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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

when they carried a memorial cloth over 50 metres long with the names of some of the children who didn't come home on it while a young Mi'kmaq singer/songwriter named DeeDee Austin sang "Buried Truth". It brought many in the audience to tears (and some of watching at home).

picture of Memorial Cloth carried through audience at National Truth and Reconcilation Day Sept 30th 2025, Parliament Hill Ottawa, Canada

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

(Cont) was take away the orange shirt she loved. It was marked across the country with gatherings across Canada. My family watched the one on Parliament Hill in Ottawa where various survivors, the Gov-General (who are Inuit) & Prime Minister spoke. The most moving part was (cont)

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been 5 years since Truth & Reconciliation Day has been a holiday in Canada. It’s become a big day in many schools (I’m a retired teacher) with assemblies and kids wearing orange shirts. Orange shirts have become a symbol for it as one of the survivors told the commission the 1st thing (cont)

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

In Canada it’s a harvest holiday & a day to spend with your family & "give thanks" for family & other good things in your life. Turkey is served because it’s a large native bird (along with native cranberries). The turkey thing is a silly recent American tradition, our prime minister doesn’t do that

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 2d

Canadian thanksgiving is always the 2nd Monday of October. We are not American so our prime minister is speaking to Canadians about OUR thanksgiving.

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 4d

He tried several pens including a Lamy left hand nib (which has more surface area for lefties) but couldn’t get any of them to produce anything. As an underwriter, I use a left handed fountain pen calligraphy set from Cult Pens for italic lettering and a standard pointed dip pen for sampling ink.

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 5d

That’s why. Left handed underwriters have the easiest time with fountain pens but they aren’t all left handed people. I switched from side writing to underwriting about age 8 but changing hand position as you get older can be difficult. My DH, an overwriter has been unable to change at age 70.

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 5d

2/2 My DH is an lefty overwriter. (His hand is above the writing, wrist curled.) He can’t use fountain pens because the nib won’t work with the position/angle he holds the pen. Fountain pens work very well for me too but IMHO it’s because I’m a left handed underwriter.

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 5d

1/2 It depends on your hand position - the type of leftie you are. Smearing is an issue for side writers where their hand passes over the writing. Underwriters (hand below the writing) don’t have this issue. (I was a side writer as a child switched to underwriting after failing printing gr 1-3.

DROPPING F BOMBS ON FASCISM

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 5d

Really educational post on fascism today & how it presents in today's #politics from Charlie Angus.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 5d

Time to drop some f bombs and talk about the face of gangster fascism.
Gone are the grey uniforms and goose-steps in are the baseball caps and botox.
But the fascist playbook is redefining politics. We need to call it out.
This is my latest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlr...

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 5d

Article (from UK press) about the restoration of the mouth of the Don River in #Toronto. It was a post industrial waste with the river in a concrete channel. The restoration was to mitigate the flooding. The result is a successful restored renewed wetland ecology www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

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Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 5d

The making of this video. In this videos Tod also explains the Canadian references for US audiences. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivBB...

Behind the Scenes: I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian

Canililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 6d

This is absolutely hilarious. "I am the very model of a modern day Canadian" by Tod Maffin (adaptation of from Gilbert & Sullivan). It's jam packed with #Canadian cultural references .
#Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k7O...

YouTube video by Tod Maffin