#CoSoCanucks New Speaker Greg Fergus being dragged to the chair. The Speaker, by tradition, feigns reluctance to take the post dating to the days when British speakers were the ones to give the King bad news.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1709261523963576333

#CoSoCanucks Did another walking tour of Banff today. The second picture is a couple of elk. The third one is the venerable Banff Springs Hotel, and the fourth one is the Bow Falls.
Going home to Kamloops tomorrow.

#CoSoCanucks Important article about Canada's wingnuts. Some good comments, too.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/09/19/news/inside-look-plot-make-climate-denial-mainstream

#CoSoCanucks Spent an afternoon walking around Banff, Went to the Whyte Museum and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

#CoSoCanucks Drove the Icefields Parkway from Jasper to Banff this afternoon. The second picture is Bow Lake.

#CoSoCanucks @_Psyber Went for a hike this morning in Maligne Canyon, north of Jasper.
Got a dose of what Edward Abbey called "industrial tourism" there, but hey, the national and provincial parks are for everybody.

#CosoCanucks I'm in Jasper, AB. Had to scrape frost off my car this morning.

#CoSoCanucks A clear day in the Canadian Rockies. Can't beat it. I hiked the Valley of the Five Lakes trail, south of Jasper.

#CoSoCanucks Drove from Kamloops to Jasper today. My first time in the Canadian Rockies in 41 years, and my first time ever in Valemount and Jasper. The first picture was taken near Tete Jaune Cache, the second in downtown Jasper.

#CoSoCanucks Nice to read some good news on climate change. Canada's Federal government is actually doing something.
The Off-Diesel Initiative is particularly interesting. This should be a global project.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/09/14/news/ottawa-program-supporting-indigenous-energy-transition-partnerships-was-so-popular

#CoSoCanucks I'm at Joe's Cafe, which has been an institution on Commercial Drive in Vancouver just about forever. A couple doors down is the Portuguese Club, a place where I occasionally drank beer.

#CoSoCanucks #SteveSchmidt wrote a piece about Nelson, BC.
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/freedom-and-liberty-are-a-moral-proposition

#CoSoCanucks Did a hike in Wells Gray Park today, this time to the summit of Pyramid Mountain, 1,094 meters (3,590 feet) above sea level. You can see that the air was smoky, but it was clearer than in Kamloops.

#CoSoCanucks Kamloops is the most polluted city in the world today. We're #1. Yay!

#CoSoMusic #CoSoCanucks Went to listen to Jaclson Hollow, an excellent bluegrass band from Vancouver, tonight. They are getting some radio play. https://www.jacksonhollowmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/100006316663330/videos/781627950380011/

#CoSoMusic #CoSoCanucks
Excellent interview of Robbie Robertson on CBC Radio. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/16002471-robbie-robertson-loony

#CoSoMusic #CoSoCanucks One of many great songs Robbie Robertson wrote and performed.
https://youtu.be/OaXJYBHoxuo

#CoSoCanucks #TheBeaverton Ezra Levant, snot-nosed idiot with small penis loses libel case.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2014/11/snot-nosed-idiot-with-small-penis-loses-libel-case/

#CoSoCanucks Canada vs. Nigeria scoreless at halftime in the #WomensWorldCup. Christine Sinclair kicked a shot over the goal, a rare miss for her. Nigeria had the only shot on goal.

#CoSoCanucks Today's hike was at Lac Du Bois, 15 km. north of Kamloops.