Cathie from Canada: Sunday Funday: National Indigenous People’s Day; funny posts and neat posts, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat Trick, Animal Crackers, World Cup stories, Today’s Pride Update


National Indigenous People’s Day is this Sunday! 

Above is Cree/European artist Rachel Drager’s logo chosen by the Fraser River Indigenous Society to represent National Indigenous Peoples Day.

In celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day, Canada Post has launched a new set of stamps.

It will feature three athletes and advocates for Indigenous sports.

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— APTN News (@aptnnews.bsky.social) June 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM

Events are going on across the country:

Tomorrow is National Indigenous Peoples day

Here is the link to the 94 Calls to Action

https://nctr.ca/about/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-of-canada-calls-to-action/

– Rich

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Also happening in the States:

“Hey Victor!”

I love Smoke Signals, its one of my favorite movies, and I’m so glad it is getting recognition for being such a great movie.

So funny, so tragic, so painful. How Do We Forgive Our Fathers? speaks to everyone’s experience

– Cathie from Canada

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Its on Prime and Netflix.

Funny posts and observations on the passing scene
In case you’re feeling upbeat and positive these days, here are some de-motivating quotes:

Lawn darts. Monkey bars.

We went sledding down the hill they had made of the construction materials they discarded when building the school. We had to lean to the left to duck under the chunks of concrete at the bottom. Good times.

– Cathie from Canada

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At the dentist musing about all the music being 1990s when I realized that’s like 50s music now in terms of being oldies

— Great Popehat My Honor (@kenwhite.bsky.social) June 18, 2026 at 12:24 PM

Today you may sit down and write something you will, at some later point, be a bit disappointed in.

This is what writing is, and why publishing can be so deceptive. Everything actually remains an unfinished draft, even when it’s locked into place on paper. You could always do better, which time will reveal to you soon enough, the cruel wretch.

However, you’re never going to be as disappointed in yourself as this reporter was.

You’re got this. Crack onwards.

– Mike Sowden

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Scorch! Pow!

Next, a little politics

Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”

— Moira Donegan (@moiradonegan.bsky.social) June 18, 2026 at 10:47 AM

Lets all laugh at the mess Trump is making.
This is so true and so funny:

Trump is falling and he can’t get up

Is there going to be an oil reserve disaster?

And is Iran holding American prisoners?

He’s dragging Republicans down with him and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.

In a few years, nobody will believe it.

When people read about this era in 200 years they’re going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real

— Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social) June 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

— Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social) June 18, 2026 at 8:49 PM

After all, Bush and Cheney and 911 and Iraq were just 25 years ago, and nobody talks about them now at all. 

This is not surprising in the least

Frankly the reflecting pool turning green after Trump spent millions of taxpayer dollars to fix a problem that didn’t exist is the prefect metaphor for that fucking useless asshole.

– Frank Frankly

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The solution to that reflecting pool

Neat posts

Most of the rest of us hadn’t heard of Mamdani before a year ago, but he has been serving New Yorkers for years

Love those Knicks fans

More of this energy…

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— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) June 14, 2026 at 10:48 PM

So true!

Some amazing ingenuity

This clock is 600 years old, and it still works.

Every hour in Prague, Death rings the bell.

The apostles appear and pass by.

Crowds gather beneath it as gears, saints, planets, and symbols move across one of the most dramatic machines ever built.

Made in 1410, the Prague Astronomical Clock remains the oldest working astronomical clock on Earth.

It tells the time, but that is the least interesting thing it does.

It turns the passing hour into a public reminder that every life is being counted.

– Culture Explorer

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Getting Old(er) 

Hey, I already knew this because I’m old(er)!

Carney Hat Trick – posts about our prime minister
Carney in Ireland

Animal Crackers

A raccoon figured out that if he blocks the drive-thru, they’ll give him a donut to make him leave

– Canadian Returnee

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World Cup stories

So impressive how the World Cup fans are loving the cities where the games are being played:

This is a match from 2022, but it shows why people call soccer The Beautiful Game:

Proud to call Michael a mentor.

(And delighted to have helped name that park after him as Mayor!)

– Don Iveson

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– KGB Report

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