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Small farm life, nature, Jane Austen, art, couture, flowers. I immediately block fanatics, bots and anyone here just to fight.

[MsAm @SamMsAmShazam]

Me in Alberta, Canada; This is the coldest and most red neck place anywhere.

Me anywhere else: I am a child of the Rocky Mt. foothills, the aurora borealis and rugged individualism. I bleed Tamarack pine sap. Moose are a study in grandeur. I sleep to the lullaby of aspens.

[Georgia @Georgia_2890]

@XOQueenEsther Breaking News: Meghan has just completed her daily constitutional

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

Baby flamingo learning to paddle.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Canada turns 159 today. But the country only won full control of its own constitution 44 years ago, in 1982. And the reason it took that long had almost nothing to do with Britain. Canada's own provinces spent decades unable to agree.

The date everyone celebrates, July 1, 1867, was the day three British colonies merged into one. The Province of Canada, which split into Ontario and Quebec, joined Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to form a single country of four provinces. It was created by a law the British Parliament passed in London, the British North America Act. Canada ran its own daily affairs, but Britain still handled its foreign policy and had the final say over its military and any change to that founding document.

Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, wanted to name the new country the Kingdom of Canada. British officials rejected it. They thought "kingdom" sounded pretentious and worried it would irritate the United States next door, so they chose "dominion," a label for a self-governing country still under the Crown and the first time the word was used for a nation. July 1 stayed Dominion Day for the next 103 years.

For those 115 years, Canada's constitution was a British statute sitting in London. Any time Canadians wanted to amend their own founding document, they had to ask the British Parliament to make the change. In 1931 a British law called the Statute of Westminster offered Canada and the other dominions full legal independence. Canada took most of it and deliberately left one piece behind, because its federal and provincial governments could not agree on a homegrown method for approving future amendments. Rather than settle it, they left the power in London.

The deadlock broke in 1982. The British Parliament passed one final law for Canada, the Canada Act, whose own text said no British law would ever apply to Canada again. It got royal sign-off on March 29, 1982, exactly 115 years to the day after Queen Victoria approved the original in 1867. Weeks later, Queen Elizabeth II stood in Ottawa and proclaimed the new constitution. The holiday picked up its modern name the same year, rushed through a nearly empty House of Commons in about five minutes with only twelve members in the room, short of the number its own rules normally require.

One province still has not signed. Quebec never formally accepted the 1982 constitution, and it still has not today. So the country lighting 159 candles has actually governed its own founding document, on its own terms, for 44 of those years.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

You don't know what you got until its gone.

Eaton's (1869 - 1999)
Hudson's Bay Company (1670 - 2025)
Hockey Night In Canada (1930s - 2026)
Laurentiens (1930s - 2012)
Cherry Blossoms (1890s - 2025)
Zeller's Restaurant (1932 - 2000s)

[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

I took my 8-year-old daughter to the office with me on Take Your Kid to Work Day.

As we walked around the office, she started crying,

so I asked what was wrong with her.
As my colleagues gathered around, she sobbed:

'But daddy, where are all the clowns you said you worked with?'

[MsAm @SamMsAmShazam]

@_XDogs Aha

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@ThatEricAlper Bambi

[MsAm @SamMsAmShazam]

@lynne196469 The Temu Prince wants to butt in and grift off the Warrier games now that he's quit the real Royals, quit Sentabele under a dark cloud of irregular finances and his hold on the Ingriftus Games grows weaker. This wealthy man also leeched off Canadian taxpayers, he is horrible.

[🇨🇦🌻🤔🌈 @MgtmMoisan]

You'd think there would be mass protests from the Food & Beverage Industry (except maybe certain Pizza & Whistle places), Daycare parents, HOSPITALS (because they haven't been hit enough), Nursing homes, Butcher Shops, Delis, Bakeries & more because they want to keep customers.

[MsAm @SamMsAmShazam]

@joyannmarshall2 @MeghansMole My first thought too! 🤣

[MsAm @SamMsAmShazam]

Dementia risk and EGGS: how many times a week ACTUALLY helps https://t.co/DCFOHRD2OM via @YouTube

[MsAm @SamMsAmShazam]

@sage1411 Who would trust his judgment based on who he married?

[stubbs @WormwoodStubbs]

I received a lovely gift from my son's girlfriend, Emily. She painted it herself.

Featuring van Gogh's Starry Night, Clarice Cliff patterns and my English Bull Terrier, Sikes.

I love it. Thanks Emily x

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook parts of the southern Philippines early on Monday, June 8th

[MsAm @SamMsAmShazam]

@ThatEricAlper Van Morrison, anything. Lucinda Williams, Car

[Count Buffalo @countBuffalo25]

Good news don’t hit the same when you got nobody to tell

[MsAm @SamMsAmShazam]

@according2_taz Tx for posting. What a genuine beautiful video, I am crying with Claire and her partner. I feel so moved and deeply happy for her, a stranger. Princess Catherine naturally is there. No big show, gentle real hugs, gentle real words. Everyone here is beautiful.

[MsAm @SamMsAmShazam]

@MattSunRoyal Of course Catherine doesn't turn to the camera with a deeply emotive look and rictus though no doubt her face was situation-appropriate. As should be, attention to the dear woman ringing the bell. I wish her well; yay for her!

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

The challenge was to imitate emojis, but these kids treated it like a mission in life 😂