#Moncton here i come

[allthecanadianpolitics]

With a pop of colour and a show of support, Moncton’s River of Pride Parade took over downtown Saturday afternoon.

“Today is all about being happy and celebrating who we are,” said Lynn Bourque-Chevarie, the Riverview Pride lead.

“We had an amazing crowd, way more than I think we were prepared for, but that’s good it means there people getting involved in our community and are out here to celebrate with us.”

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“It’s not just Moncton, it’s the tri-community we have Riverview, Dieppe and Moncton all coming together. I’ve had people tell me they came from Fredericton, Nova Scotia, so I think it’s great,” she said.

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[fleurcareil]

Nova Scotia: North and West shores

Before heading to Nova Scotia, I'm visiting the Hopewell Rocks which are at almost high tide this morning so that people kayak around the flowerpots rather than walk on the ocean floor. The Bay of Fundy is infamous for its fog so many viewpoints did not have much to show but the walk along the cliffs was still a great way to start the day!

After having rounded the end of the bay through Moncton (which I visited a few years ago but didn't find interesting), I dove into Acadian history at the Monument-Lefebvre National Historic Site in Memramcook and at the Fort Beauséjour – Fort Cumberland National Historic Site. The first time I had heard about the Acadian people and their horrible deportation by the English had been in Cape Breton many years ago, so I knew their story but it was interesting to learn more... many of the original settlers came apparently from the area of La Rochelle in France, which is close to where my grandparents lived! The Lefebvre monument is at the first French college in the Maritimes, which allowed Acadians to get educated in their own language, which in turn spearheaded efforts to reclaim their identity. It was also the location of the first Acadian Convention in 1881, which continues to be held every 5 years celebrating Acadian culture across the world. Driving along Nova Scotia's north and west shores, the display of the Acadian flag everywhere shows that people remain proud to this day! 👌 The visit to the fort gave pretty views over the bay but also sobering thoughts as this was the site where the English deported many Acadians after having taken over the fort from the French (who had forced the Acadians to fight with them despite having proclaimed neutrality) ... It makes me shudder to be reminded time & time again of how brutal humans can be against each other!

A completely different type of history is told at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, which is a UNESCO world heritage site recognised for its preserved sequence of Carboniferous sediments and, due to the high tides continuously exposing more rock face, a tremendous collection of fossils from the Coal Age. Not only are there tons of fossilized trees (the 3 pics below are from left to right of the outer cast of a tree trunk, a tree root embedded in the rock, and a trunk that tumbled down from a rockslide), but it is here that a fossil was found of the first reptile which could reproduce on land and which therefore is the ancestor of all land-based animals, including the dinosaurs and ourselves 😃. A guided walk along the beach allowed us to pick up random rocks and ask whether it contained a fossil, and most of the time it did! 😁 It was a shame that we were not allowed to take anything home (I already have a little fossil collection from Oman), but that's what conservation is about.

Final activity of the day is setting up my tent at Five Islands Provincial Park, close to the highest tides in the world (up to 16 meters!) in the Minas Basin, where I arrived at low tide so that I could walk over the seafloor to the first of the islands and have a look at the magnificent red cliffs (that don't contain any fossils). No single mosquito meant that I could watch the sun set over the bay in peace 😊. Next morning, the usual fog wasn't too bad so that I still had a bit of a view over the rocks from up high on a hiking trail.

Driving around Minas Basin the next morning, I tried to see the tidal bore that happens when the high tide water rushes into a shallow river but missed it twice (at the first place in Truro I was an hour too early and at the next place along the Shubenacadie River it had just passed), but to watch the speed of the water coming in was impressive nevertheless (I had taken a video but sadly only one is allowed per post & I got a cooler one further down).

Having spent enough time on the high tides, I drove slightly more inland and had a great time wine tasting at Luckett Vineyards in the Annapolis Valley. Similar to around Niagara, this region has many different wineries who have tasting rooms, restaurants and little trails for visitors. The highlight here is the red telephone booth, from which you can call free to anywhere in North America, so I made a call to my colleague Kathryn who had recommended the place! 😍

Before leaving town, I also visited the Grand-Pré National Historic Site, which was the largest Acadian village before the deportation and where a statue of Evangeline graces the grounds in front of a memorial church. Evangeline was a fictious character from a poem that became to symbolize the Acadian plight so she's quite a heroine around here with streets, shops and everything in between named after her! The Celtic cross indicates the place where the villagers boarded the deportation ships before the town was burned down.

On that gloomy note, it started to rain and it didn't stop for two days 😒 the delicious chowder (seafood soup) at a harbour restaurant in Digby helped to warm up after which I was very happy having booked a hotel for 2 nights!

Despite the crappy weather I still had a great day at Digby Neck, which is a series of 2 islands jutting out into the Bay of Fundy, connected by two little ferries whose timetables are aligned so it's one drive through. I had however left an hour early so that I could hike to Balancing Rock on the first island, where a large piece of granite hangs precariously over the edge of the sea. It's a beautiful, rugged coastline and also the boardwalk to it (with big-leafed skunk cabbage around the trail) was pretty so well worth braving the rain!

And then I had the most awful but also the coolest whale watching tour I've done so far... we spent about 3 hours off the coast of Brier Island in the driving rain on an open boat on a rolling sea looking for whales and seabirds... About a 1/3 of the tourists vomited and although I kept it in and was warm & semi-dry due to my many layers, it sucked!! There was nothing to see for a long long time apart from a few swimming seals and shearwater birds so the mood wasn't great, until two humpback whales called Foton and Litte Spot (according to the marine biologist) showed up right next to us!! They kept coming close to the boat and flapped their pectoral flipper on & on the water for some 20 minutes...something I've never seen before, really special! Swimming so close by, you could see their massive, grooved bodies and ofcourse their tails when they were diving deeper. On the way back, when the rain briefly stopped & the waves subdued closer to the shore, everyone was smiling 😃 however never been so happy to sit dry in my car waiting for the ferry ;)

The next day there was rain nor fog (woohoo!) so had a pretty drive along the west shore, where there's mostly small Acadian villages, the bigger town of Yarmouth where I got some beers from the local microbrewery and many, many lighthouses of which I chose three to visit. The first one was at Gilbert's Cove where you can walk up a ladder to stand next to the old light (now decommissioned). Outside, there were male eider ducks close by the shore so that you could see how truly large they are.

The second lighthouse I visited was at Cape Saint Mary, a tiny square (still active) building that you can't enter, but which has impressive rocks around it. Nearby Mavillete beach has pretty dunes and would be a great place to chill if it were warmer!

The third lighthouse that I saw is at Cape Forchu, southwest of Yarmouth, which is called the "apple core light" because of its shape. I can't imagine living on such an outcrop during a winter storm!

On the final stretch to my camp cabin for the night, I passed through badly burned forest west of Shelburne, which had been doused only the week prior... The fire had grown to more than 235 square kilometres and forced more than 6,000 people from their homes, destroying over 200 houses and other structures. It was very sad to see the "apple green" trees turned into all this black, stinking mess... That night, the smoke alarm in the cabin went off from time to time, which I was later told is due to remaining ash in the air.

Just before turning into the campground, I walked briefly around Shelburne's historic district, which was built largely by British Loyalists who fled from the US and started a new life here. It only being 4pm, the town was deserted apart from a few prom photo shoots which was funny to watch as they are still soooo young :)

Wildlife: 3 seals & 2 humpback whales (Digby Neck), 15 male Eider ducks. There's ofcourse also lots of shore birds all around the Maritimes, but whose name I don't know apart from gulls and cormorants which I'm not fond of, so ignoring those 😉

SUPs: none

Hikes: two at Five Islands PP, one at Digby Neck

[atlanticcanada]

Moncton Easter egg hunt brings Biker Bunny to town

In most houses, the Easter bunny visits in the middle of the night, but in Moncton, he shows up on a motorcycle.

Biker Bunny started eight years ago, bringing more than just chocolate to the city. His goal is to deliver happiness.

“Just the reactions,” he said. “The reactions of everybody from two to 92, there’s no age limit to get a smile out of a motorcycle-riding Easter bunny. It’s never been done before around here.”

Over Easter weekend, the bunny had a full schedule with 12 hour days planned for both Saturday and Sunday, including over 100 homes to visit throughout the city.

“The thing is with the price of everything going up, families are working double-time just to pay the mortgage, feed the kids, there’s no parent-kid time anymore,” he said. “So, if I can break that cycle by driving through the neighbourhood and getting a picture and getting a couple of smiles, even if it only lasts a few minutes, it makes it all worth it in the end.”

One of his first weekend stops was at Pinehurst Park for a community-wide Easter egg hunt. Nearly 50 kids and their families came out for a morning of excitement on Saturday.

For Oleksii Titov, Dina Titova and their two children, it is their first Easter celebration in Canada after fleeing Ukraine last year.

“It’s unusual,” said Titov. “We have Easter in Ukraine, but it is different what we do. We don’t have an Easter bunny. We usually go into the church, all night we’re in the church, we’ll make some bread for Easter, we paint eggs every Easter and we crush the eggs,” he adds.

However, the family is excited to participate and take on a new tradition.

