Bel Bee
@mountainlocks.bsky.social
Retired Canal Educator and local historian. Incurably curious. Voracious reader. Liberal leanings. Likes rocks and shiny things. Hodology is the way! DMs are not. Thank you kindly.
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Saw this yesterday, posted for World Kindness Day - but it’s a good reminder for every day ❤️
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Saw this yesterday, posted for World Kindness Day - but it’s a good reminder for every day ❤️
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Crime: Man steals bus with passengers on board.
Canadian Crime: He still makes the scheduled stops to let passengers on and off.
Canadian Crime Bonus: He denies boarding to one passenger because his bus pass had expired.
globalnews.ca/news/1152251...
Canadian Crime: He still makes the scheduled stops to let passengers on and off.
Canadian Crime Bonus: He denies boarding to one passenger because his bus pass had expired.
globalnews.ca/news/1152251...
Man arrested after Ontario transit bus stolen with passengers on board, police say | Globalnews.ca
Hamilton police say a suspect is facing charges after a transit bus was stolen with passengers on board when the driver had exited for a short break.
globalnews.ca
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Crime: Man steals bus with passengers on board.
Canadian Crime: He still makes the scheduled stops to let passengers on and off.
Canadian Crime Bonus: He denies boarding to one passenger because his bus pass had expired.
globalnews.ca/news/1152251...
Canadian Crime: He still makes the scheduled stops to let passengers on and off.
Canadian Crime Bonus: He denies boarding to one passenger because his bus pass had expired.
globalnews.ca/news/1152251...
Okay, Dunnett people. What name comes to mind when you se this?
#DunnettContent
#DunnettContent
You go to one wild crazy party and do a few silly things, wake up relieved that photo cameras and social media don't exist yet and that soon everyone will have forgotten... but someone made a drawing...
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Okay, Dunnett people. What name comes to mind when you se this?
#DunnettContent
#DunnettContent
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I don't know the last time I listened to 40 minutes of our prime minister. I came away thinking Mark Carney is the right guy for the job. I cannot imagine any of the opposition leaders, Pierre Poilievre included, would be able to do what Canada needs right now.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
Scooch ahead to about 14:00
Reiteration of talking points, but also some new detail on ‘the plan’ and anecdotal amuse bouche…
www.youtube.com/live/qantwpq...
Reiteration of talking points, but also some new detail on ‘the plan’ and anecdotal amuse bouche…
www.youtube.com/live/qantwpq...
PM Mark Carney discusses Budget 2025 in speech to Canadian Club Toronto – November 7, 2025
YouTube video by cpac
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I don't know the last time I listened to 40 minutes of our prime minister. I came away thinking Mark Carney is the right guy for the job. I cannot imagine any of the opposition leaders, Pierre Poilievre included, would be able to do what Canada needs right now.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
Salt caramel is so good.
Chapman’s Ice Cream wins “Ice Cream Maker of the Year” at the International Ice Cream Consortium awards in Greece.
Well done! 🇨🇦
#Canada
Well done! 🇨🇦
#Canada
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Salt caramel is so good.
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A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
Anyone with young male relatives should be concerned about the "Turning Point" incursion into schools. We can see how effectively their program worked in the US.
The far right radicalization of young men is a serious issue. Fanning male rage was a big part of the MAGA movement and is part of the game plan on the Polievre Conservatives.
In my latest piece I discuss the toxic impacts on schools and democracy.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
In my latest piece I discuss the toxic impacts on schools and democracy.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Young Men in the Hate-o-Sphere
Recently, CBC ran a story about how the Poilievre Conservatives are touring Canadian universities to build support among young men.
substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Anyone with young male relatives should be concerned about the "Turning Point" incursion into schools. We can see how effectively their program worked in the US.
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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NDP has to do some major repairs to its image after sellout-singh and it starts with stuff like this.
Wow, I wish I lived in a province with a premier who turned his back on fascism.
Doug Ford and the Cons LOVE the notwithstanding clause, Lil PP is already bragging about he will be abusing it.
Wow, I wish I lived in a province with a premier who turned his back on fascism.
Doug Ford and the Cons LOVE the notwithstanding clause, Lil PP is already bragging about he will be abusing it.
November 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
NDP has to do some major repairs to its image after sellout-singh and it starts with stuff like this.
