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#WorldBeeDay
Celebrate
#pollinators
The Humble Bumble features images & poem in Hmmm - M the Humdinger, in which "M" a child of nature communicates entirely by humming. Have a listen here:
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BTB, did you know bees love blue?
#botanical
#collages
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Where have all the Flowers Gone - an anthem for my 1960s generation - a standout at Bitter Grounds Coffee House Queen's University. Is there an anthem in the making to stir us to action and
#peace
in the dangerous polycrisis times we are living in?
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Peter, Paul and Mary - Where Have All the Flowers Gone (25th Anniversary Concert)
YouTube video by ShoutFactoryMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgXNVA9ngx8
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Engage with artistic beauty beyond the museum and gallery - e.g., in Nature in the company of trees - for "big picture" thinking, e.g., Beauty will Save the World (Dostoevsky)
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Pondering artistic beauty encourages âbig pictureâ thinking
A psychological experiment conducted at Kettle's Yard suggests that actively considering the beauty of art increases abstract thinking and âtransformativeâ emotion â helping us escape the âmental trap...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/artistic-beauty-abstract-thinking
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Cathy Napier c Summer Street Industries, celebrates New Glasgow's 150th, here c me beside legacy art Proceeds of Cathy's book I've Been There to Women Alike
#cancer
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Town Crier ends proclamation c Elbows Up
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AI Review 2005 research "Ribbon Workers as Popular Educators"
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"The authorâs childhood memory of the white ribbon â makes abstract concepts more accessible."
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As Seamus Heaney wrote: History says, donât hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.
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Very Important Message From MeidasTouch
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Dorothy Lander on Meidas+
From Vancouver to Toronto, From Tofino (west coast) to Antigonish (east coast) Elbows Up, our healing arts publishing house (HARP The People's Press - www.tryhealingarts.ca) - is proud to be part o...
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/very-important-message-from-meidastouch?r=1n819c&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=108159942
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The People's Photo Album connects Theatre Antigonish to Antigonish Movement to re-member the early dreamers and doers at 50-yr gala
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#BuyCanadian
in Antigonish 5c to $1 Store, local authors/books, e.g. Imagine Antigonish: A Photographic Inquiry into Health Equity
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The Ballerina Boy by Megan Maginley
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forwardcanada.ca/protectcbc
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SIGN UP: Stop the Shutdown of the CBC
The CBC is Canadaâs voice. Now, the Conservative Party wants to shut it down while billionaires and hedge funds tighten their grip on our media. With U.S. interests shaping what we see and hear, we mu...
https://forwardcanada.ca/protectcbc
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7 months ago
"Itâs called due process, which is guaranteed by the Constitution to ensure that no person is deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." Itâs Trump vs. the Courts, and It Wonât End Well for Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wonât Win a War Against the Courts (Gift Article)
The judiciary will never surrender to the president its constitutional role to interpret the Constitution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/opinion/trump-judge-venezuela-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6E4.2-q_.e5UAZ3vTBKKi&smid=nytcore-android-share
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7 months ago
This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.
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Chris Benjamin Nova Scotia Writer
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Freedom of Information is not always convenient or expedient but it is always necessary.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
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People are really angry about the Houston government's power grab - Halifax Examiner
For 10 hours on Monday, citizens told the Public Bills Committee that a suite of proposed legislation that will reduce government transparency and accountability is a bad idea. Most, if not all, spea...
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-democracy/people-are-really-angry-about-the-houston-governments-power-grab/
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Book Launch of HARP's latest: Imagine Antigonish: A Photographic Inquiry into Health Equityavailable on HARP website:
tryhealingarts.ca/product/imag...
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#healthequity
#speakingtruthtopower
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"I don't care why I care" either
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Maria Popova
8 months ago
On
#InternationalWomensDay
, the story of the forgotten French seamstress who solved the ancient mystery of the argonaut, pioneered the aquarium, and laid the groundwork for the study of octopus intelligence
www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/26/j...
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The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence
âI armed myself with patience and courage, and only after several months managed to dissolve my doubts and see my research crowned with happy confirmation.â
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/26/jeanne-villepreux-power-argonaut/
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The launch is local the relevance global.
#History
as a determinant of
#healthequity
.
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8 months ago
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Chris Benjamin Nova Scotia Writer
8 months ago
âLetâs hope.â
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Charlie Angus
8 months ago
My tribute on International Women's Day to women who know how to "stand the gaff" in resisting tyranny. From the coal mines of Cape Breton to the mines of the north. I come from a long line of strong women who would put the run on toxic bros. Please read.
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ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, WE STAND THE GAFF
Strategies for Resistance in the Era of Toxic Bros
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/on-international-womens-day-we-stand
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Canadian History Ehx
8 months ago
I'm sharing an image a day to celebrate the culture and history of Canada. Today, it is Private C.L. Jewell of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, with his "D-Day Beard" in Normandy, France on June 22, 1944.
#ElbowsUp
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Brigit Strawbridge
8 months ago
Spring Day in Ukraine - by
#Ukrainian
painter Sergey Vasilkovsky (1854-1917)
#art
#UkranianArt
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Canadian History Ehx
8 months ago
On this day in 1994, John Candy died. One of the greatest comedic actors of his generation, his career spanned a quarter-century and included acclaim shows, films and a Grey Cup. Taken far too soon, let's learn more about one of Canada's most beloved actors. đ§ľ1/18
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Ricky Davila
8 months ago
This.
