MS warrior ๐ช๐ป, Mind over Matter ๐ง , neuro-fu**in'-plasticity! I love my Schnauzer, Flames ๐ฅ Bolts โก๏ธmusic, books and cooking๐๐ป๐พ๐ธ๐ผ๐ด๐น๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ
Four Memorial Cup appearances. Two championships. More than 100 players coached to the NHL. And a presence in BC hockey that can never be replaced.
Ernie โPunchโ McLean was one of a kind โ a legend of the game who gave everything to this province and to the players lucky enough to call him coach.
Rest easy, Punch. Thank you for the memories, the lessons, and the legacy you leave behind.
BC hockey will never forget you. ๐
Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell perform Joni Mitchell medley live | ... https://t.co/ZO2JF3SJ5X via @YouTube What a wonderful tribute to a Canadian icon
CANADA WINS!!!!!! ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ฆ
Canada 7, Cuba 2
Canada is moving on to the Quarter Finals for the first time ever in the World Baseball Classic!!
GO CANADA GO ๐จ๐ฆโค๏ธ
#WorldBaseballClassic
Well, when a child is conceived, the DNA split is 50/50 from both parents. Except for one small detail: mitochondrial DNA. Itโs passed down only through the mother and never through sperm.
Which means something interesting: all living humans can trace their mitochondrial line back to one woman, not one man.
And every daughter born continues passing that same line forward.
Happy Womenโs Day ๐
Left side is a human lung. Right side is a tree.
The tree breathes in what the lung breathes out. The lung breathes in what the tree breathes out.
God's design is incredible.
That very first camera shot from behind, I thought, โWaitโฆ that looks like Derek!โ โค๏ธ๐ And it was!!!! Such a fun surprise seeing him out there with the Banana Ball guest dancers! ๐บ๐ผ๐
.@JamesTalarico on the Trump administration blocking the airing of his Colbert interview: โThis is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they are trying to control what we watch, what we say, and what we read.
This is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture โ the kind that comes from the top. Corporate media executives are selling out the First Amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians.
A threat to any of our First Amendment rights is a threat to all of our First Amendment rights.โ
๐ฎ๐น The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But forโฆ memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes โ his friends, colleagues, champions โ killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet โdid not comply with regulations.โ
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal โ but for the right to exist.
And he is suspendedโฆ for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
โช๏ธ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete โ killed in Kharkiv.
โช๏ธ Mariia Lebid, 15 โ missile strike in Dnipro.
โช๏ธ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater โ killed in Bakhmut.
โช๏ธ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete โ also Bakhmut.
โช๏ธ Daria Kurdel, 20 โ missile strike in Kharkiv.
โช๏ธ Alina Perehutova, 14 โ standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
โช๏ธ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer โ killed defending Luhansk region.
โช๏ธ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka โ missile strike in Kyiv.
โช๏ธ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast โ airstrike on Mariupol.
โช๏ธ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion โ shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would โcompeteโ alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal โ its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength โ but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations โ then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
๐บ๐ฆ We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.
ICE detain wife of U.S. Marineโseparate her from 2 young kids.
She was at her final immigration interview that she waited 5 years to getโwhen agents burst in and arrested her right in the middle.
"I served the country, and you know, I would think that the country would serve us," said Corporal Patrick Baja.
"We followed everything to a 'T' to do things the 'right way' in the process... As a Marine veteran, I would just like some help."
Diana Butnarciuc left the Eastern European country of Moldova claiming political asylum in 2008โhas two children, works, and pays her taxes.
She is currently locked up away from her family at the Henderson ICE Detention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. #DemsUnited
BREAKING: Stunning new polling reveals that Canada is more popular in the United States than Donald Trump is. Trump would hate it if you made this go viral.
When Bad Bunny takes center stage for the Super Bowl LX halftime show on Sunday, he'll be the first artist with a primarily Spanish-language repertoire to do so.
CBS News' @lilialuciano breaks down some of his most impactful lyrics, as the Puerto Rican artist prepares to make music history.