“We’re very happy because in our country, it’s not a good situation now and in Canada we feel free and it’s most important for our family and also our kids,” said Titova.

“In Canada and Ukraine, it looks different. For us, it’s very beautiful. Our host family, where we live after we come [to] Canada, they share information about celebrate Easter, and for our family, it is so interesting.”

The neighbourhood hunt started last year. Daphne Hachey says it was a way to get everyone back together following COVID-19 lockdowns.

“I just put it on Facebook, if anyone wanted to come and be involved and participate, and everyone in the community seemed really excited and wanted to do it,” she said.

It’s also a collaborative effort. Every parent goes and decorates the park ahead of the hunt so that there are enough treats for every kid who wants to participate.

“It’s so great and hopefully we’re going to spark some core memories in these little guys and everyone just wants to come out and hang out with everybody,” said Hachey.

On top of bringing the community together, seeing the Biker Bunny and having fun over the holiday, the community also helped raise money for kids in need.

“The Biker Bunny raises money for the Canadian Tire Jumpstart Program so I just had a donation box and I was collecting money from anyone that wanted to donate,” said Hachey. “This year, we donated $148 to them, so that was really great. Last year, we donated about $75, so hopefully it keeps growing every year.”

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[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

I thought you were canadian?

I am, yes! I’m also a former politics, philosophy and economics major so I tend to follow whichever news I think is interesting. US current affairs especially tend to affect my daily life a lot since a) I learn US news against my will constantly, and b) culturally we’re very similar, so rhetoric that starts down in the states always finds a way up here to a point where many Canadians don’t understand their own laws and political system. This is a long winded answer coming up, so TL;DR Canadians get fucked by CEOs and insurance companies a lot so we seem to like the Adjuster, and also I have written a borderline essay explaining why I think this event is an indicator of a revolution being on the horizon. Feel free to not read it, I also don’t enjoy reading barely comprehensible essays written by strangers on the internet 😅

Our biggest problem in Canada is a lack of understanding of who to blame. Canada is as much of a victim to identity politics as the US. We’re all stuck in the ideas of everyone falling into convenient little boxes of L and W takes depending on where a person falls on the political compass. The only reason people don’t know this is because there are so many Canadians are deluded enough to believe that “I’m so glad I live in Canada. Nothing like that ever happens here!” when in reality, our country has a lot wrong with it that is largely swept under the rug. We have a lot of issues like any other country, but we have quite a few in common with the US, the key ones being wealth inequality, housing, and perhaps most pertinent to current events: access to affordable healthcare.

While, yes, public healthcare exists here, in recent years, that system has taken a nose dive in many provinces. Due to the BNA act, one of our constitutions, healthcare care is a provincial responsibility. This leads to discrepancies between provinces in terms quality and accessibility of care. One of the biggest problems is conservative provincial governments cutting funding to public healthcare. In New Brunswick, the Higgs conservatives cut funding to hospitals, grossly underpaid physicians and nurses until a lot of them walked, closed emergency rooms in rural areas causing stress on metropolitan hospitals, and covered up a mystery brain disease that’s still killing people. The Moncton English hospital regularly has wait times into the double digits, so high I remember there being a 24 hour wait time not too long ago. These wait times have, on a semi-regular basis, led to deaths either from people getting pissed off and leaving, or simply dying in waiting rooms.

This all seems to be a way to boost the popularity of what we call the two-tier systems. Effectively, instead of having one public health care system, we now have a secondary private system that people use to bypass wait times. People who have money and/or an insurance plan that covers it can effectively have a medical fast pass for things other people would have to wait months or years for. It’s an ingenious yet entirely morally corrupt plan that the provincial Tories are rolling out right under our noses. Step 1: cut funding to public healthcare that worked fine before. Step 2: make the healthcare professionals all quit and look for other means to pay off their student debt. Step 3: public outcry. Step 4: ‘egads! My public healthcare is ruined! Perhaps I could create bills that support private healthcare and disguise it as an alternative! Delightfully devilish, Doug!’ Step 5: blame the Feds because no one knows what is and isn’t a federal responsibility. Safe to say, no one is very happy right now and every point on the political spectrum is blaming whoever they think sucks more.

With all that said, the current political climate in Canada is one that would highly benefit from an event bridging the gap between the left and right. That’s why the Adjuster has been such an interesting topic to follow. As much as some mf named Luigi killing a healthcare CEO that the cops cannot stop taking thirst traps of is so absurd and hilarious to me, this event is extremely fascinating to me as someone who studied politics, philosophy and economics in university. This is the first time in recent memory that I have seen the fight going up and down rather than left and right. When you think about it, this is what the Occupy Wall Street movement was trying to get at over a decade ago, and on deeper inspection, this is in-line with the makings of a revolution.

Any revolution starts with the same main ingredients, just like a cake; it’s the flavour that’s added that differentiates a chocolate cake from a carrot cake. One of the main ingredients of a revolution is the transfer of allegiance of the intellectuals. Basically means that the ones who think for a living begin to swap to the side of the oppressed rather than the oppressors a few decades before the revolution begins. In terms of the French revolution, that’s stuff like Rousseau’s 1755 Discourse on Inequality, but in terms of our current political climate, I point to the Occupy movement. The next ingredient is the civil unrest and disparities between those who have and those who have not that slowly comes about as the works of the intellectuals gradually gets translated into laymen’s terms. Finally, the spark to the tinderbox is a unifying event where people put aside their differences and decide on a new enemy. In the French Revolution, that was the Estates-General meeting where grievances were aired and no agreement was reached between the three estates. It’s very possible that the United States is here, although I could be wrong.

Then comes the flavour of the cake, or the thing that takes all these revolution ingredients and turns it from plain civil unrest into a living, breathing revolution. In the French Revolution, that’s widely considered by historians to be the storming of Bastille. If the momentum from the Adjuster continues on its current trajectory, there may very well be some version of the storming of Bastille in a few months. Being as Canada often follows in the footsteps of the US, i wouldn’t be surprised if i wake up one morning and see Galen Weston’s head on a pike. I’m not advocating this, just to be clear, but I think that there’s enough civil unrest both in North America and globally for this to be deeply interesting from an academic standpoint. I think that’s why there’s so much outcry in the news about this. I genuinely think there’s a sense of terror in the upper echelons of society because the vast majority of public commentary is supportive of the actions of the Adjuster. People who are condemning his actions are being called a bootlicker and downvoted to shit by all sides of the political compass because the one thing any of us in North America has in common is that we’ve all been fucked by insurance companies. Left-leaning media is trying to paint him as an alt-right whacko, right-leaning media is trying to paint him as a leftist SJW, and yet when you look into this Luigi guy, he’s pretty comfortably a centrist. There seems to be a lot of fear that the rats in the race so to speak will join forces if we can’t get separated back into our identity politics boxes again. For the longest time, Us has been an incredibly narrow word and Them has been very broad; the greatest fear of the elite is being realized right now in that the Us is broadening and the Them is narrowing. We’ve started fully laughing at the plights of the 1% and it seems as though our sympathy has entirely dried up after the home made, remote control submersible incident.

Effectively, through trying to paint this as eye for an eye, media outlets have shown who owns them. Finding anything about this case that hasn’t been sensationalised and spun to throw us back into identity politics is nearly impossible. Primary documents are exceedingly hard to come by to a point where I have seen about four ‘manifestos’ floating around all with different voices and stories. It’s suddenly extremely clear just how much damage control is being done to get people to stop praising the Adjuster as a folk hero and it’s evidently not working, at least not on younger demographics. He’s not a whack job, nor is he deeply disturbed; he’s an upper class guy who has his own politics, he’s well-read, articulate, he’s got a flair for the dramatic, and he carried out a very symbolic killing. This wasn’t eye for an eye, or freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose; this was intentional to a point where it feels staged. For once we’re not outraged over the death of one of us: we’re overjoyed by the death of one of them. It’s very interesting from a political and philosophical perspective and this is the kind of thing I like following. Anyway, Free Luigi, protect your neighbours, seek out primary documents, and don’t let the bastards grind you down.

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[cowboymaterials]

It’s international overdose awareness day (August 31st) so today is a good day to learn about your local harm reduction services! Since the beginning of the pandemic, overdose rates have skyrocketed. In Ontario where I work there has been a 79% increase in overdose related deaths, which can be largely attributed to people using alone (x). Similar figures can be found for the United States. The supply has changed too. We are seeing more frequently fentanyl cut with benzodiazepines, a combination with a significantly higher fatality rate. Those hit the hardest have been people who are homeless with 1 in 6 deaths being someone experiencing homelessness (x). If you aren’t educated on how to identify and prevent overdose deaths now is the time to learn.

Naloxone (generic) or Narcan (brand) is a fast-acting drug that temporarily reverses the effects of an overdose, restoring breathing and providing time for life saving intervention. Naloxone is used to respond to only opioid-related overdoses such as Fentanyl, Heroin, Morphine, and Codeine. Naloxone administered to someone not having an overdose has no effect and is completely harmless. It generally comes in two forms, a nasal spray and an injectable. If you can, have a naloxone kit in your home, car, bag, or workplace.

