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Sarah
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I live on an island and hook mats, paint watercolours, and walk. An amateur in all 3. 🇨🇦 Bluesky is my link to the world.
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Sources:

Canadian Encyclopedia: buff.ly/4lwLBX8
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic: buff.ly/TWTArfm
Canadian War Museum: buff.ly/1dZPLHL
Legion Magazine: buff.ly/anuZeuD
December 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I remember every year as CBC radio would commemorate the day hearing the voices of elderly survivors who had been children on their way to school. Horrifying.
It’s the anniversary of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. A still and somber morning to visit sites in my neighborhood: a fragment of anchor shank from Mont Blanc, the grave of telegraph operator Vince Coleman, and the field where unidentified dead were buried.
December 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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We received a very lovely, generous donation of knitted winter hats so we've made a Winter Warmer Tree to go along with our Winter Coat Rail. 🧶

Anyone needing a cosy hat can take what they need, and if anyone has any spare hats or gloves they can add them to the tree! ❤️

#LoveLibraries
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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That's the "ceasefire".
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Dear algorithm, please connect us with readers:

📚 Whose idea of the “perfect day” consists of visiting their indie bookshop.
📚 Who try to shop small whenever they can.
📚 Who love audiobooks.
📚 Interested in Digital Rights Management.

Oh, and people who are looking to divest from Amazon/Audible 😏
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Moscow's guilty men in the White House are trying to destroy Ukraine and weaken Europe.

open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
Another Day, Another Russian-US Attempt to Betray Ukraine and Destroy Europe
The Putin-Trump surrender plan will lay the groundwork for Russia to expand its attacks on other parts of Europe
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
November bird energy !
Energy of Starlings - by Somerset artist and printmaker, Jackie Curtis

More of Jackie's fabulous artwork, here: www.jcurtisart.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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They're on it
October 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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And then the thieves went on a two-hour long lunch break.
October 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A reminder that change.org petitions have zero impact on politicians in Canada (or anywhere really). It's basically performative engagement.

Only www.ourcommons.ca petitions have any weight whatsoever.
Welcome to the House of Commons of Canada - House of Commons of Canada
Welcome to the House of Commons of Canada - House of Commons of Canada
www.ourcommons.ca
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Yup
October 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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It's going to be a lot easier to decarbonize heating if we bring down electricity prices.

That's the focus of Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)'s two papers out today: how to make electricity cheaper, especially for households.

www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
Making electricity cheaper: Redistributing policy costs for affordable household heat electrification
Affordable electrification relies on affordable electricity. Nuanced price reform will best equip decision-makers for success.
www.raponline.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve
US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve
OTTAWA - U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has vowed to improve anti-American sentiment he sees in Canada, no matter how many illegal tariffs, forced annexations, or literal bombs it takes to do it.
www.thebeaverton.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Thank you @mark-carney.bsky.social for announcing Canada will recognize Palestine
July 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I Dreamed a Whale
Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq
n.d.
July 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.
July 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions:

www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

There's space for five names in the submission boxes.

Let's go with:

Exxon Mobil
BP
Shell
Equinor
Chevron

At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve.

Pls retweet!
June 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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A new mural has been unveiled in the French city of Roubaix to mark #July4th.

(🎨 Judith de Leeuw)
July 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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As we celebrate Canada Day, it’s also Memorial Day in Newfoundland and Labrador, commemorating the Newfoundland Regiment’s terrible sacrifice at the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel during the First World War. I took these pictures on a visit to the memorial in France in 2015.
July 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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David Brooks said it best.
June 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Beautiful PEI, home of these Showy Lady Slippers.
June 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM