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Patz_Van 🍁
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Humom to Gyllden and Kya & their much loved and missed furry angel sisters Zumi, Faeden & Mory. Married to love of my life. Love science, facts, nature, soccer, basketball & most importantly kindness and hate Sarcoidosis! Also 🍁Never 51st!
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Happy Sinck Tuck!
It is often celebrated around the time of the Winter Solstice. Sinck Tuck marks the halfway point of the long Canadian winter in the Arctic.
This is its history!

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December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
www.stcatharinesstandard.ca
December 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Snoop Dogg is officially joining Team USA at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games as the program’s first-ever honorary coach.

He’ll be around the athletes, coaches and staff in Italy as a full-time hype man for the Winter Olympics.
December 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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I’ll be on CBC (Canadian tv) tomorrow (Sunday) around 10:40 am ET discussing the american horror show(s) and the Copanelist is apparently @nikkimcr.bsky.social, who took over for me after I left Rolling Stone and who is therefore my sworn enemy and who I will be SPILLING THE BEANS on on live tv
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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While Canada never had federal prohibition like the United States (apart from a brief period during the First World War), the provinces were a different story. Some, like Quebec, had prohibition for a few months. Others, like PEI, had it in place for nearly half a century.
youtu.be/F0Z43Kb9slo
Canada's Prohibition Era
YouTube video by Canadian History Ehx
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Should we trust decades of science and medical research or RFK Jr.?

Hmm… 🤔
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Hey #FOTS where's our friend @isamiscreant.bsky.social Blueberry is wondering.
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Frank Gehry was an architectural icon whose bold designs have shaped cityscapes all over the world. 
 
I send my condolences to his family and admirers. Frank’s work will continue to inspire generations to come.
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?

TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded

BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Highest position yet! #43 on the @usatoday.com Best-selling Booklist!
Lesson From Cats For Surviving Fascism
https://www.usatoday.com/booklist/booklist
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Please enjoy my cartoon from this week's Toronto Star
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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America’s climate catastrophe will thin out and impoverish entire regions of the country, making them economic “no-go zones.” Vann R. Newkirk II reports on what climate change could do to America by mid-century: theatln.tc/CD8bgA0X
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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America, It's Not You, It's...
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Did you know: from Canadian History Ehx: The Great Escape movie pretty much removed all Canadian involvement (and British involvement) in what actually happened in World War II. #Canada

It very much exaggerates how involved the Americans actually were.

Must watch.

youtube.com/shorts/CEVTx...
When Hollywood Does Canada: The Great Escape
YouTube video by Canadian History Ehx
youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Doug Ford blasts Olivia Chow over complaints about new road signs: ‘You must think I just fell off the turnip truck’
Doug Ford blasts Olivia Chow over complaints about new road signs: ‘You must think I just fell off the turnip truck’
The Ontario premier responded on Thursday to complaints by Toronto about the size and number of school zone signs meant to replace speed cameras.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I'm thankful for my ICE whistle.
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.

You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM