Shelley Wallis

Applications are now open for #MindsetAwards2024 for excellence in #MentalHealthReporting in Canadian media. Two categories this year: #WorkplaceMentalHealth and #YouthMentalHealth. Deadline February 24. Details here: www.mindset-mediaguide.ca/winners#jour...
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Just look who signed this guest book to get into The Roxy punk club in London's Covent Garden back in 1977 👀🧷(THREAD 1 of 11)

There is still beauty in this world

Alberta Curling Association Annual (1959) Part 1 Articles, photos, ads, audio, and film from Edmonton, Alberta's history

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#yeg #edmonton #curling

Here's a fact most Americans don't know:
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is the largest purchaser of wine by dollar value in the world.
The LCBO has shut the flow of all American beer, wine, spirits.
We will drink "Freedom wines" from our allies and beer from our communities.

I am gutted. Keep up the fight

Trump now moves to talk about EOs:
- Troops to the southern border
- Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for cities
- Oil Drilling EOs
- End of EV mandate
- Tariffs
- End of "government censorship" (No word on book bans)
- End "social engineering" of race/gender
- End legal recognition of transgender people

A Tibetan monk in crochet

#crochet #amigurumi

A crochet doll of Robert Smith

A crochet doll of Robert Smith

An attempt at a crochet doll of Robert Smith 🙈😅
#TheCure #RobertSmith #crochet #amigurumi #doll

City Zoo Scrambles To Hide Animals Ahead Of Landlord Visit

City Zoo Scrambles To Hide Animals Ahead Of Landlord Visit
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Brittlestar stands outside in the snow while wearing a 'Canada: It's Not America!' hoodie.

“CANADA: It’s Not America!” Hoodies
Less than 100 left before we retire this design
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"A Real Team Canada Approach"
Uses a photo from Germany🤦

At least Danielle Smith didn't use the US flag again?
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

So muskrat invited a nazi.

Dame Joan Plowright obituary Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, played a central role in the historic overhaul of British theatre at the Royal Court in the late…

Dame Joan Plowright obituary

Dog-walk goals: Get as many tail wags as possible, and stay upright.

A lot of stuff brewing in my belly these days, too. Mad world

Media matters: If Justin Trudeau’s vacation itinerary was so vitally important, why isn’t Danielle Smith’s? - Alberta Politics Do you remember the furor the National Post and all its little local Postlets ginned up about Justin Trudeau’s Christmas holiday in British Columbia?  Hard to believe that was just three weeks ago! It...

Media matters: If Justin Trudeau’s vacation itinerary was so vitally important, why isn’t Danielle Smith’s? albertapolitics.ca/2025/01/medi...

I saw this post online.
Just be a decent and straightforward Canadian who understands the need to protect our beautiful and fair land.
Don't be a weasel or spread the rage bullshit of Danielle Smith and gang.
Nobody from outside can beat us.
Stand up to the quislings.

Freeland crossing the street with the Beatles

I'd always hoped #Freeland would be PM Trudeau's successor. I like strong smart women. I think the world's a better place with more of them in positions of power. Could've maybe even lived with the shiv in the PMs back on the way out, politics is a rough game, but for one thing #cdnpoli #Trudeau

Great thread.

Applications for our Development Coordinator position close next Friday, January 17.

We're looking for a person who is passionate about strengthening democracy through public interest journalism and data. Are you interested or know someone who would be?!

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Live ones go in paper bags, dead ones in the freezer: the volunteers saving birds that fly into windows Across Toronto, a team sets out at dawn to rescue migrating birds that have collided with buildings, and keep a record of the thousands each year that don’t make it Every morning at dawn, a dozen volunteers scour the streets of Toronto picking up small…

Live ones go in paper bags, dead ones in the freezer: the volunteers saving birds that fly into windows

Watch out 2025: I've got my black and white shit kicking shoes on.
Gonna kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.
Be warned.

Alberta kept fines for 16 oilsands companies secret for three years | The Narwhal Environment Ministry ordered to release data after keeping names of 16 oilsands companies secret

I battled for three years to get this data released. Now we know the names of the 16 companies that allegedly broke rules requiring them to pay for independent environmental monitoring by scientists.

Post-Election 2024 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map The risk of severe anti-trans legislation has increased nationwide for transgender youth and adults.

1. I have released my first post-election anti-trans risk assessment map.

The national risk is high due to potential Republican national policies targeting trans people.

DC has slightly increased in risk. Wyoming and Georgia go up as well.

Subscribe to support my journalism. Lets dig in.

A polar bear standing on an ice floe

A selfie while wearing an immersion suit on a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker

A zodiac navigating small sea ice floes to recover an oceanographic mooring

Launching an autonomous underwater ocean glider from the stern of a small research vessel.

Hi! I'm Clark, an observational physical oceanographer working at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Canada. I monitor Arctic outflows, manage a fleet of ocean gliders, and contribute to the international Argo program (see @argocanada.bsky.social). Also interested in internal waves. 🌊

This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government.

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A Brief History of Music Today Is Just Noise

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Which festive feathered friend will be behind today's door? ✨

Drumroll please...

#RSPBAdvent