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Nickel City chick🍁

@laurasimba.bsky.social
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Books, Canadian history, Sudbury history, dogs and cats are my thing. DM'S are instant block.

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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 4h
Memories of Cold War and pre Cold War popping into my brain.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 6h
So nice to see. I tried to plan accordingly also. Gave up a two story house for a tiny one floor. Still, I met a senior today with vision loss struggling to even read the large label of a can of soup. Always be aware of a senior that may be in need of help.👀
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 8h
Waking up every day in 2026 be like:
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Balthazar, l'enfant qui court
ALT: Balthazar, l'enfant qui court
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 9h
Just a reminder that winter is on the horizon and many homeless folks will need ways to stay warm. Donating socks, mitts and hats helps them. This Sudbury Contractor found another way. If you're doing reno's, you may be able to help too. 🥰 www.sudbury.com/local-news/s...
sudbury.com
Sudbury contractor crafts kits to help homeless stave off frostbite
Stephanie Rees has a plan for not just the Energy Court encampments, but an idea that could keep vulnerable people warm in cities across Ontario and the country
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 10h
Opened up the back hatch of my van today to get the new container of anifreeze, yes I still have a rad leak. Saw two large bags of topsoil that I had bought in June and a windsheild wiper I had bought last fall.🤦‍♀️ Just going to pretend I didn't see that.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 16h
Timely as October is Women's History Month.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 16h
Just a golden retriever.. 😅
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Don Hoskins | 🍁 Future EU Associate 🍁 @djbhoskins.bsky.social · 18h
Ordinary US citizens are fast learning the real world value of their former most cooperative customer up close & personal... Stats like this have a direct impact in lost incomes & unpaid bills for millions of people across this industry... True North Strong & Free! 😎🇨🇦🍁✊
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just discovered Prime has Wednesday night hockey. The Leafs are up 2-0 against the Islanders. 👏
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Be sure to watch this to the very end and you'll get a special treat.🥰
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I take a smorgasbord of them daily so I can attest to this. One med has done some serious damage to my kidneys. On the other hand, they're keeping me alive, so there's that.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just checked out his website. There are some beautiful engraved wood charcuterie and serving boards and signs, as well as slate coasters. You can even get signs personalized.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Off to bed. 4 hours sleep per night is wearing me down. No break in the pain all day either. Doing the best I can. Much love to all.💕
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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come say Hi! if you are in Vernon this Saturday!
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Ador-eh Borealis 🍁 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was running errands earlier, and everyone I talked to, bar none, is united against the existential threat from south of the border. No prompting. Just pride and resolve. STANDING TOGETHER ISN’T A STRUGGLE. IT’S AN HONOUR. This is our Canada. 🇨🇦💪🇨🇦 #CanadaUnited
Canadian Resolute Pride.
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Audrey Grace 🇨🇦🇺🇦🖇🐸 @audreygracie11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ladies...Report and block this loser...see screenshot below.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While out in the bush cutting wood I'd always manage to get chainsaw dust in my shirt, so this is how I used to scratch my itchy back too. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.😂
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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new video from the Memory Project, “The Battle that Never Was” about the only land invasion of North America during the Second World War launches October 5. Here's a sneak peek! buff.ly/mpyNlnc
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Trailer : The Battle that Never Was: Operation Cottage and the Defense of Kiska
During the Second World War, Japanese Forces briefly occupied two islands in the Aleutian island chain, off the coast of Alaska. It was the only enemy occupation of North America during the war. …
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Word history.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seeing some debate about who brought in Medicare. While it was the CCF party that put it on it's platform, it was Premiere of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas that got it through in 1962 for his Province. On the other hand, it was Former PM Lester Pearson who brought in the National Medicare in 1968.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember these.😊
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In case you missed this earlier. Can you imagine having to pay 8 cents for a chocolate bar.😂
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oleg Gordievsky was the head of Russia's KGB office in London. He was a double agent and was working with M16. His defection to Britain in 1985 caused much chaos in the Leningrad KGB. Vladimir Putin saw many of his friends, colleagues and patrons purged. I wish they would have gotten rid of him.☹️
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Looking into Road Salt Use, Harms, and Alternatives" is our latest article to cross the 10,000 view threshold! - niche-canada.org/2022/12/19/l... Congrats to Ambika Tenneti! #envhist #roadsalt
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Looking into Road Salt Use, Harms, and Alternatives
Interested in the details of winter salt-use in Canada, Ambika Tenneti explores the uses, harms, and alternatives to this North American winter standard.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It needs to be done. The lead is killing bald eagles too. www.timminstoday.com/local-news/s...
