Cathie from Canada: Sunday Funday: Sports Update, Wrapping up the Royal Visit, a bunch of good and funny posts. Plus NSFW, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers

Go Habs! Go Raptors!

But win or lose, you both do Canada proud.

Sports Update

Outstanding!

Canadians were really touched on Tuesday night when the Buffalo crowd sang our national anthem.

Molson's got into the spirit of it:

This was a beautiful part of Friday's game

The Kentucky Derby was on Saturday - dramatic, as it usually is.

Winner Golden Tempo was at 36-1 odds!

The race from above:

First time a woman trainer has won:

Wrapping-up the Royal Visit

The Manchester Evening News put this together. I think Britain was even more amazed at Charles' wit and impact, than the Americans were.

After they left Washington, Charles and Camilla stopped at Shenandoah National Park.

This week's good and funny posts
Its finally spring on the prairies. Watch the ice break on the Athabasca River

One of the challenges faced by Saskatoon in the early 20th century was to build bridges strong enough to withstand the annual ice break-up on the South Saskatchewan River, which runs through the centre of the city.

Here is an amazing story:

Canadian Joan Bamford Fletcher was a badass. In 1945, she led 2,000 Dutch civilians from an internment camp, 450 km through the jungle, to the coast. She dealt with injury, rebel groups and terrible weather but didn't lose a single person. This is her story Joan Bamford Fletcher was born on July 12, 1909 in Regina. When the Second World War began in 1939, she trained as a driver & mechanic with the Red Cross. She was sent to England where she served with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. In 1945, she was transferred to Indonesia to evacuate Allied captives from the camp at Bangkinang. Japan had surrendered and rebel groups were everywhere. She was able to persuade the Japanese Army to provide her with an interpreter, 15 trucks and 40 armed soldiers. The journey from Bankinang to the coastal city of Padang was 450 kilometres through jungle and mountains. Only a small number of internees could be transferred at one time and each trip took 20 hours. Fletcher monitored each convoy and dealt with problems. On the third convoy, she suffered a four-inch gash on her head when she was accidently dragged by a truck. She was back at work two hours later, which gained her the respect of the Japanese soldiers. After that, they saluted her each time she passed. On the second-last convoy, two Dutch passengers were kidnapped by rebels, while another rebel tried to steal a truck from the convoy. Fletcher threw the rebel out of the vehicle and he ran off. She then found the missing Dutch civilians at a nearby rebel camp. Fletcher simply stormed in, shouted at the rebels, grabbed a knife, cut the captives free and ushered them out the door. The rebels didn't follow her, or hassle the convoy again. By the end of six weeks, Fletcher had transported all 2,000 internees in 21 trips. At the end of the evacuation, a Japanese captain gave Fletcher a family heirloom, a 300-year-old Samurai sword out of respect for her work. She received the Member of the Order of the British Empire. She was then posted to Poland after the war. She fled the country as secret police were looking for her and returned to Canada. She kept in touch with her Japanese interpreter, Art Miyazawa, for the rest of her life. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 https://canadaehx.com/2022/03/05/joan-bamford-fletcher/ I hope you enjoyed that look at the life of Joan Bamford Fletcher. If you enjoy my Canadian history content, you can support my work with a donation at 👇 http://buymeacoffee.com/craigu 📸Canadian War Museum 📸 LAC

- Canadian History Ehx

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The Artemis II astronauts are making appearances

Apparently they'll be visiting Canada sometime as well.

Our Tech-Bro Overlords deserve this, don't they

And speaking about the ultra-rich

Gee, that's so weird, for MAGA billionaires.🙄

- The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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Here's a suggestion, guys

dudes in Silicon Valley should take a couple years off and just focus on making printers work

- Brinley McCully

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Use AI, they said. Works great and so much cheaper, they said. And what could go wrong, they said...

Banksey's latest - walking blindly into disaster

A great Two Ronnies scene:

A great Seinfeld scene:

Chyron chuckles

And seashells

Italic-power

Does anyone else get the feeling that people working in diplomacy now are GenZ? This is funny, creative and respectful all at once.

FInding a city under your basement?

How soccer balls are made in Pakistan

Did you ever wonder about what "blindness" actually means?

Metajet is fast, faster than light

A video showing how big is the sun

Love this!

Think of a number...

NSFW

Getting Old(er)

"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." --Bjarne Stroustrup

- KGB Report

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I’m not showing off, but I grew up in a time when we experienced the satisfaction of fixing electronics by hitting them. 👀

- Brad Davenport

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You’ve got to be a certain age to get this😁

- Kate Dalby

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As someone who has seen bell-bottoms come "in" and then go "out" at least five times in my life, I could appreciate this one:

Nothing makes you feel older than realising the "retro" stuff kids are wearing is from your own childhood. 🫩

- Brad Davenport

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Carney Hat Trick - posts about our prime minister

🔴 The new Liberal Majority Government is focused and determined. It's time to BUILD. ✅ WATCH what's about to happen in Canada over the next couple of years. 🚀 🏗️ 🏡 🏘️

- Fun Tom

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TrumpWatch - posts about the world's most anticipated event

- Glen Lancaster 🇨🇦

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Animal Crackers

This video tells a fascinating story:

Thought of the day…

- Kate Dalby

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Cathie from Canada

Sunday, May 03, 2026

Sunday Funday: Sports Update, Wrapping up the Royal Visit, a bunch of good and funny posts. Plus NSFW, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers

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