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Kate Gregory
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I advise, develop, mentor, write, and speak. C++ mostly. One of the Carbon leads. Limited availability; you can ask. Want me to speak? http://gregcons.com/SpeakerKit.aspx She/her.
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Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman announce 2026 Canadian tour as the Guess Who
Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman announce 2026 Canadian tour as the Guess Who | CBC News
The legendary Canadian rock band will be kicking off its first tour in 23 years in Moncton on May 26, 2026.
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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thenarwhal.ca
Reports of a bigger, more aggressive coyote wandering the streets of Toronto draw a lot of attention. The truth is, it’s the same coyote we’ve been seeing for decades, and it’s not humans they’re putting at risk, it’s wolves. thenarwhal.ca/coywolf-onta...
There’s truth to the myth of the Ontario coywolf | The Narwhal
Sightings of the so-called coywolf on Toronto streets draw attention, but the biggest threat might be to endangered wolves in Ontario
thenarwhal.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
Hello folks. I've been making plaster of paris artefacts/decorations for friends.

I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.

Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊

#Archaeology 🏺
Price list for arrow heads, axes and torc terminal Price list for axe, shields and brooch decorations.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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dkmunro.bsky.social
46 years ago I woke up to massive explosions and a tower of fire 2 miles away. My Dad thought the Russians had attacked.

A train derailment and exploded tanker cars created a cloud of chlorine gas over the city, so we evacuated with 250,000 other Mississaugans.

canadaehx.com/2024/11/05/t...
The Mississauga Train Derailment
It’s a quiet Saturday night in 1979. Residents in Mississauga, Ontario are asleep. The next day is expected to be quiet for the thousands that live there. Many would be looking forward to a nice br…
canadaehx.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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sethhahne.bsky.social
...if I'd done even the barest comparative reading of just the first line of Beowulf, I'd have been well on my way to a better sense of what literary translation involves.
In Hall: "Lo! the Spear-Danes' glory through splendid achievements. The folk-kings' former fame we have heard of, how princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle." In Heaney: "So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness. We have heard of these princes' heroic campaigns." In Rebsamen: "Yes! We have heard of years long vanished, how Spear-danes struck, sang victory songs, raised from a wasteland walls of glory!" In Gummere: "Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings, of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!" In Raffel: "Hear me! We've heard of Danish heroes, Ancient kings and the glory they cut for themselves, swinging mighty swords!" In Liuzza: "Listen! We have heard of the glory in bygone days of the folk-kings of the spear-Danes, how those noble lords did lofty deeds." In Alexander: "Attend! We have heard of the thriving of the throne of Denmark, how the folk-kings flourished in former days, how those royal athelings earned that glory."
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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drjengunter.bsky.social
I have all kinds of thoughts here. But this is also a marker of public belief in conspiracy theories and rejection of science and we should all be very concerned.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
Superior, it's said, never gives up her... Plums
brainmage.bsky.social 'i will strangle a horse' on itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 6h
i have sunk
the ship
that was in
lake superior

and which
you were probably
using
for haulage

forgive me
it was November
so laden
and so cold
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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seanyyz.bsky.social
I hope to never hear about those damned ostriches ever again.
tylermeredith.bsky.social Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 4h
On Friday’s CBC The National ostriches occupied the number 3 report segment, getting about 2 minutes and 30 seconds of coverage.

The Statcan jobs report which came out the same day? 24 seconds.

Make of this what you will.

#cdnpoli
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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lloydalter.bsky.social
There are many reasons to have all-gender bathrooms, but the main ones are biological, and we never get the balance right. Also, as men age, they take longer, skewing the balance again. lloydalter.substack.com/p/should-all...
Should all public washrooms be all-gender?
This is a biological, not a political problem: women have different needs than men, and everyone's needs are changing as we age.
lloydalter.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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rudydotca.bsky.social
if you choose not to find joy in snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow

#snow
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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realchet.bsky.social
Sometimes Canada is very Canada
kickbackcommittee.bsky.social Kickback Committee @kickbackcommittee.bsky.social · 16h
The CPL Final is in the middle of a snowstorm in Canada, true North American soccer heritage...how could it get any better?

HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
This is interesting — NFL teams WANT TO use Bluesky, but aren’t allowed to! The NFL, which has deals with X and Meta, told the New England Patriots to shut down their Bluesky account.

Not okay, NFL.
NFL teams can’t use Bluesky
Bluesky isn’t ready for game day yet.
www.theverge.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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lrb.co.uk
‘After environmental regulations were finally enforced and leaded gas phased out, crime in general plunged and the so-called “golden age of serial killers” came to an abrupt end.’

James Lasdun on Caroline Fraser’s exploration of the links between pollution and murder.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Lasdun · American Berserk: Serial Killers in Seattle
For a period beginning in the 1960s and ending around the turn of this century, the preferred form of the homicidally...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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jasonparis.bsky.social
It’s not just Sesame Street — think Coronation Street, a show that hundreds of thousands of Canadian adults actually watch. Nearly everything that makes that Weatherfield backstreet so charming would be illegal to build today, even in Toronto’s old city. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Shawn Micallef: How Toronto killed ‘Sesame Street’ with its heritage rules — and how we can bring it back
In the face of opposition from even small groups, the city ends up watering down even the best ideas.
www.thestar.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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rudydotca.bsky.social
pic from yesterday, pre-snow

some kind of stone kiln in the lower Don valley, where the Domtar plant used to be

#Toronto
an old, crumbling kiln (?) made of stone, mostly shale, perhaps 3 by 2 metres and over 2 metres tall, with a small opening on one side
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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jasonparis.bsky.social
PULL QUOTE: "O Canada" should be a living document: continuously edited to reflect changing circumstances and new information about the nation it represents; on principle, that seems like a much more fitting credo than any vague gestures toward strength and freedom. exclaim.ca/music/articl...
Changing "O Canada" Makes It Actually Mean Something │ Exclaim!
JP Saxe and Rufus Wainwright altering the national anthem's lyrics during their World Series performances acknowledges a country's need to evolve
exclaim.ca
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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mineralcup.bsky.social
#OreCup Finals:
It’s copper ore native #Copper vs molybdenum (& rhenium) ore #Molybdenite. Both are shiny, but only one can be the Ore Mineral of the Year

Vote:
Vote in Ore Cup FINALS — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
Pick the Ore Mineral of the Year! Voting for Copper vs Molybdenite will remain open for 48 hours. Credit: David M. Maietta and Harold Moritz
www.mineralcup.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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kristadb1.bsky.social
THE ACTUAL IDEA of Andrew Scheer calling someone a snake though.
a man in a suit and tie is smiling with his eyes closed
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling with his eyes closed
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November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social
On this day in 1861, the first documented game of what became Canadian football was played at the University of Toronto. It was a practice game between students and it predates the first recorded American football game by eight years.
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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alexlondon.bsky.social
“I like to be chic,” he said. “I go to school like this.” -this kid is a character from a YA novel!
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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trevondlogan.bsky.social
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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saveosc.bsky.social
First snowfall of the season at Ontario’s Science Centre!

#Canada #Ontario #Toronto #onpoli #TOpoli
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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carladenyer.bsky.social
This morning I laid a wreath of red and white poppies at Bristol’s #RemembranceSunday service. Every November, I choose to wear both a red and a white poppy: red to help those who have been affected by war, and white to work for peace.
Carla dressed in black, holding a wreath of red and white poppies, bearing a message that says "Never again. Let us work for peace. Carla Denyer MP"
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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heymynameiswill.bsky.social
I have a Beep-scented candle and it's incredible
discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · May 7
Beep (circa 1962-2010, 2012-2015): An amalgamated "fruit juice-based beverage" from Canada, that developed a cult following. It was made with a blend of orange, apple, apricot, prune, and pineapple juices, along with canola oil, corn starch, added orange pulp, & caramel coloring
A small juice glass filled with an orange beverage. It sits on a picnic table next to a small yellow carton, with the word "Beep" and an illustration of a singing bird
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM