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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The @tdsb.on.ca is forcing out beloved RHSA Principal Barrie Sketchley who has served this public art school for 33 years, ignoring students, parents & staff. We urge MPP Paul Calandra to act — reinstate Mr. Sketchley & help restore trust in TDSB governance. #SaveSketchley

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 08/03/2025

"There was a mass shooting tonight in Canada." That's a sentence you don't hear often, but it's true. It happened. I have some thoughts about guns and grief... and the measure of a nation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqB...

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Guns and Grief: The Measure of a Nation

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

When in Memphis, walk the red carpet at the Peabody Memphis with the resident ducks and duckmaster Kenon Walker. I spent a lot of time polishing this ode to microadventures for @journeywoman.bsky.social. ***** journeywoman.com/uncategorize...

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March of the World-Famous Peabody Ducks: Adventures in Memphis

Women travellers can become a duckmaster for a day by walking the red carpet with the famous Peabody Ducks.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

On a recent group media trip to Grenada, I was poking for a national park story to write about for National Parks Traveler. I thought I was going to write about Grand Etang National Park. Then I spotted a national park/dove sanctuary on the map. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/savi...

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Saving Grenada's Critically Endangered National Bird

Every seven seconds we hear it — the long, drawn out “hooooooo” of one of the world’s rarest birds. The Grenada Dove may be shy, elusive and critically endangered, but it’s cooing its heart out on thi...

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

My latest was Greenland to Labrador so a little different and not the Canadian arctic but the highlight was being one of the few Canadians who has been to Torngat Mountains National Park:

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Why do I love seeing the Canadian arctic on expedition cruises with Adventure Canada? My latest story for Zoomer (the Feb/March issue is on newsstands): jenniferbain.co/wp-content/u...

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Have you toured the mid-century modern international lounge (a public space) at Gander International Airport in Newfoundland? Sometimes the best part of a story (this one is for Zoomer: jenniferbain.co/wp-content/u...) is the chance to run a photo.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

When I was told that Memphis has twice as many wing joints as barbecue joints, this former food editor and two-time cookbook author knew what her angle would be for @moderntraveller.bsky.social: www.moderntraveller.ca/home/when-in...

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When in Memphis, Don’t Miss the Whole Honey Gold Chicken Wings — Modern Traveller

Luckily I had an entire roll of paper towels to myself and nobody to see the mess I made.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I've always been a newspaper-style writer - writing each story as it comes. Every now and then, I get to write a retrospective, — like this "birds I've seen around the world" piece for Zoomer (in the Feb/March issue on newsstands): jenniferbain.co/wp-content/u...

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A good story writes itself, we learned at journalism school. You have to write your way through the rest of them. That was my challenge when I went to the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site in Nova Scotia to write about Christmas. #travelwriting www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/12/chri...

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Christmas By Candlelight At The Halifax Citadel

It was a reminder of Christmases past, a time when simplicity not splashiness ruled.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

If you haven't already taken the Habitat 67 guided tour, I highly recommend it when it opens for the 2025 season. One of the best things I've done in Montreal. Here's my story - I caught the second last tour of 2024: www.moderntraveller.ca/home/touring...

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Touring Habitat 67, Montreal’s Brutalist Icon — Modern Traveller

Still our intrepid guide freely admitted that Habitat 67 is an isolated apartment building that never realized its full potential. 

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I did this same thing while Toronto Star food editor, only it was “how about oatmeal” (specifically steel-cut oats for a section front). My boss said yes, she trusted me to figure it out.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Sometimes you go to a city a million times before finding the spot that really speaks to you. I finally caught a guided tour of Habitat 67 in Montreal & geeked out on the Brutalist spot whose creator insists it's actually anti-Brutalist: ** #travelwriting www.moderntraveller.ca/home/touring...

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Touring Habitat 67, Montreal’s Brutalist Icon — Modern Traveller

Still our intrepid guide freely admitted that Habitat 67 is an isolated apartment building that never realized its full potential. 

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Anything to do with woody is scary 🤣

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Woody the Talking Christmas Tree, I am your new + biggest fan. I met you twice since you refused to wake up the 1st time. I hit the Halifax library microfiche to try to learn more about your 1983 origin story. Does anyone have 1983-2021 Woody intel/photos? *** www.moderntraveller.ca/home/waking-...

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Waking up Woody The Talking Christmas Tree in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia — Modern Traveller

In search of quirky Canadian Christmas traditions, I flew to Nova Scotia this month for the Evergreen Festival in Halifax and to meet Woody across the harbour in Dartmouth.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I've spent the weekend communing with Woody the Talking Christmas Tree in the Mic Mall Mall in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Story to come in @moderntraveller.bsky.social on this freakish indoor roadside attraction (ballpark 55 feet)! #visitnovascotia #compellingnovascotia #travelwriting

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In Canada, pre-existing conditions does apply when you're buying/using travel insurance.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I spent 3N/2D in Jasper to gather 3 stories on how the town/park is recovering from the devastating summer wildfire. My 2nd story is for US-based @parkstraveler.bsky.social and is wrapped around bizarre-looking trees I photographed @ Lake Annette: ** www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/11/jasp...

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Jasper National Park Emerges From The Ashes Of A Wildfire

In a mountain forest ravaged by fire in Jasper National Park, charred trees stand alongside a few that look like giraffes, their blackened trunks dotted with golden patches. Locals have taken to calli...

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Winning awards brings $ and the chance to revisit favourite stories. My story on the feral cats of San Juan won bronze in the SATW Canadian Chapter awards + my photo of Inuit drum dancers in Nunavut won gold. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2023/08/mari... www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2023/11/insi...