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Rachel Maddow
8 months ago
cutting pediatric cancer researchâŚ
www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...
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A kindergartnerâs hopes for beating cancer are tied to federal grants now on the chopping block | CNN
A family whose 6-year-old is battling cancer says a move to slash funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research at universities and medical centers would be âdevastating.â
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/health/pediatric-cancer-patient-nih-grants-at-risk/index.html
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Bruce MacKinnon
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BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for The Chronicle Herald
https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/halifax/opinion-halifax/bruce-mackinnon-cartoon-if-all-you-have-is-a-hammer-everything-looks-like-a-nail
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Rachel Maddow
8 months ago
âWe urge the Administration to rescind this guidanceâŚâ
www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
8 months ago
March 5, 2025. A picture night, because I don't know about you, but I'm cooked:
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March 4, 2025
Weâve been traveling and between that and the fact that the news has come faster and faster, the letters have crept later and later.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-4-2025
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BerniceMacDonaldPhotography
8 months ago
đ¨đŚ When surrounded by chaos, find your heart. From a misty web-filled morning in the backyard.
#spiderwebs
#misty
#sunrise
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Mary Lillian MacDonald of Antigonish, Nova Scotia died age 91 and
@stfx-university.bsky.social
is in mourning Friend of StFX Alumni award in 2010, c honour guard basketball team.
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8 months ago
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Charlie Angus
8 months ago
At a NATO cocktail party a European dude scolded me on Canada not pulling its weight. "Your ships are all 40 years old." I said, "You want to talk about age? My father in law was only 17 when he and other Canadian teenagers were freeing your country from the fascist jackboot." Canada
#strongasfuck
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Canadian History Ehx
8 months ago
Today on my podcast Canadian History Ehx: Rose Fortune! In the early-19th century, she operated a hauling business and kept law and order on the Annapolis Royal docks. Listen on all podcast platforms Listen/Read đ
canadaehx.com/2025/02/18/r...
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Rose Fortune
In the mid-1840s, the docks of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia could be a rough place. With so much traffic coming and going from the harbour, there were a plethora of neâer-do-wells passing through. âŚ
https://canadaehx.com/2025/02/18/rose-fortune/
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Map of War Plan Red, 4 hypothetical US invasion of Canada, approved by War Dept 1930. in 2025 tertiary line of attack??
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@sanders.senate.gov
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Dr. Margo C. Watt
8 months ago
âBe careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.â Albert Camus
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Canadian History Ehx
8 months ago
The Original Indigenous Names for the Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: OntarĂ'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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connect executive order to pause Foreign Corruption Practices Act &
#aluminum
tariffs to Canada's
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#bribery
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Speaking Truth to Power - Speaking Truth to History | HARP â Healing Arts Reconciling People
Quaecumque sunt vera. St. Francis Xavier University is making history.  For the first time in its history, the campus of âwhatsoever things are trueâ and a ...
https://tryhealingarts.ca/speaking-truth-to-power-speaking-truth-to-history/
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Charles Keener
8 months ago
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Black American Culture Trumps MAGA
Kendrick Lamar's masterful Super Bowl Halftime Show reminds us that the resistance to white supremacy can be joyful, proud, loud, unapologetic, and super Black.
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/black-american-culture-trumps-maga
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Canadian History Ehx
8 months ago
I'm sharing an image a day to celebrate the vibrant and unique culture and history of Canada. Today, it is this image of Lt. Leslie Browne of the Royal Canadian Engineers playing his bagpipe on a ship enroute to France on D-Day (June 6, 1944)
#ProudlyCanadian
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8 months ago
Once upon a time a pseudo-hillbilly went to an Ivy League law school. Later in the story he pretended he didn't know any of the things they teach you there about the law, which had become inconvenient to his oligarchs and sordid ambitions.
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personal & professional Instagram suspended -180 d to appeal. Was it this DEI post
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re launch
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#diversity
#inclusion
#autism
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Sophie Labelle
9 months ago
Now more than ever.
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The Tyee
9 months ago
#BlackHistoryMonth
is an opportune time for us to reflect on how Canadian public policy has influenced how we think (or donât think) about Black experiences. Researcher Elizabeth Semowo writes.
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Itâs Black History Month. Letâs Move Inclusion Beyond Visibility | The Tyee
A scholar shares her research on how Canadian citizenship guides have shaped our understandings of Blackness.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/02/06/Black-History-Month-Inclusion-Beyond-Visibility/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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"I am a lovely autistic creative forces of Nature" - Megan Maginley, author and illustrator.
#autism
#DEI
#healthequity
#socialinclusion
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9 months ago
This is so good.
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calls for code of international morality
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Maria Popova
9 months ago
As soon as the typewriter was born, Victorian women (who couldn't get a higher education and were still not allowed to enter many public libraries) began making art with it
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A Visual History of Typewriter Art from 1893 to Today
How the typewriter empowered Victorian female stenographers to invent a unique art form that gained newfound notoriety in the digital age.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/23/typewriter-art-laurence-king/
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Joseph Fasano
9 months ago
a love like this
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Randi Mayem Singer
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If she can do it, we can all do it.
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