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Deborah Aarts

@DeborahAarts

Rookie entrepreneur, media veteran (ex @GlobeandMail and several deceased mags), enthusiast, extrovert, Order Muppet. ✉️: deborah@apid.ca

 Toronto, Ont.
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Joined October 2010
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"To wander aimlessly is very un-swinging Un-hip What we need is a schedule." -J. P. McCartney, January 1969
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The Casper Ruud likability index just keeps climbing. #NBOToronto
Blair Henley (@BlairHenley) profile pictureBlair Henley@BlairHenley9 Aug 2023
a masterpiece 🇨🇦
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WWF-Canada@WWFCanada24 Jul 2023
Twitter's iconic bird isn't the only one disappearing. Today, species currently assessed as at risk in 🇨🇦 face an average of 5 threats. But we can save them and their habitats – benefiting people and nature across the 🌏. RT to spread the word! #TwitterX #TwitterLogo
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Carloooooooos!!!!!!
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This is exciting! A profile I wrote about @equifruit's quest to bring Fairtrade bananas to the masses for @robmagca has been nominated for a @sabewCDA award. Congrats to my fellow nominees @jakeedmiston and @IreneHGalea—looking forward to the event in July.
SABEW Canada (@sabewCDA) profile pictureSABEW Canada@sabewCDA9 Jun 2023
Replying to @sabewCDA
Feature (short-form) cont.: •“Equifruit: the small startup taking on Big Banana” by @DeborahAarts, @globebusiness
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I have not yet watched Succession, but I hope you all got a sign-off as perfect and infuriating as this:
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File native shrubs under "surprisingly fascinating" (and then go plant some!)
WWF-Canada (@WWFCanada) profile pictureWWF-Canada@WWFCanada13 Apr 2023
It's 🌎 #PlantAppreciationDay! Did you know shrubs help combat climate change and boost biodiversity? Ben Whalen of Kennebecasis Watershed Restoration Committee (KWRC) sure does! We talked to him about how you can get these benefits on your own property. wwf.ca/stories/act-locally-h…
Act Locally: How to make your yard more nature-friendly with native shrubs - WWF.CA

Act Locally: How to make your yard more nature-friendly with native shrubs - WWF.CA

Ben Whelan of the Kennebecasis Watershed Restoration Committee shares how planting native shrubs can protect against floods, create wildlife habitats and fight climate change

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So, OK, we're a month out from the game (per my 11-year-old's aggressive counting down), but: freshly bobbed #totk Zelda is my summer style inspo.
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Want to be inspired to take on @WWFCanada's CN Tower Climb for Nature this weekend? Read our interview with @LiisaLadouceur! wwf.ca/stories/cancer-takes-…

‘Cancer takes a lot of things away from you — but I don't want it to take this away,’ says four-t...

Liisa Ladouceur has climbed the CN Tower four times, but that was before cancer. After being diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year, reaching the top for the fifth time with her team is an important...

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It hardly needs my endorsement, but #Murmur is a note-perfect jewel box of a debut. I am so grateful these confident young weirdos made it.
Sweet Daddy Cool✌️🇺🇦 🐕🇨🇦 (@m_millsey) profile pictureSweet Daddy Cool✌️🇺🇦 🐕🇨🇦@m_millsey12 Apr 2023
I still think this is one of our best, most cohesive records. It was very exciting to put something out that we totally believed in and felt great about, though we certainly had no idea that it (or we) would have the life that it did. #Murmur
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I spent a bunch of time this winter talking to very smart people about how to accelerate the glacially slow pace of change re. women in leadership roles. Writing this package taught me a lot (and kinda made me a flex-work evangelist).
ROB Magazine (@robmagca) profile pictureROB Magazine@robmagca24 Mar 2023
Our fourth annual Women Lead Here benchmark celebrates 90 companies with an average of 46% women in executive roles. But as @DeborahAarts points out, we're not moving nearly fast enough. Here's how to fix it theglobeandmail.com/business…

Women Lead Here: We’re not moving fast enough on gender diversity in executive roles. Here’s how to...

Only 6.6% of Canada’s largest publicly traded companies have a woman at the top

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Yessss! I've been waiting for this, I've been waiting for this, I've been waiting for this, and yet I'm still not ready...
rob harvilla (@harvilla) profile picturerob harvilla@harvilla15 Feb 2023
e89 of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S is on natalie imbruglia's "TORN," and the many excellent TORN's that preceded it, and the art of the transcendent cover song, and also 'parappa the rapper' theringer.com/2023/2/15/2360…
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JA JA DING DONG! (DING DONG!)
Joseph Fink, 👻🎃healthcare is a human right🎃👻 (@PlanetofFinks) profile pictureJoseph Fink, 👻🎃healthcare is a human right🎃👻@PlanetofFinks19 Jan 2023
What are examples in any form of media where a "brilliant song/painting/play/etc" within the story is actually as good as the characters act like it is? Note: NOT the same as just "I liked it". It needs to actually fully match its fictional reputation
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Bianca saying what we're all feeling. Rough morning for Rafans. #AusOpen
Bianca (@Bandreescu_) profile pictureBianca@Bandreescu_18 Jan 2023
Is Rafa ok tho??☹️
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I *love* this Nike kit, both the multicolour (on Tiafoe and Madison Keys) and the cerulean/white variation. January is dark and cold and grey where I live. I rely on the #AusOpen for colour and verve. More of this, please!
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@Tennis16 Jan 2023
Big Foe @FTiafoe is bringing some audacious style to the Happy Slam and @CocoGauff is a fan 🙌 Check out the American's groovy #AustralianOpen lewk: tennis.com/baseline/articles…
Frances Tiafoe sports psychedelic Nike look for Australian Open first round

Frances Tiafoe sports psychedelic Nike look for Australian Open first round

The American turned the funky pattern up to 11 when he emerged on Kia Arena to play Daniel Altmaier; good friend Coco Gauff had some thoughts on the sartorial swing.

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This is harsh and very funny and also brings up a good question for fellow mag folks (past and current): Do we really need TOCs? I know we've always done them, and they're a good place to use alt photos/illos, but... does anyone *use* them? For navigational purposes? (I don't!)
Sudi Green (@Sudi_Green) profile pictureSudi Green@Sudi_Green13 Jan 2023
I love the beginning third of a magazine that’s just like “get ready for the magazine…this is the stuff youre gonna see…here it comes…”
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The BrainyQuotes.com admission makes me like Prince Harry more.
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This is the only January inspiration *I* need.
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...Yes.
the tisburys the band (@the_tisburys) profile picturethe tisburys the band@the_tisburys3 Jan 2023
loving thom yorke's new vibe of "coolest gnome in the garden"
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I've been on a Matilda deep-dive since watching the (excellent!) Netflix musical, and I am gobsmacked to discover the book was published in 1988. I understood it to be a canon-worthy classic when I first read it as a kid... which must have been mere months after publication.🤯
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This tweet seems designed in a lab to appeal to the character of Ben Wyatt specifically, and the person Adam Scott generally. (Also me, I do this.) ❤️❤️
☠️ Kay Hanley ☠️ (@kayhanley) profile picture☠️ Kay Hanley ☠️@kayhanley30 Dec 2022
Shout out to all my real ones who sing every @m_millsey part like it’s the lead when the REM song comes on ☠️
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