Peggy Homans Chapman🇨🇦

I Don’t Recognize Alberta Anymore - Macleans.ca My province has always fought with Ottawa. What’s new is a premier who gives legitimacy to separation.

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These soldiers have lost their lives because of the Epstein files.

Whatever This Is - S2 E9: Alberta is Calling (Immigrants the Problem) YouTube video by Forward Canada

This week on ‘Whatever This Is’, the one word Danielle Smith is using to cover for her own budget deficit: Scapegoat.
#ableg #canpoli #abpoli youtube.com/watch?v=5gY4TcNn-YU&feature=youtu.be

Canadian Citizenship Requests & Church Archives Demand for birth registrations and baptism records is increasing, as more people seek Canadian Citizenship. But how easy is it to obtain these records?

My blog post about the uptick in Canadian Citizenship record requests, and the changes in the amalgamation plans for some Ontario religious archives #genealogy #familyhistory #CanadianGenealogy www.cmgenealogy.com/post/canadia...

How the Junos have helped define the Canadian music industry The Juno awards remind us that cultural institutions have the power to reinforce national pride, and also invite critical reflection, dissent and re-imagination.

How the Junos have helped define the Canadian music industry

What the Jeffrey Epstein files reveal about how elites trade toxic gifts and favours The Epstein files, where the global elite are talking to each other in private — or so they thought — open a peephole into their twisted world of gifts and favours.

What the Jeffrey Epstein files reveal about how elites trade toxic gifts and favours

Photo of a roundish, cream coloured lichen growing flat on dark rock. About 80%of the lichen (all but the edges) is covered in dozens (hundreds?) of small round discs called apothecia.

Orange Rock Posy Lichen. NWT, Canada.
lichen is about 3cm in diameter.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Canadian passports are about to get more expensive | CBC News The cost of a Canadian passport is about to rise and plans by Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to overhaul the way it sets prices could result in them being even more expensive in the future.

On March 31 the cost of a Canadian passport will rise.

For those applying within Canada, a five-year passport would rise to $123.24, a 10-year passport to $164.32.

"However, in an impact statement accompanying the move, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada says that's just the first step."

Home is where the cat is...😍

Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth! James R. Johnston was the first Black person to earn a DalhousieU degree, and the only Black person to practise law in #NovaScotia before #WWI. Murdered days before his 39th birthday, he was soon forgotten. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johns... #BHM

Canada's Tears Are Not Enough YouTube video by Canadian History Ehx

In 1985, the top Canadian musicians came together to record Tears are not Enough as part of the supergroup Northern Lights.
The single raised $3.2 million for famine relief and Canada's food banks.
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Pierre Poilievre Announces New MAGA Approach To Health Care YouTube video by The Rational National

Pierre Poilievre Announces New MAGA Approach To Health Care youtu.be/an711iGhL1A?...

I am not a big curling fan but could not take my eyes off this game! And the end was perfect🇨🇦

Former Prince Andrew arrested, released under investigation amid Epstein scrutiny.

Stories like this involve power, politics, and global ties — exactly why independent public journalism matters. Without outlets like CBC, would Canadians get the full picture?

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🇨🇦 Today is Nova Scotia Heritage Day! This year we honour Joseph Willie Comeau, a proud Acadian from Clare, one of Canada's longest-serving politicians, and a champion for Acadian culture, French language, and education. Learn more:

news.novascotia.ca/en/2026/02/1...

#NovaScotia #HeritageDay

Survivor of one of Canada’s first school shootings reflects | Power & Politics YouTube video by CBC News

Highly recommend this. And I can’t thank Anne enough for her courage and generosity in sharing her story.

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Flyer for free webinar titled "Intro to Dutch Records" by John Boeren on February 25th at 9:00 AM Mountain Standard Time. Learn more and join the Utah Genealogical Association at ugagenealogy.org

This #webinar by John Boeren will give an introduction to Dutch records. Participate on February 25th at 9:00 am MST (11:00 Eastern, 5:00 pm Central European). Register for #free at buff.ly/uZldRyO #genealogy

@deadder.bsky.social has so many great cartoons:

A Canada postage stamp showing a painted portrait of Chloe Cooley centered in the frame. She wears a patterned headwrap, a white blouse, a blue bodice, and a yellow shawl. Behind her is a wide river with rocky cliffs and autumn-colored trees; a canoe with two people is on the water to the left. The word “CANADA” appears at the top left, “CHLOE COOLEY” at the bottom left, and a maple-leaf Canada Post logo is at the top right. The stamp has a white perforated border.

In 1793, Chloe Cooley, an enslaved woman in Upper Canada, was beat, tied up and forcefully taken across the border to be sold in the United States.
The incident led to the first legislation in the British Colonies to restrict the slave trade.
This is the story.

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Graphic with the text Nova Scotia Museum Research Grants. Now Open https://museum.novascotia.ca/grants

We are accepting applications for Nova Scotia Museum Research Grants. Completed application forms must be received by no later than 5 pm AST, March 13, 2026.

Visit: museum.novascotia.ca/grants

#novascotia

Good news - The annual update on the Irishgenealogy site is launched today: births 1925, marriages 1950, deaths 1975 have been added: www.irishgenealogy.ie/search/

Rose-coloured Starling (Pastor roseus), Shetland © Jon Dunn

Another grey day in the UK, but there's the promise of sunshine coming soon...

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #posted - a bird on a post. And what brighter ray of sunshine could there be than a Rose-coloured Starling basking on a Shetland fencepost?

#birds #EastCoastKin #Stunday #photography

New year of records are up on Irish Genealogy! - irishgenealogy.ie

Now available:
🍼 Births - 1864 to 1925
💍 Marriages - 1864* to 1950 (*1845-1950 if non-Catholic)
🪦 Deaths - 1864* to 1975 (*no images appear to be uploaded for deaths between 1864 to 1870 yet...)

#Genealogy

Looks like Irishgenealogy.ie is getting its annual update tomorrow! This is in the Sunday Indo.

If the only issue imposed by the US currently on Canada was this ambassador clown, that would almost be enough to not buy US stuff or travel across the border.

Always a good selection provided by #GailDever. Part of my early Sat. #Genealogy review. Follow it.

Olympic judges: strict scoring
#Genealogy judges: “cite your sources or leave”

On the left: Image of two federal ICE agents wearing camouflage clothes and vests. On the right: How a US invasion of Canada would really unfold—and how we fight back. American aggression is no longer theoretical.”

In 1812, Thomas Jefferson propounded that taking Canada is “a mere matter of marching.” In 2026, talk of the US invading Canada seems far-fetched—but not impossible. Writer and professor Peter Jones has to wonder: How would we actually defend ourselves? https://ow.ly/ip6L50Y9KFa

Interior of the Black Loyalist heritage centre visitors look through the glass floor at the archeological dig site.

February is African Heritage Month, a good time to start planning to connect with the rich history of African Nova Scotian culture with visits to museums and cultural centres, including the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre.
#AHM2026

Illustration of Richard Pierpoint shown in motion, stepping forward with one arm raised. He is wearing an 18th-century military-style outfit with a green coat, red cuffs, light-coloured trousers, and tall brown boots. A musket with a shoulder strap is carried at his side, and a pack with gear is strapped to his back. His hair is dark and worn long. The background is plain and light-coloured, focusing attention on the figure and his clothing and equipment.

Richard Pierpoint was kidnapped and enslaved for over two decades.
He eventually escaped to the north and fought against the Americans in the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
Today, he is honoured in Canada.
This is his story.

📸Malcolm Jones

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