In Canada you can get naloxone at almost any pharmacy for free (or free with a prescription) provided you have a health card. The pharmacist will give you a short demonstration on how to administer naloxone as well. Multiple harm reduction agencies exist across Canada and also supply naloxone as well as other free supplies such as needles, alcohol swabs, pipes, and sometimes testing kits to verify the purity of a drug. If your province does not have free naloxone at pharmacies, majority of needle exchange and harm reduction services will have it for free.

Alberta

Grande Prairie & Fort McMurray: Northreach Society

Hinton: Options HIV West Yellowhead

Edmonton: Streetworks

Red Deer: Turning Point Society

Calgary: Safeworks Harm Reduction Program

Calgary & Medicine Hat: HIV Community Link

British Columbia

I would list them all but there’s more than 1000 harm reduction programs in the province. This handy map can help you locate the one nearest to you.

Manitoba

Street Connections provides a list of naloxone and needle exchange programs.

The Manitoba Harm Reduction Network

New Brunswick

Fredericton, Miramichi and Bathurst: AIDS New Brunswick|SIDA Noveau-Brunswick

Saint John: Avenue B Harm Reduction

Moncton: Ensemble

Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John’s: AIDS Community of Newfoundland and Labrador (ACNL)

St. John’s: St. John’s Women’s Centre

Nova Scotia

Halifax: Mainline Needle Exchange

Truro: Northern Healthy Connections Society

Cape Breton: Ally Centre of Cape Breton

Ontario

The Ontario Harm Reduction Network has a list of harm reduction programs.

Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown: PEERS Alliance

Charlottetown, Montague, Souris, Summerside, O’Leary & Albertson: Needle Exchange Programs

Quebec

Montreal: Cactus Montreal

Montreal: L’Association Québécoise pour la promotion de la santé des personnes utilisatrices de drogues (AQPSUD)

Saskatchewan

Saskatoon: Prairie Harm Reduction

Multiple harm reduction programs can be found across Saskatchewan here

Yukon

Whitehorse: Blood Ties Four Directions Centre

This is by no means a definitive list of all the harm reduction organizations in Canada. If you can’t find a harm reduction service in your community many HIV and AIDS organizations, First Nations community and friendship centres and homeless shelters carry these supplies or can direct you to the proper organizations. As well call your local public health organization for more information.

[dustedmagazine]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling (self released)

all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

But somehow the story of the mysterious Godspeed cassette... people were more into that than the actual truth, y'know?

Efrim Menuck, Kreative Kontrol #667

So yeah, it’s not a Godspeed You! Black Emperor album in several significant ways, let alone some sort of great lost Godspeed You! Black Emperor album. But to be fair to the many people out there who have pined to some degree or another to actually hear this first credited release, originally only dubbed onto 33 cassettes and so thoroughly inaccessible for so long that some called it a hoax or a prank, it doesn’t really feel like anyone really expected it to be. If you heard about all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling at all, the few apocryphal details usually included were fairly deflationary. A demo tape, maybe? Possibly a joke with friends? And, uh, a lot more singing than you’d expect from a GY!BE release. Now that someone has, literally years after the band’s Efrim Menuck predicted, just posted a copy of the thing on the internet (and they’ve responded by making it available on Bandcamp with the proceeds going to a charitable effort to provide medical oxygen to the Gaza Strip), the mystique of that “lost” cassette gets to recede and reveal the stranger and more interesting reality of the music here and its context.

So, back in 1993 a much younger Menuck, during a less comfortable time in his life, decided to make what he now describes as “a retirement letter.” He would go out to the bar and then come home and do a first-take recording to a four track. The next day he’d try and arrange the results into a song. After generating about 70 minutes of material, he put together 33 copies of it on cassette, credited to “god speed you black emperor!”, gave 12 or so copies away to friends and sold most of the rest of them when invited to open a show in Moncton, New Brunswick. Being invited to play that show and not just wanting to be one guy on guitar is when Menuck pulled in friends Mauro Pezzente (who does play on one track on the tape) and Mike Moya, and what I guess we have to call the ‘real’ Godspeed You! Black Emperor was formed in the work they did together, moving forward and adding eventually many more people. That’s why the bandcamp page for all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling specifies “no relation to the band that followed” — in a very real sense, Godspeed is the band that formed after Menuck made this music. 

That doesn’t mean the music here is unconnected to Godspeed, or indeed the other music Menuck has made with them, or Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, or solo, or in various other groups. The biggest obvious structural difference is that many of those groups would be able to cover 70 minutes in a mere handful of tracks, whereas here there’s 27 of them, arranged in collage style. It’s not just as if you took a Godspeed track and gave each segment its own name and track index (which they come kind of close to doing anyway, and the Bandcamp release of this one just present each side of the cassette in two longer tracks, with individual tracks noted in the description), those segments are often much shorter and less directly or melodically connected with their surroundings. And, of course, there’s no string ensemble. But the thematic similarities, assisted by the fact that Menuck’s literal and stylistic voice is already strongly present and more overt than at least on the early Godspeed records he helped create, are strong: a rage at crushing inequality, mordantly bleak humor, a bit of a desire to just fuck things up and challenge conventional pieties, even the underlying love of others and belief that we all have to pull together or we’re doomed. All that plus a hilarious Evel Knievel sample to start things off. It’s ramshackle and frequently obnoxious (for better and for worse) and lo fi and raucous and sometimes might make you think of Eric’s Trip and sometimes might make you think of, well, Godspeed You! Black Emperor. 

In certain corners of twitter and other parts of the internet, there was a palpable wave of excitement, sometimes an intensely emotional one, that swept through first when the long-sought after leak suddenly appeared, and again when the band confirmed it by posting an official version. If in one sense it’s hard to square those feelings with the actual reality of the album (which is very good and of definite, specific interest to Godspeed fans, but also seems likely to wind up being many fans’ least-favourite Godspeed record), it’s much easier to do so with the story and aura that naturally built up around it over the years. Who loves a band, finds out they put some super early release that nobody seems to have heard, and doesn’t want to finally hear it, just a little? Maybe it’s only fitting that a group as singular as Godspeed You! Black Emperor should wind up with juvenilia that’s far more interesting and distinct than any proto-F♯ A♯ ∞ could be. Even if, really, it’s not a Godspeed record as we understand that term today. 

Ian Mathers

[three-headed-monster]

another wjc 2023 update

hey everyone!

i'm gonna talk about all this stuff on the podcast later this week but i wanted to make a small post about all the news about to come out this week

selection camp roster announcement and team canada wjc schedule

from the mayor, who covers the kings,

i personally expect the announcement to come ~12 pm est and/or 12 pm local time (ast). last year i'm pretty sure it came out at 2 pm est, which is 12 pm exact mst (edmonton's time zone)

that means we officially have a full look at what camp and the rest of the tournament will look like!

dec 1st: wjc selection camp roster announced

dec 9th-12th: selection camp occurs in moncton

dec 19th: first team canada pre-tournament game in moncton

dec 26th-dec 31st: wjc preliminaries begin

jan 2nd-jan 5th: elimination rounds

i also found a tweet that contained the full pre-tournament schedule, which may or may not be on tsn (i actually don't know, keeping an eye on that)

2. roster size

per corey pronman:

this means the team will probably take only 1 extra forward, 1 extra dman, and 1 extra goalie

so anyone on the outside looking in right now (i'm thinking like zach l'heareux or chase stillman or conor geekie) are unlikely to make the team

this applys to all teams though, so it's looking like trouble for any underage forwards not having great seasons.

3. brandt clarke's status

after the 9-8 mess of a game la played last night, they're also playing against arizona today (i think it's a back to back with travel). considering how awful the dcore was last night, they should be looking to make some changes to it. it's in my opnion that if brandt clarke plays tonight against arizona, that ends the hopes for him making an appearance at wjc. they wouldn't be burning his elc year if they truly thought that he was going to end up going to wjc camp in like two weeks. they have called up jordan spence as well though, alongside some other dmen, so it'll be interesting to see which route la ends up taking there. should be informed of the lineup later today.

4. shane wright's status

i haven't seen as much about this as i maybe should have? but as far as i know, with morgan geekie's injury, it's likely that wright gets into the montreal game at very least before heading to wjc camp. he may not head to wjc camp at all with how well he's been playing. the kraken haven't called up anyone to replace geekie yet. that being said though, they have continued to win without geekie and wright so perhaps the staff will finally make the right decision and just let him go to wjc. i don't know though, it all depends on what they think

5. switzerland wjc selection camp roster

interesting to see lian bischel here after he famously denied going to the summer tournament for the swiss ice hockey federation. perhaps this is a sign that relationships can heal though, and hopefully we get something of that sort with brandt clarke and hockey canada

[falcor-thee-luck-dragon]

What a Time to be Alive - Diego Hargreeves x Reader

Chapter 2- The Frankel Footage

Summary: After receiving a surprise visit from Five, you quit your bar tending job, quickly followed him to find Diego, and then broke Diego out of the mental hospital all in one day. Now you, Diego, and Lila, are free and ready to tackle whatever new problem awaits.

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You three ran for a couple blocks out of sight and away from any nosy law enforcement officers and their annoying sirens. Through back ally’s and down side streets, until you came upon a cluster of parked cars. Where you three hid behind trying not to be seen.

