A rough month of @PoohBearPulfer being ill has ended; he has gone peacefully to the Rainbow Bridge where I will see him again one day.
Rest in peace my sweet little fur baby.
❤️🐶
#RIP#love#family#dog
Canada is on fire.
Europe is on fire.
The Amazon is on fire.
Cities are breaking heat records.
Rivers are drying up.
Other countries are drowning in floods.
Storms are getting stronger.
Seasons don’t feel like seasons anymore.
And somehow…
climate change is still a debate.
Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48.
It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland.
Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here?
Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness.
• Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region.
• Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed.
• Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads.
You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years.
Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning.
Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers.
Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
As a non profit charitable organization that has been around for 55yrs this cost is both unexpected and significant.
We will be looking to fundraise for both the removal and a new marquée, as we continue to look for someone who is able to remove it safely from building.
🧵2/8
Our marquée has been severely damaged due to weather this year.
First during the ice and snow storms in Autumn and Winter, and now during the rain and wind storms this Spring and Summer.
Caution tape has been put up below the sign.
3/8
If you are able, you can donate through Canada Helps, with money being sent directly to the theatre, you will also receive a charitable tax receipt: https://t.co/BlmVJnjYLZ
🧵4/8
Thank you for all the DMs, emails and phone calls about the marquée, this might be the biggest spotlight the theatre has had recently and reminds us that the community is looking out for us, even after 55yrs! 🥰❤️
🧵6/8
Old Wives Tales
~a Canadian comedy~
By Kevin Riordan
March 6 - 22, 2026
🎟
📞 905-880-5002
🦉 online with Ticket Owl https://t.co/2VDxOrcWjw
Theatre Information:
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📍 The Blackhorse Village Players Theatre
17272 Mt Wolfe Road, Caledon
@BVPTheatre
We are officially one week away!
Opening Night is NEXT FRIDAY, March 6, for our next production of “Old Wives Tales”!
Tickets are on sale now, contact the Box Office to get yours today!
Old Wives Tales
~a Canadian comedy~
By Kevin Riordan
March 6 - 22, 2026
@BVPTheatre
1/5
Play Synopsis
“Old Wives Tales” is a fun & touching Mother Daughter story based on the the profound wisdom of women, & the men who bear witness to it.
March 6 - 22, 2026
Performance Dates:
6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22
@BVPTheatre
2/5
A conversation with a man:
Me: All men
Him: Not all men
Me: okay. You have a daughter, right? Would you be comfortable with her going to a party with a bunch of other girls, with no boys present?
Him: yes (without hesitation)
Me: cool. Would you be comfortable with her going to a party with a bunch of boys, with no girls present.
Him: no (without hesitation)
Me: why?
Him: Cause there will be at least 2-3 boys who are a problem.
Me: cool. So if those 2-3 boys do something horrible, will the other boys step in? Say something? Tell someone?
Him: (hesitates)....
Me: exactly. All men.
Hey @TerryDowdall wanna know how to lose votes?!
You just lost an entire household (not including me, I never vote CONs).
Get your head out of your ass & start working for your constituents you POS.
You are an embarrassment to our region, stop kissing PP’s & Harper’s ass!!
Canada has been gaslit into “hating” a leader who’s done absolutely nothing worth hating. In fact, quite the opposite. He’s been transformative, successful and has protected us. Money is evil and it has spun a false narrative around a completely good and innocent human.