thanksgiving).

Great food.

I also remember “Je suis un ananas”

But it does make it easier to provide decent transit. The TTC has issues but it does provide frequent service to most parts of the city.

Look to Brampton and Kingston as good examples too.

You know what? Trudeau and Perry are probably good for each other.

My MP might as well be an AI chatbot

A Barrie parking job

Imagine if Toronto or Montreal had the network what Philly has. I’m sure we’d make far better use of it.

The really strange case is that of Philadelphia. That metro area has a huge network of electric regional rail, with a four track mainline through its city centre connecting it all together. But it has very limited service on pretty much every route.

Had a very nice dinner at BVR. I’d go back.

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

Photo inside of the station in its original location, on Townline Road at the divisional yard. Orangeville was once a busy railway town, with a major branch between Toronto/Streetsville and Owen Sound, and local routes to Elora, Teeswater, and Walkerton. Today, no trains through this part of Ontario

Pro tip: if your primary source is former Brampton councillor Elaine Moore, make sure you have more sources before publishing.

Orangeville. Having dinner in the Canadian Pacific train station.

Spotted a pied billed grebe hiding under some wood in the reservoir

Duck, duck, goose

Admission to Belfountain Conservation Area allows for a same day visit to another park. We went to Island Lake Conservation Area, which I still think of as Orangeville Reservoir. There’s a very nice circumferential multi use trail here.

Unfortunately some people will cut fences and wreck things for everyone else, despite a wonderful viewpoint.

Want to play on the Badlands? There’s a great playground modelled on these at Biidasige Park.

Walked a short section of the Bruce Trail to the famous Cheltenham Badlands. The viewing area is great and fully accessible. The badlands were created by soil erosion exposing the shale below. People walking and climbing (like my family did back in the 80s and 90s) did further damage.