🇨🇦 Great piece by Paul Wells: Solomon’s vote

The Liberals won. Mark Carney returns as prime minister. He’ll get to name another cabinet, meet Parliament for the first time, govern if he can. But the result forecloses cheap gloating in ways I find satisfying. Canada is a country that wishes things were easy. Maybe they aren’t meant to be easy.

Monarch Park. 📍

🏃‍♂️ Track Tuesday: 3x 1 mile + 3x 800m

Track under a well lit dome

Riverdale Collegiate Institute. 📍

🏊‍♂️ Mixed intervals

Indoor pool with lane markers and flags

🇨🇦 Voted! Only took a few minutes

A yellow "Elections Canada" sign directs voters with an arrow to the polling station.

🏃‍♂️ Much better weather today than yesterday for a run

A sunlit forest trail on a clear day with text overlay showing details of a half marathon distance, time, and pace.

🍕 Pizza night

A pizza with basil cooking in an outdoor pizza oven

Finished reading: A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab is fun and a worthy book in a great series 📚

🚴 Despite the high winds, cold temperatures, and occasional rain, I was glad to get outside for today’s ride

A mapped cycling route near Toronto, covering a distance of 81.59 km with an elevation gain of 420 m, is shown along with urban and natural landmarks.

🚴 Planning for the first outdoor bike ride of the season tomorrow. So, wandering the house trying to find all the gear. Note to self for next year: put it all together in a box for storage

George is enjoying this spring weather

A golden retriever lying in undergrowth in front of a fence

A golden retriever lying in undergrowth in front of a fence with a stick in his mouth

🏃‍♂️ I don’t have a bike at the in-law’s. So out for another run

A serene riverside landscape is overlaid with outdoor running statistics, including distance, time, and average pace.

🏃‍♂️ Pool is closed today, so swapped in a long run

A narrow forest trail stretches into the distance under an overcast sky, displaying details of an outdoor running session with metrics for distance, time, and average pace.

Finished reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey is enthralling. Nothing much happens and yet so much about humanity, science, and our place in the universe is explored 📚

Finished reading: At the Trough: The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Corporate Welfare Bums by Laurent Carbonneau is a timely read, given Canada’s challenges 📚

🔗 The leader in your mirror by Paul Wells

We put too much burden on our leaders, and it makes them act silly. They shouldn’t be the perfect weapon of our vengeance, or the model of every virtue we admire but never quite get around to practicing. They don’t need to know everything. They can’t possibly get everything right on the first try, and we court trouble when we ask them to pretend they’ve managed the trick.

Riverdale Collegiate Institute. 📍

🏊‍♂️ Night swim

Swimming pool with lane markers and hanging turnaround flags

Finished reading: The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead by Antony Johnston is a delightful murder mystery. Quite the cleanse after reading The Mercy of Gods 📚

Lights On by Annaka Harris is a fascinating “audio documentary” exploring the idea that consciousness is a fundamental building block of the universe, rather than emerging from complexity. Like Harris herself, I find the idea almost too wild and I’m not yet convinced. That said, the topic is fascinating and the documentary is really well done

Just posted on Six Colors: What to watch if you’re churning through Apple TV+

sixcolors.com/post/2025/04/wha

A good list from Jason Snell. And, agreed that Bad Monkey was much better than expected.

Finished reading: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey is a really promising (though often bleak) start to a new sci-fi series about humans (presumably) overcoming an alien invasion 📚