Here’s a glorious rendition of Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye”, sung by Karine Polwart in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today #song #folksong 9/10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...

Inchmickery in the middle of Firth of Forth, 9 Nov 2025

In the late 90s/early 2000s, Health Education Board for Scotland released a bunch of awareness ads about smoking, drinking and drugs - it’s likely any teen in Scotland from that time remembers all these words.

Youth Volunteers Unite to Protect Hima Anjar Wetland in Large-Scale Cleanup Initiative On November 1, 2025, the Hima Anjar Wetland came alive with the spirit of volunteerism and environmental stewardship as more than 40 young members of the Homat Al Hima network joined forces for a large-scale…

And at @thelocal.to, here in Toronto, we have one, too! A new, part-time, flexible fellowship for Black and/or Indigenous journalists thelocal.to/early-career...

📍 Trillium Park, Ontario Place #Toronto moccasinidentifier.com/existing-installations

So glad to catch Sinners on screen as The Revue unveiled their new 70mm projector. Wow, that score and soundtrack 🔥

Inaugural snow dip of the season - when the water is warmer than the air. #Toronto

Please do! Details about the fellowship and the link to apply can be found here: thenarwhal.ca/2026-indigen...

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📍 Coronation Park #Toronto

November palette. #Toronto

A THING OF BEAUTY: The Early Years Of Toronto’s Old City Hall November 24, 7 - 9:30 PM, FREE 📍 Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St W www.eventbrite.com/e/a-thing-of...

Learning the noises local non-bird animals make can be really helpful for birding, because chipmunks, squirrels, and frogs can sound like birds. I’m still adjusting to urban birding apparently— heard a call I couldn’t place, got excited, but it was two Brown Rats fighting over a sandwich.

This is the Roman bathhouse at Bearsden in Glasgow, the only visible remains of the fort on the Antonine Wall that once stood there. Featuring hot and cold rooms as well as plunge pools and a latrine, it also had glazed windows and painted plaster decoration. #RomanFortThursday

i visited the palestine museum in edinburgh for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social and spoke to founder faisal salah about showcasing the vibrancy + diversity of palestinian culture in the midst of genocide, witnessing via children's drawings, and the solidarity he has seen from the people of scotland

Already the walking commute ends in the dark. #Toronto

Autumn around the Archives. #Toronto

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

“Still aged 18, she beat four Grand Slam champions - Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina and Naomi Osaka - to lift one of the most significant titles outside of the four majors.” 👏

Thank you for screening this tonight @uoftcities.bsky.social • “people tend to sit where there are places to sit” Forty plus years on, still asking for this to be a ubiquitous and essential amenity for public space/daily life.

The light of late in the Annex. #Toronto

Earlier sunsets and dramatic light in November skies. Thinking of this landscape and all of the time spent on the (former) West Island of Ontario Place, November 2023. #Toronto

The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action. So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!

The overall knafeh screen time is top tier.

📍 Trillium Park Seasonal signs out on the water this morning - white-winged scoters and long-tailed ducks. #Toronto

As you reach the end of Strachan Avenue, cross over Lake Shore Blvd, and veer off the Martin Goodman trail to the left - this wee stretch at the edge of Coronation Park always feels to me like a tree-lined gateway to the lakeshore. Trillium Park and the islands on the horizon lie ahead. #Toronto

My daughter wrote this essay about becoming a Blue Jays fan - it's terrific. Give it a read and a share, will ya? ethicalvacuum.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...

Holly Whyte’s 1980 film The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces summarizes his seminal street life study of NYC’s plazas & is profoundly influential in the worlds of placemaking and livable cities. Join us on Nov 4 for a screening and panel discussion: https://ow.ly/zhR250XcJCm

Often overlooked, small water bodies - streams, damp ditches, small bogs, ponds - support more rare species compared with larger habitats while high-quality ponds support about 2/3 of all freshwater plant + animal species in a landscape. 🧵 1/4 freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/start-w...

📍 Biidaasige Park A new season for the new park. Special to experience it growing through the first autumn. #Toronto

📍 Leslie Lookout Park A beautiful morning out in the Port Lands. Full of birders catching a glimpse of a rare sighting in Toronto - there’s currently a razorbill in the ship channel. #Toronto

Toronto Blue Jays. #Stunday #StreetArt #BlueJay #Bird #Toronto #BlueSky #photography #EastCoastKin

At the closing ceremony for the first day of the Good Mourning Festival, with Emily Pleasance of Forest Bathing Club. Those rocks are from the West Island pebble beach - it was dedicated to the loss of Ontario Place. @evergreencanada.bsky.social #Toronto

📍 Evergreen Brick Works #Toronto

Let’s Go Blue Jays 🚍 #Toronto

📍 Richmond St W | Go Jays Go #Toronto

Domer says: Make tracks to SkyDome! #Toronto

Samhain night 🔥 Edinburgh, 2011

Here we go 🐦 World Series victory rally at the SkyDome, 1993. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 1281, File 2098. #Toronto

The light on Arthur’s Seat today. #Edinburgh

A moment away from the other game to appreciate this win from Cam Norrie 🔥 www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Attention must never be fully diverted.

The walking commute is quite stunning right now. #Toronto

From: Dominic Beaudry - Associate Vice President of Academic and Indigenous Programs at Laurentian University In Ojibwe our words for ‘Let Go Blue Jays Let’s Go’ are Aambe Gwiingwiish(ag) Aambe. Anishinaabe art by Cody James Houle.

In a nice coincidence with the Jays, the new issue of Spacing opens with a mini-section on sports - with a feature on Toronto's other baseball team (the other Maple Leafs), whose games, by contrast with the Jays, are free, and @jbcurio.bsky.social on the major league baseball teams we almost had.

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Publishers big & small, from Pluto & Verso & Haymarket to Hajar & Dog Section & Mack Books, from Canongate Books to Luath, Virago to Fitzcarraldo, Freedom Press & Hurst to Iskra. Come browse, buy indie books from an indie bookshop, be inspired!

PSA: Ontario is opening COVID and flu shots to the general public starting tomorrow

Sun trap.