Info/Privacy specialist, hiker, chorister. Views are my own.
Toronto
Joined February 2009
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It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain.
Please #retweet!
Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce queen #bees for next year!
So important to #share!
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In Ojibwe our word for blue jay is gwiingwiish (pronounced gweeng-gweesh). Haida art by Glen Rabena.
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After having been paid a ransom by PowerSchool, the bad guys are now extorting individual school boards.
cbc.ca/news/canada/powerscho…
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Sigh.
Families with kids and /or pets whose internal clocks don’t change for the “alarm” time have a hard time with DST.
Sleep expert colleagues would say keep the time stable all year - in permanent Standard Time.
Source: Canadian Sleep Society search.app/PGyt7WSBUdsrNCsw7
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on Thursday, February 15, as the sun sets in the west, it will be lined up directly over Toronto's east-west street grid, to create an effect known as Torontohenge
#Torontohenge
ALT my best Torontohenge picture, taken February 2019 during a sunset Torontohenge, looking west along Queen St from Church St, with the sun actually shining right through the elevated walkway between the former Simpsons and the former Eatons
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Shchedryk, which was americanized into Carol of the Bells, is a Ukrainian song about the turning of the seasons from winter to spring, the new year as traditionally understood. It is a song of hope and reassurance, as well as great beauty.
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To mark #HumanRightsDay, Commissioner Dufresne, together with @anaBrianN, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and other global @PrivacyAssembly partners, issued a joint statement… /1
ALT Privacy Commissioner Dufresne with Ana Brian Nougrères, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy.
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It is so disheartening that 1 in 3 women are still exposed to physical, emotional and psychological violence.
Violence thrives in silence. We must break it.
We must act to create a world where every woman feels safe, respected, and free from the fear of violence.
#NoExcuse
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The @UN declared November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
There is much to do. The crisis of #MMIWG2S continues. We must eradicate violence against Women, Girls, and Gender-Diverse+ Peoples.
#NOEXCUSE
un.org/en/observances/ending…
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"As reported by The Globe and Mail, residents spent a total of $181 million at curbside patios within 13 weeks of summer in 2021. If those spaces had remained dedicated to parking, only $3.7 million would have been reaped during the same time period."
#BlackFridayParking
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Dear @MercedesBenzCDN President Andreas Tetzloff, #BikeTO would like to inform you that @MercedesBenz Downtown has purposefully and consistently placed vulnerable road users in harms way by utilizing protected the protected bike lane to unloading vehicles. This needs to stop!
ALT Mercedes Truck blocking the bike lane
ALT Mercedes Truck blocking the bike lane
ALT Mercedes Truck blocking the bike lane
ALT Mercedes Truck blocking the bike lane
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🥇 Gold Medalist
🎖 Order of Canada
🥉🥉 2x Bronze Medalist
1️⃣4️⃣ Canada Soccer Player of the Year
1️⃣9️⃣0️⃣ All-Time Leading International Goalscorer
What an international career. @sincy12
#ThankYouSinc 🐐
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As Canada heads to the World Cup
it's worth keeping in mind, the highest scorer
ever
on the globe
of any gender
is our Christine Sinclair.
fifa.com/fifaplus/en/article…
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#GGSimon shares the following message with Canadians marking #RedDressDay.
ALT A Red dress hanging on a clothesline. Text to the left of the dress reads, “’Everyone deserves to be safe in their communities. As we mark the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, I am adding my voice to the chorus. Protect our women and girls, protect Indigenous and 2SLGBTQI+ peoples. Let us all create a world where we are free to be who we are, without the threat of violence.’ – Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada.”
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Wear something that shows who you are, says girl behind National Ribbon Skirt Day bit.ly/3ImMALt Story by @StephTaylorCP
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The Canadian women's hockey team has been on fire 🔥🔥🔥
Details: cbc.ca/1.6572403
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on this day in 1993 the @NewYorker published the 'On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog' cartoon, by Peter Steiner
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On this day, 60 years ago, #Medicare was born in Saskatchewan under the leadership of Premier Tommy Douglas, making it the first universal, comprehensive, single-payer insurance system in North America. A🧵
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National Indigenous Peoples Day is an opportunity for Canadians to learn about the cultural, linguistic diversity, as well as the contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples.
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TMC joins together with @ndettchorale for Sacred Music for a Sacred Space on Friday at 7:30 pm. Get your live-streaming Tix and enjoy the concert til Apr 30. tmchoir.org/event/sacred-mus… #dressrehearsal #choralmusic
