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Singing Back the Buffalo with Tasha Hubbard The award-winning filmmaker explores her new documentary and her work examining buffalo restoration, Indigenous knowledge and cultural renewal

What does it mean to sing back the buffalo?

This week on our Explore podcast, @davidmcguffin.bsky.social sits down w/ award-winning filmmaker, scholar, and advocate Tasha Hubbard to discuss her latest documentary, Singing Back the Buffalo.

Discover the 🦬's story of resistance & cultural renewal 🎧

Canadian flag flying on a fence against a background of ocean and blue sky

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Our flag

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The Cost of a Hostage by Iona Whishaw | CBC Books Lane Winslow is back to crack a kidnapping case.

Picked up the new Iona Whishaw at my independent book store on #indiebookstoreday.

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Annie Pootoogook – Cape Dorset Freezer YouTube video by National Gallery of Canada

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The art of Annie Pootoogook

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Photos: Scientists trace a butterfly migration route that is millions of years old Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer ...

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer Lucas Foglia documents the journey.

Red bag of Covered Bridge ketchup chips

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Ketchup chips (Canadian made of course)

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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 3: No. 45, Aria. I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Soprano) YouTube video by Elly Ameling - Topic

Music for #easter Sunday morning.

Gorgeous performance by the great Elly Ameling .

#musicsky #classicalmusic

This B.C. writer's mom inspired her mystery novels — because her mom was a spy | CBC News Iona Whishaw's mother’s courage, beauty and smarts “lightly” inspired Lane Winslow, a young ex-spy from London living in B.C.’s Kootenays who is the heroine of Whishaw’s mystery series.

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The ‘cozy’ Lane Winslow mystery series by Iona Whishaw

Fun and so Canadian and always some interesting historical details

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Animal Facts: Kermode (spirit) bear Commonly referred to as the 'spirit bear', the Kermode bear was named after Frank Kermode who was the former director of the Royal B.C. Museum, Victoria.

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The kermode bear

…I’ve never been lucky enough to see one but I love knowing they’re out there

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#vivelecanada #canadasky
#nature
#canadiangeographic

Today is the birthday of the great Danish author Karen Blixen, better known as Isak Dinesen. Blixen is particularly remembered for her memoir "Out of Africa." Her personal library has been partially cataloged on LibraryThing, as one of our Legacy Libraries. 💙📚

I love this photo - so full of human warmth

Lido Pool | Residents The village of Chester, situated on a peninsula at the head of Mahone Bay along our South Shore, is one of the most beautiful and picturesque communities to be found anywhere.

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The lido pool in the village of Chester, Nova Scotia … like something from another era in an impossibly pretty village

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It’s Too Late was released April 16, 1971.
“It’s Too Late” (cowritten with Toni Stern) was
released April
16, 1971

Here is Carole King performing “It’s Too Late” Live on the 10th of February, 1971 with Danny Kortchmar for BBC.
well. 

#Music #RockNRoll #CaroleKing #ToniStern

30 memorable episodes of Schitt's Creek | CBC Television CBC Gem has selected some of the most memorable episodes of the comedy series.

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Schitt’s Creek

hands up if binge-watching Schitts’s Creek got you through the pandemic

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#schittscreek #tvsky #comedy

Metal work sculpture of a fish shape with waves on a stand overlooking the ocean with mountains in the background.

Beautiful sculpture by Lisa Huth of metalicart.ca. Part of a public art program in Oak Bay, BC. 🇨🇦

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A very Prairie pie starring Saskatoon berries | CBC Life Make this oh-so-Canadian pie for cozy gatherings this holiday or any night you could use some comfort food.

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Saskatoon berry pie …. who doesn’t love pie?

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A family of Bigg's orcas cruising the calm waters of the Salish Sea with Mt. Baker in the background. © Katie Jones

Here we go Monday...

A family of Bigg's orcas cruising the calm waters of the Salish Sea with Mt. Baker in the background.

#orcas #killerwhales #MountainMonday #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #whales #salishsea #pnw #pnwlife #pnwonderland #dolphins

VOCES8 & Ringmasters: Shall We Gather at the River? arr. Blake Morgan YouTube video by VOCES8

Seems like a good week to celebrate choral music and all those busy choristers out there.

Love this arrangement and the collaboration of these two amazing groups.

Wishing everyone a peaceful week ☮️

#musicsky #choralmusic #voces8 #Ringmasters #vocalmusic

Bucket Listed: Canada’s grand railway hotels Rival railway companies competed to attract visitors with hotels that recall Scottish castles, Bavarian fairy-tales, and the opulent French chateaux

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Canada’s railway hotels

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#travel #travelsky

Book cover of the The Cremation of Sam McGee” poem by Robert Service and paintings by Ted Harrison. The cover art features an orange sun in a multi-layered blue sky with a log cabin and working gold miners.

The Cremation of Sam McGee

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Ted Harrison’s paintings for “The Cremation of Sam McGee”

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In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ‘woke ideology’ in science funding Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election

A terrifying war on science is underway in the US. Let’s not open a Canadian front.

OSCAR PETERSON AND OLIVER JONES HYMN TO FREEDOM YouTube video by louisblouin

Also love this performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival with another Canadian legend Oliver Jones

Oscar Peterson - Hymn To Freedom YouTube video by dgbailey777

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Oscar Peterson’s Hymn to Freedom

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Vote Science - Evidence For Democracy Vote Science Let’s make science a priority this federal election! The 45th federal election is here, and now is the […]

This!!

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#elbowsup
#vote

I actually lost my breath when I heard this. The chance that this could result in the US govt officially repudiating the science of vaccines is absolutely terrifying. Because we know that’s where he wants to go.

Gray sky reflected in the water on a beach. Trees on rocky outcroppings to the left also reflected in the light. A band of light on the horizon.

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Cox Bay beach, Tofino BC
(Photo is mine)

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#landscape #vancouverisland

Home | The Debaters with Steve Patterson | CBC Radio The Debaters is the hit CBC Radio show that features Canada’s hottest comedians going toe to toe, debating topics in the news and on the minds of Canadians.

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The Debaters …see this show live if you can … Canadians - we’re pretty funny people

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3 beavertail pastries - one covered with chocolate icing and sugar, one covered with white icing drizzled with chocolate and one covered with chocolate icing, m&ms and drizzled with maple icing.

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Beavertails … bonus Canadiana points if eaten on a ski hill

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Log Driver's Waltz Easily one of the most often-requested films in the NFB collection, this lighthearted animated short is based on the song “The Log Driver’s Waltz” by Wade Hemsworth. Kate …

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3 for 1 today:

Log Driver’s Waltz by Wade Hemsworth
Kate and Anna McGarrigle
The National Film Board of Canada

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