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@kchadwicktimms.bsky.social
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Lifelong environmental advocate. 🌲🐦🌳 #dogs #birds #climate
Aah, yes! This strategy works well here. 🤣
One of my teens tried to walk me when my favourite human was working. I don't want anyone thinking that my fav human can shirk her responsibilities, so I did a #WontWalkWednesday combined with a #WontLookWednesday . Not sure they got the message. How should I escalate pals?
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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COVID infections are not mentioned nor is immune dysfunction from C19 leading to other illness.
We have also seen an increase in anxiety/panic in kids after being infected.
You can only dance around so long before you trip over your own feet.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Kids are missing more school. Experts say mental health is a factor | CBC News
A CBC investigation finds that school time lost due to reported illness is up in all districts that provided data — more than tripling in some places compared to five years ago. While the data doesn’t...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Get outside 🌲 ❤️
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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But maybe the champ for "I didn't go in there with a plan and I came out with a stack" is The Printed Word in Dundas.
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Wordsworth in Waterloo, Epic in Hamilton, Type in Toronto are good. Fanfare in Stratford always has a half-dozen things I didn't know I needed. Bakka in Toronto is a unique F/SF resource in the country and has the best staff. Woolf and Co is new here in Galt but seems solid.
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Double your Donation!

We’re celebrating Margaret Atwood's birthday on November 18th and this year she is asking Canadians to join her to save birds' lives.

Gift Margaret a birthday donation and she will double your donation up to $15,000!

💚 Donate here: https://bit.ly/440se4o
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Divers seeking lost shipwreck near #Toronto find an even older mystery

The long-lost ship, possibly from 1800–1850, emerges intact beneath Lake Ontario

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A 19th-century shipwreck near Toronto emerges almost untouched by time | CBC News
An exploration dive team seeking the century-old wreck of the Rapid City has instead found a much rarer prize: a virtually undisturbed vessel, potentially dating back to the first half of the 19th cen...
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Do I live in the right city or what?
“Find someone who looks at you like Forestry staff look at bark.
Join Forestry staff to learn about Toronto's urban forest… one of the largest in the world. We'll talk about what makes the urban forest so special…”
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?E...
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Nearly 80 years after their creation, the Doug Ford government is reducing the unique environmental agencies from 36 to 7, in a move staff say may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ over development and flood protections

#StopFord
#ClimateWars

thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
Inside Ontario’s plan to merge 36 conservation authorities to 7 | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s government is seeking public feedback on its plan to overhaul Ontario’s conservation authorities, reducing local agencies from 36 to 7
thenarwhal.ca
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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“Once you start birding seriously, you never really stop.”

On the athletics, ethics and dedication of birdwatching. 🕊️🦅🦢
The Wondrous Lives of Hardcore Birders | The Tyee
A new generation is taking birding, and ‘listing,’ to great heights.
thetyee.ca
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨

My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.

#ONpoli
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
To Remember Is To Work For Peace
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Another micro forest planted. All native species. 🌳🌿
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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government is moving ahead with changes to Ontario’s long-standing rules for water use that critics say will weaken public oversight and eventually suck Ontario dry.
The provincial environment ministry says the changes will “streamline” permit renewals by allowing companies to take over existing
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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By the time this man leaves office, we will have lost critical tracts of arable farming lands, been bled dry of potable drinking water, paved over critical wetlands, forestry, habitats of specifies at risk:

“Despite strong public opposition, the Ford

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/28/n...
Ford fast-tracking water permits despite environmental concerns
Despite strong public opposition, the Ford government is moving ahead with changes to Ontario’s long-standing rules for water use that critics say will weaken public oversight and eventually suck Onta...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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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
November 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Blue Jays by Anishinaabe and French artist Cody Houle.

www.etsy.com/ca/shop/CjHo...

www.instagram.com/houlefineart
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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The Ford government has been picking away at Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights, which enshrines the public’s power to know and influence decisions that affect the environment. Here’s what’s left of it: thenarwhal.ca/environmenta...
Does Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights have teeth? | The Narwhal
The Doug Ford government has picked away at the law that enshrines the public’s power in decision-making that affects Ontario’s environment. Here’s what’s left
thenarwhal.ca
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Here we go! Last game in LA before the series heads back to Toronto!! Hopefully we come back with a lead in the series.

LET'S GO BLUE JAYS!!!

#WANTITALL #WorldSeries
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Today is my #birthday! I'm 1 year old 😀
When I came to live at my #foreverhome, I was 4 mo. old, scared and dubious. But I have the happiest, most loving home a dog could have. #FeelingLucky and #Happy today, playing and doing my favorite things
#Spike #Love #Dogsofbluesky
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Perie loves this game, too! 🤣🍁🍂🍁
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM