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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Henry Boldt, a violinist and music conductor who graduated from @westernu.ca with an honours music education degree, then taught for 30 years at Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School in #LdnOnt for the @tvdsb.bsky.social, died Saturday at age 87. Details here: harrisfuneralhome.ca/obituaries/h...

Henry Boldt, pictured in a tuxedo jacket, white shirt and bow tie, smiles wearing wire-framed glasses beneath greying hair.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The CEO at International Test Pilots School in #LdnOnt claims it's "Canada's best-kept aerospace secret, but that's changing as word gets out." lfpress.com/opinion/colu...

Two black training jets sit inside the hanger of International Test Pilots school in London, Ontario.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A field guide to Canadian snow removal. #LdnOnt larrycornies.substack.com/p/the-snow-s...

Three snow shovels lean against a house, the bottom half of their blades still immersed in several centimetres of snow.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Today's @thestar.com has a feature on Page A15 about a group in Toronto that meets monthly to keep the art of letter writing alive. Hmmm. Could that be a #LdnOnt thing too?

The top half of a newspaper page pictures a handwritten letter and the headline, "The lasting word."

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

One of my faves from @theglobeandmail.com's 2025 photo roundup. Shot by #yyc photog @gjohnjournalism.bsky.social for a piece on how @canadianforces.bsky.social are protecting the Arctic. Full photo feature here: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #photojournalism

Four Canadian Forces soldiers, in their green fatigues, gather around a round wooden table for a game of Risk, the board game of global conquest. All four are smiling broadly. a couple of beverages near at hand.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I feel sorry for former colleagues at Conestoga whose lives have been upended by the ambitions of a president who tried to build an empire on the backs of foreign students. Just as culpable are a compliant board of governors and timid senior execs. And Tibbitts is STILL president. #WaterlooRegion

The front page of today's Waterloo Region Record screams "Conestoga in Chaos." There's a secondary story about more full-time faculty layoffs along with dozens of support. The main photos shows a provincial union official addressing faculty via a video link.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I was reminded yesterday of the beauty of #Canadian artist William Kurelek's images, gathered in the book A Northern Nativity. First published in 1976; still gorgeous. #art #nativity

A mother in a blue cloak sits in snow in the woods alongside the Ottawa River, Parliament Buildings in the distant background, sheltering an infant in her lap. Both mother and infant are adorned by sunburst halos.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Mathew McCarthy of @therecord.com regularly files amazing photos that enliven the front page. Today's is another beaut. #photography #photojournalism

Two walkers and three dogs in Cambridge, Ont., are seen from above, as they cast long, dark shadows against the snow in the December light.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Life in the path of Lake Huron’s atmospheric lake-effect snow machine can be frustrating at times, but early in the season it offers a snow-globe type of charm. #LdnOnt #snow

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Complete federal cabinet list:

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A showcase featuring the work of 14 budding playwrights at @thegrandlondon.bsky.social last night brought its inaugural Cascade Playwrights Lab to a close, with five-minute scenes read by actors Mark Crawford, Alexandra Kane and Ellen Denny. The Grand plans to expand the program next year. #LdnOnt

Actors Mark Crawford, Alexandra Kane and Ellen Denny sit in chairs behind music stands on an unadorned floor and plain background as they read from scripts. The backs of audience members' heads are visible in the foreground.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Dragged this out of the basement. Seems an increasingly quaint notion. Perhaps we can get back there someday. #Canada #USA

Front and back of a large picture book titled Between Friends, "a first from all Canadians to their American neighbours on the occasion of their Bicentennial."

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Looks as if the former Boston Pizza on Wonderland Road South is becoming a new Piper Arms location. #LdnOnt

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

When I taught religion at a church school in the late 1970s, my Grade 11 students were always rapt when I relayed the events of Jan. 21, 1525, in Zurich. I wondered if I'd see the 500th anniversary of #Anabaptism. Yet here we are. The courage of those young men still amazes me.

Artist's concepts of university student Conrad Grebel, Catholic priest Georg Blaurock and university student Felix Manz were painted by Oliver Wendell Schenk in 1972.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Late last month, I wrote a column about the passing and legacy of #LdnOnt pipe-organ builder Gabriel Kney. I've followed up with some additional details in a blog post here. artsbeat.ca/2025/01/09/t... #organs #music

A view, looking upward, of the magnificent pipe organ at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. The cabinet is a rich mahogany, the silver pipes glisten, and the ceiling above is painted with blue and gold patterns.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The display actually faces the other way, toward the store entrance. But from this side, it makes shoppers feel as if they've travelled into the future. #newyear #retail #LdnOnt

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The arrival of Jan. 1 means former Museum London head of administration Cydna Mercer has officially retired. She was recently honoured by Galeries Ontario Galleries for her 24 years of service. For me, she has been a valuable contact. #LdnOnt #art #galleries museumlondon.ca/news/2024/cy...

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here's #LdnOnt Mayor Josh Morgan's New Year's Honour List for 2025. Details about each honouree can be found here: london.ca/mayors-new-y... #newyear

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Just one more note related to my column on Gabriel Kney. Of all the pipe organs he built, this was his favourite: a three-manual, mechanical action organ, comprised of 2,787 pipes, at @uofstthomasmn.bsky.social #organ #music

A pipe organ stands tall against beautiful arches and a painted ceiling inside the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Learned today that renowned organ builder Gabriel Kney died last month at age 94. He established Gabriel Kney Pipe Organ Builders Ltd. in #LdnOnt in 1967 and eventually built more than 130 organs for clients in Canada and the U.S., including the one in Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall. #organ #music

Gabriel Kney looks into the camera. Behind him is a white church. He is bespectacled, with blond hair, a white shirt, a dark tie and a dark suit coat.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Listening to #Christmas music from #Australia and #NZ, where snow is absent, drovers replace magi and Christmas is greeted with "Orana!" "Friarbirds sip the nectar of flowers Currawongs chant in wattle-tree bowers In the blue ranges lorikeets calling Carols of bush birds are rising and falling."

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Trying to repair a stubborn Christmas light before it gets dark. Friday the 13th, a ladder and electricity — what could go wrong? #LdnOnt

A red LED Christmas bulb appears in the foreground, attached to a wooden pergola. In the lower distance are property fences and two red chairs.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The Grand Theatre has now posted its annual report and financial statements for ’23-’24 online. You'll find them here: www.grandtheatre.com/2023-24-annu... #theatre #LdnOnt

Grand Theatre executive director Lyndee Hansen and artistic director Rachel Peake relax in the theatre's red seats. Both have an outstretched arm and both are wearing blue dresses.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The City of London is asking for residents' help in clearing snow from around fall leaf bags. A press release says collection of bags will resume Saturday in Zone E, then cycle back to Zone A on Dec. 10. It will likely take until Dec. 21 to complete the final leaf pickups. #LdnOnt #recycling #snow

Brown, two-ply paper leaf bags sit nearly buried beneath snow along a curb in London, Ontario.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Let’s just say snowfall accumulations vary. Here in southwest #LdnOnt, the overnight total comes in at around 4 cm. Worth shovelling, but barely. #snow #wx

A yellow snow shovel lies in a partly scraped driveway, uncollected leaf bags visible in the background.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This morning's front-page photo in the London Free Press by Mike Hensen, of two grandparents walking their grandkids home from school, is like a holiday card to the community. #LdnOnt #snow #photography #weather #wx

An adult, followed by two children, ages 3 and 5, and another adult trudge through deep snow on the way home from school. They pass snow-laden evergreens, while, in the background, there is a two-storey home. It is snowing heavily, giving the image a foggy appearance. The adults are Peter and Nancy Cookson; their grandchildren are Kirby and Maxine.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Tale of two cities: Just drove the length of Wonderland Road in #LdnOnt. Partly sunny skies at Southdale; squalls at Fanshawe Park Road. Such is life in the snow belt.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

[Column] She never went to journalism school or had a byline, but readers of The London Free Press never had a more influential advocate. Remembering Barbara Dunbar: lfpress.com/opinion/colu... #LdnOnt #journalism #newspapers

A smiling woman, likely in her 40s or 50s, smiles at the camera, her face framed by wavy, shoulder-length hair.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

It's behind a paywall, but there's a nifty feature by @jakeedmiston.bsky.social in today's @torontostar.bsky.social on the chase for the perfect tomato. As a native of #Leamington, I savoured every word.

A close-up shot of a plump, red, oval tomato, hanging on a vine, overlaid with the words "Is this the world's next top tomato?"

