Scott Deederly - Скотт Дідерлі @PrairieIslander

The Red River Cart was an impressive mode of transportation. Developed by the Metis, it could haul 450kg loads, float across rivers and streams, and didn't contain a single piece of iron. That versatility led to the decline of the York Boat. This is the story. 🧵 1/10

We're still living with the repercussions of the Rat Portage War! Useless historical factoid: in the 1880s the Manitoba Government deployed the Winnipeg Field Battery to the streets of Rat Portage (now Kenora) to enforce a provincial election. The Winnipeg Field Battery, formed in 1871 with the guns brought to Fort Garry by the Royal Artillery element of the Red River Expeditionary Force in 1870, later became the 11th (Winnipeg) Field Battery and STILL EXISTS! 11 (Winnipeg) Battery is a sub-unit of 26 Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery.

Howard Anglin @howardanglin

a day ago

Fun fact: When the Manitoba border was drawn, Ontario objected it should have been given the Hudson’s Bay coast to Hayes River to accommodate a planned railway and port. To compensate, Ontario was given an easement on land near Port Nelson. As far as I know it’s still valid.

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The 2026 high river flow season is over. The Springbank Reservoir was activated for the first time, helping protect Calgary during heavy rainfall. As climate change brings more extreme weather, we'll keep investing in resilience. Enjoy the Bow and Elbow safely this summer, wear a life jacket, and check conditions first.

73 years ago today, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, bringing a pause to the Korean War. More than 26,000 Canadians served during the three-year conflict. 1,255 were wounded, and 529 never came home. Lest we forget. #CanadaRemembers

“Some Canadian conservatives clearly don't love Canada, and its also part of a reflexive contrarian streak which isn't new, and some online voices sound indistinguishable from MAGA types attacking Canada, because some of them are just recycling MAGA talking points. Coyne's not wrong to be alarmed by that. But the answer was never going to be conservatives shrinking from patriotism because the flag currently feels like it belongs to someone else. Harper already showed the way out of that trap once: go and take the symbols and institutions back and reclaim the mantle of patriotism rather than cede it. That's the project now too. Reclaim the Crown, the parliamentary inheritance, institutions, mythology and love of country, whether or not Liberals built some of the myths around them. Reclaim patriotism as something conservatives are allowed to feel without apologising for it.”

Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden

4 days ago

Coyne's column felt like an uncanny rereading of a newsletter I wrote in October 2020 (i'll link to it the replies). I don't know if he's read it or not, but I'd like conservatives to take the argument seriously rather than dismiss it because I made it six years ago, long before

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For the weather enthusiasts, here's my take on the meteorological breakdown of how things could go today. #abstorm

Intercepting a Russian bomber off Canada's east coast. Flying an armed CF-18, confirming the Tu-95 Bear's model & intent. Hard to take these photos one-handed while flying in formation. During my time with @NORADCommand I did 8 separate intercepts while holding alert. Tense moments in defence of North America.

In 1912, Winnipeg-based architect William Bruce presented his idea for a new city called Roblin City. It would sit at the mouth of the Churchill River on the shore of Hudson Bay. He envisioned a city of 500,000 people. This is the story. 📸 Archives of Manitoba 🧵 1/6

I'm not sure I love Canada's national broadcaster running a piece centred on Americans opining about how easily Canada could clandestinely develop a nuclear explosive device, given how reactionary, hostile to Canada, and adverse to nuanced or critical analysis the current US government is. But there's no doubt this is a topic that deserves more substantive attention than it's received in the past. More Canadians are curious about it, seeing some benefits to having this capability -- even if they haven't carefully weighed that against the dangers. At present, Canada could probably construct -- at least in limited numbers -- the nuclear explosive device component of a nuclear weapon much faster than the credible delivery system component. This piece mentions Canada's on-going submarine procurement as something that could serve this end, but Canada actually selected the one of the two submarines it was considering that is less readily adapted to being part of a delivery chain for a nuclear weapon. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

Another day, another frigate.

Not a recommendation, but an analysis: Canada remains anti-nuke, but its potential path to the bomb is getting shorter. This country has all the elements needed for a clandestine nuclear weapons program — if it so desired. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

I am absolutely delighted to see the Normandy D-Day Beaches, including Juno Beach where Canadian forces landed, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is a well-deserved recognition of one of the defining battlefields of freedom, and of the courage, sacrifice, and service of the Canadian and Allied soldiers who fought there. May this designation preserve their legacy and celebrate our shared military heritage for generations to come. #JunoBeach #DDay #UNESCO #LestWeForget

UNESCO @UNESCO

3 days ago

🔴 BREAKING! New inscription on the @UNESCO #WorldHeritage List: Beaches of the D-Day Landings, Normandy, 1944, #France 🇫🇷. ➡️ unes.co/48whc #48WHC

