David Kristie 🇨🇦🇺🇦

Retired @AcadiaU plant biology professor. Gardener, hiker, canoeist, x-country skier, Ti-cat fan. Second generation Ukrainian-Canadian

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

🇨🇦 GEN. CARIGNAN: Our Ukrainian partners offer us incredible role model in terms of innovation, creativity, combativeness, fighting spirit, endurance, and courage. Canada has lot to learn from current Ukrainian fight.

It's very important to us that Ukrainians succeed in their fight, whether it's idea of democracy, freedom, or security of Europe, which is important to Canada because we see Russia from our northern border.

We are also mindful of their time. Ukrainians are in the middle of the fight, but they are incredibly generous in sharing their lessons.

So, there's an incredible amount of lessons we're learning from our Ukrainian partners. And we want to integrate that into our system and our way of operating, as part of our own transformation.

[Lexi 👸🏼 @LexiBuffalo]

Everyone outside of the Western NY and Ontario, CA border is shocked that Buffalonians know the words to the Canadian National Anthem that are sung at every Sabres game. We’ve been deeply intertwined for decades and not just for a tight-knit hockey community- professional and youth.

Growing up along the WNY/Ontario border in the 80s & 90s meant no-fee border crossing, no ID req’d, and we were only asked to state our citizenship. Summer vacations were spent along Canada’s south shores, where many WNY families still own cottages. SO many memories were made at Crystal Beach & Amusement Park, Canada’s Wonderland, water parks, and African Lion Safari.

In our teens, we realized that Niagara Falls, CA puts the US side to shame. Lundy’s Lane is like a mini Times Square, except with full-nude full-bar gentlemen’s clubs, and Ontario’s legal drinking age is 19+! As teens we’d cross the border at 16 (still no ID req’d) and go to nightclubs showing fake IDs of drinking age.

As we got older, we discovered Toronto and all the incredible shopping, restaurants, and culture it offers, along with professional sports teams and can catch a game almost any day of the week. BUF-TO is only a 1.5 hr drive without traffic.

At least 25% of Bills fans in attendance at the games are Canadian, and many are season ticket holders!

Buffalo, the City of Good Neighbors. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

The visibility of all pro‑Ukrainian accounts, including mine, has dropped dramatically. Please help me fight the algorithm by visiting my profile and boosting posts about today’s Russian war crimes.

Pic for attention.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

The Robin Hood of Butter Pot led the Masterless Men of Newfoundland.
This society was made up of individuals who sought freedom in the interior of the island, free of British rule.
No matter what the British did, they could never catch them.
This is their story.

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[John Ibbitson @JohnIbbitson]

What an extraordinary chart. Canadians and Americans have grown so far apart in their attitudes toward their fellow citizens. As a former Washington correspondent, it’s deeply saddening to me. (But good on us!)

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

James Doohan wasn’t just Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, he was also a Canadian who served his country and landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Then he turned to acting, was trained by Lorne Greene and even helped develop the Klingon language.
This is his story.

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[UNSENSRD @unsensrd]

You can’t teach humility 🇨🇦

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

A Polish man married a Canadian girl after he had been in Canada a year or so, and although his English was far from perfect, the couple got on very well.

One day, though, he rushed into a lawyer’s office and asked if he could arrange a divorce for him, "Very quick!"

The lawyer explained that the speed of getting a divorce would depend on the circumstances, and asked these questions.

LAWYER: "Have you any grounds?"

POLE: "An acre and half, and a nice 3 bedroom house."

LAWYER: "No, I mean what is the foundation of the case?"

POLE: "It is made of concrete, bricks & mortar."

LAWYER: "Does either of you have a real grudge?"

POLE: "No, we have a carport and don’t need a grudge."

LAWYER: "I mean, what are your relations like?"

POLE: "All my relations live in Poland."

LAWYER: "Is there any infidelity in your marriage?"

POLE: "Yes, we have hi-fidelity stereo set & DVD player with 6.1 sound."

LAWYER: "No, I mean does your wife beat you up?"

POLE: "No, I’m always up before her."

LAWYER: "Why do you want this divorce?"

POLE: "She going to kill me!"

LAWYER: "What makes you think that?"

POLE: "I got proof."

LAWYER: "What kind of proof?"

POLE: "She going to poison me. She buy bottle at drug store and I read label. It say Polish Remover."

[Pandemic A. Index @pan_accindex]

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[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

In 1999, Nancy Greene was voted Canada's female athlete of the 20th Century.
One of Canada's greatest skiers, she dominated the skiing world in the late-1960s and was instrumental in developing skiing opportunities throughout Canada.
This is her story.

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[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Due to poor economic conditions, the eruption of Mount Askja and lack of available land, 20,000 Icelanders left their homes to settle elsewhere from 1870 to 1915.
Many came to Canada, settling on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg outside the confines of Manitoba.

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[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

When the United States passed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, it led many to seek freedom outside the USA.
From 1850 and 1860, between 15,000 to 20,000 escaped enslaved persons came to the Province of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
This is the story.

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[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

"On this day in 1980, the Canadian government and Canadian officials in Iran (who protected the Americans for two months at great risk to themselves), with some assistance from the CIA, rescued six Americans in hiding in Tehran, Iran"
There I fixed it for you.

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

I'm a conservative, and to every conservative that's attacking me for saying it's smart business to build economic ties with other countries, like China, instead of relying mostly on the USA. Things have changed!

Even former Prime Minister Stephen Harper agrees with me!
🙃

[Brent Bellamy @brent_bellamy]

Canadian city populations (CMA) for 2025 are out. Big growth over the past 4 years.

Toronto over 7 million.
Calgary nearing 2 million.
Winnipeg so close to 1 million!
Halifax over half million.
Victoria almost half million.
Saskatoon pulling away from Regina.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

When police and school officials tried to stop two French teachers from instructing children at a school in Ottawa in January 1916, they were met by 70 women armed with hatpins and frying pans.
This is the story of the Battle of the Hatpins and les gardiennes de Guigues.

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[David Kristie 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hyponastic]

@elonmusknews30 yes

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

There is more and more evidence that putting computers and tablets on students' desks (1:1 devices) was a terrible mistake. I agree with @AdamMGrant that "it's time to remove laptops [and tablets] from classrooms."

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

Music increases IQ. [study]

Lessons in either keyboard or vocals made children gain ~7 IQ points, compared to ~4 for drama or nothing at all.

We can see in animal experiments how simply listening to music powerfully shapes the structure / function of the brain.

➥ Lower neuroinflammation
➥ Higher plasticity
➥ Greater neurogenesis
➥ Oxidative stress protection