Canadian Curmudgeon 🍁
@cdncurmudgeon.bsky.social
🍁 Woke writer, editor, reviewer, consultant, municipal politician.
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www.ianchadwick.com/blog
☑️ Shakespeare, Horace, Machiavelli, Chaucer, Cicero, Homer, Godzilla, ERB, ukuleles, democratic socialism, atheism, pets, science, bread, tequila.🚫crypto!🚫 MAGA!
www.ianchadwick.com/blog
In case anyone forgot...
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
In case anyone forgot...
CBC, our public, national news broadcaster, includes pseudoscience claptrap like this on their website. I am a CBC supporter, but not when they pander to the lowest pop nonsense. #cdnpoli #astrology #pseudoscience
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
CBC, our public, national news broadcaster, includes pseudoscience claptrap like this on their website. I am a CBC supporter, but not when they pander to the lowest pop nonsense. #cdnpoli #astrology #pseudoscience
Uncountable how many hours I spent in this store in the '80s... Toronto's World's Biggest Bookstore.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Uncountable how many hours I spent in this store in the '80s... Toronto's World's Biggest Bookstore.
Guillotines and tumbrels need to make their comeback...
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Guillotines and tumbrels need to make their comeback...
There are solutions...
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
There are solutions...
New CPC logo?
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
New CPC logo?
Mastodon: Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects...
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Mastodon: Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects...
I like this version more...
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I like this version more...
Harbourview Park, Arboretum, today... Collingwood, ON
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Harbourview Park, Arboretum, today... Collingwood, ON
The mix of colours struck me as a visual metaphor for Canada's multicultural diversity. We are made stronger through our many cultures, races, beliefs, and languages. We should be proud of and embrace our rich mix of people and nations. Celebrate our inclusiveness. Never let us become like the USA.
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The mix of colours struck me as a visual metaphor for Canada's multicultural diversity. We are made stronger through our many cultures, races, beliefs, and languages. We should be proud of and embrace our rich mix of people and nations. Celebrate our inclusiveness. Never let us become like the USA.
@guardtheleaf.bsky.social Here's a picture of Collingwood Harbour, with the grain terminals, built in 1928, and a pair of swans flying. I took it this past week. If you want a new pic for your YT videos, you can use this.
October 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
@guardtheleaf.bsky.social Here's a picture of Collingwood Harbour, with the grain terminals, built in 1928, and a pair of swans flying. I took it this past week. If you want a new pic for your YT videos, you can use this.
Leaves are turning here in Ontario. Some of the maples are brilliant red. This one was in Collingwood's Harbourview Park.
October 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Leaves are turning here in Ontario. Some of the maples are brilliant red. This one was in Collingwood's Harbourview Park.
Collingwood Harbour. We were shocked at how low it has dropped: at least 1.5m, if not 2m below the maximum. The rocks you can see on the ground sticking out like dolmen stones used to be underwater. All that new grassland you can see in the panorama, above, was underwater not long ago.
October 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Collingwood Harbour. We were shocked at how low it has dropped: at least 1.5m, if not 2m below the maximum. The rocks you can see on the ground sticking out like dolmen stones used to be underwater. All that new grassland you can see in the panorama, above, was underwater not long ago.
Stephan Pastis... I would weep, too...
October 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Stephan Pastis... I would weep, too...
Picked up two books at the local bookstore today. One is a general book about wine (a topic I enjoy reading on). The other is a “biography” of the fifth and latest deity in the Christian pantheon. Explains the origin, the ads, the political uses of, and the commercialization of the Fat God.
October 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Picked up two books at the local bookstore today. One is a general book about wine (a topic I enjoy reading on). The other is a “biography” of the fifth and latest deity in the Christian pantheon. Explains the origin, the ads, the political uses of, and the commercialization of the Fat God.
Tonight's sip...
September 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Tonight's sip...
Wednesday marked 4 weeks since my surgery. Full recovery, can take six to nine months, so I am barely limping along that path. Still, I feel I've accomplished some milestones so far. I need to get to 120° bend and I'm just over 90°, so there's a long way to go, a little bit every day.
September 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Wednesday marked 4 weeks since my surgery. Full recovery, can take six to nine months, so I am barely limping along that path. Still, I feel I've accomplished some milestones so far. I need to get to 120° bend and I'm just over 90°, so there's a long way to go, a little bit every day.
A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons.
My respect for Carney has plummeted with this gesture to an American hatemonger. #cdnpoli
My respect for Carney has plummeted with this gesture to an American hatemonger. #cdnpoli
September 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons.
My respect for Carney has plummeted with this gesture to an American hatemonger. #cdnpoli
My respect for Carney has plummeted with this gesture to an American hatemonger. #cdnpoli
Just arrived: The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, by Stephen Marche. Thought it was relevant to read it now.
September 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Just arrived: The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, by Stephen Marche. Thought it was relevant to read it now.
Aside from it being full of Bronze Age mythology and fantasy...
September 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Aside from it being full of Bronze Age mythology and fantasy...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
New book just arrived: Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth, by Ingrid Robeyns
New book just arrived: Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth, by Ingrid Robeyns
September 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
New book just arrived: Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth, by Ingrid Robeyns
New book just arrived: Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth, by Ingrid Robeyns
Marx was right.
September 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Marx was right.
Susan dug up some of the carrots we've been growing in the garden to have with our dinner tonight. None very large, but certainly varied in colour!
September 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Susan dug up some of the carrots we've been growing in the garden to have with our dinner tonight. None very large, but certainly varied in colour!
Staples came out of the knee incision this morning. A few more days and the steri-strips will come off, too. Two weeks after surgery, physio continues, and small progress is made daily.
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Staples came out of the knee incision this morning. A few more days and the steri-strips will come off, too. Two weeks after surgery, physio continues, and small progress is made daily.
New tomato variety for us: pineapple tomato. Red outside, bright yellow interior.
September 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New tomato variety for us: pineapple tomato. Red outside, bright yellow interior.