@calmandcurious.bsky.social
🇨🇦 looking for whimsy, but also wondering about how to proceed in these times. Mom to three elementary school-aged kids. Current challenge: #PhD in #education Other interests/challenges: #t1d, #RA, #ADHD #Autism #AutoimmuneDisease
I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods
Fun fact: in Italy in-person voting is the only option, but you can get a 70% discount on train tickets on a return ticket to your municipality of residence, but in case of inspection you have to show your voter card to the conductor, and it must be stamped to confirm you voted for the return trip.
88-year-old rigs walker with skis so he can keep enjoying winter
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"The fact that psychological control has become more important to employers than productivity is one of the many paradoxes wrought by capitalism." thewalrusca.substack.com/p/welcome-ba...
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Up through the 1930s, State Fairs across America featured head on collisions between trains. The first occurred at the Iowa State Fair in 1896 before a crowd of 20,000. This video is from the Minnesota State Fair during the Great Depression, as featured in the poster below:
TIL Who Father David Bauer Drive is named after in Waterloo.
Love this! 👇
How knitting can help you kick harmful habits www.bbc.com/future/artic... by @eabrown18.bsky.social
One of my children (in medicine) doing research on using knitting as an affordable, accessible, scaleable and community building mental health intervention!
#TeamKnitting! 🧶
I wonder if I'll ever not be startled by the snow-to-no-snow transition.
Weirdly, it doesn't affect me the other way. Like trees losing their leaves.
When something familiar is gone, it's a bit of a shock, moreso than when something new is added, (like snow).
The 2026 Headline of the Year contest is heating up
Almost 90 people being cut.
Canadian historian Adam Chapnick, a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada:
“I don’t know how you justify this decision if you have any sort of commitment to history."
You have to love that Tolkien couldn’t stop writing about the little world he made. He had maps, he had functional languages, he had little recipes for his little hungry hobbits, and 90% of this stuff wasn’t ever meant to be published, he just loved his creation and enjoyed visiting and taking notes
Happy “International Women’s Day” - empowered women empower the world. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
#Canadasky
#WomenInspire
#GirlPower
Ahhh...melting snow that reveals the trash our student neighbours have pitched into our yard.
My kids reluctantly handed over to me their treasured finds: two mangled video game controllers, two vapes (one still flashing a light). Sigh.
St Patrick Day is around the corner. We're prepared.
If Ontario has money to build Ford Island then we have money to provide non-verbal students who elope with 1:1 Educational Assistant support to keep them safe.
#OntEd
Yes!!!
And in addition to younger people who did form households owning at lower rates than their peers across time and space, younger people are forming households (of any tenure) at lower rates. @lausterna.bsky.social and I decomposed this into a dual measure of housing frustration.
If there was a surface, Maud Lewis painted on it.
She turned her small home into a colourful work of art.
While she was born with birth defects, she never let that stop her from capturing the beauty she saw in the world.
This is her story.
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My eyes are popping out of my head reading this. 16 units, as type 1 diabetic?! Horrifying.
"When my blood sugar was 508, I was administered 16 units of NovoLog, which was far too much for my body. I warned staff but my concerns were ignored. My blood sugar dropped rapidly, causing insulin shock."
There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
We have compiled a list of free tax clinics available throughout Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and the Townships for 2026.
Please feel free to share this information with your networks
A downloadable copy of this list can also be found on our website: www.wrcls.ca/resources/
Spring forward this weekend as Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday.
When you’re setting your clocks, don’t forget to replace the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms.
Stay safe this weekend. See more indoor safety tips at enovapower.com/safetyathome.
Wow. Well, that's dystopian as hell.
On The Prowl... Early morning. Pancho The Pine Marten (Son of Pedro and Pia), focused, on the hunt, looking out over his territory. Check out his claws!! Ouch!! He's ruggedly handsome.
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#AlgonquinPark #PineMarten
#Mammals #Wildlife
#Photography #WildlifePhotography #OntarioParks #Canada
This reminds me, the Elmira Maple Sugar Festival is on April 11 this year.
www.elmiramaplesyrupfestival.com
