@sjdunbar.bsky.social
Husband, parent, election official, ski coach in Canada’s north.
People paddle back to shore after a floating concert on Yellowknife Bay
Yellowknife. 17 July 2025. The annual music festival starts with a floating concert. Canoe, kayak or paddle board and listen to great music under the midnight sun.
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The Canmore Nordic Centre - hosting the 2025 Canadian National Ski Championships
Happy place
19.03.2025 18:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The main stage of the 30th annual snow castle in Yellowknife
Every March for the past 30 years, Yellowknife’s Snowking has built a castle of snow and ice. Community concerts, art shows, ice slides and more. Well worth a visit when you are planning your next Canadian holiday.
09.03.2025 19:26 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The importance of locally owned media reporting on local issues cannot be overstated, both to help us inform the public on what we are doing, and enabling the public to hold us accountable on what we have committed to do.
20.02.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And finally the North West Territories needs health care help www.gov.nt.ca/careers/en/h...
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As Red Green always said: “We’re all in this together.” There is a reason Canadians spend so much time talking about the weather. It brings us together as a shared experience. Find ways to have more shared experiences and build community.
Vive le Canada.
/fin
The goal of autocrats is to isolate us from our neighbours, to make us think resistance is futile. This is because communities are dangerous to autocrats as they enable people to build connections and support networks. Resistance can start with a smile on the street. /8
02.02.2025 22:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0If you feel isolated, as it is easy to be in mid-winter, try going for a walk; or your local library. Call an old friend or family member. Please remember that social media is neither social nor a source of reliable information. /7
02.02.2025 22:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Build community: volunteer for a local cause; donate to a food bank or shelter; shovel a neighbour’s driveway; get involved in helping youth sports; attend performances by local artists; have a street party. Say thanks to worker. Smile as you walk down the street. Support locally owned media. /6
02.02.2025 22:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Canadian leaders are responding. Time will tell how effective our collective and individual economic actions are. But there are actions we can each take to further counteract this baseless, reckless and dangerous ideology. /5
02.02.2025 22:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 080 years since the end of WW2, the costly lessons learned in that conflict, namely that when might makes right, the mighty are tyrannical, appear to have been forgotten. The fact that it is now the USA espousing this viewpoint is all the more jarring. /4
02.02.2025 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It is meant to instill fear. It is meant to ensure capitulation. The goal is to divide Canadians, to make us compliant and to erode our will to respond. It is the epitome of “might makes right”. It is the antithesis of all the Americans have professed and built since the end of WW2.
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These are frightening times. The rhetoric spewing from the south hasn’t been common since the aggressively expansionist “54 40 or fight” of the pre-civil war era.
02.02.2025 22:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sharing my opinions publicly is not something I am accustomed to doing. The events of the past weekend: the threats of annexation; the economic coercion of punitive tariffs; the utter mendacity offered as rationale by the leader of our closest neighbour and erstwhile friend compels me to speak. /1
02.02.2025 22:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Northern lights over the ski trails in Yellowknife
It was a cold night for a ski. But then the lights came out.
17.01.2025 03:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The northern lights shimmer above my winter street
The world is an awe-inspiring place. I’m fortunate to live in a place that reminds me of this so spectacularly.
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