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Paris, Ontario 🇨🇦 Paddle your own canoe 🛶 Buy Canadian ⚡️🌈🏕️ Lived in 🇺🇸 for a time
🌎"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong. Remembering Neil Armstrong on his birthday. 💐💐💐
#OTD in 1914, Canada entered the First World War. While serving a Dispatch Carrier during the First World War, long distance runner Tom Longboat was escorting an officer who struggled to keep up and complained "Who do you think I am? Tom Longboat?" buff.ly/EE1V9cK
Heritage Minute: Tom Longboat
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Majestic mountains along Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta. #photographersofbluesky #nature #mountains #canada #landscapephotography #travel
A twin-engine medevac plane. Two pilots. Two medical staff. Experimental US military GPS jamming test. Short-staffed air-traffic control. Poor visibility around a mountain range. No survivors. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
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Thirteen belugas have already moved to new homes. Seventeen other belugas, four dolphins, hundreds of deer and several dozen employees at Marineland will all soon be gone. Then there will be no more captive whales or dolphins in Canada. #Belugas #Dolphins #Marineland www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Everyone loved Marineland — then the tide turned. A look inside the park's final days | CBC News
Gone are the millions of visitors from the marine park's glory days who came to see apex predators such as killer whales, lovable seals, sea lions and dolphins and the world's largest pod of captive b...
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Albeit slow, progress is being made on the wall along the southern border. #Canada
Nanaimo has a few things on Phoenix: more career fulfillment, no ICE raids and tastier tap water macleans.ca/society/kell...
I Survived Nursing in America. Canada Is a Welcome Change. - Macleans.ca
Nanaimo has a few things on Phoenix: more career fulfillment, no ICE raids and tastier tap water
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2 dead from cyclospora infection. So far. Lax regulations, voluntary standards and not enough food safety oversight. Dump the drumph. www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...
Michigan reports 1st 2 U.S. deaths related to diarrhea-causing parasite | CBC News
Two people have died in the Cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday, the first deaths confirmed in the U.S. related to the microscopic parasite. The Michigan Departmen...
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In his 40 years as a lobster fisherman, Robert Wagner had never seen a critter like it: a half-blue, half-orange lobster, right down the middle. The mutation occurs in about one out of every 50 million lobster. #Lobster #NovaScotia #Aquarium www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
One in 50 million: Oscar the two-coloured lobster lands in N.S. aquarium | CBC News
In his 40 years as a lobster fisherman, Robert Wagner had never seen a critter like it: a half-blue, half-orange lobster, split down the middle from head to tail. "I said, 'Wow! I've never seen that l...
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Federal officials announced the recent authorization of Moderna’s mRNA shot on Tuesday, making Canada just the second country to launch a Phase 1 clinical trial for a Bundibugyo vaccine candidate after the U.K. #Ebola #Vaccine #Outbreak www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Health Canada authorizes mRNA vaccine trial for Ebola virus causing huge outbreak in Congo | CBC News
Health Canada has given Moderna the green light to launch a clinical trial for a vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo form of the Ebola virus, which continues to surge throughout the Democratic Republic o...
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HPL is working with the City of Hamilton's Indigenous relations team to plan the site's future. According to HPL's website, "the vision includes a new library branch, an Indigenous gathering space, a café and visitor amenities." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Hamilton Public Library opens new branch focusing on Indigenous books and resources | CBC News
The Hamilton Public Library opened a new, Indigenous-focused branch at Pier 8. Called West Harbour, it will be there temporarily while the library works out a plan for a permanent location.
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Phi Kappa Psi fraternity pledges at Indiana University were ordered to do push-ups, planks, squats and deadlifts for 3 hours. 2 were hospitalized. The fraternity told one, via text, to lie about how he got his injuries. Shut it all down. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
7 Indiana University fraternity members charged for hazing that led to 2 hospitalizations
Seven members of a fraternity at Indiana University are now facing criminal charges for hazing methods that led to two pledges being hospitalized in 2025.
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A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
Today I learned There a Columbo statue in Budapest, Hungary, but not one in LA, or New York. Peter Falk was of Hungarian descent. “If a statue of Columbo and Dog isn’t reason enough to put a trip to Budapest on your bucket list, then nothing is.” columbophile.com/2016/07/10/w...
Why is there a Columbo statue in Budapest?
