#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: soundcloud.com/user-6914245... BTB, did you know bees love blue? #botanical #collages by Dorothy Lander

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgXN... 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?

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/arti... 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)

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 tryhealingarts.ca/product/ive-... Town Crier ends proclamation c Elbows Up @seanfraser.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social

AI Review 2005 research "Ribbon Workers as Popular Educators" www.academia.edu/ai_review/18... "The author’s childhood memory of the white ribbon — makes abstract concepts more accessible." @mrapomquet.bsky.social @johngpole.bsky.social @temperancehistory.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social

As Seamus Heaney wrote: History says, don’t 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.

Very Important Message From MeidasTouch open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

The People's Photo Album connects Theatre Antigonish to Antigonish Movement to re-member the early dreamers and doers at 50-yr gala @angusmaccaull.bsky.social @justingregg.com @mary-colinchisholm.bsky.social @ryannechisholm.bsky.social tryhealingarts.ca/product/the-...

#BuyCanadian in Antigonish 5c to $1 Store, local authors/books, e.g. Imagine Antigonish: A Photographic Inquiry into Health Equity @tryhealingarts.bsky.social @johngpole.bsky.social The Ballerina Boy by Megan Maginley @atlanticbooks.bsky.social @parlibrary.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social

"It’s 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." It’s Trump vs. the Courts, and It Won’t End Well for Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...

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.

Freedom of Information is not always convenient or expedient but it is always necessary. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

Book Launch of HARP's latest: Imagine Antigonish: A Photographic Inquiry into Health Equityavailable on HARP website: tryhealingarts.ca/product/imag... @angusmaccaull.bsky.social @stfx-university.bsky.social @stfxaut.bsky.social #healthequity #speakingtruthtopower @robinseggsblue.bsky.social

"I don't care why I care" either

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...

tryhealingarts.ca/product/imag... The launch is local the relevance global. #History as a determinant of #healthequity. @mary-colinchisholm.bsky.social @parlibrary.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social @justingregg.com @seanfraser.bsky.social @timbousquet.bsky.social @stfxaut.bsky.social

“Let’s hope.”

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. charlieangus.substack.com/p/on-interna...

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 📸LAC 3227171

Spring Day in Ukraine - by #Ukrainian painter Sergey Vasilkovsky (1854-1917) #art #UkranianArt

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. 🧵1/18

This.

cutting pediatric cancer research… www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...

“We urge the Administration to rescind this guidance…” www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...

March 5, 2025. A picture night, because I don't know about you, but I'm cooked:

🇨🇦 When surrounded by chaos, find your heart. From a misty web-filled morning in the backyard. #spiderwebs #misty #sunrise #canadian

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. @helendmurphy.bsky.social @annecamozzi.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social @mary-colinchisholm.bsky.social

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

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 👇 canadaehx.com/2025/02/18/r...

Map of War Plan Red, 4 hypothetical US invasion of Canada, approved by War Dept 1930. in 2025 tertiary line of attack?? @mary-colinchisholm.bsky.social @markcarney2025.bsky.social @timbousquet.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @gtconway.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @deadder.bsky.social

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

The Original Indigenous Names for the Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

connect executive order to pause Foreign Corruption Practices Act & #aluminum tariffs to Canada's @stfx-university.bsky.social tryhealingarts.ca/speaking-tru... @rbreich.bsky.social @mary-colinchisholm.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @halifaxexaminer.ca #bribery

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 📸LAC 3227577

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.

personal & professional Instagram suspended -180 d to appeal. Was it this DEI post @tryhealingarts.bsky.social re launch tryhealingarts.ca/product/the-... @mary-colinchisholm.bsky.social @johngpole.bsky.social @annecamozzi.bsky.social @parlibrary.bsky.social #diversity #inclusion #autism

Now more than ever.

#BlackHistoryMonth is an opportune time for us to reflect on how Canadian public policy has influenced how we think (or don’t think) about Black experiences. Researcher Elizabeth Semowo writes.

tryhealingarts.ca/product/the-... "I am a lovely autistic creative forces of Nature" - Megan Maginley, author and illustrator. #autism #DEI #healthequity #socialinclusion

This is so good.

tryhealingarts.ca/1982-stfx-ho... calls for code of international morality @stfx-university.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social @seanfraser.bsky.social @atlanticbooks.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social @mulroneyinstitute.bsky.social

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

a love like this

If she can do it, we can all do it.