Some shaky details here.
Update: More details via Saskatoon Star Phoenix.

#BREAKING: 5 dead, 2 critically injured in northern Saskatchewan school shooting, PM Justin Trudeau says

— CTV News (@CTVNews) January 22, 2016

Update 2 (Kate): RCMP have announced 4 dead, undisclosed number of injured. I’ve more information on the nature of the shooting — that siblings were among the victims, along with another victim’s identity (in addition to the one already released), but am withholding, for reasons that should be self-evident from the “just not ready” tweet above.
Update 3: I now have all(?) the names of those killed. They (may) include three siblings, along with Marie Janvier, who’s name has been released. Surfing through the Facebook pages of “friends and family” in Laloche is an adventure in gang culture.
Case in point.

Star Phoenix is now filling in some blanks.

Highlight from the Oilers 5 game winning streak 😂 pic.twitter.com/KMC2J9kFCw

— The Hockey Gods! (@HockeyGods) December 14, 2015

The real definition of blowing it up.

Well, hon, it was kinda bad.

Gyro > Donair.

That some fossils are just lying around will be my first surprise. I lose quite a bit of respect for paleontologists immediately. The word “fossil” means obtained by digging, but Mike explains that lots of fossils are discovered on the surface, which feels like cheating–and if not on the surface, then by digging where a fossil was found on the surface. Or if not that, then while digging for some other reason, like to make a tunnel or those stories of a farmer out plowing his field. Or, as a last-ditch effort, by digging a ditch, in the type of stone that’s the precise age and type of sediment that tends to preserve the specific things you’re looking for. But that approach takes time and money.
I sort of thought we got fossils by just digging straight down at random spots. I lose quite a bit of respect for myself realizing this is how I thought things worked. But I did sort of think it: that the search had a wilder hopefulness and randomness to it, that all ground had equal potential if you were willing to dig. A better word for “fossil” would be whatever the Latin is for “obtained by grant money and erosion.”

Grab a coffee.
Update: Or not.

No one has read the Trans Pacific Partnership, so I’m going to restrain from commenting on it until that time.
Suffice to say, trade is what Canadians do and free access to more markets is always better.
So on that hopeful note, well done, Canada.

Remember, everything in the media will be wrong for the first 24 hours. I don’t have a link other than twitter, so if you have one, throw it in the comments.

I didn’t think of you before – but now I will. Last night I read a post from a woman who was upset that a young, presumably attractive female, made a sales call to the farm – and rode in the cab of the combine with the farmer (the poster’s husband).

#SpiderMable
Heroes do exist.

Thoughts are with our farming SDA followers as they work to get the crop off.

Stay safe as you harvest your bounty!

If that picture is the sinkhole, it’s massive.

Canning tomatoes, thirty-some cotoneasters to plant. Rider game. Amuse yourselves and enjoy the last weekend of summer.

“News outlets only care about a small part, but you call it the world“

h/t Mike

A not insignificant portion ended up in my mouth.
Sigh. Now to core and stem. Jelly and butter weekend.

CNN via Fearless Leader.

In Japan. Story here.

The saddest aisle in the grocery store. pic.twitter.com/DIvIalfgoj

— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) August 19, 2015

When certain people are away, I eat all the things that certain people refuse to touch. This is one, and one of my favourites.
Bottom-Dwelling, Crap-Eater Chowder
1/2 cup butter
One onion, chopped
Once celery stalk, chopped
Two potatoes in small cubes.
4 Tbsp of flour
salt,
pepper,
paprika
thyme
basil
3 cups of milk
Whoops Forgot about the two cans of condensed Creme Mushroom soup.
3 cups or so of chopped frozen seafood.
Cook the seafood as per the package instructions. On medium heat, melt the butter and saute the onion, celery and potato until soft. Add the flour and spices to thicken. Add the milk and Condensed soup, add the cooked seafood. Judge the thickness of the chowder as you heat it, if it’s too thin, add a bit more flour. Bring almost to a boil, take it off the heat and let it cool.