Used to do the radio thing, alumni CKCU, then CHEZ 106 Ottawa. Played rock and roll records. Nature, animals, history, politics, great photos, media, my city.
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Steve Colwill retweeted
Sass Jordan has died.
Born in 1962 in England, she grew up in Montreal. Jordan had several hit songs in Canada including Rescue Me and Tell Somebody. A Juno Award winner, she also served as the honorary colonel of 417 Combat Support Squadron.
(Announced on her Facebook page)
ALT Sass Jordan in a denim jacket looks back over her shoulder while leaning on a wooden bar counter in a warmly lit, sticker-covered pub.
Steve Colwill retweeted
Remembering David Marsden 🤍
As program director of CFNY, he trusted his broadcasters, backed the artists no one else would play, and built a station that belonged to its audience.
Stream "CFNY: The Spirit of Radio" now: youtube.com/watch?v=lmm50PHk…
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David Marsden, a beloved voice in Canadian radio, has died; his influential years at CFNY in the 1980s helped define Toronto’s alternative music scene and the station’s legendary Spirit of Radio era.
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A message posted by the wife of Constable Jeff Smith who was shot protecting the Sons of Jacob synagogue.
Hello, world.
I don’t know where to begin.
My words aren’t strong or steady yet, but I knew I needed to find them. I needed to use my voice for my dear Jeff, until he is able to use his.
From the deepest part of my heart and soul, thank you.
Thank you to this good and kind world that has surrounded Jeff and our family with more love, compassion, generosity and selflessness than I could ever put into words.
I cannot begin to express what the outpouring of love and support has meant to us. I know there are things happening every day that I don’t even know about yet. Messages being sent. Prayers being said. People checking in. Hands reaching out.
And I know that my gratitude will never be enough.
I am witnessing real-life miracles.
And so many of them have happened through human hands.
The life-saving hands of paramedics and police. The hands of an angel neurosurgeon. The steady, capable hands of trauma teams, doctors, nurses, RTs, PSWs and so many others whose names we may never know, but whose kindness and skill we will carry with us forever.
The helping hands of neighbours, friends, community members and volunteers.
And then there are the hands that held me and my sweet girls when we were living through the scariest and darkest day of our lives.
Today, I held Jeff’s hand.
And I thought about all of those hands.
All of the people who have carried him, cared for him, prayed for him, fought for him and held us up when we didn’t know how we were going to stand.
I will never forget any of it.
I also want to send my love and prayers to the Jewish community, and to every scared soul who was there on Sunday night. Please know that your love, your prayers and your support have reached us. We are deeply grateful. We love you, we see you, we pray for you.
So I am asking for one thing.
Keep it coming.
Prayer. Hope. Faith. Love. Whatever you have to give, please keep giving it. We will take every bit of it we can get.
Jeff has a very long, difficult road ahead.
But he is not walking it alone.
He has an army of love behind him.
And I know Jeff.
He is the best man I know.
He loves his family with his whole heart. He cares deeply. He gives freely. He shows up. He is a man of integrity. He is my safest place.
And right now, he is fighting.
So we will fight with him.
Thank you for loving him.
Thank you for believing in him.
Thank you for honouring him.
Thank you for holding our family up.
Our hero.
Your hero.
💙🖤
With heartfelt gratitude,
Ashley
Guy in my neighbourhood had one of these giant skeletons. He tried to take it down after Halloween but was only able to get one arm off, so it stayed there all through Christmas.
Already getting ready for Halloween? "Home Depot's updated Giant Skelly features animated eyes, app connectivity, and serious neighborhood clout" pcmag.com/news/forget-candy-…
This page is worth a follow. There are three big oaks around my place, and this probably is why I hear so many blue jays at this time of year.
We think of ourselves as great tree planters, but a single group of blue jays was documented moving 133,000 acorns in one fall. They're foresters too.
Researchers in Virginia watched jays work a stand of pin oaks through one season. The birds carried off 54% of the entire crop, one to five acorns at a time, stored in the throat and bill.
They didn't drop them nearby. They flew them off and buried them one by one, pushed into soft ground and covered, often far from the parent tree. That's exactly how you'd plant an acorn if you were trying.
A jay comes back for a lot of them. Not all of them.
Every one it forgets is a tree planted somewhere a falling acorn could never reach. The acorns left under the parent oak mostly got eaten or ruined by weevils. The ones the jays moved got a chance.
Some ecologists think jays help explain how oaks spread back north so fast after the last ice age, much faster than gravity and squirrels could manage.
So leave the jays alone at the feeder. Protect the big oaks, plant native ones, and keep tree cover connected across yards and field edges.
They're doing the planting. We just have to leave them somewhere to do it.
Steve Colwill retweeted
Chrétien: I have a message for American friends. Yes, Canada is a generous, open country, and Canadians are tolerant and kind. But never mistake our generosity for weakness.
Never, never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness.
We embrace our friends and we help them in their moment of need. But we bow to no one.
The more we are insulted or threatened and abused, the more we will stand up for ourselves and stand united.
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Sunset over the Ottawa this evening from high over my house, looking up river to that corner that led into the Canadian interior and must have stirred the hearts of all who passed there. #NaturePhotography #sunset
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You can be tired, but you'll never be as tired as an indoor cat who's slept for 18 hours, eaten 4 meals, looked out the window for 20 minutes, and decided it's time for another nap.
ALT Jinx the green eyed bobtail cat looking out the window from the back of her tan chair.
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For a certain moment in time, there was a wave of artists who were just so plugged in to the global nature of the human experience. But what was cool was that they would do it, & the songs would be hits. And this one was a #1 hit in Canada.
Midnight Oil’s Beds are Burning came OTD in 1987.
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A warm and wonderful remembrance of Lloyd Robertson, by Sandie Rinaldo. Their friendship spans nearly 50 years. ctvnews.ca/canada/article/ne…
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Today I've worked on one of the most gorgeous Autochrome plates I've seen. It was taken in colour about 116 years ago, and it depicts Suzanne Lumière - daughter of Louis Lumière who co-invented the Autochrome process. She is seated in a woodland glade, backlit with stunning depth of field, eating a bowl of cherries whilst wearing a striking red cardigan which complements the colour of the fruit beautifully. It is art, romanticism and technical brilliance rolled into one. They don't get much better than this.
It was taken using the family's early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.