“This way” Diego whispers while getting up to race across the street, you and Lila trailing after him.

Hiding behind an apartment building, you and Lila look back from where you just came. “All right, we can’t stay here for too long. They’re gonna be looking for us.” Diego quietly warns.

“The cops or those large Scandinavian fellas” Lila asks, still on lookout.

“Both” you say quickly, turning to follow Diego’s lead.

He suddenly jumps up on a dumpster then on top of an outhouse type building. “D, what are you doing?” You ask confused, not quite catching onto his plans just yet.

Grabbing clothes off the line and throwing them to you, he replies, “Me and you aren’t gonna get very far dressed like a lobotomy case.”

“Fair point”

“Hey what about me?” Asks Lila, as Diego jumps down off of the small shed, walking back over to the two of you, and quickly throwing her some clothes in the process.

Diego turns around while taking off his shirt, “Look, I appreciate your help, but now we...” He points to you for a second, who’s changing into a different shirt, from the previous hospital staff attire. “Go our separate ways.”

“Why?”

“Because they’re gonna be looking for us, together. You stand a better chance on your own.”

“What, you guys need me, we could make a good team, I don’t mind third wheeling.”

“No”

“Okay did you forget how great I am at causing distractions, or sneaking in small weapons, or when I saved your ass when...” Police sirens begin shouting through the air, cutting her off mid-sentence, catching all of your attentions with it. Sending a surge of panic through you, there was no way in hell were you getting caught.

“Oh shit” Lila whispers, turning to abruptly dodge under a car and out of sight like a literal ninja, who is this strange woman?

Looking at Diego you happen to spot a hiding place behind a small pillar of bricks. Grabbing his arms once again, you pull him with you towards the spot, hugging him tightly as you look over his shoulder. Hearing the whrr of a siren, you listen and watch as the cop car rolls past, agonizingly slow. Looking up at him once again, you can’t help but notice the close proximity between the two of you, your face breaks out into a large grin. Relishing in the contact that you’ve been so deeply deprived of.

“Is that a knife in your pants or are you just happy to see me?” You ask while flashing him a cheeky smile.

“Why are you like this?” He whispers grinning back down at you, amused at your never ending ability to joke around at the most inappropriate times.

“Hey guys, let’s take my car.” Lila says, while eyeing up one of the parked on the street.

Looking back into Diego’s dark eyes, you swiftly catch his lips with yours, not being able hold yourself back anymore. He tenses for a split second before he melts into you, relaxing completely. The kiss is sweet, hungry, and full of longing. You can both tell how much you’ve truly missed each other.

Breaking away, Diego follows your lips, disappointed in such a small intimate moment being ruined. “We gotta go, our getaway driver is here.” You beam, satisfied with what you could get.

Jumping into the stolen car, you take the passenger seat making Diego sit in the back.

“Let’s roll kids” Lila says grinning, as she hastily backs out of the parking spot.

——

After sleeping in the front seat next to Lila, and Diego grumpily trying to find a comfy position in the back. You three made it through the night and are now currently up and ready to roll. Diego in the passenger seat now, with you at the wheel and Lila in the back. Parked in front of some library that Diego insisted on going to you as you could only assume it had to do with the president, most likely.

“All right, here’s the plan: Oswald finishes his shift at 4:30 p.m. Once he walks out those doors, we force him into the front seat.” Diego tells you, while looking out the window intensely.

“I’m in the front seat” You reply while looking out at some birds eating something in the grass.

“Okay, fine. In the back seat.”

“I’m in the back seat.” Lila says, also unimpressed by Diego’s plan. She makes knowing eye contact with you in the mirror.

“Okay in the trunk, Y/N is gonna pin his arms, I’m gonna cut off his trigger finger and tell him he has 24 hours to exit Dallas.”

“That’s your plan?” Lila asks. Sharing another glance with you.

“You got a problem with it?” He questions sassily.

“Why don’t we just kill him” You say with a casual shrug.

“What?

“I agree with Y/N, I mean, you think he’s gonna shoot the president right?”

“Right”

“Fine, so we kill him. Put a bullet between his eyes.” She says, as you make a finger gun and a boom sound. “Problem solved”

“No, no, no, we’re not going to kill a man before he’s committed a crime.” He says, annoyed.

“That’s stupid” She retorts back, tired of Diego’s dumb idea already.

“Excuse me?”

“In fact, your whole plan is stupid. What, chopping off a guys finger?” She smiles amused.

“No, it’s not just any finger, it’s his trigger finger, all right. You can’t shoot a gun without a trigger finger.” He says defensively.

“What if he’s ambidextrous?” You ask, egging him on.

Diego looks at you in defeat at both of yours and Lila’s points. She finally says, “How do you get through a day?

“Both of you get out. I can do this on my own.” He grumbles quickly.

“Dr. Moncton was right, this hero complex is no joke. I mean, Y/N how do you even put up with his shit.” She wonders turning to you.

“Don’t answer that. This is not what this is about.” He’s says, you laughing at his sour mood and Lila’s call out.

“D, she makes a compelling argument.”

Nodding at you she quips back, “Of course it is, you want to prove to Daddy that you’re a big success.” She says, realization clear on her features.

Snorting you raise your eyebrows at Diego, who says, “No, out of the three of us, you don’t know anything about me, Lila.”

“I don’t have to be Y/N to know anything about you. You are an open book written for very dumb children.” She says matter-of-factly.

Holding in laughter you face away from Diego, as you peer out the window so he won’t see the amusement clear on your face.

You love Diego, and fight crime with Diego, but you don’t do it out of a hero complex like he does. You do it because it’s fun and it helps people sometimes. You’ve never seeked it out in the way that he did, like buying a patrol caller, walking into crime scenes to gather information, and continuously wearing that stupidly adorable childhood domino mask. You prefer to stay in the shadows and hunt down rapists and human traffickers when the opportunity arises. So yeah, Lila calling out Diego on his shit, that he doesn’t realize is his shit, does entertain you.

“I’m not. Trying. To. Be A. Hero, okay!” He says slowly with frustration lacing his voice, like we can’t understand him.

“Then why are we doing this?” You reply facing him again. All of a sudden Five appears in the back seat next to Lila, who screams and backs away. Clearly not expecting a 13 year old boy to just teleport randomly into the car.

“Because he’s an idiot” Five replies smartly, with a smug grin on his young face.

Calming down again she looks at Five confused, “Who the hell are you, I mean Diego did tell me Y/N is kinda like a vampire but not really a vampire, so?”

Giving Diego your what-the-fuck-did-you-tell-her-about-me face, he briefly grins at you when Five answers her, “Hi. I’m his loving brother.”

“Who left me to rot in a nut house.”

“To protect you from yourself.”

“That’s the sweetest thing you’ve ever said to him, I’m gonna cry.” You reply, while wiping a fake tear away.

Rolling his eyes Diego points to the three of you, “Okay, all of you, out.” Diego says done with all of your shit.

“Lose the crazy lady, you two are coming with me. We have important business.” Five says frustrated.

Diego turns to look out the front window. “I am not going anywhere with you.”

Looking out the window, Five spots a security guard walking down the street. “Okay, fine.”

Not buying into Five’s surrender, you follow his gaze seeing the officer walking away from all of you. With a big smile plastered on his face, Five takes this moment of improvisation to call out loudly. “Officer!”

“Hey!” Diego snaps, reaching past you in record time, silencing Five by grabbing his jacket. “What are you doing?”

Grinning like the little shit he is, Five answers sassily, “I hear there’s a reward out for you two, and an unidentified jailbreaker accomplice last seen helping two patients escape.”

“He’s bluffing.” Lila says.

Watching the intense stare down between the two of them you reply, “He’s not.” Knowing better then to doubt Five. Cause let’s be honest he would watch you get arrested for fun any day of the week.

“Fine. We’ll go with you.” He says defeated yet again.

“What about me?” Lila asks.

“She yells at Diego when he’s being an idiot, crazy lady can come too.” You tell them while nodding to her.

“You yell at me when I’m being an idiot too, Y/N.” Diego remarks bluntly.

“That’s fair. But I feel like she’s good at playing eye spy, and you’re definitely not. You have no patience, I swear.”

“I don’t know what I just got myself into but I’m glad I met you guys.” Lila exclaims enthusiastically, pleased at your positive answer.

--

A short drive later, you, Diego, Five and Lila begin walking up the steps into Five’s new friends building. Not being overly impressed by much and concerned for this mans mental well being at the fact that he’s Five’s so-called “friend”, you keep walking as Five leads you three up the stairs. When you reach the top, you hear footsteps and the sound of a gun click. Glancing up, you observe a scrawny looking man with confusion and fight in his eyes. He starts to speak all stressed out and loud, barking at you four. “Where did you get the film? The Frankel Footage. The truth this time.” He demands while still holding up the gun at the four of you. Oh yeah, this is Five’s new friend? Seems about right.

“You know this lunatic?” Diego wonders at Five.

“God, his hearts beating so loud, I’m gonna have a headache.” You groan, this guy is on full adrenaline, jeesh.

Five sighs, “New acquaintance. He’s harmless.”

