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Francesca Bouaoun
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Toronto/Scotland.
Art, nature, city walks, probably birds.
Museums + archives. Travelling Fifer.
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A different kind of winter dip today.
#Toronto
View looking down to a hole in a sheet of ice where a person wearing a swim cap and gloves is treading water, surrounded by small chunks of ice.
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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THREAD.

A selection of notes I have made in my notebook about my dad, and the things he does.

1. The Public Swimming Pool
My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”
February 5, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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That glorious clear water meant for beautiful contrast under all the various black and white ducks. In a mixed raft I couldn’t find any redheads (often a few with scaups) but many scaups, a few buffleheads (underwater most of the time), goldeneyes and a few photobombing geese.
Lake Ontario looking remarkably clear from a snowy spot on shore on a sunny day. Puffy clouds hug the horizon under blue skies, and a raft of roughly 100 ducks floats just offshore. A raft of mostly scaups with a Canada goose flying low just in front of them. Another Canada goose in flight in front of many sleepy scaups, black and white ducks with their bills tucked under their wings. Sleepy scaups, ducks with white middles and black fronts and rears, with a few goldeneyes (more white overall, black heads with white cheek patches) and darker hens of both species.
February 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Black Public Joy is on shelves in large and local bookstores across Canada & the U.S. Through practice stories across many cities & research, I assert that Black public joy, and public joy of all kinds is civic, cultural & spatial infrastructure. DM for book talk & public joy mapping engagements.
January 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Simon Leclerc, Reader, 2025, Gouache
Simon Leclerc, Reader, 2025, Gouache
March 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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🍉 TMR 57 • PALESTINE: Discover a powerful lineup of stories illuminating Palestine through fiction, non-fiction, and young adult literature. 🔗 Explore the full list here: bit.ly/notable-and-forthcoming-books-centered-on-palestine.

#TheMarkazReview #ReadingList #BooksToRead #TMR57Palestine
February 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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📍 Trillium Park #Toronto
Frozen Toronto waterfront. A wooden dock and break wall extend out from a tree-lined shoreline. Sunrise is illuminating the water between Trillium Park and Hanlan’s Point, and steam is rising up from the lake surface. Leafless trees in a snow-covered park on the Toronto waterfront, illuminated by the rising sun. The water is frozen by the shoreline and the city skyline is in the distance. Frozen Toronto waterfront. The sun is rising beyond the gap between two break walls, casting shadows across the sheet of ice. Thick ice across large boulders on the Toronto waterfront. Trees line the shoreline, and the water is frozen. Sunrise casts a warm glow over the ice and snow.
February 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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📍 Lake Ontario #Toronto
February 7, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Very curious to learn about this project! Spent plenty of time in the Meedies growing up - this industrial heritage is part of the fabric of Fife.
mininglandscapes.bsky.social EcoMuseum of Scottish Mining Landscapes @mininglandscapes.bsky.social · 1d
From pit baths to surviving Scottish pumping and winding #enginehouses. We are currently compiling the definitive list. Remarkably up to 17. Today featuring Kilmux Colliery #Kennoway #Fife built 1838 housed a 47hp engine. Pit closed in the 1880s scheduled 1998. #MiningHeritage
February 7, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Kensington Market, Toronto, 1984

#BlackHistoryMonth
#photography
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
#Toronto
February 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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📍 First and Last #Toronto
Cosy coffee shop interior with wood panel high counters around the windows, wooden tables and chairs, and an orange sofa. Yellow, orange, and brown stripes decorate the wall. Heavy snow outside the window.
February 7, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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Southern Ontario prairies need fire to flourish, and a place to grow: thenarwhal.ca/alderville-b...
A First Nation’s prairie grows in Ontario, then burns | The Narwhal
A portion of the Alderville Black Oak Savanna is burned each year, giving way to new life. Conservation efforts have revived the rare tallgrass ecosystem that was nearly lost to colonialism
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February 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Sannia’s Shop: surviving the ‘ceasefire’ in Lebanon | Documentary
Sannia’s Shop: surviving the ‘ceasefire’ in Lebanon | Documentary
In the past few days, Israel has bombed two villages in southern Lebanon, saying it warned residents to leave before carrying out strikes on Hezbollah targets. Iran-backed Hezbollah, a proscribed terr...
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February 3, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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🌇🕊️ MO(U)RNING DOVE

#formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart
An illustration of early dawn overlooking a cityscape of apartments and highrises, with telephone poles in the foreground. In the sky above, a formline design of a mourning dive is perched, coloured dark blue to resemble the clouds floating in the sky.
January 30, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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📍 Jean Sibelius Square | Christie Pits #Toronto
A small hockey rink created in a snow-covered park in a residential area of Toronto. Three kids are on the ice playing hockey. Christie Pits Park in Toronto at dusk, covered in a thick layer of snow.
February 5, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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📍 Liberty Village #Toronto
View over the Toronto waterfront looking south towards Hanlan’s Point Beach. The inner channel between the city and island is frozen and the ground is covered in snow. Orange sunrise light is on the horizon among bands of clouds.
February 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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I love this crew.

"When I get out of the lake all my anxieties stay at the bottom of the lake; I am serene, I am calm, I am changed"

Here's to the rest of the season of winter dipping.
#Toronto

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Baignades en eau glacée à Toronto | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Dans la mosaïque : Baignades en eau glacée à Toronto
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February 5, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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Great film screening alert, followed by a panel discussion #Toronto

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Thu, Mar 12 2026, 6:30 - 8pm
📍 Daniels Building, 1 Spadina Crescent, Main Hall

www.daniels.utoronto.ca/events/17733...
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces | Daniels
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February 5, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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The Tripoli International Fair — Ruins of a Modern Dream (By Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli, Lebanon. Built 1962-1975, Unfinished) r/brutalism
February 1, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Looking forward to this with Toronto Ornithology Club - "Birds of Anishinaabe Aki": us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Creators Garden Birds works on educational resources in the Anishinaabe language, including this beautifully illustrated Anishinaabe Bird Guide: outdoorlearning.com/product/anis...
Anishinaabe Bird Names Nature Guide - Outdoor Learning School & Store
This pamphlet includes 15 carefully chosen bird species and their Anishinaabe names, pronunciation, and how their names relate to different aspects of Anishinaabe ecological knowledge. This knowledge ...
outdoorlearning.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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Escorted over to Ward’s Island this morning #Toronto
February 1, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Today’s #FullMoon is Makwa Giizis, the Bear Moon.

Learn more with Grandmother Kim Wheatley: youtu.be/oVS9Iq183sY?...

Art by Frank Polson
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A full moon appears behind the silhouette of a winter tree. The background of the painting is shades of blue. To the left of the moon is a painting of a bear.
February 1, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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📍 The Great Hall #Toronto

Austra | Chin Up Buttercup 💛
The band Austra on stage at the Great Hall in Toronto. A woman with outstretched arms sings to a dancing crowd, accompanied by a bass player and a drummer.
February 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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📍 Coronation Park #Toronto
A thick sheet of cracked ice over the water on the Toronto waterfront. The leafless trees of Trillium Park on the shoreline are in the distance. The sun is shining in a blue sky with scattered clouds overhead.
January 31, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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“Much like the literal whistleblowers currently helping keep their streets safe from federal agents in cities around the U.S., the people of Pollokshields were simply ready to drop everything and stand up for a stranger”

—The @avclub.com on Everybody To Kenmure Street
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A timely Sundance doc is an ICE-breaker around community action
Everybody To Kenmure Street shows what's possible when immigration officials aren't allowed to murder at will.
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January 24, 2026 at 3:29 PM