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On this day in 1967, the City of Halifax bulldozed Africville's century-old church in the night after forging documents to change the date of sale from 1968 to 1967.

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A black-and-white photograph depicting a small town with a prominent church featuring a steeple and arched windows in the foreground. The church is situated along a muddy, unpaved road with visible tire tracks and puddles. In the background, there are power lines supported by tall utility poles, and a hillside with numerous modest houses. A few cars are parked along the road, and a person is sitting on a bench near the right side of the image. The sky is overcast with scattered clouds.
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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While Sir Frederick Banting was a driving force behind the discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, he was by no means the only one on the team.
There was also James Macleod, Charles Best and today's subject...James Collip.
This is his story.

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Black and white vintage photograph of a man wearing round glasses, a white lab coat over a collared shirt and tie, sitting with arms crossed and hands resting on a table. He has short hair and a slight smile. Behind him are shelves holding stacks of papers and books in what appears to be an office or laboratory setting.
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Whoever is responsible for making “paste with formatting” the default behaviour should be arrested and tried at The Hague for war crimes against humanity.
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Despite living next door in Nova Scotia, I just crossed the bridge for the first time this year. I don’t go to PEI very often LOL
cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d
For over 100 years, there were plans in place to build a fixed link between Prince Edward Island and the Canadian mainland.
An underground tunnel and a causeway were both proposed before a bridge was built.
This is the story of the Confederation Bridge.

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Aerial view of the Confederation Bridge, a long, curving two-lane bridge supported by numerous white concrete pillars, stretching across calm blue ocean waters from a green forested shoreline on the left toward a distant hazy landmass on the horizon under a clear light blue sky. The bridge appears to vanish into the distance over the sea.
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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♻️ A new recycling model starts Dec. 1 as the region adopts an extended producer responsibility system. More materials will be accepted for recycling, while some items will need to be reused, donated, or taken to depots.

www.halifax.ca/home-propert...

#Recycling #HRM #WasteManagement #NovaScotia
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Note that #Halifax was already a thriving port city in 1794, when #Toronto was still log cabins.
cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 3d
The oldest surviving building in Toronto is a tiny log cabin built in 1794.
When the cabin was built, York (now Toronto) was only one-year-old.
It has seen the city grow around it and it is a glimpse into the distant past.
This is the story of the Scadding Cabin!

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A color photograph of a small historic log cabin with weathered wooden walls and a shingled gable roof, featuring a front door flanked by two small multi-pane windows with brown shutters and one open window. Red fabric drapes are tied to the wooden split-rail fence in the foreground, along with informational plaques on the fence and cabin wall reading "Scadding Cabin" and details about its history as Toronto's oldest house, built in 1794, open to the public. Large green trees frame the scene under a cloudy sky, with a grassy area, flowers, sidewalk, and distant parked cars visible.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Since its founding in 1985, Delivering Good has distributed more than $3 billion worth of #clothing, #toys, and other #home goods to people affected by #poverty, #disaster, and other life challenges—all free of charge.
#Charity #NonProfit

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Impressive Nonprofit Marks 40 Years of ‘Delivering Good’ by the Billions to Kids and Families Who Need it Most
An impressive nonprofit is marking its 40th anniversary, distributing billions of dollars of new merchandise from retailers to families in need.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Family took a childhood utterance and spun it into a line of merchandise with proceeds going to charities that pay for gear, rink time, and team fees for kids who want to play hockey but whose families can’t afford the expense
#Hockey #HockeyIsForEveryone

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Boy's Great Tagline Helps Raise Thousands For Underprivileged Kids to Afford Hockey
"I'm tired of just being a rink dude," he said in frustration. That day, the Rink Dude brand was born.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Why were there so many sculptures (36 marbles and 16 bronzes) in the Antikythera wreck (70-50 BCE)? A great new, open access article by Brian Martens for ABSA argues they were for a gymnasion. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A really interesting take 125 years after this monumental discovery.
Fig. 27. Marble statue of Poseidon from Melos, made from two main pieces joined at the hips (Athens, National Archaeological Museum Γ 235), two views. H. 2.35 m. Photos: J. Vanderpool; National Archaeological Museum, Athens, © Hellenic Ministry of Culture/Organization of Cultural Resources Development (H.O.C.RE.D.).
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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#GoHabsGo
At the Bell Centre in Montreal for the Canadians vs Bruins game
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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What in the #LateStageCapitalism is this shit?
November 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Way to go #Halifax! Let’s prove to the #PWHL that w deserve a team!
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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The #PWHL has a very logical solution to the EBUG problem.
lachinthecrease.com Lachlan Irvine @lachinthecrease.com · 5d
A couple #PWHL rule updates today:
1) PWHL teams are eligible to carry three goalies. If a goalie is injured and forced to leave the game, a scratched goalie can immediately join the bench. 1st goalie would then be ruled ineligible for the rest of the night.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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“The AI models struggled to match the level of casual negativity and spontaneous emotional expression common in human social media posts.”

Doesn’t this say more about the human’s expectations, than it does the “failure” of #AI to be “sufficiently toxic”

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Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
New “computational Turing test” reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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“The #FAA is concerned with the system’s ability to maintain the current volume of operations.”

This sounds very typical of how inefficient Authoritarian governments function in your average 3rd World country.

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The government shutdown is starting to have cosmic consequences
“The FAA is concerned with the system’s ability to maintain the current volume of operations.”…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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“We find it remarkable that you are working so hard to meet the needs of a single billionaire while keeping the rest of the neighborhood in the dark.”

To me, this sounds pretty typical and how I would expect things to work in the U.S. The alternative is socialism!

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Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Sour Puss moves some liqueur production from US to Canada after trade war devastates sales. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #Winning

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Sour Puss moves some liqueur production to Canada after trade war devastates sales
American distiller Phillips Distilling Company is moving production of its Sour Puss alcoholic beverage to Montreal in order to regain the Canadian market.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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WOOOO! Got my ticket for the #PWHL #TakeoverTour in #Halifax 😄
Let’s Go #Victoire
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Goon
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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#Space #CSA #NASA #Canadarm
cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 7d
On this day in 1981 at 9 a.m., Richard Truly deployed the Canadarm from the Space Shuttle Columbia while orbiting the Earth. It was the first time that the Canadarm was deployed in space.

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An astronaut in a spacesuit is working in space, positioned near the payload bay of a space shuttle with its cargo bay doors open. A large robotic arm labeled "Canada" extends from the shuttle, holding a payload. The Earth is visible in the background with a blue atmosphere and cloud formations against the blackness of space.
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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@adamwylde.bsky.social To answer your question, the NHL equivalent of the Luka Doncic trade is the Patrick Roy trade.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Watch out for messages like this. Do not click the link in the message.
#Spam #Scam #Phishing #Security
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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If Paris Hilton became a book publisher
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Is this who the Spin Doctors were singing about? #90s
partialhistorians.bsky.social The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 8d
✨The Two Princes✨

Gaius and Lucius or Britannicus and Nero? The identity of these two young men depicted in heroic nude at Aphrodisias is up for debate, but that we’re looking at imperial youths is clear. The figure on the left holds the orb of the world—a clear sign of rule.

#ReliefWednesday
Two youths stand naked, wearing cloaks. The left figure holds the orb of the world in one hand and in the other a ship's stern ornament (aphlaston). The details of what the figure to the right held is now unclear. This relief is part of the collection of the Aphrodisias Museum.
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM