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CBC/Radio-Canada is a pillar of our Canadian identity. 
 
We’re going to strengthen our public broadcaster with more long-term funding, and a modernized mandate — to deliver more local news and keep Canadians better informed during emergencies.
April 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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This Golden-crowned Kinglet had a busy afternoon zig-zagging through the trees in Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, BC. I was quite surprised that I managed to get a clear picture of him.

#birds #goldencrownedkinglet
A Golden-crowned Kinglet, with its back to the camera and its head turned to the left, stands on a branch of a cedar tree.
March 31, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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A Yellow-rumped warbler shows off his yellow rump while perched on a branch of a tree in the woods at Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, BC.

#birds #yellowrumpedwarbler
A Yellow-rumped Warbler with its back to the camera faces three-quarters to the right is perched on a twig of a branch while framed by other thin branches that cross the picture at odd angles.
April 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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A Red-Breasted Nuthatch in Lelem Park at UBC, Vancouver.

#Birds #redbreastednuthatch
Image: A Red-breasted Nuthatch in profile facing right stands on the stub of a branch on a conifer.
March 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Q: Why did the Spotted Towhee cross the road?

A: It was the chicken's day off.

Beside the pond in Lelem Park at UBC, Vancouver, BC.

#birds #spottedtowhee #humor
A Spotted Towhee, facing three-quarters right, stands on an asphalt path.
March 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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"What's up?"

A Black-capped Chickadee scans the sky.

At Vancouver, BC.

#birds #chickadee #birdphotography
A Black-capped Chickadee looks upward while partially hidden by the leaves of a bush. The Chickadee, in three-quarter view facing left, is perched on a thin branch that angles up from the bottom of the picture just to the right of centre to the upper left corner.
March 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The question isn’t if Trump would try to exceed his power, but when. That time is now. Seeming to defy courts & using the rare war powers in 1789 AEA law to perform unlawful deportations is the latest step to replace the Constitution with authoritarianism. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...
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March 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Not sure if it was a blind date or if she was just a gracious host showing him her home.
A male Hooded Merganser was paddling around the pond with a female Mallard for about fifteen minutes.
At Lelem Park, UBC, Vancouver, BC.

#birds #ducks #merganser #mallard
In a pond strewn with reeds a male Hooded Merganser (front) paddles beside a female Mallard (back). Both are seen in profile facing the right side of the picture.
March 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Calm-Down Strategies for Teachers
SFU Faculty Associates I was delighted to be invited to work with Krista Rutschmann and Jasmeet Hothi’s K-12 module of student teachers at Gordon Greenwood Elementary School in Langley. These SFU s…
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February 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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BC Literacy Council News: Congrats to Allison Smith, Latest Literacy Grant Winner!
Allison Smith is new to the B.C. Literacy Council of the International Literacy Association but she is not new to education. She is in her 29th year as an English Language Learning teacher. Her car…
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February 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Literacy4Students: The Teacher and the Book
Guess the Staff by Favourite Book I was captivated by this bulletin board today. Such a simple concept. Each teacher selects a favourite book and holds it in front of her face. The picture is snapp…
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January 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Literacy 4 Students: Maud Lewis Finds Joy
I happened to stumble on the house of the artist Maud Lewis tucked away in the Halifax Museum many years ago. Since then I’ve research more about her life and seen the movie. Yet nothing capt…
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January 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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A Great Blue Heron watching the pond at Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, BC.

#birds #greatblueheron #heron
A Great Blue Heron, hunched with its neck in an S held close to its body is perched on a branch over a pond. The bird is facing the camera with its head turned to the right side of the picture.
January 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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I am investing in Canada. #buyCanadian
January 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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A Black-capped Chickadee giving me a quizzical look.

#birds #blackcappedchickaddd #chickadee
A small bird standing on a broken rotting stick on the ground among other sticks and leaves. The bird, a black-capped chickadee's body is facing the camera at slight angle to the right. Its head is turned to the left and tilted slightly up to the right. Only one eye is visible.
January 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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An American Coot in the pond at Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, BC.

#birds #americancoot #coot
January 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A Bald Eagle being chased by a Gull over the pier at Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC.

#birds #baldeagle #eagles #gulls
Image two birds in flight in profile facing the right side of the picture. One bird, a Gull, is in the upper left corner with its wings up. The other bird, a mature Bald Eagle, is in the lower right corner with its wings pointing down. They are set against a sky background, clear blue a the top and indistinct white-ish clouds horizontal across the bottom.
January 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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A Mallard pair showing off their stripes.

In the pond at Lelem Village, UBC, Vancouver, BC.
A pair of Mallard ducks, female (foreground) and male (background). They are seen in profile, the female facing to the left side of the image and the male is facing to the right. They are standing out of the water on some reed stalks that have fallen into the water of a pond. Their wings are tucked up slightly so that their wing stripes ( narrow white, narrow black, wide blue, narrow black, narrow white) are visible.
January 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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An Anna's Hummingbird perched on the tip of a cherry tree branch below my balcony on a drizzly Vancouver morning.

#birds #hummingbird #annashummingbird #rainyday
image: a humming bird is perched on a group of buds at the end of a cherry tree branch. The bird is in the centre of the picture and the branch angles down to the left corner. The bird is facing two-thirds towards the left with its head tilted almost straight up. It's whole head is iridescent pink. It appears to be wondering when the rain will stop.
January 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Planet Gazing.

Here's a picture I took of Jupiter Saturday night.

The positions of its moons Callisto and Europa made me think it looked like a cat, so I added a face.

Camera: Nikon P1000
Moon ID: Sky & Telescope's Jupiter's moons tracking app.

#jupiter #astronomy #stargazing #cat #planets
1 of 3 Image of Jupiter and its four Galilean moons. The planet and moons are white spots on a black background. The moons appear as four small dots forming a vague diagonal line from bottom left to top right. two-thirds up is a large white dot, Jupiter, with two of the smaller dots on its edge. The moons are, from the bottom, Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, and Io. Picture taken from Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2 of 3 Image of Jupiter and its four Galilean moons. The planet and moons are white spots on a black background. The moons appear as four small dots forming a vague diagonal line from bottom left to top right. two-thirds up is a large white dot, Jupiter, with two of the smaller dots on its edge. The image has been labelled identifying the moons, which are, from the bottom: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, and Io. Picture taken from Vancouver, BC, Canada. Moon identification from the Sky & Telescope Jupiter's moons tracking app. 3 of 3 Image of Jupiter and its moons Callisto (left) and Io (right). The moons are close to the edge of Jupiter and are, in this image situated such that they look like ears. A face has been drawn on Jupiter, consisting of two dots for eyes, a third dot for a nose, a curved w forming the upper lips of a mouth with a red half circle for a tongue. There are two lines on either side of the mouth in a horizontal V shape for whiskers. This cat likes you very much.
December 30, 2024 at 4:13 AM