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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 10h

That’s why. Left handed underwriters have the easiest time with fountain pens but they aren’t all left handed people. I switched from side writing to underwriting about age 8 but changing hand position as you get older can be difficult. My DH, an overwriter has been unable to change at age 70.

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 10h

2/2 My DH is an lefty overwriter. (His hand is above the writing, wrist curled.) He can’t use fountain pens because the nib won’t work with the position/angle he holds the pen. Fountain pens work very well for me too but IMHO it’s because I’m a left handed underwriter.

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 11h

1/2 It depends on your hand position - the type of leftie you are. Smearing is an issue for side writers where their hand passes over the writing. Underwriters (hand below the writing) don’t have this issue. (I was a side writer as a child switched to underwriting after failing printing gr 1-3.

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 14h

Really educational post on fascism today & how it presents in today's #politics from Charlie Angus.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15h

Time to drop some f bombs and talk about the face of gangster fascism.
Gone are the grey uniforms and goose-steps in are the baseball caps and botox.
But the fascist playbook is redefining politics. We need to call it out.
This is my latest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlr...

DROPPING F BOMBS ON FASCISM

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 14h

Article (from UK press) about the restoration of the mouth of the Don River in #Toronto. It was a post industrial waste with the river in a concrete channel. The restoration was to mitigate the flooding. The result is a successful restored renewed wetland ecology www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 15h

The making of this video. In this videos Tod also explains the Canadian references for US audiences. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivBB...

Behind the Scenes: I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely hilarious. "I am the very model of a modern day Canadian" by Tod Maffin (adaptation of from Gilbert & Sullivan). It's jam packed with #Canadian cultural references .
#Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k7O...

I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

www.youtube.com

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 1d

For those who don't understand Canadian passive/aggressiveness and how you can look like you are complimenting someone when you are not. #canpol

Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 1d

PASSIVE AGGRESSION TRANSLATED

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

Their mainstream media won't even report that the 51st state crap was the 1st reason for our boycott. I saw 1 US businessperson in Minnesota who recently was interviewed about the loss of business from Canadians said that the local TV station edited out her negative comments about the 51st state.

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

Although Le Blanc was saying progress has been made (and Trump understands the complexity of the relationship a bit better), no specific details today about progress. Not encouraging.

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

LeBlanc is speaking now on the roof of the Canadian embassy (4 pm)

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

Wrong Donald we hate you and your fascist MAGA government.

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

We do. Carney has used the word "transformative" before with Trump. We understand the unspoken part (that he's made it much worse). Most Canadians understand subtlety.

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

He's said it before, it's not really a compliment. Yes, Trump has transformed the US & its economy by wrecking it. It's an example of Canadian passive aggressiveness - he knows Trump will take it as a compliment.

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 3d

Those are the old robes, The new robes are black with red stripes and less Christmassy. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

Supreme Court of Canada holds first ceremonial opening in 39 years

CBA President Bianca Kratt says the court is a testament to the stability a country can enjoy when its legal institutions remain respected, independent, and grounded in the rule of law

nationalmagazine.ca

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 5d

When my husband & I returned from Italy in May, we hit the 401 at rush hour on the friday of the Victoria Day long weekend. We noticed all the huge SUVs and the size of our roads. In Italy, the garbage trucks are the size of a car. Everything is on a much more human scale there.

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 6d

Check her cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"; he loved it. Here's the film of her performance at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. When he asked, he suggested she sing it instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcOQ...

k.d. lang performs Hallelujah - Vancouver 2010 Olympics Opening Ceremony | Music Monday

YouTube video by Olympics

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 6d

Ontario did the same in 2020 but it’s dependent on New York state and Quebec making the change (which they have not) so we still have the semiannual time change.

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 7d

As well their servers will be in Canada unlike other social media. We need more Canadian tech alternatives.

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Carol in SK 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP! 💪❤️🇨🇦 @carolkarahalios.bsky.social · 9d

As 🇺🇸 gather their military officials and makes known their contempt for 🇨🇦, CANADA people gather to H.E.A.R Honor, Educate, Advocate, and Remember our history.

We are no longer two sides of the same coin. TODAY, it is distinctly clear just how VERY different we are.

Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister.

Entire video:
vm.tiktok.com/ZMAa4YCeo/

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MotherEarthRooted @motherearthrooted.bsky.social · 9d

Today really shows the stark divergence of roads Canada and the US have chosen to walk. While Canada celebrates Orange Shirt Day and honours the survivors and memories of those who attended residential schools in Canada (a stain on Canada’s legacy) the US amasses all of its generals to vow …2

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 9d

It was so moving, I cried as well. This song "Buried Truth" was performed by DeeDee Austin (a 19 year old Mi'kmag singer songwriter) on stage for this part of the ceremony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xx-...

Buried Truth ( Official Video ) - DeeDee Austin

YouTube video by DeeDee Austin

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 9d

his was the song that was performed by DeeDee Austin as the cloth wound through the crowd and more pairs of children's shoes were added. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xx-...

Buried Truth ( Official Video ) - DeeDee Austin

YouTube video by DeeDee Austin

www.youtube.com

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 9d

The ceremony on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for #TruthandReconcilation and #OrangeShirtDay was very moving & profound. They walked the over 60 metre memorial cloth for all the children who didn't home home (over 4,000 names so far) through the crowd while Deedee Austin performed "Buried Truth".

Picture of the Memorial Cloth at ceremony at Parliament Hill, National Truth & Reconcilation Day, Ottawa, Sept 30th, 2025

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 10d

On the National Day for Truth & Reconcilation in #Canada, Charlie Angus talks with James Daschuk, the author of Clearing the Plains about the important of the treaties signed between indigenous people & the Crown. They also discuss the history of residential schools
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HEw...

MAGA WON'T BREAK UP OUR COUNTRY: WE ARE TREATY PEOPLE

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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