Fellow non-Indigenous people in Canada: please take a few minutes today to write your MP & demand that the federal government immediately hold a National Day of Mourning & act on the TRC's calls to action (esp. those relating to missing children and burial information, #71-76)

Please take a moment to watch this.

my son watching me break out the hidden candy jar when I think he’s in another room

Breaking: The Pacheedaht, Ditidaht and Huu-ay-aht First Nations are requesting a two-year pause on old-growth logging in #FairyCreek while they work on Indigenous resource management plans via Sarah Cox thenarwhal.ca/bc-pacheedaht-… #bcpoli

I knew nothing about the Daniel Morgan murder until I met Peter Jukes & then Alastair Morgan. This is an excellent explainer of a complex story that explains why what yesterday’s report called ‘institutional corruption’ goes right to the heart of the British state

REMEMBER the children, Today, tomorrow and always.

Lytton's Main Street, before and after yesterday's devastating fire. (Photo from a Chilliwack Fire Department member)

Genius.

You know it's hot when deer crash the pool party...🦌 This shot taken in #Sooke this week is your CHEK News weekend #weatherfunny 😎I'll have your full forecast on CHEK News at 5. 📷Kelly Brooks #BCwx #BCheat #BCheatwave

Let Backlisted Podcast help banish this uncertain July weather: join the ace team of Norah Perkins (Norah Perkins) & Beacky Brown (@b3ckybr0wn) Andy Miller nickybirch & me as we consider In a Lonely Place the classic noir by Dorothy B.Hughes. backlisted.fm/episodes/142-d…

Today an extremely unwell man who was talking to himself grunted “POOFTER” as I walked past him and instead of taking offence I’m choosing to believe my outfit was so extremely gay that it helped clarify reality for him to the point of being medically beneficial

Today's weather photo is this beautiful shot of the sunset in Sayward, with the sky and water on fire. Gorgeous! I'll have your full forecast on CHEK News at 5. See you soon! 📷 Joyce Ellis #ShareYourwweather CHEK

Congratulations to The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada upon his third consecutive victory. Justin Trudeau has now won every election he has run in since his first in 2008. He will be the longest serving Leader in the G7 as of Sept 26.

Waking up to this view Hakai Institute on Quadra Island… Nice way to start the morning! … And then a pod of a few dozen Pacific white-sided dolphins swam past a few meters from shore… Great way to start the morning!

The Booker prize nominated writer ruth ozeki joins the Book Club with her latest novel which is out today. We’ll talk about hearing voices in our heads and juvenile mental illness, hoarding and consumerism, Zen Buddhism and a love of motorbikes Magic Classical 10.30am.

#OnThisDay 1986: Douglas Adams explained how the idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy began while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

The fuel crisis isn’t down to Brexit. We “just happen” to be the only country on the continent of Europe with an insurmountable fuel crisis. We also “just happen” to be the only country which saw 14,000 EU drivers leave last year. But no, no, none of this is related.

He’s now Dr Doctor Marcus Rashford of the University of Manchester