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Something is killing bald eagles in Northwestern Ontario: bird rescuer
Expert believes a potential virus, wildfire smoke, stress and heavy metals could explain a recent cluster of bald eagle illnesses and deaths
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is just one of several incidents in the last few weeks, including one that claimed a life. Moose and other wildlife can be active near roadways, especially during dawn and dusk. Remain alert, reduce speed and watch for additional animals, as moose often travel in groups.
sudbury.com
Collision involving moose, two vehicles closes Hwy. 64 for 5 hours
Two people were injured in the incident
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Stan 🇨🇦🐻 @saltystan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
White Nationalists should be jailed for domestic psychological terrorism! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. politicians, leaders condemn reported white nationalist gathering on First Nation reserve | CBC News
B.C. politicians and leaders are denouncing an apparent gathering of white nationalists on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc reserve near Kamloops, B.C. Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir says the nation received report...
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My great uncle with two of my aunts before he headed off to WW11. If you're from Sudbury you will know where this picture was taken, as were most from my grandfathers store. Sadly my grandpa died in 1950 at the age of 50 and the grocery store was sold.
A man heading off to WW11 with his nieces beside him. An old car in the background as well as a glimpse of the old Flour Mill Silos on Notre Dame Street in Sudbury, Ontario
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My great grandparents on their wedding day in 1898 Hull, Quebec.
A bride and groom wedding picture taken in 1898 in Hull, Quebec.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On March 26, 2000, the song Blame Canada from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars. But that night something also debuted that became an immediate hit. The I Am Canadian Rant. This is the story. 🧵 1/10
Joe Canada standing center stage, singing into a microphone with mouth open and arms slightly outstretched before a large red maple leaf on a white backdrop.
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Faol Sean @faolsean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Catherine🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @buca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seeing a few accounts here recommending alleged 🇨🇦 websites with “made in Canada” merchandise that is very obviously AI-generated. The time is ripe for this kind of scam. Don’t buy from companies advertising on Facebook, especially without double checking. #buyCanadian www.scamadviser.com
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Was so nice that Simba wanted to come outside with me today. He tried to walk but quickly got winded so just strolled around on his tie out for a bit and rested in the sun. Tired boy.
A little Yorkie dog standing in green grass.A little tired looking Yorkie dog laying in the sun in green grass.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The plan today was to take enough pain pills and get the ladder out to clean windows. Woke up and put my camisole on backwards, housecoat inside out and spilled my coffee twice. Not so sure being on a ladder is a good idea now.😂🙃
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is amazing - Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson were participants in our Thinking Extinction symposium back in 2013 here at Laurentian University. The symposium was led by Brett Buchanan, who is now Dean of Arts and Humanities at Western!
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In October 1943, a German U-Boat surfaced off the coast of Labrador. The crew made it to land and installed an automatic weather station to aid in the planning of attacks on Allied ships. It remained there for the next three decades. This is the story. 📸 Wikicommons 🧵 1/8
Research instruments arranged on snow-covered ground: several cylindrical sensor units linked by cables to a tripod-mounted mast, set up for field measurements.
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Spicy Scorpio🪶🧡🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇪🇺 @nish57.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
With Truth and Reconciliation Day next week I thought I would share this important event for Canada's Inuit! (March 2025) youtube.com/shorts/o_oYl...
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Inuit celebrate relocation apology 90 years later
YouTube video by CBC Indigenous
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Military physician James Douglas was alarmed to report that in a six-week period in 1814, half of the British troops at Fort Chippawa were hospitalised with malaria. The situation became so dire that Fort Chippawa was evacuated to “a more salubrious situation” during the War of 1812.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking to chat with anyone who lived in Gander on 9/11 for an upcoming podcast episode I'm working on.
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Mike The Canstralian 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 @aussieinto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bring Chester the Bear home. www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/artic...
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Have you seen this bear sculpture? Police want to know
A public art sculpture that once was nestled in the woods in Muskoka has allegedly been stolen.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At the start of 2026, I set a goal to hit 10,000 subscribers on YouTube by the end of the year. At the time, I had 4,400 subscribers but I am nearing my goal. If you would like to subscribe to my channel you can at: buff.ly/0B0pEyS
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Only treatment is to remove my rib bone, but they won't do it until my hand starts turning blue.
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good and bad news from test today. Good is the blockage isn't a clot. Bad news, blockage isn't in my arm but in the thoracic clavicle ring just above my top rib and the two are pinching the blood vessel and nerve, which also runs to the scapula. Hence all the pain in my rib and back.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 23/09/2026
This is just superb. It’s heartwarming and plays great on social media but it’s also getting kids truly excited by politics. A win from every direction, with pure class and charm ⭐️
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why am I not surpised.🙃
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Never buy Maple Leaf food.
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