CBC showing the sledge hockey sleds and sticks during the intermission of the Canada-Japan game, which is very helpful for viewers.
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CBC showing the sledge hockey sleds and sticks during the intermission of the Canada-Japan game, which is very helpful for viewers.
Two of the figures considered to be among the greatest Canadians - Nellie McClung and Tommy Douglas - were eugenicists in the interwar period. To be fair, Douglas never supported eugenics as Premier of Saskatchewan and federal MP and party leader despite his MA thesis being on "Subnormal Families."
Out of a meeting and working with Paralympics para ice hockey on (which we call sledge hockey). Canada 6 Japan 0 in the second.
Not a physician, but Nellie McClung, one of Canada's trailblazing female politicians and activists - has statues, picture on the money, depicted in numerous posts yesterday - was a full-blown eugenicist and spearheaded legislation in the 1920s to sterilize disabled people in Alberta.
We feel bad about missing the International Women's Day concert by a women's brass ensemble yesterday, but we are both disabled people and just ran out of spoons. We managed to get enough energy to watch Carleton Ravens basketball, which was important to us as an alumnus and a former employee.
Big topic in chats in the pews across Eastern Ontario yesterday: the proposal for the Alto high speed rail line from Montreal to Toronto, which has two potential routes which require expropriation of farms and severing numerous north-south roads.
I had not realized, until one of the CBC journalists posted a closeup photo of a Paralympic medal, that the medals have braille letters spelling out "Milano Cortina 2026," and notches that signify whether the medal is gold, silver, or bronze.
Just once, I’d like to see the NYT actually talk to disability studies scholars about disability before they write articles laden with the most ableist tropes that totally go unchecked. A real disservice. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
Carleton Ravens win their 18th Canadian university men's basketball title! What a game!! Proud alumnus here.
We have Carleton Ravens playing for the national men's basketball title on one screen, Canada vs. Panama baseball on another.
"We're marching through the world" is the kind of aggressive statement that chills the neighbouring countries the US spent the weekend reassuring that they are really *really* wanted as allies and partners - trust us!
Praying for the cadets injured in a bus crash in Quebec, and for their families, friends and comrades, and for everyone mourning the cadet who has died.
Carleton Ravens defeat Toronto Metropolitan and are going to the men's basketball national title game tomorrow!! We can taste that 18th championship now!
Rubio today: "We want the world to see that when you're a friend and an ally of the United States, it's reciprocated."
Canadians: "When you're a friend and ally of the United States, the President and his lickspittles can decide that you are Public Enemy Number One and need to be annexed."
Carleton wins!! What a heartstopper. I'm going to be a mess if the Carleton men are in the Canadian final tomorrow.
Carleton Ravens giving me heart palpitations here, but now leading TMU by one point, 7:15 left in this women's basketball consolation final.
Great wheelchair curling by Canada against Italy, but we need to check in on Carleton women's basketball playing Toronto Metropolitan. Streaming getting a workout today.
Canada vs. Colombia baseball is on and we have noted that the Canadian uniforms are classic white and red - no black maple leaves or maroon jackets like the Olympics and Paralympics. Colombia also looking good in blue and yellow.
Carleton Ravens men won their Final 8 game vs. Laval. Now women won against McGill with nanoseconds left on the clock! Can't beat Canadian university basketball for nail-biting tension.
President of the Milano-Cortina Olympic and Paralympic committee refers in his speech to the 1.3 billion disabled people worldwide, and I hope at least a few viewers gasp at a number that is likely higher than most abled people realize.
I love how Lululemon has made adaptable clothing for Canada's Paralympic athletes - snowboots that can accommodate prosthetics, snaps rather than buttons, pants that are comfortable for sitting in wheelchairs etc. - and wish there was more of this for us less athletic disabled people.
They're doing breathless updates now the deadline is 20 minutes away. But the updates aren't about actual trades.
The Paralympics opening ceremony coverage on CBC has a lot of commentary like "Netherlands athletes are not attending the ceremony" and "Poland is not participating in the ceremony in support of its neighbour Ukraine."
Paralympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony with ASL, on CBC Gem now gem.cbc.ca/asl-paralymp...
Nothing better than the men and women of Sportsnet and TSN trying to fill hours of NHL Trade Deadline Day coverage when there is very little news to announce.
March is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month in Canada 💙
Juvenile arthritis affects thousands of children and youth across the country. It’s more than joint pain — it can impact mobility, school, mental health, and everyday childhood experiences.
NHL Trade Deadline Day, and Canadian sports TV has non-stop, all-day coverage. I have Sportsnet on until lunchtime, switching then to TSN until the Paralympics opening ceremony (and then Carleton vs. Laval men's basketball! Too many sports).
Carleton plays Laval tomorrow in the men's basketball Final 8 in Calgary. Looking for big things from Carleton, which has 17 national men's titles (the most of any Canadian university, in any sport). I went to Carleton and it was a big basketball school even before its first championship in 2003.
Fantastic wheelchair curling battle between China and Italy ends in a Chinese win. What a great example of mixed doubles wheelchair curling.
I will accept Franco-Ontarian cheese curds, specifically the deliciously squeaky product of Fromagerie Saint-Albert, as equivalent to Québécois curds.