On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This is the 81st anniversary of this horrific event.
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I am a retired gay person & perpetually tired. I am enjoying life sometimes. #fibromyalgialife 🌈 🇨🇦🍁
"Shadows on the wall / Noises down the hall / Life doesn't frighten me at all". ~ Maya Angelou (1978)
Tatyana Ali is a breastfeeding advocate especially for the black community. She uses her platform to spotlight and close racial disparities in breastfeeding initiation and duration rates. #breastfeedingweek
This day focuses on workplace inclusion and supporting marginalized groups. Marginalized groups are populations that experience social, economic, and political exclusion such as racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people with disabilities. Marginalized groups NEED your allyship!
Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson, who covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during 35 years as chief anchor of CTV National News, has died. He was 92. Jan 19, 1934, (Stratford) to Aug 4, 2026. RIJ Lloyd! 🇨🇦
Celebrates felines worldwide and encourages supporting rescue shelters.
Daniel Kinchlea a 12-year-old from Canada who is navigating the challenges of being a rare disease patient. He has an undifferentiated autoinflammatory condition. Four years ago, Daniel wrote a book about a little dragon who lived in a time before dragon fire. #autoinflammatoryawarenessmonth
August 4 features international awareness days dedicated to wildlife conservation.
Dr. Ronald Laxer is an active staff physician in the Division of Rheumatology at Sick Kids, Toronto 🇨🇦. He is internationally recognized in the field of autoinflammatory disease, and has been a part of genetic discoveries of several new autoinflammatory diseases. #autoinflammatoryawarenessmonth
(Left to right) Mary Ann Cahill, Betty Wagner, Mary Ann Kerwin, Mary White, Marian Tompson, and Edwina Froehlich. Viola Lennon is the Founder missing in the photo. La Leche League was founded in 1956 by these seven women in the Chicago, Illinois, USA. #breastfeedingweek llli.org/about/our-st...
Beauty is all-around us. Does the first photo hold beauty for you?
Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra: Donates thousands of ounces of excess milk due to hyper-lactation syndrome. She holds the Guinness World Record for the largest individual donation of breast milk. #BreastfeedingMonth
St. Catharines experienced intense storms and heavy rainfall yesterday (Sunday, August 2, 2026), measuring over 100 mm in most parts of the city. This followed an earlier major flash flood event from late July that dropped over 138 mm. 😞 🇨🇦
Today, my friends, I ask you to think about peace between nations by sharing peace quotes from Albert Einstein. It seems peace between nations is hard to obtain, but we MUST work at it. Maybe share one of these quotes with a politician or two. 🕊
The struggle for liberation continues! It is terrible that slavery still exists in 2026! An estimated 49.6 to 50 million people worldwide live in modern slavery. India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and Indonesia house the largest total populations of enslaved people. 😥🤬 #EmancipationDay 🇨🇦
This day helps raise public awareness around risk factors, reducing stigma, and connecting patients to resources for lung cancer. www.lung.ca/lung-disease...
This important initiative shines a light on systemic autoinflammatory diseases (SAIDs) – rare, often misunderstood conditions that deserve more attention, research, and support.
Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival and yet currently, fewer than half of infants under 6 months old are exclusively breastfed. www.who.int/campaigns/wo...
The Tibetan community in Canada numbers roughly 9,350 people, with the majority living in the Greater Toronto Area, particularly in the Parkdale neighbourhood ("Little Tibet"), and smaller groups in Calgary and Vancouver. With this info. #tibetanheritagemonthontario 🇨🇦 ends.
There are approximately 105,000 people of Egyptian origin living in Canada, forming vibrant communities centered largely in Ontario and Quebec. With this info. we end #egyptianheritagemonthontario 🇨🇦
Nearly 700,000 Canadians aged 15 and older identify as both 2SLGBTQ+ and having a disability. About 1.3 billion people in the world have a disability (WHO) With this info, we say goodbye to #PrideDisabiltyMonth, but let us never forget about the disabled and their challenges!
I missed this day yesterday. As you may know police have made multiple arrests in Halton’s largest human trafficking bust on July 28. It is happening in Canada! So, let's raise awareness, protect victims, and stop modern slavery! www.un.org/en/observanc...