“Are you sure about that?” Lila asks, puzzled.

Without warning this new friend of Five’s starts to yell, sounding like an off cord scratchy violin in your hyper sensitive ears. A quiet room with sudden loud noises makes your hearing extra perceptive. It’s not exactly a beneficial attribute to have at the moment.

“Are you or are you not an enemy of the people?!”

Giving you a precious moment of peace, Diego answers back. “Such an open-ended question, yeah.”

“Really depends on the people.” Adds Five calmly.

Raising the gun up higher the angry guy speaks again, less loud this time. “You move one more muscle, I will blow y’alls brains out.”

“Yeah good luck with that, you’ll deeply regret it in a couple seconds.” You tell him bluntly as he gives you a weird look.

“You want to take this or should I?” Diego asks Five. Always ready to throw hands at any given moment.

“No, I got him.” He replies with apprehensive determination.

An abrupt flash later, Five is in front of the mysteriously angry gunman. Grabbing the gun and pushing the barrel upward where it then goes off. Shooting a bullet into the ceiling. And sending a symphony of booming racket directly into your ears.

“Fucking hell” You mumble while pursing your lips together as the pain in your ears wears off.

Looking back up, you watch as Diego unloads the gun and the crazy southern guy looks at everyone in confusion.

“What the hell just happened?” Lila asks with an amused smile, clearly not expecting anything more weird to take place again.

——

After the fun little greeting Elliot gave you, you and Diego tied him up, you know just normal couple things. So Five could play some home movies, or in other words that Frankel Footage Elliot was yapping about earlier. Leaving him in a dentist’s chair, Lila sat down and started to paint his toe nails some kind of green color. While Five was playing the old film footage, Diego sat on a counter to his left, knees up and knife in one hand. Meanwhile you sat cross legged on the same counter near his shoes leaning your right knee on Diego’s bent legs.

“I love old couples. I’m always so proud of them for not murdering each other.” She says randomly.

“Why are we watching this?” Diego suddenly asks Five, who’s intensely focused on the footage. “Shush” He’s tells him, hyper focused on the projection screen.

The people on the screen begin talking about who they are and where they happen to be at the moment. Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Oh, shit. You think, knowing exactly where this specific moment is going to lead.

Leaning in closer Diego says, “This is it. The grassy knoll. Kennedy’s about to get shot. How do you have this?” He quickly questions Five.

“Hazel died to get me this footage. It must be the key to stopping doomsday.”

“Hazel?” You ask curiously, remembering the masked guy who shanked you with an old iron antique boat when you first met him and Cha Cha shooting up the Umbrella Academy. Damn, he’s already dead.

“Long story.”

“What’s doomsday?” Wonders Lila in confusion.

“Longer story.”

“What exactly did he say to you?” Diego questions in bewilderment.

“Well, he was killed before he could explain. But whatever he wanted us to see, it’s on this film.” He answers earnestly.

Without warning, gunshots go off in the background, signaling that President Kennedy's been shot. All of you watch closer with wide eyes as you three try to spot what Hazel was talking about. Five rewinds the tape for better inspection, moving around to slide the projector back. Giving everyone a better view to watch the footage. “It can’t be.” He says astonished.

“Okay, you guys gonna fill me in now? What the hell is this shit we’re watching?” Demands Lila, weirded out by how the three of you are acting towards this random footage.

Standing up and walking closer to the screen, you, Diego, and Five look on in stunned shock, spotting him. “What the fuck?” You say perplexed.

“No, that’s impossible.” 

“Clearly, it’s not.” Mutters Five.

From behind you three, you hear the muffled voice of Elliot. “What...what is it?”

“Dad” Diego and Five whisper dumbfounded. You only look on in deep thought. How could he have been there, and what the hell was old Reggie doing there in the first place?

——

“Of course Dad would be involved in the assassination. I should have know.”

“No, you’re jumping to conclusions.” Replies Five, while pacing back and forth.

“It’s a bit of a stretch, Diego.” You tell him shrugging.

“What else is he doing standing on the grassy knoll, holding an open umbrella on a sunny day in Dallas the exact same moment the president gets shot?!” Diego yells back at the two of you.

“It doesn’t look good, I admit.” Replies Five.

“No, he’s the signalman for the whole goddamn thing.” He says convincing himself.

“Easy Diego. Seriously.”

“No, it makes sense. This is what Hazel was obviously trying to tell you.” Diego says looking intently at Five. “We have to stop Dad from killing the president.”

“Diego, calm down, all right. Dad was no Boy Scout, but presidential assassination? It’s never been his thing.” Five argues, and you’d have to agree, Diego’s truly jumping ahead of himself.

“How would you know? You skipped out on his golden years.” Diego snaps back.

“Skipped out?” Five scoffed stepping closer, “You think I had it easy, Diego? I was alone for 45 years.” Deciding he’d had enough of Diego’s dad and killing the president shit, Five growls back at Diego. “You know what? We don’t have time for this right now. Dads clearly in Dallas, right? Let’s just go talk to him. Maybe he can help fix the timeline.” He ends with, walking around the room.

“Dallas is a big place. We need to find him first.” Diego replies bluntly.

“Gee, if only we had some magical, old times way of finding people and their addresses.” Five sasses back while putting his hands on his small hips.

“Alright smart-ass, I’ll find the phone book.” You quip, getting up off the counter and walking towards Elliot’s office. Finding the thing laying under a couple of papers and a stapler, you grab it and set it down on the nearby desktop.

“Let’s start simple. His name.” Five says as Diego reads off the names in the H section. “Shit, nothing here.”

“Try his company, what was it Five?” You ask while standing behind them.

“D.S. Umbrella Manufacturing Co.” Five says without missing a beat.

“Yeah, I know the name. Thanks.” Diego replies sarcastically. Continuing his search by flipping through the pages. “Uh....Holy shit. D.S. Umbrella.” He looks at Five surprised, “Eighty-two Olive. Let’s go.” He says, shutting the phone book.

Pulling up the white film screen and walking through the doorway Diego turns to Five. “He okay to leave here like that?” Referring to Elliot who was still tied to the dentist chair.

“Yeah, he’s fine. What about the girl?”

“She’s chilling in the dark room getting some air. So where are we going?” You remark casually.

“The hell is she doing in there, or you?” Diego wonders.

“We were having some quality girl time, nothing you’d be interested in, I promise.” You say winking at him.

———

Pulling up to the building of the hour, you all get out, shutting the doors and walking up to the glass doors. All collectively feeling a bit uneasy about meeting Sir Reginald Hargreeves, that is if he decides to make an appearance or not.

“How long’s it been since you’ve seen the old man?” You ask Five, who looks like he’d rather be anywhere else.

“Forty-Five years.”

“That’s a trip.”

“No kidding.” Five sighs, leaning against the brick wall as Diego makes an attempt to lock pick the doors. “You know, when I was stuck out there in the apocalypse, there wasn’t a day that went by where I didn’t hear his voice in my head.”

“What was he saying?” Asked Diego, still fiddling with the lock.

“I told you so.” 

“Well, if Dad’s here, he’s never met you before, so he can’t say, I told you so.” Diego says trying to boost Five’s dampened mood.

“I’m sure he’ll find a way.” Five says while looking back around at the grassy yard. Catching your eye, you nod to him to help Diego out. A flash later and he’s on the other side of the door, unlocking it with ease and letting you two inside. “Right. Gotta remember that” Diego says, clearing his throat, standing up and walking through the now unlocked glass doors. You following right behind him, as Five holds the door open.

Walking fully inside the office building, Five goes to turn on a lamp only for it to flicker off again within seconds of being turned on. “Shit. Guess Dad wasn’t much for home decor.” Says Diego eyeing up the place.

You look around the room yourself, fully taking in your surroundings, as your eyes immediately begin adjusting in the dark room, you’re now able to see everything clearly. Observing the lack of care and vacancy in the area you nod to Five. “This feels more like a front, some kind of decoy maybe?”

“A front for what?” Diego asks, confused.

“Beats me” Replies Five still uneasy about being in here.

“Well, me and Y/N will take the left. Yell if you, uh....get in trouble. Y/N will hear you.” Remarks Diego, swinging the door open.

“Don’t get shot, remember your safety training.” You smirk at Five jokingly, as you walk through the open door that Diego is holding open for you.

“How could I forget.” Fives replies back, slightly amused at your ability to seem calm in a place like this.

Walking down the hallway, Diego opens a door leading into someone’s office. The air smells old and stale to you, clearly no ones actually been in here in quite a while. Diego blows off dust laying lightly on top of a file, who just leaves a random file lying around for anyone to snatch? He starts to flip through it, concentrated on finding a scrap of evidence. When your ears prick up at the sound of light footsteps that apparently Diego can’t hear yet. Then a door opens and the footsteps sound like they’re retreating out the doorway. Diego abruptly looks up at you for reassurance, wanting to know for sure you heard what he just heard too. You nod at him, making your way towards the door to find this mystery person. Diego walks towards the door hot on your heels, catching up and moving past you swiftly. Determined to catch sight of the cryptic individual himself.

Opening the doors, you catch a glimpse of the mystery man briskly walking into the thick foggy night air and out of sight.

