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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Five. Three is a snack. Four is a hungry day snack. Five is a lot.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Many but the first one that comes to mind is Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I finished and signed this in the studio yesterday. First time painting peonies so it was nerve wracking. I love this deep pink-red colour of peonies so much I had to give it a go. Peonies 18x24, Oil on wood panel

Painting 18x24, Oil on wood panel. A large barrel shaped white vase off centre to the left with four large deep red peonies. One blossom is out of frame to the left. One blossom points up at centre, one is as big as a bowl, fully open on the right. One is an unopened bud hanging down on the vase to the left. Lots of dark green leaves. Pale blue-grey-yellow background.

Close-up of the top blossom. It's pointing up, has a few petals unfurling, two starting to separate from the main part of the blossom. Green leaves and stem below.

Close-up of the forward facing blossom on the right. Most petals are close to the centre but open enough to show the tiny petals at the centre.

Close-up of the unopened bud. It's round, partially encased with green leaves and just a bit of the red petals showing through. The vase behind it is white, has vertical grooves.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My parents had this album. I don't remember them ever listening to it.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yesterday's sky and a painting from a day years ago, after a storm. The sky remains my muse.

Grey sky over the Toronto skyline. Grey swirling clouds, orange at the horizon.

Painting in rough knife strokes, grey swirling clouds over dark treetops skyline.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

C'mon Hamilton East - Stoney Creek, York-Simcoe and Scarborough Southwest! Let's go!! Sick of having no GP and ER waits? Tired of your kids' teachers stretched to the limit? Tired of provincial contracts going to U.S. businesses? Tired of MPPs squandering your taxes on hotel rooms? Vote 'em out!

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And they say Canadians are cold. We're not cold. We're just sometimes hampered by the snow cover.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

sorry if I seem weird and intense now, it’s because I’m now weird and intense

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

#Canadians aren’t just changing their grocery habits for food, buying Canadian, and from other countries, not the US, this was just the tip of the iceberg. Canadians are changing what streaming services they watch, switching to UK services, all Canadian services. /1 thread

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I love this! I had this for first breakfast but with homemade rhubarb strawberry jam. I might have more for second breakfast.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They want Canada to put U.S. liquor back on the shelves? Ok. Canadians can do that too. Pick up the bottle, read the label, see that it's made in the U.S. and put it back on the shelf.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thanks. Sometimes it's hard to have faith.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New painting underway in the studio. This is the second day when it looks like shit while I'm working on it, I go home all discouraged then look at the photos and find it's actually not bad at all. Whatever, eh? Just keep painting.

Painting on a wooden easel. The panel is 18x24, vertical, sketch in deep blue of three peonies in a vase. Two are fully open and one is still just a bud. The vase is barrel shaped and is to the left of the panel. One large peony hangs to the right. The background has been painted a very pale blue-grey. The vase, flowers and leaves currently unpainted.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 03/08/2026

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to my art show. It was a good one for me - lots of people, lots of love, buyers who bought. Now all that's left is the carrying, driving, delivering and then some rest. xo

Photo of about 20 paintings wrapped in white plastic held together with red tape, stacked leaning against empty walls in the gallery. The walls are white with hanging wires hanging down .

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Judging from the number of people who say "Across the world" instead of "Around the world", I'd say there are quite a few of them left.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Here's a little visit with my painting "Rouge River Skate" with commentary on the little vignettes that drew me to paint this scene. This painting is part of my exhibition at Leslie Grove Gallery in Toronto until Sunday, July 19. Drop by to see it and the rest of the show if you're in the area.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The opening reception is Thursday July 9, 6-8pm. The show opens at the gallery today. I'll be at the gallery every day but not all day. I hope I see you and get to meet you in person.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Today is opening day of my art show in Toronto. For the first time I'm showing my skating/hockey paintings and two textile pieces along with the paintings that inspired them. If you're in the Toronto area, drop in and say Hi. Leslie Grove Gallery 1158 Queen St East, Toronto July 8-19

Poster for the show featuring a painting of a highway disappearing into the horizon, water tower on the left, orange, yellow and pink sky above. Text is on the top in a dark green block.
"Winter and Other Seasons
New Works by Nancy Bennett
July 8 - 19, 2026
Leslie Grove Gallery
1158 Queen St. East, Toronto"

View of one gallery wall. It's white. On the wall are five large 36x40 paintings of winter scenes.

Me, hot and sweaty after hanging the show, standing in front of a 6'x6' textile piece in autumn forest colours. I'm wearing a black tshirt and pants, arms raised in triumph, smiling. I'm a short, pudgy woman in my 60's, hair pulled back, glasses.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don't even follow basketball and I think this would be great. All of them.

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FranklyMyDear @frank-lee.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Add to his list of failures Doug Ford's failure to protect Ontarians from measles by failing to tighten up vaccination loopholes and not boosting education etc, no big surprise there, we also know most of the poorly educated, anti-vax nitwit crowd voted for him. www.torontotoday.ca/local/health...

