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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 6h

Paradise regained #cinema

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22d

Bologna, the site of a long-running film restoration festival, is a movie buff’s paradise. “If movies were people,” Anthony Lane writes, “Bologna is where they would choose to live.”

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

www.newyorker.com

Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 13h

Not the first time he got involved in criminal conduct. Unfortunately, he hasn't been held to account. Yet.

Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 14h

So this is NOT financial support/assistance for #Argentina, this is financial support to Javier Milei only. And here I thought the white supremacists hated the Spanish speaking.

Euronews @euronews.com · 20h

Trump threatened to withdraw financial assistance for Argentina if his ally, Javier Milei, loses crucial legislative elections later this month.

"If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina," Trump said during Milei's visit to the White House.

➡️ https://l.euronews.com/kQej

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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 14h

Instead of doing his job, the premier cosplays as corporate enforcer #onpoli

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 1d

Premier Doug Ford said he personally stopped a shoplifter at a Home Depot in July and warned him he would “kick your ass all over the parking lot” if he tried to flee.

Doug Ford says he threatened Home Depot shoplifter with ‘a beating’

Premie claimed he personally warned a shoplifter that he would "kick your ass all over the parking lot" if he tried to flee.

www.thestar.com

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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 14h

The Ontario premier should be on top of this (and incidentally taken to task for starving the labour ministry of resources needed to enforce safety compliance, etc.) #onpoli

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 1d

#Breaking: Four workers critically injured after explosion at North York condo construction site.

In total seven people have been taken to hospital. Four were sent to a trauma centre with critical injuries, according to paramedics, while three others were hospitalized with minor injuries.

Four workers critically injured after explosion at North York condo construction site

Toronto fire responded to the North York area following reports of a natural gas explosion in the area.

www.thestar.com

Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 15h

Protect Ontario or some other such nonsense #onpoli

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 19h

Ontario limits medical residency spots for international grads, despite doctors' shortage https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/new-residency-requirements-internationally-trained-doctors-9.6938481

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Approximately 2.5 million Ontarians were without a family doctor last June, according to INSPIRE-PHC, a health research network.

Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 16h

I am sorry, but 20 degrees is nowhere near sizzling #justsaying

The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 18h

Ontario sizzled past 20°C on Tuesday. Another warm spell could hit parts of southern Ontario this weekend before a seasonal cooldown. Meteorologist Laura Power breaks it down. https://ow.ly/OZJZ50XbTj4

Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 16h

Don't know, don't care

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 18h

Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, at least according to a statistic often cited in recent years. But what, exactly, comes to their minds — or those of any other believers around the wo...

www.openculture.com

Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 16h

Read that second sentence again. In 1940. #SMH

NPR @npr.org · 17h

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film. n.pr/4n4s82s

How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.

n.pr

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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 16h

Mysterious deer fossil unearthed near TTC station identified after 50 years #toronto

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mysterious deer fossil unearthed near Toronto subway station identified after almost 50 years | CBC News

For nearly 50 years, a mysterious fossil unearthed during the construction of Islington subway station has refused to give up its secrets — until now.

www.cbc.ca

Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 16h

"the discoveries have underscored the resilience of ecosystems in the face of human-led destruction"

Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 6d

“Scientists soon knew they were witnessing something both unexpected and profound: seeds and plant scraps, trapped underground for more than a century, had roared back to life.”
#Toronto

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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

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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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Elysium

Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Stopped to smell the flowers in PEC

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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Made another new friend 🐞

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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 1d

After the grape harvest, at the Huff Estates winery 🥰

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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Feel the gentle wind in Prince Edward County

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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Our hotel in Belleville still has this anxiety inducing beauty 😍 #retro

Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 2d

"Mars has a way of making us all buffoons"

The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · Sep 9

“Over time Percival Lowell noticed ever more channels [on Mars], often in parallel tracks. This became a pattern: the more people stared at Mars, the more they saw.” —Nathaniel Rich

Mars Is Heaven! | Nathaniel Rich

Percival Lowell was convinced that he had found proof of life on Mars, but his real achievement was to make Americans dream of a future there.

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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 2d

Canadian novelist Miriam Toews has suffered tremendous loss. Now she's telling her story
A Truce That Is Not Peace reflects a writer's life brimming with both sorrow and joy, despair and delight

www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...