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These would be of immense use in Ukraine today, given their proximity fuzed shells and cost effectiveness against drones.⬇️ The US Army saw them as “obsolete” compared to missiles.🤦‍♂️

hw97karbine @hw97karbine

3 days ago

US M51 "Skysweeper" 75mm radar-guided anti-aircraft gun fed by two 10-round drum magazines that it could empty in 25 seconds

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'Bright' future: RCAF chief says spike in defence spending is boosting flight times ctvnews.ca/canada/article…

26 juillet 1758 Capitulation de la forteresse française de Louisbourg face aux Anglais. Cernée, affaiblie et sans espoir de renfort, la garnison ne peut rien devant des forces bien supérieures. Les Français brûleront certains drapeaux pour ne pas que l’ennemi ne s’en empare.

Crazy how different this summer has been for Edmonton versus Calgary. Calgary has had 10.4 mm of rain so fair this month, and I think I've heard thunder twice. Edmonton has had numerous thunderstorms, and 239.8 mm so far this July! And that's following 263.9 mm in June. #abstorm #yegwx #soggy

YEGWAVE @yegwave

3 days ago

Drone footage over Edmonton last night captures the severe thunderstorm that hit the city ⛈️

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Michael Clarke: When people in the States say, "Oh, look how corrupt Ukraine is," I’d say, "First of all, pal, I think Ukraine, objectively, is less corrupt than United States is these days." You can construct sensible argument, which says: "Ukrainians talk about corruption because it bothers them. You guys have stopped talking about it because it doesn’t bother you anymore. You’ve normalized it." I think there’s sensible argument to say that Ukraine is less corrupt than the United States.

The West humiliated Russia in the 1990s. This war is the consequence.’ I’ve heard this in every language, from every podium. It is history rewritten backwards. Recall what actually happened to defeated Russia: no occupation. No reparations. No tribunal. It kept its nuclear arsenal and its UN veto. Its debts were forgiven and refinanced. It was handed IMF billions and a seat at the G8 — a club of democracies admitting a wounded autocracy out of hope. Now recall an actually humiliated nation: Germany, 1945. Occupied. Partitioned. Cities in ash, leaders hanged, guilt taught to its children by law. Germany became the most peaceful democracy in Europe. Russia became this. So spare me the humiliation theory. Russia was not humiliated after the Cold War. It was indulged — and it read every kindness as weakness, every gift as tribute. The grievance was never mistreatment. The grievance was lost dominion. Empires do not mourn their wounds. They mourn their slaves.

Amazing to see how well this spaceship survived. First-ever soft splashdown that left Starship intact & floating, allowing close-up inspection of the heat shield tiles after the wicked heat of reentry. Onwards to catch it next time - congrats to the whole team @SpaceX !

For the first time in months, Russia 🇷🇺 launched a large mechanized assault in the Dobropilla-Drujkivka area Two armoured columns reinforced by multiple unarmoured vehicles from the 90th tank division and the 41st/8th CAA attempted to breakthrough in the Shakove area. As you can see in the quoted tweet, this area has been subjected to heavy airstrike campaign for more than one month, while it remained a secondary direction until may. You can see here in white the recent airstrikes impacts in this direction, the same one where Russia obtained a breakthrough last year. Azov 1st Corps, which has been successfully defending the area for nearly a year managed to prevent any armoured breakthrough, showing multiple destroyed vehicles and pontoon bridges. However, infiltrations are slowly getting more frequent and Russian soldiers are often recorded behind the current grey zone, despite the absence of visual proof. As you can see, Russian armies in this direction are not doing too much PR videos with flags, which is why we have fewer flag videos. This area is right now the most strategic of the Donbas, Russia absolutely needs to control it to be able to reach Dobropilla or Drujkivka to have a fire control over the roads leading to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Why did Russia launch a mechanized assault here ? The main reason is how difficult it is to get there. We've recently seen videos of an impressive number of logistical and assault unarmoured vehicles destroyed on roads leading to here. This area is one of the deadliest, with older Ukrainian fortifications complicating any movement. Launching a mechanized assault helps to bring hundreds of men close to the front (even if 150 die and 150 manage to reach those positions, all of them will be able to assault and infiltrate further in the coming weeks). As I said a month ago, I was expecting a large scale assault here, in order to unblock the front leading to Drujkivka and Dobropilla. As Russian soldiers are infiltrating and consolidating into Kosiantynivka, they will slowly manage to take full control over the city (maybe until autumn, the same way it happened in Toretsk), now the priority for them is to prepare the next battle, for Drujkivka.

Clément Molin @clement_molin

4 weeks ago

Here are my guesses of where Russia will push in the next months. These areas are highly targeted, and Russia is always targeting heavily an area where there is good resistance but where they need to take it.

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