“I’ll go after him, you circle around and hopefully catch him off guard if he decides to run.” Telling you the plans, Diego turns ready to catch up with the guy, giving you a flash of a nervous smile before he goes. And then he’s gone, into the fog and out of sight. Yeah fuck that, it’s dark out and this guy could be legitimately dangerous for all you know, idiot. Following behind Diego from a distance were he wouldn’t be able to notice you. Not that it’d be hard anyways, considering you’re kinda a master of stealth yourself.

You climb up into the rafters of this weird barn type building, you hear the faintest sounds of Five yelling for you two from within the office building. As you’re about to jump down to help, you spot Diego walking when another figure drops out of the shadows kicking him in the ribs. Great. Deciding you’d like to sit back and watch for a bit, you climb closer for a better view. Diego then throws a knife and the stranger ducks, completely missing him. “Damn, I bet he’d be fantastic at laser tag.” You mumble letting your intrusive thoughts work their way out subconsciously.

Watching Diego twirl around and make some compelling hits gives you time to get closer and bring yourself nearer to the ground. Incase you needed to lend a hand or two if things got messy. As you finally drop yourself onto the damp floor, you look up to see Diego apparently losing the fight a bit. Getting flipped onto his knees for a second before he runs forward pulling out some type of metal stick from a bunch of wooden crates. Where he then proceeds to backflip off said crates and stick the landing with ease. Show off. He starts swinging it around, advancing on the stranger who’s doing a decent job at holding his own ground.

That is, until the guy looses his dark face-covering, only to reveal, holy shit, the one and only asshole himself, Sir Reginald Hargreeves. Diego must have been just as shocked too, because the next moment you hear a soft “dad” from Diego’s lips. And then Reginald lunges, you see a flash of gold and hide a muffled scream as a small knife plunges into Diego’s side. You hear “amateur” before he turns around and casually walks out of the barn without a single fuck to give.

Gasping you ignore the need to question Sir Reginald, racing over to Diego who’s lying on the floor wide eyed in bewilderment as to what just unfolded a couple seconds ago.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, Diego what the fuck!?” You say panicked, ripping your thin jacket off and covering his stab wound with it.

Moaning in pain he looks at you. “I should have let you take him.” He whispers tiredly.

“Shut up I know, FIVE get the fuck over here!” You scream in a desperate panic.

Teleporting to you, he looks down surprised. “Jesus Diego I leave you alone for 5 minutes and this is what happens.” He says bluntly while shaking his head.

“Just go get the car.” You growl at him, while pressing the fabric into Diego's side to help stop the bleeding.

[armandyke]

And then I heard them mentioning my name

Summary: Vanya finds Diego reading through old interviews she did, and they have a long overdue conversation about that book. 

Word Count: 1302

Square Filled: Interview

Characters: Vanya Hargreeves & Diego Hargreeves

Warnings: Swearing

A/N: The fifth of nine entries for @tuacreatorsbingo!

You can read it here, or on my AO3

It had been an interesting two weeks, to say the least. One minute Vanya had been working as a nanny on a farm, the next she and her incredibly dysfunctional siblings were trying to save the world and accidentally wiped themselves out of their own timeline. But that was all behind them, and now they were all busy trying to settle back into their normal lives. Allison was away visiting Claire, and Vanya was at home, with all but one of her brothers camping out in her front room. 

None of them had been keen on the idea of staying at the house any longer, and, as it turned out, none of them really had anywhere else to go. Luther had only ever lived at home, Klaus had been couch surfing since he was seventeen, Five, legally, didn’t exist, and Diego… Diego hadn’t actually given a reason, just showed up silently with the others and dumped a backpack full of clothes in the corner of her room. It was cramped, to say the least. Her apartment had barely had enough space for her. But it was nice, after so many years alone, having them all there, bickering about stupid things and squashing onto the couch together to watch old movies. 

It was late in the afternoon, and Vanya was just getting back from a violin recital. The apartment was empty, not unusual for that time of day, but there were still tell-tale signs of life that comforted her. The empty coffee cup Five always left in the same spot on the table, dishes in the sink from the huge breakfast Luther had cooked for them all, the sketchbook Klaus had left open on the armchair, and the multicoloured chalky fingerprints he’d left on the armrest. Smiling to herself, she hung her scarf up and padded across the room to make a coffee, stopping midway when she heard the sound of movement coming from her bedroom. 

“Five?” She called as she pushed the door open, used to him dropping in unannounced. 

There was a mess of papers and magazines scattered across the floor, and she was so distracted by the mess that it took her a moment to spot Diego, sat in the furthest corner of the room with his eyebrows knitted together in concentration as he studied the magazine he was holding. 

“Diego?” 

His head snapped up, squaring his shoulders and then relaxing again when he spotted her. 

“You’re back early,” He observed, glancing around at the mess he’d made and giving her an apologetic look. “I’m gonna clean this up after.” 

“What is all this stuff?” She asked as she walked over to him, crouching down to examine the papers. There were newspaper clippings, magazine articles, posters, all about them. Well, about the Umbrella Academy anyway. She picked up one of the newspaper articles, scanning over the story about one of her siblings’ earlier missions. “Where did you get these?”

“Dad’s study.”

Frowning, she scooted across the floor to sit next to him. “Why would you go back there?”

“You sound like Doctor Moncton.”

“Who?” 

“I was looking for this.” He said abruptly, handing her a thick notebook, bound in red leather with “RH” embossed on gold on the cover. It didn’t take long for her to figure out what it was. 

“Figured we should destroy it,” He mumbled. “Before it ends up in the wrong hands again and triggers round three of doomsday.”

“Yeah, that was probably a good call.” She nodded, running her thumb along the spine and looking back up at him. “Did you read any of it?” 

He shook his head. “I started to. Made it as far as ‘insolent brat’ and decided maybe it wasn’t a good idea.” Chuckling, he tossed the book across the room and slumped back against the wall. “Can’t believe he kept all this shit.” 

Vanya hummed thoughtfully, leafing through the fuzzy photos of her siblings in their masks. It stirred up a strange mixture of emotions, but mostly she just felt sad. Sad for herself, sad for her siblings, sad that their father seemed to have put more effort into collecting news articles than he had caring for his children. 

“I guess he just wanted to boost his ego,” She said quietly as her eyes fell on their dad’s photo on a front page spread. “I mean, the Academy was his real baby, right? He didn’t care about anything beyond that.”

“Yeah, I thought that too,” Diego murmured, looking up at her. “But he also kept stuff about you.”

He handed her the magazine he’d been reading, folded open on an interview she’d done a few weeks after her book release. She cringed at the photo, looking almost in pain as she forced a smile for the photographer. Seeming to pick up on her exact train of thought, Diego leaned in closer to look at the page. 

“That’s a terrible photo of you.” 

“Thanks,” She said sarcastically, biting back a laugh as a small smile crept across his face. 

She started reading through the interview, and the smile faded from her face again. Almost half her answers were just thinly veiled attacks on her siblings. Attacks that, at the time, had felt so justified. But now, after everything they’d been through together in the last few weeks, she couldn’t even bring herself to read the whole thing, tossing the magazine aside and tucking her knees up under her chin. 

The two of them sat in silence for a few minutes, and Vanya could feel her brother’s eyes boring into her. When she looked back up at him, there wasn’t the same burning, angry look in his eyes that she’d grown accustomed to after their first reunion. He was just… observing her, trying to gauge her reaction to her own words. 

“I…” She paused, struggling to find the right words to try and justify the things she’d said. “I was in a really bad place back then and… I know I said a lot of shitty things about you guys but-”

“I don’t care about that,” He interrupted and she frowned. 

“You don’t?” 

“No. Christ.” He made a face, shaking his head. “I wasn’t exactly nice to you when we were kids. Actually I was... a colossal asshole.”

“We were all assholes,” she pointed out. “I think it’s just a Hargreeves thing.”

“Yeah.” He huffed out a laugh. “Yeah you’re right.”

He was quiet for a moment, chewing on his lip before he spoke again. 

“I had nightmares,” He said quietly, looking down at his hands. “Every night after I left home, for almost five years. I’d close my eyes and it was like I was right back in academy training with dad barking bullshit orders at me. And I was just starting to get better when you wrote that book, and then it was right back to square one.” 

Vanya shuffled closer to him. Part of her expected him to move away from her, but he stayed, letting her press up against his arm. 

“I’m really sorry,” She said softly. “I mean… I was angry at you guys, but I wasn’t trying to hurt you.”

“I know you weren’t.” He leant his head back against the wall and closed his eyes. “Still sucked though.” 

She nodded, resting her head on his shoulder, and a moment later she felt his arm winding around her and hugging her closer.

“You tell anyone about any of this and I’ll kill you in your sleep,” He mumbled and she laughed, sitting upright again. 

“Message received.”

He grinned at her, possibly the first genuine smile she’d seen from him since they were kids, and got to his feet. 

“Wanna set fire to dad’s journal?” He asked, holding his hand out to help her up. 

“Fuck yeah.”