Trawl through the #Columbo hashtag on Instagram and it won’t be long before you spy a multitude of plucky tourists cuddling up to a familiar-looking bronze figure, striking a classic pose. It…
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A group of Canadians confronted the sleazeball when he travelled to Canada to have səx with a 15-year-old girl. The initial investigation ended without charges after sleaze wouldn't return an FBI agent's calls. Dumbass FBI. The Canadians were right. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Canadian vigilantes confronted him. Nearly two years later, he pleaded guilty in a U.S. sex case | CBC News
The FBI investigated a New York man in 2024 after Canadian 'vigilantes' confronted him and warned he had travelled to sexually abuse a minor. It took another two years and a girl’s disappearance for t...
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Whales are dying in British Columbia waters — some struck by vessels, others unable to find food because of ship noise. W̱SÁNEĆ Marine Guardians, an Indigenous-led monitoring initiative, combined with volunteer citizen scientists, alert ships to whale movements. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Whales are dying in B.C. waters. Here's how 2 groups are trying to save them | CBC News
An estimated 20,000 whales are killed worldwide by vessel strikes each year, according to the International Marine Mammal Project.
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The US announced in July that it was rescinding a definition of "harm" under the country's Endangered Species Act. “That is absolutely going to affect wildlife populations in Canada." “They spend months each year in places where habitat protections have been weakened.” www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
Trump weakened U.S. habitat protections. Canadian wildlife could pay the price | CBC News
The Trump administration is being sued by conservation groups over a change they say will weaken habitat protection for endangered species. In Canada, experts say the move could also harm animals that...
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WestJet and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have reached a tentative deal, ending a strike that has led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights #Unions #WestJet #CUPE www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...
WestJet, CUPE reach tentative deal to end strike by flight attendants | CBC News
Calgary-based WestJet and the Canadian Union of Public Employees have reached a tentative deal, ending a strike that has led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights, both sides said early Monday.
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To be clear for any 🇺🇸ns, back bacon, or rashers, comes from the pork loin of a pig. The dish originated in Canada and is different from American-style streaky bacon, which comes from pork belly and has much more fat. Ham is a cured whole cut of meat from the pig’s leg.
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Wildfires across more than 250,000 acres have forced evacuations and caused power outages in the Washington state's Spokane area. No word on forest mismanagement from the White House. Canadian Parliament will not protest the smoke. #Wildfires www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Washington state hit by wildfires as thousands evacuated and emergency declared
State officials said wildfires across more than 250,000 acres have led to widespread evacuations and power outages.
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Kyle Reyes continued Canada’s judo medal haul at the Commonwealth Games with gold in the men’s -100-kilogram weight class on the final day of competition. #CommonwealthGames #Glasgow2026 www.cbc.ca/sports/commo...
Kyle Reyes wins Canada's 4th gold, 7th medal overall in judo at Glasgow 2026 | CBC Sports
Kyle Reyes continued Canada’s judo medal haul at the Commonwealth Games with gold in the men’s -100-kilogram weight class on the final day of competition in Glasgow.
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Good things about the Commonwealth Games: 1) I like the para sports being alongside all non-para events, it’s decent. 2) Jerusalem plays when England wins gold and it fucking SLAPS, such a banger, God Save the Whoever should be binned. 3) No USA. End of list.
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Damian Warner battled to a silver in the decathlon, as Grenada's Lindon Victor captured his third consecutive Commonwealth Games title. #CommoneealthGames #Glasgow2026 www.cbc.ca/sports/the-b...
Commonwealth Games guide: Warner battles to silver, and who to watch this weekend | CBC Sports
CBC Sports' daily newsletter recaps Canada's eight-medal Friday at the Commonwealth Games, including a gutsy silver by decathlon star Damian Warner. Plus, who to watch on the final weekend of competition.
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Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun. — Brian Bilston www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Shooting at In-and-Out Burger in Idaho Leaves at Least 3 Dead and 2 Injured, Official Says
A spokesman for Twin Falls cautioned that the number of victims was “expected to be higher.” The police said the shooter was dead.
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Canada's total GDP was $2.63 trillion in 2025. Quebec and Ontario produced 60% of that. The media aren't helping to explain it, and social media is driving disinformation about it. Do you know how equalization actually works? #cdnpoli
Athabasca Falls Banff National Park Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 I captured this just off the famed Icefields Parkway, during my adventure in the Canadian Rockies. #waterfalls #nature #hiking #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #river #canada
Greece is set to become the first European country to receive the new Canadair CL-515 “Super Scooper” firefighting aircraft as the EU works to replace part of its aging aerial firefighting fleet. greekreporter.com/2026/07/31/g...
Greece Set to Receive Europe’s First Next-Generation Canadair Aircraft - GreekReporter.com
Greece will receive Europe’s first CL-515 Canadair firefighting aircraft as the EU updates its aerial response to major wildfires.
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