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The CBC Broadcast Centre, in Toronto, is pictured on Oct. 3, 2024.

The CBC was blasted on Tuesday for its role in a comedy series that uses fake names and identities to prank individuals who have drawn controversy over their views of residential schools.

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The big screens above centre ice at TD Coliseum show off a logo for the new Professional Women's Hockey League franchise coming to Hamilton.

The PWHL announced an expansion to Hamilton Wednesday, alongside an expansion to Las Vegas. Local fans and players say it will be great to cheer for a home team.

I aten't dead

May. 14th, 2026 03:46 pm
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It's occurred to me that as far as most of you are concerned, I haven't posted for a while. I have, however, been posting every day on my new writing journals (LJ and DW). I've been writing new words for my novel each day, but other than that I haven't been doing anything interesting enough to post about. We did go for a walk last Saturday, but it was one of the forest walks I've done many times before and therefore only took a couple of photos.

Everything is new and green in the forest, including the conifers. The pale tips are the new growth.

New growth

It's less obvious on this tree. This isn't a fern, it's branch of a conifer, though what species, I don't know.

New growth

I haven't take the weekly photo yet, though this week's theme is an easy one, namely "stitch". I have quite a few options and hope to take a suitable photo tomorrow. I have knitting and crochet on the go. I may be doing some sewing, but more about that when it actually happens.

Community Recs Post!

May. 14th, 2026 10:34 am
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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanvids/fancrafts/fics/fanart/other kinds of fanworks/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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May. 14th, 2026 03:09 pm
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] sibyllevance and [personal profile] themoontower!

Fortified With Iron

May. 14th, 2026 09:59 am
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Llama_03

I heard on the radio that houseplants with yellow leaves could be a sign of iron deficiency. I did a quick internet check and got much the same information, young leaves with green veins but otherwise yellowing: iron deficiency. I've been watering my plants with rain water, snow melt and dehumidifier water as a way to keep mineral deposits from building up in and on the soil in the pots, as they used to do when I used well water and before that, municipital water. So iron deficiency seemed likely, especially for my orange/grapefruit/kumquat/unknown citrus plants that are growing ever larger but are not flowering and have been sporting yellow leaves.

Narcissus04

I plopped in about 2 cups of manure rich mud and poured another two cups of well-water (probably iron rich) on top. Did it might work? I don't think so. I also have a dwarf banana and some sort of spotted-leaf house plant living in the same pot because I suspect a multi-species situation is why the citrus was growing well in the first place. It used to be some kind of yellow asteridae (that refused to die), maybe some sort of sow-thistle, living in the pot with the citrus, but spider mites finished it off a few years ago. Spider mites! They took over the year I tried to grow cantaloupe indoors. I eventually sprayed them to death.

Cantlop_05a

Maybe I should shake a fistful of "wildflower seed mix" seeds into the pot and hope. There's still a bit of room, but shaking in some goat weed flowers two years ago did nothing.

I looked for citrus plant food on eBay. That stuff was really expensive, even before the outrageous shipping fee. No deal. So I bought some bluegreen "plant food" sticks instead. Contains iron. I stuck a "plant food" stick into the soil in the pot with the citrus plants. A few months later I noticed that my indoor azalea was turning yellow brown! It got a bluegreen stick too. A year later, I'm not convinced that the citrus is doing any better, but the azalea is sprouting green leaves. Maybe I have to double the dose in the citrus.

Llama_04
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A global map shows reds, oranges and blue representing different ocean temperatures anomalies.

There’s been a lot of talk about the possibility of a "super" El Niño developing this year, but scientists say not to expect impacts in Canada this summer. That doesn’t mean we get off scott-free.

MerMay The Fourteenth

May. 14th, 2026 09:53 pm
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Title: Spirit of The Maelstrom
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: n/a
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Content Notes:

It's MerMay the 14th of 2026 and here we have a spirit of the maelstrom, drawing down ships to their doom. Or perhaps just to have tea and crumpets with the crew and then send them on their way, who am I to say what spirits of the maelstrom want to do?

I'm using the Van Diemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher Ink, a firmly fond favourite.


Whirlpooly mermaid

Mermaid face

Jaded with walruses

May. 14th, 2026 02:41 pm
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Honestly, have we become entirely blase about walruses frolicking in British territorial waters? Because this was the first I had heard about Magnus, who has been making quite the tour of Scotland for the past month before wafting off to Noroway o'er the faem: Magnus the wandering walrus leaves Scotland for Norway.

Goo-goo-ja-{YAWN}.