[itsthehcgforme]

I want to give you a little background about my history and how its correlates with my weight gain and losses. I’ll keep it as short and digestible as possible, considering managing my weight, body dysmorphia and EDs have been a pretty prominent part of my life since the tender age of 6. I’ll stick to the last two years. Let’s talk about 2019 This year was a wild ride. I was working a job I hated in communications, I was studying for what seemed like no reason at all. I had a terrible relationship with my family. At that point I was very much still in wounded child, victim mode, and I want to say to some degree depressed (I take diagnoses pretty seriously -so I want to state that at no point was I clinically diagnosed, but I could tell something was off - but let’s tackle that topic in another post). It was incredibly hard to make drastic changes to turn my life around at that point. When things feel disastrous and out of my control, I self soothe by binge eating. When there are feelings that I just don’t want to feel anymore, I binge eat. When I’m uncomfortable, I binge eat. I’m sure you get it. In January I was definitely still in ‘New Year New Me’ mode and DID catch myself mid binge-out, and corrected that as soon as I could. By mid February, by the grace of ??? WHOMEVER - I was forced to make pretty life altering decisions. I dropped out of University, quit my job, became a flight attendant for a Canadian airline, moved out of my family home and to the city with a woman who I figured might’ve been the love of my life, maybe three months after meeting her. Just a recipe for a disaster. Ironically, by mid-summer of 2019 I was the happiest I had ever been. I was in love with my lady, I was living la vida loca travelling all of Europe and the South, enjoying city life with all of my queer friends, new and old. I seemed to have everything in control. But whew… the happy weight y’all! Ironically I wasn’t binging to mask unpleasantries, but between the many dinner dates with my lady at the time, dinners and drinks with my friends in the city, the uber eats, crew meals at work. I packed on the weight like nobodies business. By October, I came to the conclusion that my relationship with my body, with eating and with my lady all weren’t serving me. On some real prodigal son shit, I moved back in with my family which was terrible for my mental health, but I didn’t really have any other choice. Summer flying season had settled and most junior flight attendants work on an on call basis in the fall and winter months. Meaning, I would be “home” for the majority of the winter. I spent my days at the gym and working as an Uber Eats courier, just anything to avoid being at home. I missed freedom, I missed the city. By December I was dead set into working out and swimming regularly. I had stacked up some money, paid some debts and was coming up with a master plan on what my next steps would be. For my independence, my weight, my love life and so on. 

2020 started off incredible. Still living in the burbs with the rents, but I had found some other things to live for. I was fit and active, built up some confidence during my newfound and RARE single-hood. I was out there and dating. Discovering and rediscovering myself and the things I loved. I had picked up a sub-contract and was able to do a lot more winter flying around Canada. I was going on lots of fun dates with cuties in the city and out of province, I was making decent money. And then, like a brick, COVID-19 hit and the pandemic began. Late February, I found myself in Cuba on a 16hr layover with one of my favourite co-workers. She’s an instagram certified bad bitch, so you already know we were on the beach 10AM, full face, hair done, taking pictures. It was freezing. I became incredibly sick the next day. We were working out of a small airport in New Brunswick. I had to call in sick for the middle of the pairing. Little did I know because of that call I would be quarantined in my Moncton hotel room until the end of March. Let’s be clear, at no point did I ever test positive for COVID, but because this was the point where Canada started taking the virus seriously, it took a few weeks before I could even get medical attention. In that time, I had developed other health complications due to my initial sickness and lack of access to healthcare or proper medication. The hotel staff were really kind to me, they brought me unlimited room service, though the options were quite limited (and not the healthiest), I didn’t have the physical or mental strength to continue exercising. Between the lack of exercise, the increase in unhealthy food, the loss of control and the feelings of impending doom - I started putting on more weight. Let’s just fast forward through 2020 cause it turned out to be kind of a shit show and isn’t worth spending too much time on. I get released and get to go home, just to find out that I’d been laid off from my job as a flight attendant indefinitely due to covid. I leave home again because I can’t take it anymore. I have no excuse to leave home since we’re on lockdown. I have no gym, no space to breathe, no outlets. I move out of my family home for sanity sake into a house in the city with two girls who were at first glance really cool, but 6 months in realized I couldn’t stay there. Between trying to control my life, sabotaging my romantic relationships, emotional manipulation, drug issues and the list goes on, I had to leave for my own good. December comes, I’m living on my own in a small Toronto apartment. I’m safe, sane(ish) and satisfied. I have two wonderful partners, I have furniture, I have peace, I’m completely BROKE LOL. Here comes the happy weight. 

So here we are, 2021. The gyms still aren’t open. I’ve definitely eaten enough frozen pizzas and wine to scare me into thinking I’m pregnant (not pregnant, just fat LOL). I’ve exercised on and off, some low-intensity-HIIT and other things. But nothing strenuous enough to make any drastic changes. My partners seem to both be into my happy weight, considering they both have histories dating bigger women. Considering they both eat gluten-free diets and are pretty much healthy, they probably don’t suspect a problems. But young people are usually pretty naive and self centred (don’t @ me. You know to some degree I’m right. Its also why I don’t have a tendency to date young people). At this point I’m unhappy, despite everything. Weights up, hormones feel out of whack, my guts in a rut and my emotions feel out of my control. I’m giving HCG another try in efforts to regulate my weight, my hormones, my gut and regain control. Its not my first rodeo and its why I’m back on the HCG diet wave again. We’ll see where it takes me. Wish me luck.

[atlanticcanada]

Riders look to turn the tide on Touchdown Atlantic

The Saskatchewan Roughriders will head to Nova Scotia this week for their second consecutive Touchdown Atlantic appearance against the Toronto Argonauts but will look to walk away with the win this year after a 30-24 loss in 2022.

“There’s hope. Even getting beat and COVID and all that comes with that. I think the guys look back and really enjoyed the trip. It’s going to be a lot of fun and we’re really looking forward to going,” said head coach, Craig Dickenson.

Dickenson was referring to the massive COVID-19 outbreak that infected a large portion of the team amid the trip and following.

“It was a tough loss last year losing kind of in the last minute or so. I thought we were going to win that game and this year obviously we want to win each and every game. This one is like any other, we’re 3-3 at this point so we need to get back into winning here. It would be nice to out there against a really good Argonauts team and get a win,” said kicker, Brett Lauther.

Lauther hails from Truro, Nova Scotia and played his university years at Saint Mary’s.

He will participate in his third Touchdown Atlantic. He actually played in his first Canadian Football League (CFL) in Moncton, New Brunswick in 2013 as part of the third instalment of Touchdown Atlantic.

“Excited to get out there [again] but obviously a lot happened out there with the fires and following, other tragedies and stuff too. So thoughts and prayers to everyone out there. There’s still people missing and stuff like that but obviously I’m personally excited to get to go home and see family and friends. But your minds a little bit elsewhere with what’s going on,” said Lauther referring to the challenging climate conditions that took over Nova Scotia in the last week.

“The football game is a little bit secondary now but hopefully for the people that need it maybe it can take their mind of things, maybe it’s something fun in Halifax and can kind of turn things around. There’s a lot of strong people and everyone likes to help each other out there,” Lauther added.

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Last year the team played in Wolfville at Raymond Field, this year it will be Halifax at Huskies Stadium. This will be the first ever regular season CFL game played in Halifax.

Dickenson was asked about how familiarity could help some members of the team who participated in 2022.

“Familiarity, every time you do something a second time you’re usually better at it. Hopefully we play better than we did last year. We know the atmosphere is going to be off the charts. We’re really looking forward to getting out there,” exclaimed Dickenson.

“Everyone has a blast last year and wants to come back,” laughed Lauther on how many personal ‘fans’ he will have this time around.

“I’m guessing but there’s definitely going to be a couple hundred family and friends there.”

Quarterback Mason Fine was the backup last year and is excited for the chance to have another crack at the game and experience.

“[I’m excited about] just being with my teammates, hanging out with them, enjoying Halifax. I remember last year, I loved the food there. Spent my whole per diem there in two days on the food. Probably going to do the same thing” he laughed.

“Obviously the game too and having all the fans out there. We travelled very well last year with Ridernation so excited to see them and there and play in front of our fans.”

It’s not just Lauther’s family that will be a part of boosting Ridernation in the crowd.

“My family is actually making it out there, they’re actually already down there so I get to go explore Halifax with them the night before and honestly looking forward to SMU. It was great playing in Wolfville but was just a little but more of a drive on a humid bus,” laughed defensive back, Jayden Dalke.

“I didn’t get to be there last year, I was in Atlanta and I watched it from afar. So I’m fired up,” said receiver, Brayden Lenius.

“This is special because my mom and her company kind of started out in Ontario and Nova Scotia so they’re all going to be out there and the family’s flying out,” Lenius added.

“It’s going to be one big party. I’ve never been out there, it’s my first time that far. So I’m excited to see. I’m a west coast guy on the water so I’m excited to try some lobster.”

But the big game comes with some extra work.

“You’re going to be out there and it’s a different climate, it’s a different atmosphere, your hydration level has to be higher, just making sure with travel times higher, it’s a lot of preparation,” explained defensive lineman, Anthony Lanier.

Kickoff for Saturday’s game is scheduled for 2:00 pm CST on TSN.

