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Shawna Caspi
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singer-songwriter, likes painting with words and painting on canvases.

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Sometimes it's 1am and you just have to make dumplings. 🥟🥟🥟🥟
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Things that are great but are brutal to clean:
- Juicer
- BBQ
- Humidifier
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Fellow music-makers, when you say your new release is out on "all platforms", please include @bandcamp.com.
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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No need to wave around the "adult entertainment" media magnet wand. The scandal here is that the Ontario government created a funding program, had an objective jury assess applications, and then the labour minister ignored the assessments and just gave the $ to Doug Ford's donors and business buds.
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The Louvre cyber security team just endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Never stop loving internal rhymes.
October 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Yeah, I hate how people want to be housed for like their ENTIRE LIVES!
goldsbie.bsky.social Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · Oct 23
At a press conference this afternoon, Attorney General Doug Downey said they want to move away from requiring "evergreen leases, that just go on with no end in sight":
Reporter: With respect to what we were told this morning about the government consulting on “alternative options” essentially that could allow landlords to end leases — I think this is a question best for the Attorney General? Just wondering what you are looking at there. Attorney General Doug Downey: Well, we've heard from stakeholders that these evergreen leases, that just go on with no end in sight, may not be the appropriate — other jurisdictions, when we did a scan across the country, do different things. But we weren't confident that we had the answer, and we only want to move with confidence. So we're going to go back out and talk to landlords and tenants and organizations and see if there's a better way for the people of Ontario to unlock that housing that isn't happening now. Reporter: But that's housing that people are in. They're tenants, right? It's hard to see a world in which, if you're giving landlords more power to end leases, that they're not gonna want to get in a tenant that will pay more. So is this not inevitably gonna end up with higher rents, more people getting kicked out of their rentals? Downey: We're gonna consult widely on it. What we do know is there are a lot of landlords that are not putting their units on the market. We need to get those units. I'm convinced if we get the right balance, we'll unlock tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of new units, and those will be places that people that currently don't have a place to be will be able to rent. Reporter: So, sorry, you're saying that if landlords, there are some landlords that if there are more flexible types of agreements that they would be willing to rent currently unrented spaces? Downey: I’ve been told that repeatedly, for years, that some landlords are not entering the market because they don't have confidence in it.
October 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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If the price-gouging of Blue Jays tickets is the issue that gets Ontarians to finally vote in elections again, then fine I'll take it.

#ONpoli
October 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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The world dims at 6:00pm now, and the end of Daylight Saving Time looms.

Prepare to light up the dark. 🕯️
October 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Currently mulling the first hot apple cider of the season.
So you can either grab a hoodie and join me in my Fall Folly or go on.
🍂🍎
October 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Who keeps putting raisins in cookies?? I thought we discussed this...
October 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reposted by Shawna Caspi
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We are facing very serious and difficult economic and geopolitical instabilities right now.

- Everybody

……………..

You know what bugs me most these day, folks? Photo radar.

- Doug Ford
September 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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A rainy day is the only break we get from construction noise in this city.
September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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My wallet is a graveyard of Bulk Barn coupons.
September 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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When you hear about a non-US artist cancelling or postponing a US tour due to "unforeseen circumstances", it's probably because they're still waiting on their work visa, which can now take up to 12 months to be processed by USCIS.
September 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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This is still about shorting stocks, right? I was supposed to buy Disney two days ago and Tylenol yesterday?
September 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Same, same.
weratedogs.com WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Sep 22
This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)
a small brown dog leaps up from behind a pile of crunchy brown leaves. her eyes and mouth are open wide, and her big floppy ears are extended out like wings to either side.
September 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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ttcalerts.bsky.social TTC Alerts @ttcalerts.bsky.social · Jun 16
Line 1 Yonge-University: Delays southbound at Osgoode station while we clean an unsanitary train.
June 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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The Bloor/St George intersection is absolute chaos. It's like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer tries to build a barbecue and it ends up as a pile of tangled concrete and bricks. Who designed this? #TOpoli
June 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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The streets are yours to take, America.
Imagine if, instead of wasteful parades and illegal detainments, you had, say, universal healthcare.
Putting your bodies in the way isn't the only form of protest, but it is an important one. If you're out there today, I wish you a safe resistance.
June 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Surrounded by peepers and gulls along the Washademoak River, and I'd take this sound over Toronto construction and air conditioner units any night.
June 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Reposted by Shawna Caspi
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Less than a week before we get year 10 going. 8 stages, 5 days, and 60+ artists.
Full festival pass only $70
May 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Get your lawn chair or blanket ready!

Smiths Falls Porchfest is coming up on Saturday, May 31 and I'll be playing at 5:40pm at 22 George Street:

www.insideottawavalley.com/things-to-do...
Live music returns to the porches of Smiths Falls
Smiths Falls Porchfest is returning on May 31 with a variety of local and award-winning artists.
www.insideottawavalley.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Thank you for spreading the word about this show across the bridge in #Dartmouth , @halifaxpresents.com ! ❤️

I'm playing Sunday, June 8 at Port Wallis United Church.
Tickets: pwuc.square.site
May 24, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Before and after flying Air Canada.
weratedogs.com WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · May 15
This is Louie. He got a really bad haircut. And also a villain origin story. 13/10 (TT: maddiehilaski)
a cavapoo with long hair in various shades of gray sits and poses for the camera. his mouth is open and his pink tongue sticks out, his curly hair situated every which way on the top of his head. text on the image says, "the dog i dropped off." a photo of the cavapoo with text that reads, "the dog i picked up." the pup's luscious fur has been trimmed all the way down, leaving him with a skinny body, but fluffy ears and tail. the pup looks at the camera with an uncanny human expression of disgust. he looks very angry about his new hairdo.
May 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM