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Toronto/Scotland. Art, nature, probably birds. Museums + archives. Travelling Fifer. She/her. Views own.
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The #OntarioPlace documentary Your Tomorrow is coming to streaming + tv this month! 📅 March 21 – Starts streaming on TVO Docs YouTube, website & Smart TV app 📅 March 23 – Broadcast Premiere on TVO (Ontario only) youtu.be/rzmVfoqGA9Q?...

Exciting news from our @asrainforest.bsky.social partners @scotwildlife.bsky.social. This acquisition offers huge opportunity for ancient semi-natural woodland & other critically important yet declining habitats in #Scotlandsrainforest. We wish them well 👏🌳👏

Every weekday this month, APTN News has taken you to the roots of Indigenous languages for I Love to Read Month. Today for Mother Tongue Teachings, Gramma Geraldine Shingoose joins Tiar Wheatle to share one of her favorite Anishinaabemowin phrases.

Spring Rabbits! 🐰

'No Other Land': Israeli-Palestinian film wins Oscar for best documentary feature - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-palestinian-film-no-other-land-wins-oscars-best-documentary-featur

I love @westendphoenix.bsky.social Toronto’s brass bands, Sweet Daddy Siki, queer arm-wrestling night, where to find gig-adjacent snacks, Hughie the hamster, profile of a 30+ year snack bar volunteer… Just all good 👏

The roll continues! #GGTH

Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

📍 Trillium Park #Toronto

An update! Wellington St W 🧶

Locations to vote ➡️ www.elections.on.ca/en.html

#OntarioElection

My banner photo is a scene from the West Island at #OntarioPlace A remarkable public space on Toronto’s waterfront for people and wildlife. It was destroyed last year by the province, seen in these before and after images, for a stadium-sized private spa ⬇️

📍 Trillium Park #Toronto

The clear skies are welcome #Toronto

The first Red-winged Blackbirds are back and singing outside my window!!!! 🎉 #birds #birding #spring #ButStillWinter #phenology

www.thestar.com/news/ontario... Elections Ontario has an online tool that allows voters to find their electoral district and election day voting location by postal code.

All that light before 7am! #Toronto

High Park Nature Centre and Turtle Protectors celebrate #WorldWaterDay with a Water walk led by Vivian Recollet, Bigasohn Kwe, Turtle Clan from Wikwemikong Unceded First Nation, Ojibway Nation Sun, March 23, 1-2:30PM High Park Nature Centre #Toronto highparknaturecentre.com/event/sp25-w...

📍 Humber Bay Park West #Toronto Icy lake dip and community sauna 🔥 sedarsauna.ca

@spacing.bsky.social issue on #Toronto's iconic #Yonge Street is on newsstands. Also featured is Patricia Homonylo who documents the death toll of #birds colliding with skyscrapers. She won a Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award and her #photo is at @romtoronto.bsky.social until May 4, 2025.

Save the Ontario Science Centre 💚

Here’s how to vote in Ontario. You don’t need a voter card, just government ID with your address on it. www.elections.on.ca/en/voting-in...

There are links to complain to CBC in the post. The only way we should be talking about annexation is as a hostile threat and on what the reality would be for Canadians! We definitely should not be wasting our time normalizing it even remotely.

This Sat 22nd we celebrate the right to read - join us in standing in solidarity with booksellers around the world and the Educational Bookshop, Jerusalem in particular– because #BooksellingIsNotACrime. Visit your local bookshop, tag your fave writers, engage with the hashtag online & in person 🧵

Toronto Archives tonight experiencing Dream Warriors, Haviah Mighty, Mathematik, and DJ Carl Allen ⭐️ A Black History Month showcase around the exhibit “Canadian Cyphers: Elements of Toronto Hip-Hop” and supporting the amazing work of Canada Black Music Archives ➡️ thecbma.com #Toronto #BHM

Ontario Election ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Find out *where* to vote! voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/... What to bring! (you don't need a voter information card to vote!) www.elections.on.ca/en/voting-in...

Doug Ford's government reversed its plan to cut into a swath of protected land around Toronto, but with an RCMP investigation still underway, @emmamci.bsky.social looks at how the Greenbelt scandal is quietly shaping the 2025 Ontario election. #onpoli thenarwhal.ca/ontario-elec...

Live from Gaza: the Archives & Heritage for Palestine seminar series continues on Feb. 26 with Dr. Abdul Latif Abu Hashim, showcasing Gaza as a centre of history, culture and learning. 🔗 Register: rb.gy/hp4bum #Archives&Heritage4Palestine #CritArch #CritLib #GLAMs 📜

Happy anniversary to epic episode 1000 of Toronto Mike'd - all 5:40:31! www.torontomike.com/2022/02/toro...

"Ontario Place was just filled with dandelions." No, it wasn't.

“It’s such valuable, beautiful outdoor property on the water. And the plan, as it stands right now, is to encase that whole massive piece of land of the West Island inside and make it an indoor space. You don’t need that particular land to do that; you could do that anywhere.” #OntarioPlace

Saw a post on another platform from someone asking where they could donate to gender affirming support in #Toronto, and sharing this answer from many folks: Friends of Ruby www.friendsofruby.ca/support/

Tonight is the 2nd of 2 debates in lead up to Ontario’s snap election on Feb 27th. The last election in 2022 had the lowest voter turnout. The last time an election was held in February? 1883. I wrote about if this will impact turnout @tvotoday.bsky.social amp.tvo.org/article/opin...

📍 Humber Bay West #Toronto “Swim today?” “See you there” ❄️

📍 Trillium Park #Toronto

Advance voting is open! #ONelection #ONelexn #ONpoli Spadina—Fort York, our local election office is at 219 Dufferin (Liberty and Dufferin) voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/...

From Ground Zero - a powerful collection of 22 short films created by Gazan filmmakers under extraordinary circumstances. 📍 Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue #Toronto Wed 19 Feb 6.30-9.30PM liberatepalestine48.simpletix.com

New mini comic: after the snowstorm. for larger panels, follow the IG link www.instagram.com/p/DGIxLhcgIZ...

📍 Liberty Village Journey Through Time: A Peter Witt streetcar mural at the Toronto Carpet Factory by Leyland Adams #Toronto

So excited to host @johnlorinc.bsky.social and @hamutal.bsky.social at our store this Tuesday! Snow will be cleared. Free! All welcome.

If you’re in Edinburgh, still a few free tickets left for this performance at St Giles this evening!