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A simplified map of Canada showing the country divided into its provinces and territories, each shaded in different pastel colours. The large northern territory of Nunavut occupies much of the Arctic region with numerous islands extending into the surrounding ocean. The provinces stretch across the southern part of the country from British Columbia on the Pacific coast to the Atlantic provinces in the east. The surrounding oceans are coloured blue, while neighbouring land areas outside Canada are shown in gray.

Every Canadian province and territory has a capital.
The names of those capitals come from many different sources.
Sometimes it is royalty, and sometimes it is an Indigenous name.
Here is how each capital received its name.

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Hungarian authorities kidnapped employees of Oschadbank along with cash-in-transit vehicles and valuables.

Is this the "force" Orbán was talking about?

Shame!

Fox News mislabels Ukrainian Shahed-drone intercept footage as part of American ‘high-tech arsenal’ destroying Iranian drones

Fox News mislabels Ukrainian Shahed-drone intercept footage as part of American ‘high-tech arsenal’ destroying Iranian drones
U.S. media outlet Fox News aired footage of a Ukrainian interceptor drone destroying a Shahed-type drone but presented the video as showing American dr...

This is genealogy research to a T.

Mélanie Joly on the opening of NextStar Energy’s new electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor: "Today is more than opening a plant. It's actually Canada asserting control over its own economy. It's about creating jobs right here at home."

Two nations under different skies, with the same values and ambitions. The Land Down Under and the Truth North Strong and Free. 🇦🇺🇨🇦

Screenshot of a headline from the CTV News website. The headline reads: Canada and Australia sign a series of agreements on critical minerals.

Canada and Australia have vast deposits of critical minerals. We’re going to work together to build up our production, processing, and refining capacity — for stronger, more resilient supply chains.

So my advice would be: don't kick yourself for being hasty before. Treat review of prior work as an ongoing part of research, and look at it as an opportunity to find new clues.

Even when one has "done it properly the first time" it pays to review prior work, because you've learned more / found more records in the meantime. So many things become significant when you correlate records as a group.

Yes, that’s true. Much of my research is for my Jewish family from the Russian Empire (mainly Ukraine), and those records have only become available this decade. One has to revisit websites and one’s tree (+DNA) constantly to fill huge long-time family data gaps. Exciting but hard work!

Well said! Now, after 30ish years as a genealogist, I am kicking myself for unfocused research, lazy documentation, and too much haste in my analysis. I am trying to clean up my records and tree now, at a time when age & health keep slowing me down. If only I had done it properly the 1st time!

Sadly, I have done the same thing. Found a relevant document, recorded the specific info that I was looking for, and then stashed the image. In reviewing it, often many years later, I realize that there was so much more there that would have answered other questions. I was in too much of a hurry!

I can read faded handwriting and old family documents because why? I've practiced. You can't learn how to do it yourself if you farm out the work to a computer. And if you've never done it yourself, I don't see how you can evaluate the output from a computer.

"Instead of guessing, crowdsourcing, or hiring an expert, you can get detailed answers quickly."

Oh God Forbid we talk to other people or hire an expert. Why should experts be able to make a living or exist? 🙄

"Canada has long been complacent about foreign policy and national security: it could afford to neglect the pressures and incentives of the realities of power, comfortably sheltered as it was by a mostly benevolent United States."

Yabba-Dabba-Fucking-Doo! So Mark Carney just rolled into Canberra, stood up in our bloody Parliament, and essentially said...

For those of us who understand that PM Carney is working on long-term goals, and especially for those who don't, I offer you this absolute GEM!!!

Read it and celebrate!!!

And now, I'm going for my walk!!

Love ya!

❤️🍁❤️

#StrongerTogether #CANZUK

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Carney tells Australian Parliament allies must draw closer as global order is 'breaking down' | CBC News In an address to Australia's Parliament that was something of a love letter to the country and its people, Prime Minister Mark Carney implored citizens in both Commonwealth realms to draw closer toget...

Carney tells Australian Parliament allies must draw closer as global order is "breaking down" | CBC News #cdnpoli #TeamCarney

More Patriot missiles used in Middle East in 3 days than in Ukraine since 2022, Zelensky says President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine is ready to provide drone interceptors in exchange for missiles, though he did not specify which countries could be involved.

⚡️More Patriot missiles used in Middle East in 3 days than in Ukraine since 2022, Zelensky says.

President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine is ready to provide drone interceptors in exchange for missiles, though he did not specify which countries could be involved.

Such a great point, Jan. The OCR garbage that has been available for online newspapers for decades has never been reviewed or corrected, so every person who uses them for research has to make the same corrections or, worse, many will accept incorrect names or dates as truth. #genealogy

Putting aside handwriting recognition for the moment. One of the things that bugs me about computers in general is that we are assigning tasks to them that they are bad at instead of stuff they might be good at. E.g. look at the OCR raw text of newspapers and other printed things & you see ...

The President of the US is casually advocating causing a literal world war and congress is 🦗🦗🦗🦗

Warmongers

Hegseth right now proving that trying to clean up after a stupid briefing by giving another briefing isn't really a good idea

Russian Ka-27 helicopter taken out before it could take off from a drilling platform in the Black Sea, by a Ukrainian fiber optic FPV drone launched from a naval drone carrier.

Wild stuff.

Canadians reach out to Spain online after Trump threatens to cut off trade | CBC News Some Canadians are feeling kinship with Spain and reaching out on social media after the European country was the latest victim of a tirade from U.S. President Donald Trump. "We're going to cut off al...

🇪🇸”Spain — you are welcome here. We see you. We hear you. We applaud your government,"

"Spain joining Canada in the club of threatened NATO allies,"

"Hey Canada, let's buy products from Spain!"

#Spain
#Canada
#NATO
#BoycottUSA
#USAstartsAWar

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This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States

A white woman wearing glasses, a red toque and a scarf with a green parka smiles at the camera. A snowy forest can be seen behind her.

A small cottage sits quietly on a moonlit night in the snowy boreal forest. Smoke rises placidly from the chimney while the windows glow with warm light. It's a cold clear night with lots of snow.

Hi Everyone!
I'm Heather. A lot of new people have joined me in the last 24 hours so I thought I'd answer some frequently-asked questions.

1. Where do you live? - I live in Manitoba, Canada in a provincial park on Lake Winnipeg. It is a wild area of the boreal forest, but not remote. 1/

Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

“Restoring a culture of street play“ is “a daunting and perhaps impossible-sounding task. But it’s one that would meaningfully improve the well-being of children, of parents, of every person on the street.“ - @theatlantic.com

h/t @norton.bsky.social

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Trump’s Consequential War Trump’s Consequential War

@bobbyrae48.bsky.social Trump’s Consequential War

"No matter how many times we tell ourselves differently, we need to confront the fact that the United States under its current president and administration is in no position to lead us anywhere good." bobrae48.substack.com/p/trumps-con...

#Canada