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[saintjohnwebdesigns]

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[dngrcpckwithmurdericing]

Superstition Fanfic Post

LUC CHANTAL: HONOR, ETHICS, AND THE CANADIAN WAY

Also Available at AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/works/23140903

Recently, as we all do, I found myself in an Instagram hole. Luc Chantal (Nordiques, 38) posted a glorious picture of himself with his son Hank, and I could not stop myself from clicking through. Suddenly, I was surrounded by things Chantal had posted to Instagram when he was 14.

There were the requisite pictures and videos of Oliver Jackson, and two pictures of Chantal looking pleased while his grandma kissed his cheek. And this...

The Gods of Hockey deserve your devotion whether it is off season or not. Like a marriage, hockey is in sickness and in health. Even if you can't PLAY because a season is canceled you can still be practicing drills at home and watching tape and keeping the spirit of hockey in your heart. I vow to NEVER take an endorsement from Tim Hortons after their callous display of BULLSHIT toward their employees, the most important part of their business! Let them have sick days! Keep your head up. #covid19 #timhortons #hockeygods #sportsgods #sportsarenas #payyourworkers #youthhockey #moncton #monctonyouthhockey #dontbeadick #boycotttimhortons

I, Ghislane, who has always vowed to bring you the truth about our beloved Nordiques players, emailed Luc Chantal's PR firm to find out why, exactly, he took an endorsement deal from Tim Hortons when he vowed not to at age 14 during the “corona virus scare” [Here is the archived article I found on Tim Hortons not giving their workers sick days, and demanding a doctor’s note for taking unpaid time off].

Then things took a wild turn: Chantal himself ("Ghislane, we've been over this, please call me Chants") called me from his hotel room in Minnesota before last night's game against the Wild to explain.

Like many Canadians, I started my hockey career playing on a Timbits team.

I don't eat doughnuts or drink coffee, but I knew it was a Canadian institution.

When I was fourteen, during... that time... I found out that Tim Hortons was actually owned by an American.

I felt very strongly, and still do, that it is a Canadian value to make sure your workers are taken care of. People should not lose money when they can't come into work because they're ill. The very idea is... nonsense.

[Ghislane note: All workers for the Nordiques and at the Nordiques rink have flexible sick days and are paid for all the days they are ill, even if it means missing hockey games. This is not the case at any other hockey arena in North America. Dig a little deeper and you discover the man responsible for that policy is... Luc Chantal. More to come on that in an upcoming CDPC post!]

The NHL has its own deal with Tim Hortons, and I made it clear I did not want to participate. However, the new owner of Tim Hortons -- a Canadian [Elise Houbregs, the third richest woman in Canada] -- had a small chat with me, and assured me of the policies of her stores. Paid sick leave, all that kind of thing. Canadian things.

So then I agreed. Roll up the rim is, you know, a Canadian hockey tradition. I was proud to be part of it.

But Luc -- Chants -- also has a deal with Gatorade. And, well, I won't list all his endorsements here, but they are many. How does he deal with the inherent capitalism in that system?

[laughs uncomfortably] I learned a long time ago that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism. But I can mitigate that whenever possible. For every deal I do with Gatorade, they have agreed to bring on three female sports players to endorse -- and these days when I do a Gatorade commercial it's always with one of them. I do save a lot of my money, because I have a person in charge of making sure I do that, but a lot of it also goes to sponsoring athletes [notably, Chantal sponsors women surfers, a group who are very lacking in opportunity unfortunately] and providing for people in my community [see our article on Chantal's sponsorship of Quebec City's urban gardens project].

Ghislane: Chants, how do you feel about being such an icon?

Chants: [laughs uncomfortably again] Pucks to the net, eh?

We love you, Chants!

Here is the picture of him with his son Hank that started it all, taken last week by Oliver Jackson.

Author notes: This all started because what the hell would Luc say about this article?

Youth hockey pic taken from ryderaaron’s insta ; pic of “Luc and Hank” obviously Letang and his kid ; much love to Kat ; SUPERSTITION FOREVER. Hope everyone is washing their hands!

[scottiedeux]

Fic Rec Friday 6/3

Coming at you from my Ao3 Bookmarks List (Ao3 handle Scottie2) - It's Fic Rec Friday!

Read about the logic behind Fic Rec Friday here or check out the Master list of Past Fic Recs and catch up on what you've missed.

So far on this fic rec list there's been lots of serious works - time to LIGHTEN it up with a fun time?

Fic Name: Bone by SunsetSharkBite

Ao3 Summary:

“Ma’am,” a voice piped up from behind her and Moncton frowned at Jarvitt, who was leaning over with an absolute shit-eating grin on their face. “Moncton was jes’ tellin’ the new recruit that you ‘n Vi’ll stop fighting once y’had time to, eh wot was it Mon? Oh yeah. Bone.”

The Sheriff and her partner have been fighting a lot recently.

Keep reading for my gushing about this fic and Ao3 tags/details

Why this fic:

Ok so this fic basically breaks like tons of unwritten rules for me in terms of fics I typically like. It's super short (are you still reading this? just go read the fic already its so short and quick) AND its basically just a complete play on a scene from another fandom unrelated to CaitVi.

But.

The.

Execution.

It's really perfect. It's like a two bite appetizer dish at restaurant that has a line out the door. This ain't no steak dinner but this is a FANCY restaurant ya'll and SunsetSharkBite delivers. I smashed bookmark while laughing my ass off. One more thought - I have a soft place in my heart for scenes with Sheriff Cait and Deputy Vi. This fic has it all. ❤

More by this Author:

Okay if you are reading CaitVi fanfic you know SunsetSharkBite. This is but one of many of their fic, some of which will be featured on future Fic Rec Fridays.

They are SUPER active on Discord so come by the CaitVi fandom server and say BONE!??? - err i mean - hi!!!

Ao3 Details:

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends) Characters: Caitlyn (League of Legends), Vi (League of Legends) Additional Tags: Some random Enforcer OCs, Humor, this is just that B99 scene but with Caitlyn, I’m sorry or you’re welcome

[mapsontheweb]

Canada divided into four regions of equal populations.

the_vizir:

So, after looking over this map posted by /u/akantamn earlier today, I noticed it was based off Canadian ridings--and I wondered how accurate I could actually make that map, instead of using just approximations.

Here's the result of about four hours of tinkering.

I used this map of Canada's Federal ridings by DrRandomFactor as a base. Then I attempted to mirror the original map's divisions, tallying up the populations of the ridings, as based on this chart from Wikipedia.

Ultimately, the original map proved to be rather accurate in the West, but in the East it was off by quite a bit. Despite my best attempts, I could not get the entire Quebec City to Windsor corridor into two geographically contiguous regions. And so Windsor ultimately got shunted into the Great Orange North.

Interestingly, in terms of ridings, the four regions are also rather equal--which one might consider surprising given the population disparity between the largest and smallest ridings (the least populous riding, Labrador, has 27k people; while Brantford—Brant, the most populous, has 132k). However, in the end, the red region has 80 ridings, the green region 83, the purple region 86 and the orange region 89.

The 25 most populous urban areas within that large, orange region include:

Halifax, NS -- 404k

Windsor, ON -- 392k

St. John's, NL -- 205k

Barrie, ON -- 197k

Sudbury, ON -- 165k

Saguenay, PQ -- 161k

Moncton, NB -- 145k

Saint John, NB -- 126k

Thunder Bay, ON --121k

Chatham-Kent, ON -- 102k

Fredericton, NB --102k

Cape Breton, NS -- 99k

Sarnia, ON - 96k

Prince George, BC -- 86k

Sault Ste. Marie, ON -- 78k

Fort McMurray. AB -- 73k

North Bay, ON -- 70k

Charlottetown, PE -- 69k

Grande Prairie, AB -- 63k

Rimouski, PQ -- 55k

Shawinigan, PQ -- 54k

Leamington, ON -- 49k

Truro, NS -- 46k

Prince Albert, SK -- 44k

Rouyn-Noranda, PQ -- 42k

Somewhat surprisingly, even on this list, no communities in the Territories make the cut. The largest urban area in the North, Whitehorse, is still only 39th on this list, between Fort St. John, BC and Baie-Comeau, PQ. Yellowknife is 48th, between North Battleford, SK and Yorkton, SK.

The smallest riding in the orange area is Charlottetown at 46 sq. km, followed by Windsor West at 83 sq. km and Dartmouth—Cole Harbour at 102 sq. km. The largest riding in one of the other regions is Cypress Hills—Grasslands at 77,822 sq. km, followed by Kootenay—Columbia at 60,405 sq. km and Souris—Moose Mountain at 43,184 sq. km. All of these were in the purple region and were, unfortunately, necessary to bridge Winnipeg to the Calgary-Edmonton corridor, and then the Calgary-Edmonton corridor to the Lower Mainland.

(To those just looking for random facts: the smallest riding of them all is Toronto Centre, at 6 sq. km, followed by Papineau at 10 sq. km and both Laurier—Sainte-Marie and Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie at 11 sq. km each. The largest ones are Nunavut at 2,093,190 sq. km, Northwest Territories at 1,346,106 sq. km and Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou at 854,754 sq. km. And no, that last one doesn't have the longest riding name. That would be Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, coming in at 49 characters and beating out the previous champion, West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country).