Karen Charlebois 🇨🇦

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

In the Northland
Tom Thomson
1915

Autumn Foliage
Tom Thomson
1916

Canmore
W.J. Phillips
1949

Whodunnit?
Rebecca Campbell
2014

In Transition
Sheila Kernan
2024

CARNEY: “.. Our relationship with the United States, so essential for so many industries, was once one of our greatest strengths, and in many cases, in certain sectors, has become a vulnerability.” 🇨🇦

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Butterflies
Carol Young ~ Haida
2012

Jelly Shelf
Mary Pratt
1999

Back Garden
Prudence Heward
1938

Morning Tide
Ken Danby
1983

Près de Lesage
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
1930

Summer Floral
Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe
2021

A Time Beyond Yesterday
Daphne Odjig ~ Anishinaabe
1975

Outskirts of Chilliwack
E.J. Hughes
1960

Blue Tulips with Sun
Alexandrya Eaton
2024

Tallest totem in Victoria subject of new film on indigenous veterans The quiet placing of a plaque on a totem pole in Victoria's Beacon Hill Park in 1958 is being remembered in a new film exploring the history of the world's tallest totem.

The quiet placing of a plaque on a totem pole in Victoria's Beacon Hill Park in 1958 is being remembered in a new film exploring the history of the world's tallest totem.

Printemps si doux
Claude Simard
2011

U.S. National Institutes of Health pulls funding for UBC research on HIV and women The termination of funding is part of a broader overhauling of the NIH and other U.S. government agencies under the Trump administration that has alarmed the scientific community

U.S. National Institutes of Health pulls funding for UBC research on #HIV and women because of project's commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, by @andreawoo.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Moose and Her Baby
Claude Picher
1993

'Reeds all about it' machine embroidery by UK textile artist Rachel Wright #womensart

Still Life with Pansies
Joseph Plaskett
1970

Cherry tree in bloom.

#treeoftheday

Excellent podcast!

FUR AND INTERFERENCE AND MISINFORMATION

The work of Maud Lewis, (1903 – 1970), Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia #WomensArt #Spring

Thanks @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social for the inspiration. #treeoftheday

Vimy Memorial. Photo by @mike-bechthold.bsky.social

The Taking of Vimy Ridge, Easter Monday 1917 Richard Jack was the first Canadian official war artist, appointed in 1916. In this painting, he depicts the crew of an 18-pounder field gun firing at German positions on Vimy Ridge. To the left, wounded soldiers move past the gun towards the rear. Painted by Richard Jack Beaverbrook Collection of War Art CWM 19710261-0160

On this day in 1917 the Canadian Corps advanced together into battle and captured Vimy Ridge. It was easily their most famous (but not most important) victory of the First World War.

A thread on the myths and reality of this celebrated battle:
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