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  @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca You OK ?

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  "Judge Kimberly Prost, a Canadian jurist who serves on the International Criminal Court, is the exception. She found her credit cards cancelled, her Google accounts closed and was effectively "de-banked" " Unless her credit card was issued by a USA bank, I am curious how the USA could bock her transactions. She works in The Hague, so don't see why she would do any banking in USA.

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  @Milnoc@mstdn.ca Preliminary Report Accident involving Air India’s B787-8 aircraft bearing registration VT-ANB at Ahmedabad on 12 June 2025 https://aaib.gov.in/What's%20New%20Assets/Preliminary%20Report%20VT-ANB.pdf This is the one with fuel switch turned off just afer takeoff.

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  Mark Carney is in New York to schmooze but not speak. Holds press conference at UN. This is CPAC live, so you have to rewind to start pf press conference. Not sure if URL will persists once video is converted to recorded. https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/pm-carney-holds-a-news-conference?id=05e7bdf9-2e48-4992-9614-bfcdb7397a13

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  RE: https://mastodon.quebec/@lapresse/117310219149109490 For those who don't read French: Putin gets the USA to buy potash from Bellarus instead of from Canada.

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@mtlgazette/117298350832715255 The Gazette article adds an important tidbit to the planned VIA white elephant station at Dorval: it will be north of the tracks, on Cardinal, instead of being in the Dorval circle. That might leave the existing STM/EXO bus/train station functional. (except for disruption during construction). The artist rendering doesn't make sense. Why a 2 story building? And why not integrate it with the existig urban setting instead of magical fo...

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  ""I just can't put the exact type of system back," Rick Leary said of Moodie station. "That means going at a redesign."" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-city-hall-election-2026-9.7321168?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Excuse me??? What you need is better drainage around the area, not a redesign of the station. What you need is a culvert under tracks to let water flow from one side to the other. I don't understand why they wou...

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  With all of Bell Camada's bragging, it only has 3 sites in Cape Breton with 5G, and still many sites with only 3G. But most are LTE. #CRTC

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  heavy rains in the Laurentians north/west of Montréal: L'Ascension badly hit. This is the fire hall before and after. So huge amount of erosion by the Rivière Rouge. In pic 3, the red marker is where photo taken from. https://www.google.ca/maps/place/46%C2%B032'45.1%22N+74%C2%B049'15.4%22W/@46.5464731,-74.8199926,456m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d46.545867!4d-74.820953?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgwMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-z3msAoH-SNqDVN1u7Q8rtg%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0 Never ever stop once you have engaged a rail crossing. The barriers are designed to break to let someone out. (In this case it appears the driver engaged crossing before barruiers started to go down, but he shoudl have never slowed donw/stopped.)

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  On the day Spokane burned down due to climate change. The asshole emperor speaks of radical climate activists.

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  Bell Canada: long fine print on erroneous cancellation penalty calculations with this additional fine print: Ce montant sera réduit lorsque le Code sur les services sans fil l'exige. Aka: we will overcharge you, and only if you complain will we accept to correct the cancelation penalty to be in line with Wireless code. Congrats to the Bell Canada Intentional Billing Error department for overcharging consumers knowing most of them will never challenge.

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  Have listened to some of the coverage from France about the fires. I think de Havilland greately underestimates the importance of the "Canadair" brand. The media all clamour for information about the Canadairs and why France doesn't have any more. (Canadair is the CL415 water bombers). French govt officials are careful to not explain the model has been out of production since 2015 and that a new company is trying to restart production and just state that they can only produce...

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  There must be storms coming because the Envrinment Canada web site is unresponsive and radar is down. :-( Thanks Carney/Sabia for the cuts you made to an essential service.

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  @Milnoc@mstdn.ca Happy Monday Morning™ ! Ottawa may not get the right weather for a Monday Morning™ (dark, cloudy, rainy, cold and windy) for a Monday morning, but look at it on the bright side , you could get tornado alerts this afternoon ! And it's the last Monday of July. The goold old October, November and December mondays are coming sooner than you thing !

