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[Nathan Coleman @NateTWN]

BC: Year-round Pacific times

Alberta: Year-round mountain daylight times

Nova Scotia: Year-round good times 🍻

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Zoomies.. 😊

[The Royal Canadian Legion @RoyalCdnLegion]

On World Mental Health Day, we want every Veteran, military member, and family member to know: you are never alone.

Invisible wounds are just as real as physical ones, and seeking support is a sign of strength. If you or someone you know needs support, reach out to resources like a Command Service Officer or your local Legion branch. Find a Service Officer in your area by visiting: https://t.co/dkFKOHe1S1

Let's look out for one another.

[Vanguard WWII @Vanguard_WW2]

🇬🇧A British submarine vanished with 61 men aboard.

Eighteen months later, one of them walked into a British consulate in Turkey!

On December 6, 1941, HMS Perseus struck an Italian mine off the Greek island of Kefalonia and plunged to the seabed.

John Capes was trapped in the stern with three wounded men. Wearing a primitive Davis escape apparatus, he opened the hatch and began an almost unimaginable ascent, from roughly 170 feet (51,8 m) below the surface.

Capes emerged alone into the freezing darkness. Then he swam nearly five miles to Kefalonia.

Greek islanders found him and risked their lives to hide him from Italian occupation troops. For 18 months, they moved him between homes and villages before secretly carrying him by boat to Turkey.

No one else aboard Perseus survived.

For decades, some doubted Capes. He had been traveling as a passenger, so his name did not appear on the submarine’s crew list. His escape simply sounded impossible.

Then, in 1997, divers found Perseus at 170 feet. Its stern escape hatch was open. Inside, crucial details matched Capes’s account.

He had escaped a steel coffin beneath the sea, and ordinary Greek civilians had kept him alive.

We post a forgotten World War II story every day. Most people never see them. Follow @Vanguard_WW2 so you don’t miss the next one.

[Cats in the Navy @CatsintheNavy]

Bosun, one of the mascots of Seamen’s Church Institute in the 1940s, traveled in a custom cat carrier designed to resemble the fo'c'sle of a ship, complete with a rack, playing cards, clothesline, and pin-ups on the bulkhead. Bosun always reported for duty wearing a hand-knitted watchman's cap. He also had a tiny corncob pipe and his own dufflebag. The Greenwich Village Humane Club chose Bosun as Cat of the Year in 1947.
#cat #cats #catlovers #catlore

[Cats in the Navy @CatsintheNavy]

Buggey was born on the liner Winchester Castle and sailed 200,000 miles over a two-year period. When the liner returned to England to be taken out of service in 1960, Buggey was left by himself because he could not transfer to another ship with the rest of the crew without spending six months in quarantine. Not wanting him to be lonely, customs officials decided to place him in a basket and escort him to his new ship, ensuring that he did not set a paw on English soil along the way. Successfully avoiding the need for quarantine, Buggey rejoined his crew and continued sailing the world.
#cat #cats #catlore

[Jordan @Jordan370462593]

Two grocery workers recreated The Prodigy’s “ Firestarter”
WTF did I just watch 😧😳🫣😂

[George Stroumboulopoulos 🐺 @strombo]

This track changed the rules and rewired brains. Including mine.

Smells Like Teen Spirit dropped 35 years ago.

[Andy Bowers @evilpez4]

Read the room, Hilroy. We’re still dealing with the lake.

[Happy Captain @EODHappyCaptain]

Guys, it takes zero dollars to care about other people.

It turns out one of my former EOD students was in the same hospital where my kiddo was born. Almost exactly the floor below me. So I went and said hi, just to see how he was.

You know how many times his command team visited him in the hospital before he was sent TDY for more care?

Zero.

Zero times.

It boggles my mind.

Remember to take care of the people that take care of you, and the nation.

Go be a good person and leader.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Tim Curry was a twentysomething stage actor in London when, in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s, he auditioned for a new musical spoof of B movies called “The Rocky Horror Show.” It became a sensation. But Curry’s career encompassed much more than “Rocky Horror”: a particularly delectable villain, he played Little Orphan Annie’s abductor (“Annie”), Long John Silver (“Muppet Treasure Island”), the Lord of Darkness (“Legend”), and the world’s scariest clown (“It”). He appeared in comedies as a mystery-solving butler (“Clue”), a harried concierge (“Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”), and King Arthur (“Spamalot”), and he had a feral, if short-lived, rock career. Revisit a 2025 interview with the actor, who died today, at age 80: https://t.co/2KgmqmNfIL

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Pendant plus d’un an, le Canada a travaillé sans relâche et en toute bonne foi avec les États-Unis en vue de négocier un nouvel accord commercial global. Nous avons été pragmatiques, patients et persévérants. Notre objectif a toujours été d’obtenir le meilleur accord possible pour les Canadiennes et les Canadiens. Il n’a jamais été question de signer un accord à tout prix ou à l’intérieur d’un délai donné.

Tard hier soir, j’ai ordonné à nos négociateurs de rentrer à Ottawa. Nous ne pouvons pas accepter ce que les États-Unis nous offrent, et nous refusons de leur accorder ce qu’ils nous demandent. 

Le Canada appliquera des droits de douane équivalents, au dollar près, à ceux imposés par les États-Unis, et ce, pour protéger les travailleurs, les agriculteurs, les familles et les entreprises du Canada. 

Dans les prochains jours, nous dévoilerons les détails de ces nouvelles mesures tarifaires, qui entreront en vigueur le mardi suivant la fête du Travail.

[The Tragically Hip @thehipofficial]

Out now! “Live July 22 – August 20, 2016”, a 29-track live album recorded across the country during the Man Machine Poem tour: https://t.co/4ELuv4K0Kt

The record is mixed and mastered in Dolby Atmos and is available as a 3LP gatefold with a double-sided poster, or as a 2CD set.

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

Gord Downie discussing whether he should stay in music in 1988. The Tragically Hip played their last show 10 years ago today. credit: cbc 🇨🇦

[McMichael Canadian Art Collection @mcacgallery]

Born on July 11 in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Pitaloosie Saila (1942-2021) began drawing in the early 1960s. By 1968, she was a prominent figure in the annual Cape Dorset collections, eventually creating an astonishing 1,450 drawings and over 165 prints for the Cape Dorset Print Collection!

Saila’s artwork cover a wide range of subjects, from people and animals to birds, traditional events and mythic beings.

You can explore an astounding 1305 of her drawings online in the Kinngait Drawing Archive → https://t.co/M3qD7q7s3H

Pitaloosie Saila (1942–2021), 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥, 1980–1981, wax crayon; felt-tip pen on paper, 56.6 x 76.4 cm, Collection of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative Ltd., on loan to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Reproduced with the permission of Dorset Fine Arts @DorsetFineArts

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Canada is designating German manufacturer TKMS as the preferred supplier for our next fleet of submarines. 

This will be the largest defence procurement in our nation’s history and it will have enormous, lasting benefits for Canadian industries and workers. Together with our German and Norwegian Allies, we will build at speed and scale to expand our strategic capabilities and defend our sovereignty.

We will build this fleet to build Canada strong.

[Andy Bowers @evilpez4]

Sign of the times