Inuit drum dancers perform outdoors in Pond Inlet, Nunavut.

A feral cat named Two-Face with a deformed ear and two different coloured eyes sits on rocks in San Juan National Historic Park in Puerto Rico.

A badge for winning gold in the 2024 SATW Canadian Chapter Awards.

A badge for winning bronze in the 2024 SATW Canadian Chapter Awards.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

When is the right time to return to a beloved tourist town that has been ravaged by wildfires? For Jasper, the time is now. I travelled to Jasper National Park, took food + van tours + wrote about it for @moderntraveller.bsky.social #travel #travelwriting: *** www.moderntraveller.ca/home/jasper-...

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Jasper is Ready for Winter — and for Visitors — Modern Traveller

I can’t get enough of the charmingly goofy black bear, making pilgrimages to him on my own and with tour guides.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

One of my all-time favourite stories to research - I can still taste the Meat I won and shared with my table

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I have to go to bed, so sadly I'll miss the big moment, but knowing that when I wake up Bluesky will have reached its 20 million-user target is incredibly exciting to me, and I expect too many of you. So glad this place is blossoming! And so glad to be experiencing its blossoming with all of you. 🦋

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

An extinct flightless bird known as the great auk was my summer obsession while I was at my Newfoundland place on Fogo Island. @moderntraveller.bsky.social gave my story a happy home. Now if I just had the gumption to write a book about Canada + the auk.... www.moderntraveller.ca/home/on-fogo...

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On Fogo Island, Artists Celebrate the Extinct Great Auk — Modern Traveller

Like the penguin, it was a flightless seabird that was agile in the sea and vulnerable on land. Like the puffin, it was part of the Alcidae family of birds. Like the dodo, it went extinct on our watch...

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

There is that thing where people look like their pets … or buy pets that look like them

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I try to zig when people zag, and then zag when they zig!

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It was one of those "mountain reflects in glassy lake" days as I finally got to see how Jasper National Park + the town of Jasper are doing after devastating summer wildfires. Marmot Basin opens for skiing Nov. 22. Jasper's hotels/restaurants are ready for visitors to return. #travelwriting

A mountain in Jasper National Park reflects in Lake Annette in Jasper National Park in Alberta in November 2024.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Sometimes you just "see" a story, like when I learned about the man who brings his Newfoundland dog to Signal Hill National Historic Site in St. John's. I found him on Facebook + made sure they were there for photos the day I went to hike. #travelwriting www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/10/meet...

A Newfoundland dog sits at Signal Hill National Historic Site in St. John's, Newfoundland waiting to meet tourists.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Any Monterey furniture buffs out there beyond Diane Keaton? I'm always looking for unique angles on @officialnps.bsky.social stories + so at Oregon Caves National Monument, I dug into how its Friends group is saving historic furniture. #travelwriting * www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/10/savi...

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Saving The `Purely American’ Monterey Furniture of Oregon Caves

It has been said that “a room full of Monterey furniture always seems to have a sense of humor about it.” The pieces in this storage room in Grants Pass, Oregon are clearly having a grand old time whi...

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Why do I choose the stories I do? Seeing six Swiss-style chalets in Golden, B.C. in 2023, I knew I had to return when they became rentals so I could write about why a railway hired mountaineering guides from Switzerland + built them homes. #travelwriting www.moderntraveller.ca/home/digging...

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Digging Into a B.C. Mountain Town’s Quirky Swiss Heritage — Modern Traveller

Built between 1910 and 1912 on jagged terrain, the six unique chalets with eclectic decorative elements were to be permanent homes for the Swiss guides and their families.

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Rossana Wyatt @rossanawyatt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A couple of block lists - will share more later. bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... Instructions: 1. Select the list 2. Tap "Subscribe" button on the top 3. Select "Block" or "Mute" the entire list.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

3/3 How to divide one Adventure Canada expedition cruise into three freelance stories that don't overlap. For Canada-focused Vacay.ca, lead with Inuit cultural performances by high school students in Nain and celebrate large and little-known Labrador. *** vacay.ca/2024/11/an-e...

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An Expedition Cruise Through the Inuit Homeland in Labrador

Facing each other with arms clasped in a school gym in northern Labrador, two teenagers launched into improvisational duets about polar bears, wolves, mosquitos, and geese. The guttural sounds that ca...

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

2/3 How to divide one Adventure Canada expedition cruise into three freelance stories. For Mississauga-based Modern Traveller, go all in on Greenland (an emerging destination) + the fact that AC is headquartered in Mississauga. Lead with a blue iceberg. *** www.moderntraveller.ca/home/iceberg...

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Icebergs and Other Reasons To Love Greenland — Modern Traveller

10 things that make the world’s largest island that isn’t a continent memorable.

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

1/3 How to divide one Adventure Canada expedition cruise into three freelance stories. For National Parks Traveler (a U.S. outlet), zero in on remote and rarely visited Torngat Mountains National Park in northern Labrador. Lead with polar bears. *** www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/11/shar...

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Sharing Inuit Stories In Torngat Mountains National Park

On a rocky slope in Torngat Mountains National Park in northern Labrador, a lone polar bear was splayed out on his belly on a bed of Arctic plants. He looked like a bearskin rug until he rolled lazily...

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Jennifer Bain @jenniferbain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Lonely Planet got me through Europe + Asia, so it was an honour to co-author Lonely Planet Atlantic Canada (May 2024). I wrote the Newfoundland & Labrador chapter + essays on knitting culture + wildlife like puffins. These guidebooks are updated every two years so that work begins in 2025 for 2026.

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