We had a nice 新年好 Chinese New Year ice swim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLp04D09PnU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRkWO82GluY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE8i4aU7Pl8
but now unfortunately our government has chopped down the 1500 mature trees of that previously public island forest to give the island away in a 95 year lease to a foreign corporation for profit:
https://thepointer.com/article/2025-01-29/ontario-s-growing-environmental-crisis-how-two-major-projects-are-harming-the-great-lakes
https://fontra.com/ontario-place-sewer-plan-an-environmental-disaster/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLp04D09PnU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRkWO82GluY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE8i4aU7Pl8
but now unfortunately our government has chopped down the 1500 mature trees of that previously public island forest to give the island away in a 95 year lease to a foreign corporation for profit:
https://thepointer.com/article/2025-01-29/ontario-s-growing-environmental-crisis-how-two-major-projects-are-harming-the-great-lakes
https://fontra.com/ontario-place-sewer-plan-an-environmental-disaster/
so this is our first year without a New Year swim.
Just went outside to walk in the snow and shovel the sidewalk...