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  The Trump speech is still going on. Rambling on and on and on. Random insults and soap opera that is tottally content-free. Am now curious how they will get him to stop. Now speaking on "Pocahontas" (senator elizabeth warren) who was part of his performances on Trump 1.0. Oh, now onto the deranged Jack Smith.

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  @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca Your statement is logical. However, there are some actors whose real life "performances" end up making it hard to not associate the actor to whatever character they play.

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  @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com Heads up, UN passed resolition on road safety this week. ‘Business as usual is a business of death’: UN adopts road safety pledge over US objection https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/07/1167993 The Progress Declaration passed by a recorded vote of 162 in favour to one against (USA), with no abstentions. UN Road Safety Fund Partnership Pledging Conference https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13/k13bss1ju0 (2 hours 20 minutes) The actual resolution: A/80/L.95 h...

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  If I were Prime Minister, this is how I would respond to Trump's new tariffs: I hope that the United States Cabinet and Congress will deal with the irrational emotional outbreaks and start to rebuild positive relations with former allies. In considering import of Canadian aluminium to be a national security risk, it sends strong message that we are no longer allies. Congress needs to confirm in law whether this is what the United States policy is or whether this is result of dementia.

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  @Milnoc@mstdn.ca I know it isn’t cold, dark and wet like in October , but Happy Monday Morning™ 😀

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  @NunavutBirder@mas.to Got a better image of the MB railway washout Definitely where I thought it would be and fairly serious. It will take a while for CN to fix this. (pic 2 is from 2025 as reference). Curious if CN will build a bridge or just embankement with culvert (hopefully a big culvert). Climate change bringing more powerful storms means many culverts may no longer be big enough to handle such storms. This is an example.

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  From Thurso to Grenville, it was on the 148. Back there there was no "50" road that pretends to be a highway, so more traffic on it, but it had solid paved shoulder all the way. Last pic is the CP rail bridge across the Rivière Rouge. Single track (now owned by Genessee Wyoming/Québec/Gatineau railway.

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  Québec wildwires. https://www.sopfeu.qc.ca/carte/?showActivesFires=true Out of control: 0 New: 0 Cpntained: 6 Controlled: 4 Being Observed: 70 Detected: 68

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  @Milnoc@mstdn.ca Singapore has closed the circle in the circle line on July 12 ! You can now go round and round and round ! https://www.railwaygazette.com/singapore/2026/07/14/metro-opening-takes-singapore-passengers-round-in-circles/

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  From my old twitter archives, Adding X number of odd numbers yields X exponent 2. Not sure of the logic/theory behind this. (eg: add the first 3 odd numbers together, and you your 3 exponent 2).

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  @Milnoc@mstdn.ca your station was originally called "Campus"

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  Admin tribunal has ruled that unlike public transit considered essential service, the REM workers are not covered by the obligation to at least provide rush hour service if they strike. So a REM strike could totally shut the service. Tribunal does not consider REM shutdown would be as disruptive for the city as STM shutdown is to traffic, congestion, ability to goto work etc. (It should have said Montréal is use to frequent REM shutdowns :-) la Presse: https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/gran...

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  @heliomass@cosocial.ca Found your best possible British Prime Minister !

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  On July 9h 1986, 40 years ago today, I cycled from Upsala ON though Thunder Bay and stopped at Pass Lake Ontario. 193km, 8hours 92 minutes, average 19.0, maximum 59,2kmh. Upsula/17/Kakabeka Falls/17/Thunder Bay/17B/17/Pass lake Mostly on the dreaded Highway 17, with a bit of respite inside Thunderbay. And passed a venerable site.

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  40 years ago on July 6, I bicycled from Gladstone MB to Portage la Prairie to Winnipeg, to Prawda. This included crossing the longitudinal centre of Canada at -96.80927 This turned out to be the longest distance in trip unlike my comment earlier. 265km , maximum speed of 55.4 and whopping 34.0kmh average with luggage. Winds at 60 from the west.