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🇨🇦 Proudly Canadian. Award-winning writer and photographer, journalist, editor in chief, science communicator, content creator, translator, speechwriter; once upon a time.

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A face only a mother could love?

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUForUnloved
#photography
#IndigenousArt
#Victoria
A West Coast First Nation's ceremonial mask, carved from wood and decorated with painted features and plant material, perhaps hemp, was used as hair. The figure boasts a beak and full red lips. It is on display in the Royal Victoria Museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
November 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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You are in our eyes.

A rose by any other name is still a rose.
A vase of roses and a carnation or two sits on a glass table in a sitting room.
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Thanks
It's snowing here. Children are tobogganing behind the house. Their laughter is like music.
Snow covers the land. A pond is barely visible in the bottom left corner. A path leads down the slope. Spruce trees mixed in with leadless deciduous trees accompanied by shrubs, are all covered in frost.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Hi Allie, these memes capture my sentiment.
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I try to forbid my mind from exploring such dark avenues. Unfortunately, my gag reflex can't keep pace.

People don't get me all the time. SOP.
Hey, what can I say. LoL. I'm cool with that.

Visualization tools and techniques work for some.

Others drink, oh wait...lol...
An open fan sits on a placemat on a wooden tabletop. A bottle of wine, RELAX, sits unopened beside a Christmas themed floral dish garden.
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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High & Dry

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUForUnloved
#Photography
A white pleasure craft with a yellow canvas cover sits on a dry land on a marsh. The waters edge is nearby. Residential housing begins at the waterfront and houses are seen in the hillside. up
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, JD.
A meme imitating a parking sign on Capitol Hill reads: WHEN CORRUPT POLITICIANS START GOING TO JAIL, THEN WE CAN START TRUSTING THE GOVERNMENT AGAIN.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Hi George, Canada calling. Again...

Can you please explain to us why the President repeatedly attackd his citizens?

We need to know if we should start preparing for an influx of refugees following Dictator Trump's Crystal Night.

Oh, our VanDoos captured this ugly baby from the real Germans.
#GovernorGeneralCanada #LaCitadelle #22Regiment #LesVanDoos #QuebecCity An iron bird with outstretched wings perches on top of a Swastika button. This architectural detail was adorning the roof of a building captured in the Second World War. It has spent the last several decades as a stark reminder of the brutality associated with the Nazi Regime.
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Brew house giant, Alexander Keith, was a great man, once upon a time.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUForUnloved
#photography
#Halifax
A derelict building stands in quiet indignation. Once great names long forgotten will not save it from the wrecking ball of progress. Flanked by two rose granite columns, two broken windows with peeling green paint, sandwich a nameplate: KEITH.
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Good one!

Hey, at the rate this Gangster Regime's going, Trump can pardon them all!

Most of those old timers got nothing compared to what his gang is up to.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Facelift Time

Halfway through a decade-long restoration project, Canada's Parliament Buildings are shrouded as crafts people work to preserve our most recognizable building.

The politicians who haunted her hallways have moved on.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUForUnloved
#photography
#YOW
The Maple Leaf, Canada's flag, flies atop the twelve-story Peace Tower, built in 1919 after the first great war. The building is in the Neo-Classic Renaissance style. Stone masons from Europe gifted successive generations with masterpiece. Currently, it is shrouded, as a massive, decade-long restoration project takes place. Cranes dot the skyline as work advances.
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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The Incredible Hulk often felt unloved.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUForUnloved
#photography
#Cantley
A concrete barrier with an iron hook embedded in the centre of the top to facilitate moving, has been painted green and a pair of blir eyes stared out at you.
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Steve, Steve, Steve.
Don't go ruining a favourite Republican myth with facts.

Crypto speculators get no sympathy from me.
See my latest favourite meme?
A man holding a piece of chalk, is standing at a blackboard, explaining a mathematical problem to a young woman, presumably a student. Text surrounding the pair reads: See, here's your mistake. You added a F*CK that I didn't give.
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Stone cold sentry

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUForUnloved
#photography

One of a pair of two statues, flanking the water entrance of the magnificent Ringling Mansion in Sarasota, Florida
A granite sculpture of the head of a Roman Gladiator looks out across the Pacific Ocean, a silent sentry over the centuries.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Feeling unloved?

I found this bonafide Cheeky Monkey in a wacky emporium.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUForUnloved
#photography
#PortHope
A carved wooden monkey, sitting crossed legged, raises both index fingers up in the air, in an act of defiance. A price tag dangles from one arm like a bracelet.
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I drank my first mulled wine in Quebec City during their winter carnaval.
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Got one! Four pounds of fun: Meet Beau!
#DogsOfBluesky
#BabyDollMorkie
A black and tan Morkie looks into the camera. It is wearing a burgundy bandana.
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTForTelevision
#photography
#Niagara-on-the-Lake
#TheApothecary
An old style Apothecary, complete with grand, oak display cases. Shelves along the back wall are nearly lined with an assortment of containers of various shapes and sizes.
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Well done! One of my all time favourites. This is why!
A snow covered trail disappears into the snow. The horizon is defined by leafless deciduous trees accompanied by coniferous trees in a mixed forest.
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Proud Elder reporting for Bluesky resistance duty.

Sure, I've got a few dings, but there's still lots of life left in this old doll!

Haters: Just watch us roll....
A vintage Rolls Royce is parked on a lawn under a shade tree. Beside it stands a maple tree. In the background, a white clapboard church completes the scene. It is a sunny day.
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It's a tough medium to master.

I like to think I am funny, but sometimes humour is like Newton's Third Law. You never know.

I should really reflect more. (My worms comment is grossing everyone out, teehee.)

Keep on being facetious. We need you!

Cheers! LoL
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Paw Patrol?

It's a stretch, but I can't resist a totem pole post: I AM CANADIAN!

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTForTelevision
#photography
#Victoria
#BritishColumbia
A totem pole stands in front of the legislature, located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. With outstretched paws, the animal totems appear to be reaching to one another. A bed of spring flowers, filled with tulips, daffodils and crocuses dominates the foreground, with the Legislature in the background. It's a rather dull day, not uncommon for the region.
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Thank you. I wish the same thing for you.
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Second City TV, 1976

SCTV left an indelible mark on our national funny bone.

The cast reads like a Who's Who of Canadian Comedic Royalty:
John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty, Catherine O'Hara, & Dave Thomas.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTForTelevision
#Photography
#SCTV
A metal sculpture of a television set, minus the screen, features a hole in the back that offers a view of the real world. It sits on a lawn beside Ottawa's City Hall.
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM