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GF walks by where I have the #bluejays game on. An ad from #Canadian telecom giant #Rogers saying how proud they are to be the owners. "Yeah, wtf Rogers _nobody likes you_, this isn't gonna make them like you."

Great article on the Safety Boss experience in Kuwait and hoe Canadian innovation and ethics made a huge difference.
#CanadianHeroes
https://legionmagazine.com/gulf-war-aftermath/

Montana voted for Trump 17% (9 preventable points) more than the national average. Kalispell is the seat of Flathead County, which voted 32% above the national average for Trump (16 points).
Now they are disappointed that #Canadian spending in Kalispell has dropped 39%.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Benjamin Godard, Benjamin Butterfield, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra & Richard Bradshaw:
🎵 Oh! Ne t'eveille pas encore (Jocelyn, Act 1)
#BenjaminGodard #BenjaminButterfield #CanadianOperaCompanyOrchestra #RichardBradshaw

On Sunday, October 5, 2025, my wife and I are participating in the Canadian Cancer Society's Run for the Cure. This national fundraiser brings together communities across the country who will run or walk in support of all Canadians impacted by breast cancer. We are walking in honour of my mother, my two sisters, and both our daughters - all of whom have been touched by this terrible disease.
Our family isn't special as 1 in 8 women will face a breast cancer diagnosis in their lifetime, It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Canadian women, and all of us likely know someone who has battled it in the past, or is fighting it today. I encourage all Canadians to donate in honour of someone they know or simply to help their communities fight breast cancer. This cause is particularly important to us, especially this year, as we support our daughters, and I hope all Canadians get involved.
#CanadianCancerSociety #RunForTheCure
https://support.cancer.ca/site/TR/RunfortheCure/RFTC_NW_even_?px=15178695&pg=personal&fr_id=30455

#DrumpfAdmin announces it will enforce facial recognition scans of all #Canadians seeking to enter #USA at all #PointOfEntry

U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports | CBC News
The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.

Good Morning #Canada
I bet you thought that I forgot about this unfinished series, but I was just waiting for a slow historical news day. Iqaluit is our newest provincial/territorial capital, as Nunavut was officially separated from the Northwest Territories to become the largest and northernmost territory of Canada on April 1, 1999. No fooling. Iqaluit, which means "place of many fish," has a long history as an Inuit hunting and fishing ground. In 1880 the British Government transfers the Arctic archipelago to the Canadian government which begins a century of colonization efforts to protect Canada's sovereignty in the area, with a bit of resource extraction that prompted settlements in Nunavut. Officially named "Frobisher Bay" In 1942 as a military airfield during WWII, the town reverted to its Inuit name in 1987.
#CanadaIsAwesome ##CanadianCapitals
https://www.iqaluit.ca/visitors/explore-iqaluit/history

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Milan Chvostek (October 4, 1932 – November 8, 2018) was a producer/director at the CBC. He worked on A Case for the Court, The Lively Arts, This Hour Has Seven Days, Science Magazine and the CBC's flagship show The Nature of Things,[ which has aired in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Awards for Chvostek's shows include one from the Monte Carlo Television Festival awarded by Prince Rainier III in 1975, and the Bell Northern Research Communications Award for science programming from the Canadian Science Writers' Association (Chvostek is the only three-time winner of this award) in 1974 and 1975. After a decade of teaching television broadcast at Seneca College, Toronto (1986 to 1996), he embarked upon a freelance videography and photography career, working both independently and in partnership with his wife, journalist Isobel Warren. He also started researching climate change in the 1960s.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianLegends
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/wife-discovers-late-husband-was-researching-climate-change-before-anyone-was-taking-it-seriously-1631676

Ok jokes about #enshittification aside, I was happy to just discover that #Canadian show #Flashpoint was added to #Netflix.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Sonny Kompanek & Canadian Brass:
🎵 Killer Tango
#SonnyKompanek #CanadianBrass
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iOIzdm1xznZJNBMeQTo0q

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150

Good Morning #Canada
There is a lot of news coverage about a USA president that lusts after a Nobel Prize like he attacks a family sized bucket of KFC. So let's celebrate that OTD in 1957, the first Canadian won the peace prize - Lester B. Pearson. Before he became our 14th Prime Minister, he spent the majority of his career as a diplomat. He was one of the founders of the United Nations and almost ended up as its first Secretary General. He was instrumental in ending the Suez Canal crisis by suggesting and helping to implement the first U.N. Peacekeeping Force.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1957/pearson/facts/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Russell Braun, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra & Richard Bradshaw:
🎵 Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, K.584 (from 'Cosi fan tutte')
#WolfgangAmadeusMozart #RussellBraun #CanadianOperaCompanyOrchestra

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Paul Shaffer, born OTD in 1949 in Toronto, and raised in Fort William (now part of Thunder Bay), Ontario. Shaffer is a Canadian musician, actor, and comedian who served as David Letterman's musical director, bandleader, and sidekick on Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015). His father was a jazz aficionado while his mother loved show tunes. When Shaffer was 12, his parents took him on a trip to Las Vegas where they took in Nat King Cole and other shows; this was an experience Shaffer described later as "life changing" and led to his decision to become a performer. He was the musical director for the Toronto production of Godspell, a band member on SNL from 1975 to 1980, and the musical director for The Blues Brothers. Shaffer was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2007.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianMusician
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/paul-shaffer

Good Morning #Canada
In 1896, gold was discovered on a tributary of the Klondike River, leading to tens of thousands of people (mostly Americans) racing north in the #KlondikeGoldRush. Canada feared that the United States would take control of the area (they purchased Alaska in 1867), so the Canadian government sent in the North-West Mounted Police to establish control of the region. The Klondike Gold Rush established the frontier town of Whitehorse, named for the rapids lying south of the settlement. On 13 June 1898, the Yukon Territory Act created Yukon as a separate Canadian territory and placed its capital at Dawson City. During #WWII Whitehorse became an important base of operations for the U.S. military as they built the Alaska Highway. Whitehorse was incorporated as a city in 1950, and in 1953, it became the capital of Yukon when the government was moved from Dawson City.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/whitehorse

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский & Raffi Armenian:
🎵 8 Instrumental miniatures for 15 instruments
#CanadianChamberEnsemble #ИгорьФёдоровичСтравинский #RaffiArmenian

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Darius Milhaud, Canadian Chamber Ensemble & Raffi Armenian:
🎵 La creation du monde, Op 81
#DariusMilhaud #CanadianChamberEnsemble #RaffiArmenian

Good Morning #Canada
On the eve of #RemembranceDay, it's fitting that we wish a ##HappyBirthday to Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, who was born on this day in 1908. Merritt was the first Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross in #WWII, the highest award for bravery among troops of the British Empire. He was also the son of Captain Cecil Mack Merritt, who was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres on April 23rd, 1915. Merritt commanded The South Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian Army, (Canadian Infantry Corps), and led his regiment at the failed Dieppe Raid on August 19th, 1942. He led multiple charges against fortified positions, was wounded twice, and stayed on the beach to defend his troops as they were withdrawn. He was captured by the Germans and remained a prisoner until the end of the war.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/charles-cecil-merritt-vc

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Jean Stilwell, Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Luciano Berio & Raffi Armenian:
🎵 Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano and 7 players
#JeanStilwell #CanadianChamberEnsemble #LucianoBerio #RaffiArmenian

Good Morning #Canada
One of the most important #CanadianCapitals, perhaps top 3, has to be Charlottetown, the largest city in the potato province. The city is famous for hosting the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, a pivotal meeting that initiated the process leading to Canadian Confederation. So it's a bit of a mystery why the "Birthplace of Confederation ", according to PEI marketing propaganda, took 6 years to decide that they too wanted to become Canadians, and joined us in 1873. Charlottetown's history began with French settlers in 1720, and a British survey in 1764 led to it becoming the capital of St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) and receiving its topically British street grid. The island has survived pirates, American mercenaries, hurricanes, potato blight, and Anne of Green Gables fans.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Confederation
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/charlottetown