No more armoured vehicles for ICE! Sign the petition to demand Canada stop exporting military equipment fuelling human rights abuses.

We stand with Minnesota ✊❤️ Selling armoured vehicles to ICE isn't Canada Strong. @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social STOP the sale of Canadian arms to ICE and #CloseTheLoopholes! act.gp/4jY60a0 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social

All are welcome to a candle light Christmas Eve service tomorrow evening at 5 pm. Come listen, sing, and celebrate Christmas with us at First Mennonite Church! You can find us at 922 Notre Dame in Winnipeg.

YouTube video by APTN News Local theatre in Winnipeg teams up to organize book drive for children | APTN News

A local theatre in Winnipeg is teaming up with the bookstore McNally Robinson and the North West Company to organize a book drive for kids up north.

Across the River from the Capital (A Northern Nativity)
William Kurelek
1975

Wolseley School to be renamed Little Bluestem School Wolseley School will be renamed after a perennial grass that grows in nearby Omand’s Creek following overwhelming support from families who live steps from the park. The Winnipeg School Division’s boa...

Wolseley School will be renamed after a perennial grass that grows in nearby Omand’s Creek following overwhelming support from families who live steps from the park #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

The flu continues to wreak havoc across the northern hemisphere. In Canada, we've had at least two dozen deaths so far, including among small children, over a handful of days. Here are some things you need to know:

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Library advocates say federal bill could make postal costs untenable – The Independent If passed, the Liberals’ budget bill would give Canada Post the authority to cancel special postage rates for libraries and free mailing services for the blind and visually impaired

In 2024, NL Public Libraries mailed ~214,000 books to residents across NL.

A report found that NL libraries are funded 42% below the national average

Most of the province’s 94 libraries are located in rural areas. The library relies on Canada Post to get books into the hands of rural residents.

Yes!! Thanks for the reminder and the recipe.

What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh.
What do you call a dog magician? A labracadabrador.
What did the buffalo say when his son went to college? Bison.

Large blue text reads, “Why do so many book people keep forgetting to credit illustrators?” Beside the text, a roundish blue winged horse contains the text “#Pictures Mean Business.” At the bottom is the credit: “Illustration: Sarah McIntyre along with a website link.

To publishers, authors, & others posting about illustrated books, including covers that have illustration: Please credit the ILLUSTRATOR.

This not only helps boost the illustrator, but also shows that you value HUMAN illustrators.
#PicturesMeanBusiness

Cartoon illustration showing a classroom scene with a large poster titled “Our Favourite Picture Book” by John Writer, featuring a cat character in a red outfit. A teacher labeled “Jane Illustrator, feeling miffed” stands nearby thinking, “But… John Writer didn’t decide how this character would look… I did!” Two children admire the poster, saying “We love John Writer!” and “His cats are so cute!!” Hashtags at the bottom read “#PicturesMeanBusiness” and “Sarah McIntyre.”

Educators: You can help show next generation the value of HUMAN creativity. When talking about illustrated books, pls mention illustrators by name? Display student artwork on your walls w/credit. Discuss illustrators w/your class. Invite illustrators to visit your school!
#PicturesMeanBusiness

This poem is written in the shape of a Christmas tree (well, most of it is) … Needles I wrote a poem in the shape of a Christmas tree but then forgot to water it and only a few days later [but the words beyond this point are scattered around the bottom of the page, like needles which have fallen from a Xmas tree) there were words all over the carpet

Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

Say no to Trump-style immigration policy in Canada Email the Canadian government to say no to Trump-style immigration policies under Bill C-12.

Bill C-12 could import Trump-style immigration policy to Canada.

This isn’t about safety. It’s about blaming migrants for our national woes instead of holding corporations and the ultra-rich accountable for the affordability and housing crises.

ACT: act.gp/3LPUL6y

I’m game.

When I was young, the CBC was the standard by which we judged proper spelling and grammar.

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

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Using the notwithstanding clause to strip away human rights is an attack on democracy and must be fought with everything we've got. It started with the SaskParty's Bill-137 and now it's Alberta with Bill-2. This is rising authoritarianism (a la USA) and we need to call it out for what it is.

Title: “The World Needs People with ADHD" (@danidonovan) The world needs people with ADHD willing to stand up, amplify our voices, humanize our struggles, and help others understand how ADHD affects our lives. The world needs people with ADHD who believe their insights can transform workplaces, schools, and the world through empathetic accommodation, instead of forcing people into molds not made for them. The world needs people with ADHD eager to share stories, change perceptions, destroy stigma, and impact the self-worth of millions of struggling children and adults, diagnosed and undiagnosed. The world needs people with ADHD to lead and champion the movement of neurodiversity, so all types of brains feel accepted and loved for who they are, not chastised for what they are not. The world needs people with ADHD to know they’re not alone.

I wrote this in 2019 to remind myself why I was dragging my ass out of bed at 5:30AM to make ADHD comics before work.

Six years later… it still hits.

Happy ADHD Awareness Month, everybody. 🧠🫶🏼

Just a reminder that the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation is not a holiday to celebrate.

It is an acknowledgement & remembrance.

We need to not lose sight of that.

Breaking!

City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.

We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.

Read aloud to your kids.

Keep reading aloud to them, well after they can read any book to themselves.

Do the character voices.

Talk together about the characters and the problems they face.

(Yes, I am still reading to 11yo every night before bed.)

Construction begins on Saskatoon's $8 million solar farm A solar farm in Saskatoon is set to begin construction this week, with the project expecting to generate 2.8 megawatts of power.

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#FavQuotesFromLynne Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Marc Garneau

#FavQuotesFromLynne

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Marc Garneau

Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: “My Moral Obligation” As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initia...

Greta Thunberg on why it’s essential for climate activists to speak out on Gaza:

"The reason I am a climate activist is not because I want to protect trees. I'm a climate activist because I care about human, planetary well-being and those are extremely interlinked."

Yesterday, at 87, my dad & former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis, stood for an hour by the road in his old riding.

As a Jewish elder, he stood against genocide embodying the values he has always championed. I am so proud to see him on the right side of history – as always. ❤️

Arsen Ostrovsky: “oh look, the little jihadi Greta Thunberg is trying to get into Gaza, to show solidarity with Hamas. It would be so sad if something were to happen to her flotilla…”

Lindsey Graham: “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!” Linked to article in times of Israel with photo of freedom flotilla flying Palestine flag

Terrorists are threatening Greta and the entire Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

'This is classic climate change': Sask. faces worst wildfire season in decades | CBC News Saskatchewan is battling the worst wildfire it's seen in decades and experts say it's largely caused by climate change.

This is classic fossil fuels. #Saskatchewan #wildfires largely caused by burning fossil fuels, emitting carbon pollution. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli

This is beyond dangerous.
The people on this flotilla are pure courage.
Pray for their safety.