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Just a Canuck in Cairo - teaching, camel riding and wading in the Red Sea 🐬 YALLA!
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Schloss, who was friends with Frank in Amsterdam and whose mother later married Frank's father, was a tireless educator about the Holocaust and was honorary president of The Anne Frank Trust UK. n.pr/4pnJxEo
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of Anne Frank, dies at 96
Schloss, who was friends with Frank in Amsterdam and whose mother later married Frank's father, was a tireless educator about the Holocaust and was honorary president of The Anne Frank Trust UK.
n.pr
January 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!

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December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Renovations are interesting here in Egypt. I thought they were removing debris from the flat. Apparently they're bringing up sand. Something to do with ceramic floors. Regardless, an interesting afternoon. 😊
December 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Canada's critical role in creating the polio vaccine and proving that it was safe
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My favourite Egyptian breakfast.
Ful (fava beans), Egyptian bread (like pita but lighter), veggies and a few fries. Price = 50 Egyptian pounds = $1.40 cad
V Cola is Egyptian. No caffeine in this cola and it's tasty. 😊
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Canadian rideshare company Uride is offering free rides on Christmas Day to help ensure transportation challenges don’t prevent people from spending the holiday with loved ones.
Uride offers free Christmas Day rides on Vancouver Island to help families
Canadian rideshare company Uride is offering free rides on Christmas Day to help ensure transportation challenges don’t prevent people from spending the holiday with loved ones.
cheknews.ca
December 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
😊😊🎅🤶🎄
On this day in 2008, the federal government awarded Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus Canadian citizenship.
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Our elementary students in Cairo presented "A Christmas Carol" this afternoon. A little Jacob Marley for your viewing pleasure. ❤️🎄
December 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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When a few Canada Post employees in Vancouver started answering letters to Santa in the early-1970s, it eventually led to the most famous postal code in Canada.
H0H 0H0.
Each year, thousands of letters to Santa from around the world are answered.
This is the story.

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December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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It’s not a boycott.
It’s muscle memory.
And it’s working.
#cdnpoli

youtube.com/shorts/BYb90...
Muscle Memory
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Great visibility from our flat window this afternoon. Saqqara and Dahshur Pyramids. They are a little south of the Giza Pyramids.
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In Egypt they embrace everybody's culture. ❤️
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A visit to the Visa office in El Nozha, Cairo. This little fellow is keeping me company. He's begging for my pb&j sandwich. 😊
December 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Snowbirds 2026 Schedule ❤️
December 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A rare rainy day from my bus window in Cairo, Egypt.
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Registration is open for the legendary Vancouver Polar Bear Swim on New Year’s Day 🌊
Vancouver Polar Bear Swim Registration Open
It's been a tradition for the last 106 years and registration is now open for the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim which happens on New Year's Day at English Bay.
miss604.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Over the last five years, Covenant House Vancouver has helped 500+ youth find a safe place to call home.

You can help youth find their way home, and it’s a great time to donate with a matching campaign on now.

@covenanthousebc.bsky.social
From at Risk to at Home
Over the last five years, Covenant House Vancouver has helped 500+ youth at risk find a safe place to call home. Donation matching is on now.
miss604.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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There are some holiday Toy Drives this weekend and today it's the London Drugs London Drugs Toy Drive with Vancouver Fire Fighters. Stop by with your donation and enjoy live music, a full brass band, antique fire trucks, and more.
Locations today:
LD Granville & Georgia
LD Broadway & Cambie
Holiday Toy Drives Around Vancouver 2025
Help make spirits bright this holiday season by supporting these holiday toy drives located in communities around Vancouver.
miss604.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Street puppies galore!! They always make me smile.
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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More proof that the province of BC is doing AMAZING work when it comes to recruiting American healthcare workers... a member of our Healthcare Infusion community sent me this...
B.C. literally bought THE ENTIRE FRONT COVER of the U.S. nurses' main monthly magazine.
🤣 OMG I LOVE IT
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The Marmot Recovery Foundation announced on its social media page that the population of the Vancouver Island species has reached a new high of 427 marmots.
Charity celebrates milestone as Vancouver Island marmots rebound to 427 in wild
The Marmot Recovery Foundation announced on its social media page that the population of the Vancouver Island species has reached a new high of 427 marmots.
cheknews.ca
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
And the countdown is on!
6pm Cairo time the Official Opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza begins. It will be a huge event. The government has declared today a holiday in Egypt. Want to watch? It will be live on Tik Tok. 😊😊

vt.tiktok.com/ZSy69TMGg/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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November 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Date night in Cairo. 😊❤️
Not really a vampire fan but enjoyed Dracula 2025/Dracula:A Love Story. About $5cad/ticket. The movie is in English and some French. Arabic subtitles.🎬🎥
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Here's the COOL thing about not following baseball regularly & only getting on board in bandwagon fashion:

I get to be SURPRISED to learn that a number of players on this World Series battling @bluejays.com team used to play right here in #Vancouver!
True fans miss out on fun surprises like that!
Blue Jays roster includes 4 former Vancouver Canadians, as well as a manager and coach with Vancouver experience. Plus one former Victoria HarbourCat

If you saw the C's beat Hillsboro Hops 1-0 at The Nat on May 31, you saw Yesavage's final start at High-A

tomhawthorn.blogspot.com/2025/10/cs-y...
C's you later
By Tom Hawthorn Four of the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series played for the minor-league Vancouver Canadians, while one played amateur ...
tomhawthorn.blogspot.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Cheering on the Jay's from Cairo. Looking forward to the next game. 2am start here!😲
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM