I have much to be thankful for, and I am. I hope you and yours have peace, happiness and good fortune.

The fall-out from this will be fun.

@ArshyMann @Justin_Ling ICYMI @ActonMichaels of the Mississauga Gazette goes after Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie son read below #canqueer pic.twitter.com/4XXu6Ye5Bz

— G.T. Lem (@gtlem) October 9, 2016

For some more context a larger part of the story.

And I’ve been waging a personal jihad on them since last year.

No Earthquakes.
Sure the odd tornado and if Yellowstone ever pops, we’re screwed, but no city destroying earthquakes.

I always wondered why I was the mosquito magnet. But, all things considered, the little bastards will be feeding off of me for a while yet.

And they say Italy and Greece have a problem. Refugees on Canada’s shores.

Sure, the media hated you, but even with bad-press you couldn’t compete with this level of crazy-mayor. Anyone know his party affiliation, or if he has one?
And answered: Republican.
h/t: NewsHubNation

New hope for stupid predators – Scientists are painting eyes on cows’ butts to stop lions getting shot
h/t POK

Meanwhile, 100 years ago, the Battle of the Somme started today, so Canadians would be remiss without recognition of this:

Here’s hoping he isn’t praying for the end of time. 2016.
This year sucks.

Have we hit the ceiling?

If the question is, “Does the financial community see a trend to higher levels of kWh sales growth?”, a dominant majority answered no.

I should note, SaskPower is projecting growth up to 33,000 Gwh/yr in 2034 from 23,000 Gwh/yr in 2014. That’s based on a 300k population increase, so SaskPower must be thinking that we’re going to pick up a pile of manufacturing from areas where that is discouraged, like Provinces west and further east.
Via Josh

But very cool, nonetheless.
I’m not sure I could be that pilot though, three days from Hawaii to the Bay Area, allowed only 20 minute catnaps, and then that whole bathroom thing.
I wonder if anyone is working on the X-Plane model. I might pick it up, at least if I get tired of flying my new BD-100!
Primary Flight Display (left) and Multi-Function Display (right). En-route to Lewiston, Idaho to ‘pick up the dog handler’. Just about to cross over the border south of Lethbridge. Flying M0.8 at 33,000ft.
Sure, taking a Challenger 300 on a hop to pick-up dogs might seem frivolous to you, but for me, it’s a wonderful way to spend a Sunday morning. It’s also a whole lot faster than taking the PA-32 Cherokee.

The threat a massive tsunami hitting the Pacific Northwest has concerned scientists for years.
Experts say an event of this kind occurs roughly every 400-600 years, and the area is overdue a similar quake that could leave thousands dead or displaced.

Topic related open thread.
Not all decisions have been read yet, but everything is going as expected by everyone except the politically motivated.
Update: Cleared on all 31.

Open wide, this will only take a minute and hurt like heck.

I hadn’t really thought of it before, but a great explanation to the question of why light can’t escape a black hole, but can from a sun.

An update from Kate.
Small Dead Animals? What’s that? Many Russian net-blocks are banned from SDA.
As I’m not there we’ll have to wait for Kate to explain these photos.
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The other night, she went to the The Mariinsky where she enjoyed The Nutcracker. You really don’t want to know how good her seats were.
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She’ll be back around the 2nd, but I wouldn’t expect a whole lot of blogging from her until the 4th.

I’m sure the victims families are feeling really bad for Uber.

And I am very much in favour of this.
*No, I’m not actually in favour of this. Was trying to make a “Rethink basic concepts like space and time” joke that completely failed.