Catharine Tunnacliffe
@ctunnacliffe.bsky.social
Climate, social justice, and occasional duck pictures. Toronto.
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@rebeccaonion.bsky.social nails it ⬇️
Being smug about having a minimalist, anti-consumerist 3-year-old is like being smug that your 8-year-old is a non-smoker. Too soon to tell.
Being smug about having a minimalist, anti-consumerist 3-year-old is like being smug that your 8-year-old is a non-smoker. Too soon to tell.
Experts Say It’s the Key to a Well-Adjusted Child. I Tried for Years. This Holiday Season, I Encourage You to Give Up.
The injustice of it all will begin to hit.
slate.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@rebeccaonion.bsky.social nails it ⬇️
Being smug about having a minimalist, anti-consumerist 3-year-old is like being smug that your 8-year-old is a non-smoker. Too soon to tell.
Being smug about having a minimalist, anti-consumerist 3-year-old is like being smug that your 8-year-old is a non-smoker. Too soon to tell.
Annual reminder that, if you live in Toronto, this is the week of the earliest sunset: 4:40pm. On December 14, sun sets at 4:41pm. By January 10, sun sets at 5:00pm.
Things are getting brighter, we just can't feel it yet. Keep going.
Things are getting brighter, we just can't feel it yet. Keep going.
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Annual reminder that, if you live in Toronto, this is the week of the earliest sunset: 4:40pm. On December 14, sun sets at 4:41pm. By January 10, sun sets at 5:00pm.
Things are getting brighter, we just can't feel it yet. Keep going.
Things are getting brighter, we just can't feel it yet. Keep going.
Reposted by Catharine Tunnacliffe
At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.
I support this journalist's bravery, and you should, too.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I support this journalist's bravery, and you should, too.
Charlie Kirk was a hatemonger. Salute to @espiers.bsky.social's magnificent tribute, the only obit I want to read today.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Charlie Kirk was a hatemonger. Salute to @espiers.bsky.social's magnificent tribute, the only obit I want to read today.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Reposted by Catharine Tunnacliffe
The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.
September 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.
Banksy should mass-produce this stencil and drop 100s of them in every city in the UK. In a week, you shouldn't be able to walk down a street without seeing this piece of art. What a statement that would be.
BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy
The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.
The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.
September 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Banksy should mass-produce this stencil and drop 100s of them in every city in the UK. In a week, you shouldn't be able to walk down a street without seeing this piece of art. What a statement that would be.
Reposted by Catharine Tunnacliffe
i wonder if there was a menswear writer in 1914 who, shortly after writing an article on how to wear pants, went outside and saw a newspaper headline read "Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Assassinated" and he thought "hm, prob not good"
September 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
i wonder if there was a menswear writer in 1914 who, shortly after writing an article on how to wear pants, went outside and saw a newspaper headline read "Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Assassinated" and he thought "hm, prob not good"
Reposted by Catharine Tunnacliffe
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Sometime in the early aughts I threw away my gold paperback copy, not predicting I’d have a kid who would also go through an Anne Rice phase.
August 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Sometime in the early aughts I threw away my gold paperback copy, not predicting I’d have a kid who would also go through an Anne Rice phase.
Don't be grumpy about people using parks. Make more parks!
The current level of parks is clearly not keeping up with demand (and was largely established at a time when the population was much smaller).
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
The current level of parks is clearly not keeping up with demand (and was largely established at a time when the population was much smaller).
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Canada's national parks are free for everyone this summer. Should they be? | CBC News
Free admission to Canada's national parks this summer has helped draw visitors to the country's most popular parks, fuelling traffic jams and raising environmental concerns.
www.cbc.ca
August 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Don't be grumpy about people using parks. Make more parks!
The current level of parks is clearly not keeping up with demand (and was largely established at a time when the population was much smaller).
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
The current level of parks is clearly not keeping up with demand (and was largely established at a time when the population was much smaller).
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Cicadas screaming their fool heads off. Lake is warm. Music in the park. Peak Toronto August.
August 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Cicadas screaming their fool heads off. Lake is warm. Music in the park. Peak Toronto August.
Reposted by Catharine Tunnacliffe
obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids
August 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids
Let it be known I will never tire of @dieworkwear.bsky.social dunking on John Tory.
This distinction can really disrupt a tailored outfit. On the left, we see how low rise, tapered trousers exacerbate the worst of this look (orphaned suit jacket with jeans, which looks like a sartorial mullet). The outfit on the right is even worse, as the man looks like Gru.
August 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Let it be known I will never tire of @dieworkwear.bsky.social dunking on John Tory.
Reposted by Catharine Tunnacliffe
We won! ✊
In a landmark decision, the Ontario Superior Court ruled in favour of advocates in our challenge, finding the Ontario government's actions violated Canadians' Charter rights under Section 7.
Big win for cycling and safety in Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social 👏 bit.ly/4odZUUF
In a landmark decision, the Ontario Superior Court ruled in favour of advocates in our challenge, finding the Ontario government's actions violated Canadians' Charter rights under Section 7.
Big win for cycling and safety in Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social 👏 bit.ly/4odZUUF
Major victory in cycle challenge: Ontario court finds government violated Charter rights
Ontario Superior Court has sided with cycling and safety advocates in the Cycle Challenge case.
bit.ly
July 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We won! ✊
In a landmark decision, the Ontario Superior Court ruled in favour of advocates in our challenge, finding the Ontario government's actions violated Canadians' Charter rights under Section 7.
Big win for cycling and safety in Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social 👏 bit.ly/4odZUUF
In a landmark decision, the Ontario Superior Court ruled in favour of advocates in our challenge, finding the Ontario government's actions violated Canadians' Charter rights under Section 7.
Big win for cycling and safety in Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social 👏 bit.ly/4odZUUF
Reposted by Catharine Tunnacliffe
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
July 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
My advice: don't mess with Fogo. They cling on the edge of the known world, and live by their own code.
Go there, it's amazing.
Go there, it's amazing.
Residents of a rural Newfoundland community have taken over a ferry to try to prevent the Newfoundland and Labrador government from relocating the vessel to another community. #nltraffic www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Fogo Island residents 'tolerated enough,' boarded ferry in protest, says mayor | CBC News
On Thursday night Fogo Island residents boarded the Astron W to prevent it from being relocated to another community. Mayor Andrew Shea says it was a cowardly move by the government.
www.cbc.ca
July 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
My advice: don't mess with Fogo. They cling on the edge of the known world, and live by their own code.
Go there, it's amazing.
Go there, it's amazing.
Reposted by Catharine Tunnacliffe
I was wrong, precedented times are also bad
June 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I was wrong, precedented times are also bad
King Charles has the opportunity to do the funniest thing today
June 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
King Charles has the opportunity to do the funniest thing today