Connor Kirkley

Software Design & Dev • Live in Vancouver 🎿

[Daily Hive Vancouver @DailyHiveVan]

Opinion: After spending decades managing dysfunction, it's time to start building beauty in Vancouver
https://t.co/SUNWhVCeXd

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Mark Grantham

(Canadian painter, b. 1966)

The Snow, 2017

Acrylic on Wood Panel

[Man of Myth @Mythos_Man]

“God provides the wind, man must raise the sails.”

— Saint Augustine of Hippo

[National Post @nationalpost]

'Canadian dairy farmers discard anywhere from hundreds of millions to as much as one billion litres of milk each year, not because of food safety concerns, but to prevent oversupply and maintain elevated prices'

https://t.co/KZUyOy2Tkg

[Matt Strauss @strauss_matt]

It is objectively insane and immoral to dump 1 billion litres of milk in a year.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

A joint Dalhousie-–McGill study estimates that Canadian dairy farmers discard as much as one billion litres of milk each year, not because of food safety concerns, but to prevent oversupply and maintain elevated prices. https://t.co/y5rDO4GjdQ

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Movie theme songs used to stick with you. A few notes and the whole film came rushing back. Now so many scores blur together, built on the same pounding rhythms and textures instead of a melody you can actually remember.

[The Province @theprovince]

Invasive fish introduced at Cultus Lake pose serious threat to salmon, say B.C. conservation officers https://t.co/v9Jd8LT7qZ

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

This is not Ok. It’s Banana Republic stuff. Additionally, what’s with the flippant tone of this GTA MP, who replaced Mary Ng, whose riding is a CCP UFWD stronghold. Whee, Canadians don’t get to vote for years while Mark Carney goes full Jean Chrétien 90s with the PRC.

[Caroline Elliott @NVanCaroline]

The BC government’s habit of shoveling taxpayer dollars off the back of a truck with zero transparency has to stop.

This comes as BC’s annual free fireworks celebration, enjoyed by 1.3 million British Columbians (of all income levels) each year, has been cancelled due to lack of funding.

“BC’s minister of tourism, arts and culture said she could not speak to specific details without the First Nations present.”

https://t.co/CvS4ahhxMo

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

ASSIST OF THE YEAR FROM KYLE PALMIERI 😂

[National Post @nationalpost]

Opinion: Canada wasn't 'stolen' from Indigenous people https://t.co/27Cd8Ode66

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Surprise, surprise...

The Canadian Meat Council meeting scheduled for next week to look into the beef import quota situation has been cancelled.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

One can make many arguments why we should reduce emissions, but the economic ones being advanced by Ottawa, associating it with global “climate competitiveness”, have just gotten weaker.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being.

71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety.

Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Kai Nagata from Dogwood News "So as it stands Western LNG is the owner of the Xi Lism's terminal and it would be built in Korea with Korean and Chinese steel."

"So how much taxpayer money are we prepared to invest in a project that is American owned and foreign built? "

Carney "Different aspects...First Nation pipeline... the structure of the financing ... "

"We answer that question with full information by doing the work and that's what the referral to the major project office facilitates. "

Uh, okay. Clear as mud @MarkJCarney

[toki @tokifyi]

such a cool project

pretty sure most of us in vancouver have never actually looked at how our govt. spends money before.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

BC Hydro imported a quarter of the province’s power in the last 12 months

They will not deign to build fossil fuel generated power at home due to climate targets but they will import it from USA and Alberta. It’s cognitive dissonance.

https://t.co/ZEbjTFJ2Bq

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

George Springer’s home run with Moneyball music

Chills

[Dwayne Chomyn @Citizen004]

@ExnerPirot: “The truth is, Keystone is now looking like the easier lift. That's an indictment of Canadian politics, process and purpose. Eby has made it so difficult, he's poisoned the well so badly on N Gateway in the past two weeks that again you say, `Well … back to Keystone XL. What is the point of a country, in 2025 and all we've just been through in the past 10 months, that it still is easier to deal with the US than between provinces.” It's a painful point, but dead on...
@nspector4