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Same issue at our house. So I’ll follow suit.

A vinyl album titled Bridge Over Troubled Water plays on a turntable.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This morning's front-page story in The London Free Press about city hall's budget cuts didn't include the complete letter to councillors from the non-profits, nor the signatories. So I've put them here. #LdnOnt artsbeat.ca/2024/11/16/n...

An intentionally blurry colour photo of a cityscape

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

[ArtsBeat] Amid the onslaught of social media, school songs have become passé. Do you remember yours? #schoolsongs #fightsongs #music artsbeat.ca/2024/10/05/s...

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Kee Dewdney, one of Western University's academic giants, has died at age 82. #LdnOnt

A printed obituary from the London Free Press, March 14, 2024.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

There's something vaguely reassuring about the fact that a hardware store in #LdnOnt will sell you a garbage can lid without the can.

A newspaper ad in The London Free Press of March 12, 2024, offers three styles of garbage can lids for sale at $4.96 each.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Martha Powell, former CEO of London Community Foundation, has passed away at age 66. lfpress.remembering.ca/obituary/mar... #LdnOnt

Martha Powell faces the camera outside her office in Covent Garden Market, London, Ont.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

[ArtsBeat] The power of illustrative storytelling arrives at faith-based magazine Canadian Mennonite. artsbeat.ca/2024/02/27/t...

The colourful cover and a sample page of the Feb. 23 issue of Canadian Mennonite.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Renowned brain scientist Vladimir Hachinski is developing a community-based project to help Canadians protect their brain health. #LdnOnt lfpress.com/opinion/colu...

Model of an brain illuminated with small lights

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Listening in right now on a good discussion on how journalism thrives in an age when the state pays the press. More info here: cfe.torontomu.ca/events/when-... #journalism #audiences

Ivor Shapiro speaks to an online discussion on how journalism can thrive, Jan. 31, 2024.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Catalyst Theatre’s The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare opens at the Grand Theatre Friday, focusing on the role of special female operatives during WW2. A feature article, spotlighting #LdnOnt-born actor Kaylee Harwood as part of the same cast, is here: vancouversun.com/entertainmen...

Seven women face a theatre audience in a V-formation, with the words "The Invisible" projected behind them.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Beautiful shot by Mathew McCarthy on the front page of today's Waterloo Region Record. #photography

A figure is silhouetted against a reddish sky as he sprays water from a hose onto an ice rink.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

A great piece here that describes why so many talented journalists eventually need to leave the careers they once loved. www.thehonesttalk.ca/honest-thoug...

Desks and computers inside a busy newsroom

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Here's the mayor's New Year's Honour List for 2024. #LdnOnt

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

[Column] A simple act of connection in the battle against loneliness holds enormous power. lfpress.com/opinion/colu...

A pair of brown sandals is partially strewn with fallen leaves.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

[Column] For more than a half century, London, Ont., residents have taken pride in their world-class #hospitals. In light of recent events at the senior administrative level, public trust needs immediate treatment. #LdnOnt lfpress.com/opinion/colu...

Roberts Research Centre. left, and University Hospital in London, Ontario

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Alfredo Caxaj, the founder of Sunfest, is on the list of new Order of Canada inductees this morning. Caxaj is cited for his "contributions to the arts and culture, and for his promotion and celebration of diversity, inclusion and multiculturalism in Canada." #LdnOnt www.gg.ca/en/order-can...

Alfredo Caxaj in front of a Sunfest banner

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Just learned that American composer, arranger, conductor and teacher Alice Parker died on Christmas Eve at age 98. I met her at a choral music festival in Lansdale, Pa., in the April 1978. A gracious conductor and powerful influence for the preservation of spirituals, mountain music and folk songs.

Alice Parker surrounded by books and photographs.

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Working on an op-ed piece on #loneliness. Interesting study on smartphone use and loneliness here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An empty gazebo amid colourful leaves on a cloudy autumn day

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Larry Cornies @cornies.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

This year, #LdnOnt’s Grand Theatre has turned to a sugary confection to boost its bottom line in advance of the holidays. It’s sweet — but contains a lot of empty calories. artsbeat.ca/2023/11/22/a...

Hopeful golden ticket holders line up outside Willy Wonka’s factory gate.

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