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Black and white photograph of silhouetted people, including children and adults, standing and looking at an elaborate Christmas holiday window display featuring a snowy miniature village with a general store, church with steeple, decorated houses, trees, wreaths, lights, and small figures, framed like a winter scene behind glass.

There was a time when one of the favourite events for families during the Christmas season was visiting store window displays.
While many stores did this, Eaton's and Simpson's in Toronto took it to another level each Christmas.
This is the story!

📸 Archives of Ontario

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After a unexpected short turn, another train arrives within 2-3mins.

#ttc #ttcriders #toronto #LRT #Line6

I'm here to witness a Christmas miracle. Metrolinx actually completing a new LRT line.

Line 6 is officially open.

#ttc #ttcriders #toronto #LRT #Line6

Black-and-white vintage photograph from the 1910s showing a group of five people riding in an open-top early automobile on a narrow dirt road. The car has large round headlights, spoked wheels, and a license plate reading "5 N.J. 5". The driver is at the front right, while four passengers—three women in wide-brimmed hats and light dresses and one man in a suit—are seated behind. Dense foliage and bushes line the left side of the road. The photo has visible scratches and wear from age.

For a few years in the early-20th century, if you wanted to drive a car in Prince Edward Island, you were out of luck.
The vehicles made people scared to go to the markets and churches. So...the province banned them completely.
This is the story of the PEI car ban.

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Downtown Calgary, AB, Canada

#Canada

Putin Lives by a Code Trump Doesn’t Understand. Where Trump sees a deal, Putin sees submission. - The Atlantic - Trump should ask Putin why does the biggest country in the world need more land. Trump can’t grasp Putin’s imperialistic intentions. He is way out of his league.

a blue butterfly is flying over a dandelion in the grass ALT: a blue butterfly is flying over a dandelion in the grass

I was a little brown moth girl with shabby wings
who longed for quiet and gentle things,
magenta butterflies beautiful in flight
pushed me to come and stand in the light,
some of us prefer it where shadows fall
but it's a world where beauty conquers all
#vss365 #magenta

Wonderful pic! ….ty

A medium sized shorebird with mottled brown plumage (short-billed dowitcher) is standing in shallow water with its face plunged into the water and only its eye showing above the surface.

This Short-billed Dowitcher was wishing its bill was just a little bit longer...

Kent Island, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025

📸 #birds #SBDO #shorebirds #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

Well said, Jack….this horrid stain lives on. Canada has work to do…

I've spent tens of thousands of words trying to come to grips with the massacre at the #Poly, the longest evening of my life. I was there, it was cold, it was gut-wrenching.
But the core of it remains: one pathetic little man with a gun can do more damage than the rest of us can ever undo.

Chornobyl’s protective arch “lost its primary safety functions” after Russian drone strike, IAEA says The protective arch over reactor four at the Chornobyl nuclear plant “lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability” following a Russian drone attack in February, the…

Russia's February drone strike on Chornobyl breached the arch built to prevent radioactive release from history's worst nuclear disaster

IAEA now confirms the structure "lost its primary safety functions"

euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/07/c...

Kremlin: The new US security strategy is “largely aligned” with Russia’s vision.

Love this amazing pic, Mary! ….ty

About a hundred Sandhill Cranes near a irrigation ditch on a farm field during migration in Wisconsin.

The farm field irrigation ditches were a popular place during migration after the water froze this year.
#birds #SandhillCranes

Canada's Air Transat to suspend flights following strike notice from pilots union Air Transat will gradually suspend flights on Monday and Tuesday following a 72-hour strike notice from ALPA, the union representing the company's 700 pilots, Canada-listed tour operator Transat AT said on Sunday.

Canada's Air Transat to suspend flights following strike notice from pilots union reut.rs/4oFFEdJ

Indeed, Mary….social conservatism was the death of the old party; now the agenda is right wing

For many Canadians, this was the beginning of the end of a fair, reasonable conservative alternative in Canada and now, the Conservative Party is against women’s rights, vaccine science, scientific freedom (Harper muzzled scientists) etc.

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.

#Canada

….a ‘must read’ article

Danielle Smith is "Ungoverning" Alberta And trying to break the very idea of Canada

If you read nothing else I write, read this.

Canadians outside Alberta, pay particular attention. If Smith succeeds, she will infect other provinces with "ungoverning."
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...

Femicide in the age of digital violence Decades after the Montreal Massacre, femicide remains a deadly reality in our increasingly technologically advanced but misogynistic world.

@amethyst76.bsky.social www.thewhig.com/opinion/femi...

Ty for writing this important article, Geoffrey….so well annotated. I hope it shines a light on this crucial issue.

🇨🇳 China is becoming 🇲🇳 Mongolia's key economic partner, displacing Russia - 🇺🇦 INTEL

Now more than 90% of Mongolian exports go to the Chinese market, while in 2022 this figure was 64%. For comparison: the 2nd largest country, Switzerland, receives only 5.6% of Mongolian supplies
#Ukraine #Russia

what shocks me that almost six years since the start of the pandemic, so many people still think that getting infected with covid "trains" the immune system, like with the flu virus

The Sun in my Sunday Morning
Lee Munn
2024

Heartbreaking; we must work harder on this. Ty for sharing….

Progress on combatting intimate-partner violence stalling under new government, advocates fear Thirty-six years after the Polytechnique killings, stats show the biggest threats to women are the men closest to them

Progress on combatting intimate-partner violence stalling under new government, advocates fear

By Molly Hayes in @theglobeandmail.com

#GiftLink 🎁

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a0344d6...

The two atomic bombs over Japan, were the only explosions that came close to this one. 🍁

Beautiful big sky! …ty, Janet

….wonderful pic, Peggy; so sweet!