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Francesca Bouaoun
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Toronto/Scotland.
Art, nature, city walks, probably birds.
Museums + archives. Travelling Fifer.
She/her. Views own.
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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
thenarwhal.ca
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
www.daniels.utoronto.ca
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
www.avclub.com/everybody-to...
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.
www.avclub.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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📍 Christie Pits Park #Toronto
A cluster of leafless trees in a Toronto park covered in heavy snow. A group of people are standing at the bottom of a small slope, as they take turns snowboarding. The sun is setting over buildings in the distance, casting a yellow glow on the snow. A large clearing surrounded by gentle slopes in a Toronto park covered in heavy snow. Two kids are in the centre of the park, having just been on sleds. The sun is setting over buildings in the distance. Clusters of leafless trees in a Toronto park covered in heavy snow. Two people are walking along a rough path cleared in the snow. The sun is setting over buildings in the distance.
January 29, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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Web series shines a spotlight on Indigenous designers

'We have so much talent that comes from our Indigenous communities and it's going unnoticed,'

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Web series shines a spotlight on Indigenous designers | CBC News
Behind the Seams with Michaella Montana explores the creative philosophies and design esthetics of Indigenous fashion designers from around the world.
www.cbc.ca
January 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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What a win for nature!

Scotland is the first UK country to have Swift bricks in law – a lifeline for this threatened bird. And, for the first time ever, the Scottish Government must set legally binding nature recovery targets.

Thanks for helping make history with a strong Natural Environment Bill.
January 29, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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📍 Dupont Station #Toronto

I have a lot of Nick Sweetman favourites, but this is top.
Mural on a curved concrete wall at a street intersection. Large colourful birds in a row: white-breasted nuthatch, cedar waxwing, yellow-bellied sapsucker, rose-breasted grosbeak, white-throated sparrow, scarlet tanager, ruby-throated hummingbird, European starling. Artist is Nick Sweetman.
January 28, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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#HearThis

‘Black Public Joy’
by @jaypitter.bsky.social is out this week— an uplifting narrative amid the strain of civic systems & public spaces.

The book frames public joy as civic, cultural and spatial infrastructure. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/672022... 1/
Jay Pitter Black Public Joy No Permit or Permission Required
January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM