Cathie from Canada: Sunday Funday: Some funny posts and neat posts. Plus Pride Update, Getting Old(er), Everybody Hates AI, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

Funny posts

Does anyone still remember Wayne and Shuster?
We were watching one of their funniest skits the other day, and I thought I just had to share it.
The setup: A stage director from Hollywood (Johnny Wayne) wants to give the House of Commons a new look and style so it can be more appealing to the public. The NDP party is to wear overalls and carry lunchboxes, and the Liberals and Conservatives are to wear red or blue suits to distinguish them, along with musical accompaniment.

Moving on:

I made $5,000 in one month on Substack. Here’s how:

I found a niche for my newsletter.

I posted every day.

I created a value proposition, offering premium content to a focused audience.

I sold my 2003 Toyota Corolla.

– Archer Parquette

Read on Substack

Neat posts
Tonight’s Canes-Knights game was, in my son’s judgement, the best Stanley Cup game ever:

Next, I highly recommend you click the link to read this remarkable post from James Lucas in his Beauty is Truth substack:

The Most Impossible Paintings Ever Made
6 masterpieces hiding details you won’t believe are real…
Leonardo da Vinci once wrote:
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
There may be no better words to prepare you for what you are about to see.
We live in an age of almost unimaginable achievement. We have split the atom, sequenced the genome, built telescopes that can see light from the first galaxies that ever formed. And yet a person can still walk into a gallery, stand in front of a panel painted five or six centuries ago, and feel something the modern world rarely produces: the sensation of looking at a piece of art that should not be possible. There are paintings that test not only what we see, but what we believe we are seeing…

Moving on, Pope Leo goes to Spain

Steam Punk in the Netherlands

For everyone who, like me, wasn’t paying attention during Geography 101:

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.”
When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything!
(Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
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— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) June 2, 2026 at 8:52 AM

Today’s Pride Update

Pride Month traces back to LGBTQ+ people who were harassed, policed, raided & told their lives were disposable.

I think some people want Pride to feel light & uncomplicated, but its history begins in confrontation…

These were real bodies in danger, real people being targeted, real fear channeled into collective resistance. Pride was born in the charged friction between terror & refusal.

– Alyssa 🌿💫

Read on Substack

I’m a Toronto baseball fan for today. 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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— Every Bite Counts (@sandybeach805.bsky.social) June 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM

It is Pride Month.

Throughout this month, I will be sharing the stories of Canadians who fought for equality.

Today it is the story of Jim Egan.

Learn more about his amazing story in my Deep Dive on his life 👇

https://canadaehx.com/2025/06/10/jim-egan/

– Canadian History Ehx

Read on Substack

Getting Old(er)

Everybody hates AI

Carney Hat Trick – posts about our prime minister

Has to be said: there’s something mildly amusing about claims by #cdnmedia that PM Mark Carney is “lacking in soft skills.” Compared to whom? Petulant peewee piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s “soft skills”?
Governing is a high performance endeavour, folks. Not for sissies.
🤷🏼🍁🤷🏼
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— David Hamer (@davidhamer1951.bsky.social) June 6, 2026 at 3:52 AM

Click here for a gift link to that Globe and Mail piece.

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