Wow, I wish I lived in a province with a premier who turned his back on fascism.
Doug Ford and the Cons LOVE the notwithstanding clause, Lil PP is already bragging about he will be abusing it.
Wow, I wish I lived in a province with a premier who turned his back on fascism.
Doug Ford and the Cons LOVE the notwithstanding clause, Lil PP is already bragging about he will be abusing it.
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Short interruption of our daily program for this health check.
Please close your eyes, press play and wait.
If you don't start to tap your feet, shake your head or feel the need to jump up and dance, get in touch with your doctor.
It's for your own good.
youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A?...
Please close your eyes, press play and wait.
If you don't start to tap your feet, shake your head or feel the need to jump up and dance, get in touch with your doctor.
It's for your own good.
youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A?...
"SING, SING, SING" BY BENNY GOODMAN
YouTube video by WorldWar2Music
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Short interruption of our daily program for this health check.
Please close your eyes, press play and wait.
If you don't start to tap your feet, shake your head or feel the need to jump up and dance, get in touch with your doctor.
It's for your own good.
youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A?...
Please close your eyes, press play and wait.
If you don't start to tap your feet, shake your head or feel the need to jump up and dance, get in touch with your doctor.
It's for your own good.
youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A?...
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Dear Canada and Blue Jays: that was one of the best World Series ever. I wish you could have won too.
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Dear Canada and Blue Jays: that was one of the best World Series ever. I wish you could have won too.
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if this is your introduction to baseball you may never see it this good again
but you’ll happily chase that high for the rest of your life
but you’ll happily chase that high for the rest of your life
November 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
if this is your introduction to baseball you may never see it this good again
but you’ll happily chase that high for the rest of your life
but you’ll happily chase that high for the rest of your life
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I don't care about hockey in the slightest, but Vladdy Guerrero Jr. walking into Game 7 of the World Series rocking a Marie-Philip Poulin jersey makes my heart swell like the damn Grinch's on Christmas.
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I don't care about hockey in the slightest, but Vladdy Guerrero Jr. walking into Game 7 of the World Series rocking a Marie-Philip Poulin jersey makes my heart swell like the damn Grinch's on Christmas.
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Well it is Canada - we love a good Saturday night sports fight. Usually ice is involve, howeve.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Well it is Canada - we love a good Saturday night sports fight. Usually ice is involve, howeve.
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Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.
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Tribalism
comes from the gut.
Pluralism
comes from the mind.
Buddha was a
pluralist & so was
Jesus & they
killed him for it.
comes from the gut.
Pluralism
comes from the mind.
Buddha was a
pluralist & so was
Jesus & they
killed him for it.
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Tribalism
comes from the gut.
Pluralism
comes from the mind.
Buddha was a
pluralist & so was
Jesus & they
killed him for it.
comes from the gut.
Pluralism
comes from the mind.
Buddha was a
pluralist & so was
Jesus & they
killed him for it.
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I have for years been concerned about Doug Ford's desire to limit and deke around the democratic protections in Ontario. Here he is again chipping away at our foundation, in a way that looks a lot like the Trumpian/MAGA efforts to tilt elections and stay in power. #ontario #onpoli
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
and throw in "our home on native land" as well. We can be honest as well as patriotic.
The anthem's changed once in my lifetime, I'm not opposed to changing it again.
Rufus Wainwright is singing the Canadian anthem at the World Series and he changed the words as a fuck you to the US - “that only we command”
October 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
and throw in "our home on native land" as well. We can be honest as well as patriotic.
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Judy LaMarsh helped bring us Medicare and the Canada Pension Plan.
She oversaw our Centennial celebrations.
Her book, Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage, is one of Canada's best political memoirs.
She even played a role in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
This is her story.
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She oversaw our Centennial celebrations.
Her book, Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage, is one of Canada's best political memoirs.
She even played a role in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
This is her story.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Judy LaMarsh helped bring us Medicare and the Canada Pension Plan.
She oversaw our Centennial celebrations.
Her book, Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage, is one of Canada's best political memoirs.
She even played a role in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
This is her story.
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She oversaw our Centennial celebrations.
Her book, Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage, is one of Canada's best political memoirs.
She even played a role in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
This is her story.
🧵 1/12
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