Christina McKay

Mum, Humanities and ELA teacher, writer, editor,hapless northern gardener, hardbitten cyclist

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

@carbon_arc are you still on tonight for Four Daughters even if Natural History Museum is closed?

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

@carbon_arc is there a spring programme for 2024? I miss you guys...

[The Guardian @guardian]

I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it https://t.co/OBmJrTmcSh

[Tim Bousquet @Tim_Bousquet]

Retired Halifax firefighter Paul Irving says he urged that the FireSmart program be adopted in 2004, but was ignored https://t.co/iiIAAMKebO by @dartjenhen

[Catherine Johnson @smarterparrot]

One of the best podcasts I’ve ever listened to

[Christopher Peak @CLPeak]

NYT: “There is this urgency around the story, this unbelievable grief,” said @ehanford, a journalist at APM. Her podcast #SoldaStory detailed how stars of the literacy world & their publisher diverged from scientific research. It racked up ~5M downloads. https://t.co/b8K7RXZ8KV

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

Our podcast, Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, is available wherever you get your podcasts.
https://t.co/F6Nd8mkMwt

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

@TbayTurner check your article on Lakehead basketball. The past tense of “to swear at” is to “swore at” or “to be sworn at”

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

⁦@CBCNews⁩ the past tense of swear is sworn. Might want to remind your editors. https://t.co/NnaOIk5jaY

[🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll @JewWhoHasItAll]

Dear Teachers,

As some of you may know, if you have any students in your class who identify as Christian, they may ask to be excused from school to observe the Christian holiday of “Christmas,” more popularly referred to as Yom Christmas or Nittel.

1/x

[Andy Bowers @evilpez4]

Gonna tell Tourists it’s Fiona related.

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

Sweden Is Becoming Unbearable https://t.co/25VWxT6THm

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Oona Mae. You gave her a bath. In return, she has put a curse on you and your entire bloodline. 13/10

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

@theAbeTrain Bermuda is coming up as an invalid guess…

[Dr. Tara Taylor @tara_taylor]

I can vividly remember the nightmares I used to have about nuclear war.

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

@gpsforthebrain @JazzlamHazzlam Peel me off the ceiling with a spatula… jeez

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

@Magnus_McCune Us too! It’s sooo loud!

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

@bobmurphycbc Where are you? It’s so loud by the train tracks and container pier we can’t sleep!

[Christina McKay @lost_salmon]

The whole world should be worried by the ‘siege of Ottawa’. This is about much more than a few anti-vaxx truckers | Arwa Mahdawi https://t.co/0DZNLwvebA