Torvingen
@torvingen.bsky.social
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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
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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.
🧵1/8
H0H 0H0.
Each year, thousands of letters to Santa from around the world are answered.
This is the story.
🧵1/8
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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.
🧵1/8
H0H 0H0.
Each year, thousands of letters to Santa from around the world are answered.
This is the story.
🧵1/8
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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The 2025 #TreeForBoston is on its way! 🌲
This week, @mayorwu.boston.gov and Interim Parks & Recreation Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse joined Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family in Lunenburg to help cut the 45-foot white spruce now bound for Boston Common. (1/3)
This week, @mayorwu.boston.gov and Interim Parks & Recreation Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse joined Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family in Lunenburg to help cut the 45-foot white spruce now bound for Boston Common. (1/3)
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The 2025 #TreeForBoston is on its way! 🌲
This week, @mayorwu.boston.gov and Interim Parks & Recreation Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse joined Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family in Lunenburg to help cut the 45-foot white spruce now bound for Boston Common. (1/3)
This week, @mayorwu.boston.gov and Interim Parks & Recreation Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse joined Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family in Lunenburg to help cut the 45-foot white spruce now bound for Boston Common. (1/3)
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every Canadian over 30 knows all the words to this Great Value muppets song about not eating grandma's heart medication
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuL...
Don't Put It In Your Mouth (Full Version, 1992)
YouTube video by RetroWinnipeg
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
every Canadian over 30 knows all the words to this Great Value muppets song about not eating grandma's heart medication
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuL...
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Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide. They're hard to diagnose and treat, and they're on the rise. Now, scientists are decoding the biology behind these debilitating diseases in hopes of eventually treating the causes, not just the symptoms.
Disease of 1,000 faces shows how science is tackling immunity’s dark side
It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide. They're hard to diagnose and treat, and they're on the rise. Now, scientists are decoding the biology behind these debilitating diseases in hopes of eventually treating the causes, not just the symptoms.
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ahh another beautiful day in the glorious age of technology, sure hope my doorbell doesn’t stop working because an online bookstore took over and then broke the entire internet
October 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
ahh another beautiful day in the glorious age of technology, sure hope my doorbell doesn’t stop working because an online bookstore took over and then broke the entire internet
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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
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I found something @catsofyore.bsky.social will like, I hope! from a book in our newsroom library …
July 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I found something @catsofyore.bsky.social will like, I hope! from a book in our newsroom library …
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New video is now live! It's the story of BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER, a film that even the director doubted could be made & went on to become an international camp classic. Here's the first minute, and you can watch the rest of the story here: youtu.be/bOzHhHgmKK4
July 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
New video is now live! It's the story of BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER, a film that even the director doubted could be made & went on to become an international camp classic. Here's the first minute, and you can watch the rest of the story here: youtu.be/bOzHhHgmKK4
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If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
July 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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No hell hot enough.
ICE raids are leaving some L.A. cats and dogs homeless
Chuco, a pit bull, was dropped at a shelter after his owner was deported last month. Many other dogs and cats in L.A. are facing similar circumstances as their caretakers vanish or flee.
www.latimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
No hell hot enough.
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The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel.
Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
July 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel.
Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...
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Del Monte Foods, the nearly 140-year-old company whose canned fruits and vegetables have long been grocery store staples, has filed for bankruptcy as it grapples with mounting debt, post-pandemic headwinds and shifts in consumer spending.
Del Monte Foods, maker of popular canned goods, files for bankruptcy
The company, founded in 1886, said it was voluntarily initiating Chapter 11 proceedings, citing mounting debt, economic headwinds and consumer spending shifts.
wapo.st
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Del Monte Foods, the nearly 140-year-old company whose canned fruits and vegetables have long been grocery store staples, has filed for bankruptcy as it grapples with mounting debt, post-pandemic headwinds and shifts in consumer spending.
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I'm so fucking tired can't we please just have good things I mean fucks' sakes we're all so goddam tired we're just trying to fucking survive and thrive and be happy and together and jesus fucking christ why can't we just have that just let us fucking have that you evil goddam BORING wannabe dragons
July 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I'm so fucking tired can't we please just have good things I mean fucks' sakes we're all so goddam tired we're just trying to fucking survive and thrive and be happy and together and jesus fucking christ why can't we just have that just let us fucking have that you evil goddam BORING wannabe dragons
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and so I wake in the morning and I step outside,
but it’s not over yet; it’s still 2025,
and I scream at the top of my lungs,
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
but it’s not over yet; it’s still 2025,
and I scream at the top of my lungs,
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
June 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
and so I wake in the morning and I step outside,
but it’s not over yet; it’s still 2025,
and I scream at the top of my lungs,
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
but it’s not over yet; it’s still 2025,
and I scream at the top of my lungs,
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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have been confused for days about insane cats invading our yard and destroying the plants for no reason only to find out I have accidentally planted fucking catnip all over the place, I am this neighborhoods feline drug lord, ive devasted their society
June 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
have been confused for days about insane cats invading our yard and destroying the plants for no reason only to find out I have accidentally planted fucking catnip all over the place, I am this neighborhoods feline drug lord, ive devasted their society
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11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
June 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
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it's 3pm I better see what Cass is up to
June 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
it's 3pm I better see what Cass is up to