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Found in a Canadian grocery store. A lot of countries grow oranges. Good bye, Florida 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Today, the Planning & Housing Committee approved heritage designation for Toronto’s oldest bar, the 1849 Wheatsheaf Tavern.

Horses are shedding!

I've heard of people buying Canadian flags from Amazon and other places. The best place to get your flag is from the legion (NEVER AMAZON). That way your money is going to help real Canadian veterans. www.poppystore.ca/products-sea...

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection

Should we turn Czechoslovakia over to the Germans? We've set up a call-in on Czechoslovakian public radio which is open to Germans to talk about the pros and cons.

WHAT THE FLYING FUCK, CBC??? www.c-span.org/event/intern...

This girl has so many questions...

Looking south on Indian Rd. from Geoffrey Ave. in Toronto after an ice storm, 107 years ago today - Feb 9, 1918 Wonderful that many of the old houses remain. 1918 image credit: City of Toronto Archives #OTD #OnThisDay #1910s #snow #snowday #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #hopkindesign

Super Bowl Sunday, Toronto Jennifer Walton 2009

If Canada's in the mood for some fun and not afraid of the US, we should find $1 billion dollars and offer to fund the labs of top US scientists who move their work here.

Oh my god

Wow. Look at what we saw last night at 2:10 am right outside our cabin here in Venetie, Alaska around 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Incredible stuff!

Felters- Advise please! This is a project that I have #needlefelted. While I still need to do some clean up around the edges etc, I am wondering if I should also #wetfelt it to tighten and 'finish' the fibers. Thoughts? 🐑🪡

Sun Came Finally Alex Janvier ~ Denesuline 1979

Now if you package parts of Canada up as “greenbelt” or, say, “Ontario place” then you can sell it np. To a foreign spa company, even.

Trudeau steps down

The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Jeff Bezos and other billionaires genuflecting toward Trump was killed. Her piece here: https://bit.ly/3Pk1g07

Solstice d'hiver Jean-Paul Lemieux 1961

Solstice Drive to St. Anthony Christopher Pratt 2008

Who did this? I am preparing their Order of Canada nomination now.

No idea if this is likely to succeed but just going to chime in that being able to sue the government for unsafe infrastructure was a key precursor to establishing many of the Dutch institutions that have gotten them where they are.

NEW: CycleToronto and other citizens have launched a Charter challenge of the Ford government's law to remove bike lanes. CT's executive director is not present at the Queen's Park announcement because... he was doored on Monday in a painted bike lane and is hospitalized.

A reminder that Doug Ford’s approach to traffic management, which is tacitly supported by Olivia Chow, can only lead to more gridlock.

Some great graphs:

Dick van Dyke dancing at 99 is worth a view, I think (also note: Bluesky is now on the list of options. Not there: threads. ) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/a...

This is proof they know what they're doing will kill or injure people. This is a malevolent gov't. Treating it as rational is a pantomime of some fantasy benign and good faith politics of yesterlore that doesn't exist. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Just testing.

Credit to the very talented nicksweetman.ca for the art.