Canines know how to alter their facial expressions to manipulate human emotions
At least not news to any dog breeder.

Takes a special neighbour to risk their lives to protect ours.

Cypress County is mourning the death of James Hargrave, a firefighter who died battling wildfires near the southeastern Alberta hamlet of Hilda. RCMP said the victim was a volunteer firefighter who died while operating a water truck aiding efforts to stop the fire’s spread to Saskatchewan.

h/t, Ken (Kulak).

You’re supposed to pray for an asteroid, not pick a favourite.
Some are starting to get the idea that maybe identity politics has gone too far.
Many people are looking at this as the paragraph of the column.

Such logic extends a disturbing trend in left-of-center public thinking: identity epistemology, or knowing-through-being, somewhere along the line became identity ethics, or morality-through-being. Accordingly, whiteness and wrongness have become interchangeable — the high ground is now accessible only by way of “allyship,” which is to say silence and total repentance.

For me though, this one is the scary part:

He referred to the all-encompassing sense of white power so many liberals now also attribute to whiteness as a profound opportunity. “This is the photographic negative of a white supremacist,” he told me gleefully. “This is why I’m actually very confident, because maybe those leftists will be the easiest ones to flip.”

We’ve seen symptoms of this bipolar behaviour with Antifa; tolerance via a studded club to the head. I don’t want to see the more numerous totalitarian socialists begin a “if you can’t beat them, join them” migration towards the totalitarian fascists because society/Democrats/liberals are ‘betraying’ them.

Eat like your grandma: Why you should skip the kale salad

Junk enhancements.

When the man regained consciousness at home, he discovered “blood-soaked bandages” and that his penis has been “mutilated,” according to court documents. The victim sent text-message photos of his mangled genitals to Schreiber, police said.

Monarch Airlines is in trouble again.

Stricken airline Monarch was handed a 24-hour reprieve last night as it teetered on the brink of financial collapse.
Britain’s fifth biggest airline is locked in talks over a last-minute rescue amid fears that 100,000 customers could be left stranded.
Government sources said preparations have already begun for a ‘mass repatriation’ of passengers should the worst happen. The Foreign Office has alerted consulates in Monarch’s destination cities to call in extra staff.

After what seems like days of grim anticipation, it looks like Tampa Bay is gonna get slammed by the eye with the rest of southern Florida getting it just as bad from winds and wave.

Few items of Canadian lore hold the fascination that the Avro Arrow does.
This is just a model, 3m long or so.

Nye claims Disney underpaid him.

Jury Awards $417M To Calif. Woman Claiming Baby Power Caused Cancer.

Can you imagine the environmental impact study on this?

One already defunct idea was to use water to cool down the supervolcano.
NASA believes drilling up to 10km down into the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park to pump in water at high pressure could cool it.
Despite the fact that the mission would cost $3.46 billion, NASA considers it ‘the most viable solution.’

Via NewsHubNation

Not my generation, but Jerry Lewis has died at 91 in Las Vegas.

And the world made fun of Canada’s maple syrup heist.

Airport worker punches Easyjet passenger holding a baby.
Nice.
TeeHee.

So, this is…odd.

Two people escaped without injuries after a man allegedly crashed into their home with a bulldozer.

Well, this was a tough one, made tougher by some of our readers mistaking Vladmir Putin for Robert Duvall. But in ascending order, my completely subjective choices for honourable mentions:
“Stay thirsty, my friends” – Terry Anderson
“The line up to drink the dirty covfefe dishwater stretched all through the CNN headquarters and out into the street.” — richfisher
And the free book goes to;

“CNN Editorial Staff: We don’t always masturbate in the bath. But when we do….” – Lickmuffin

Is it just me or are we hearing more about this now-a-days? Naturally the shark apologists all claim attacks are down.
I’ve done my share of swimming in the Pacific, pretty much the entire ring from Vancouver Island to Australia and I honestly hated every minute.
If it wasn’t the jelly-fish swarms around Vancouver Island, it was Tiger Shark warnings in Hawaii. Don’t even mention all the other things that’ll hurt, maim or kill you in the South Pacific. If I don’t have to spend another second in the ocean ever again, it’ll be good.
Perhaps I’m just a worrier, but give me a nice cold fresh-water lake in Saskatchewan any day. About the only thing you have to worry about is the leeches, black flies and mosquitos.
Well, those and the odd gluten addicted bear.

The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.
I’ve never been but the Stampede holds a special place in my heart for reasons best left unexplained. It’s the only time of the year when I’ll voluntarily watch the CBC.
Hope ya’ll have a good time!

Nearly 200 wildfires burn through B.C. as state of emergency continues.
Related, a map of the fires.