The world is fucked up, but @itsthedarcys has new music, so I can survive the horrors for another day.

A few of us from @CBCOlympics in Milan just got stopped in the subway by some Turkish and Italian girls who asked us if we were from Canada (we’re wearing our big red coats) because they “love Heated Rivalry.” The globalization is real.

The first exchange of the year. Today, we brought home another 157 Ukrainians – both military personnel and civilians. This was a long and demanding operation, and we achieved a worthy result. 139 of those released had been held in captivity since 2022. Among the freed are 19

My kid noticed an unhoused person on our drive to school today and asked if we could get them a coffee since we were stopping at Starbucks for ourselves. I may doubt myself a lot, but I'm pretty sure this means I'm a fucking okay mum.

Maybe what the world needs is to go back to collecting popsicle sticks for Popsicle Pete Points.

Canadian Astronaut Jeremy Hanson is going to the moon next week and it’s not in the news anywhere.

I made beef Wellington last night for the first time, and it turned out spectacular. I honestly don’t know how anything in 2026 is going to top this.

ChatGPT suggested that I don't focus too much on geopolitics and gender-based violence today, just in case you were worried that our robot overlords wouldn't have our best interests in mind.

Missed in all the drama out of the US: the US is withdrawing from the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), an org that looks for long-term opportunities to counter terrorism. While this is not a mission-critical CT org, it is another indication that the US is abandoning

Trying to de-government my office…

I've worked in the "hate crime and extremism" space for over ten years now. I was like "Wow, this is so fucked up" when I first started in 2014. I need someone to invent new adjectives for 2026 because holy hot fuck, it's January 6 and I need a vacation already.

Baking garlic / cheddar focaccia and chocolate chip cookies. My house smells like a Subway.

"We can put a man on the moon, but we can't figure out a way to make a forage cap that doesn't leave a quarter-sized dent in my forehead."

"Thank you to our trusty staff with guns." #Todayatwork

"Look, I don't know what to threaten you with right now. God or bureaucracy... " #todayatwork

The hardest part of having a job that allows me the opportunity to read all the things is that I'm constantly adding more things to my "to be read" pile, and I fear I will never actually read half of them. Yes, I understand how silly this sounds.

The speed and ferocity at which a class full of police officers can create nicknames for one another is nothing short of remarkable.

I finally got to use a clip from Training Day in one of my classes.

Creating an icebreaker for my next class, where we're discussing how we might develop biases or ideas from our environments. What ideas / beliefs did you have as a kid that turned out to be untrue? (Eg: Your dad was the strongest man alive)

"Remember to put your name on the top of your exam with your score, and please do NOT draw any penises or boobs on it..." Me, to a class full of adult learners.