***

However, much more excitement over Choughs reappear at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall after decades of absence:

Choughs are considered Cornwall’s “national bird” and feature in its coat of arms but vanished as a resident from the far south-west of the UK in the early 1970s, largely because of the decline of their grazed clifftop habitat.
Their disappearance was keenly felt across Cornwall but particularly, perhaps, in and around Tintagel because of the bird’s connections to the legend of King Arthur.

Is this A Sign for Cornish Nationalism? Or does it precurse The Return of Arthur?

***

Cockrow Bridge in Surrey will open in the coming weeks to provide wildlife, including lizards and insects, with the ability to move between fragmented habitats:

The bridge itself is a floating patch of nature reserve; its contents were excavated and transplanted from the heathland on either side. Heather, the tough wiry shrub that defines heathland, is already springing up in purples and yellows above the A3’s roar, supporting the area’s insects and reptiles.
“They can feed here, get cover, they can bask, they can breed,” says Herd. Ground-nesting birds, such as nightjars, woodlarks and Dartford warblers, will also benefit from the newly connected landscape.

***

But alas, Camden Highline, London’s answer to New York park, is scrapped. Though it's not entirely clear whether the completed stretch will remain?

One stretch of the Highline has been completed as part of the Coal Drops Yard development, involving a bridge across the Regent’s canal from the Camley Street nature reserve that transforms into a landscaped walkway popular with office workers and tourists.

even if the full Camden Town to King's Cross plan is defunct?

Wednesday Reading Meme on Thursday

May. 14th, 2026 09:29 am
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Work has been a madhouse this week, so Wednesday Reading Meme is alas a day late.

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

Emi Yagi’s When the Museum Is Closed (translated by Yuki Tejima), a short novel about a woman who is hired to chat in Latin with a bored Venus statue, and inevitably ends up falling in love with her. High hopes for this one, but did not end up liking it as much as I hoped. ”Spoilers” )

However, I approached E. F. Benson’s Queen Lucia leerily, and I ended up really enjoying it! The omnibus at the library includes the cover blurb that Benson’s Mapp and Lucia novels are “the most enchantingly malicious works written by the hand of man,” which put me off, but I can only assume that either the books change radically in character over the course of the series, or Mr. Gilbert Seldes and I have very different standards for what malice looks like.

Queen Lucia is a social comedy about English village life, like a slightly more biting Miss Marjoribanks or Miss Read. The characters can be petty, at times even spiteful, and Benson is certainly poking a bit of fun at Lucia’s cultural pretensions (she likes to pretend she can speak Italian, for instance) - but despite their foibles they’re basically decent people, who can imagine no higher level of cruelty than snubbing someone’s garden party. The human species would be greatly improved if that was the worst thing we ever did.

Finally, I read Clay Risen’s The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century, a chronicle of the bungling incompetence with which the US Army approached the Spanish-American War in 1898. Fortunately for them, the Spanish bungled even harder. A striking number of military conflicts seem to be decided on this scale of “which side displays slightly less shambling incompetence?”

What I’m Reading Now

Stephen Brusette’s The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. Like many small children, I loved dinosaurs, so I thought it would be fun to catch up on the latest developments in the field. So far we’re in the earlier Triassic, which is marked mostly by non-dinosaurs species, like the salamanders the size of cars.

What I Plan to Read Next

I’m just about to wrap up the last 2026 Caldecott book, and then I’d like to turn my attention to the 2026 Newberies.

PWHL expands into Hamilton

May. 14th, 2026 10:30 am
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Representatives from the PWHL, Oak View Group, the City of Hamilton and more discuss the PWHL’S expansion to Hamilton. The league now has 11 teams with Hamilton joining Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver as the newest Canadian entry.

pure morning

May. 14th, 2026 08:04 am
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A few sips from a second cup of coffee still warming my throat, the brisk early morning air, lingering strains of Charli xcx's House1, and birdsong blooming on the walk to the bus. Delicious.

1First encountered via this excellent short cdrama vid inspired by The Painted Skin.*
When I was trying to figure out a subject, I remembered this Placebo song.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

― George Orwell, Why I Write

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a man in a hard hat works on the floor at the honda plant in alliston

The project, first announced in 2024, was paused last year with plans to review where the EV market was in two years. The indefinite pause comes as Honda posted its first ever full-year loss.

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Woman sitting in her kitchen.

The rise in home invasions in Toronto over the last few years is largely due to a significant increase in home invasions involving houses in some of the city's wealthiest neighbourhoods, according to a CBC News analysis of Toronto police data. Residents of those neighbourhoods have been taking matters into their own hands.

Read-in-Progress (not) Wednesday

May. 14th, 2026 08:27 pm
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This is your weekly read-in-progress post!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

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(sorry, late a day!)

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