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Toronto Public Health warns of potential measles exposure at hospital, clinics

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We once had so many Daves on our street we had to come up with nicknames. P Dave (Peculiar), JB Dave (Jack's Brother) and Q Dave (Queer. He suggested it.) They all lived within a 4 house group. One lone house had no Daves but they had a Jack known as Little Jack and Dave's brother was Big Jack.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thanks. It was my Mum's. Just does basic forwards and backwards but it's 75 yrs old and runs like a dream.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

They discontinued my favourite linen capris so I made a pattern from my last pair, bought fabric and made my own. I don't really enjoy sewing but I REALLY enjoy not being dictated to by stores and fashion people. Cost is about $75/pair, time was about 5 hrs. They'll last me for years.

Pattern for pants laid out on brown fabric on a bamboo floor. The pattern pieces are white paper. A pair of scissors on top of one piece that is partially cut out.

A stack of cut out pieces of fabric, on a table in front of an old Singer sewing machine. In the background are a dark wood cabinet and an old black woodstove not connected.

Brown pants sewn together, inside out, laying on the floor. Large pockets.

Me standing on my balcony among pots of flowers and an inukshuk. I'm wearing a black tshirt and loose brown capris. I'm in my 60's, shoulder length brown hair, glasses. Hands in my pockets. Of course I put pockets in them.

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Killntime @killntime.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Dougie is just like every Conservative politician looking to play both sides & line their pockets at the same time. The thing Dougie doesn't get is he didn't start this boycott the Canadian people did, we control how or if it ever ends. We are using our power, our money, it's all us not the govn't.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Those were the cool ones. The uncool ones were the ones with plastic web straps woven around the metal frame. They were the ones we had.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you see this, post your blue art 💙

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We may be going down to single digits tonight but at least we got this first.

Swirling clouds in the sky over the Toronto city skyline. The sun is setting out of frame to the right. The clouds are pink and grey against a blue sky, swirling at the horizon the fanning out like an explosion up into the sky. The city can be seen along the bottom edge, dark, low buildings on the left, some trees, then in the distance on the right side are the office towers downtown and the CN Tower.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I don't usually watch Criminal Minds but I'll watch this.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I just posted a couple of photos. You captured the colours best.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Wow! Great shot! The sky was magnificent tonight.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I painted these two a few years apart but they always go together so well. I seldom show one without the other. Killarney and Valley.

Large painting 36x40, vertical, hills slanting down to the right, water in the distance. The hills are green with undertones of yellows and orange.

Large painting 36x40, vertical. A deep valley between two hills/mountains. Purple mountains in the distance with a small strip of pale blue sky along the top. The valley is green with red undertones on the right and dark grey gravel and stone wall on the left. There is a patch of bright green grass on the right. A small silver creek winds its way long the bottom of the valley.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 08/04/2026

Apparently, you still have 2 weeks to purchase this.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Everything is still all grey here in Toronto so I really appreciate these bursts of colour.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I am officially between studios. I've been painting in the studio on the left for almost 9 years, as evidenced by the paint around the edges. The new studio feels strange and unsettled but I think that will change. It'll grow on me.

Corner of a room. Wooden floor, beige walls. Paint in a square shape on one wall from the edges of paintings I've painted there. A paint splattered table top leans agains the wall on the left, a stack of wood panels leans against the wall on the right. A small wooden table in the foregorund with some tape, toilet paper and a plastic bag on it. Grey carpet underlay on the floor.

A room with grey carpet on the floor, white walls. A beige rug is on top of the carpet. Stacked along the wall are a painted panel, a bag, a paind box, a disassembled bookcase, wood panels, an easel, a folding chair and two blue bins stacked on the right side.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This Federal government has a track record of quiet strength plus they're immensely popular with the people of Canada. I don't think Ford will act against them when he doesn't have the authority to do so.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Go ahead. I took it from her Facebook page.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

From Julie Dzerowicz, Liberal MP for Davenport in Toronto

Julie Dzeroicz
Member of Parliament for Davenport
Today, Ontario's Premier announced that the province will introduce legislature to take over the City of Toronto's role in the Billy Bishop Tripartite Agreement and take ownership of city-owned lands at the airport.
Here are the facts:
1. No matter what the Premier says, the Province of Ontario alone (once they upload from the City) cannot make any operational decisions about the Billy Bishop Airport. Under the Tripartite agreement, any changes to the airport require unanimous approval from all three Tripartite partners - the Toronto Port Authority, the City/Province, and Transport Canada.
2. The current runway extension is a Transport Canada safety requirement - it does not in any way open the door to jet operations.
3. Transport Canada has committed to meaningful consultation with residents, community groups, local businesses, and Indigenous partners on any changes or proposals moving forward.
There is a big difference between what the province is announcing and what they have the authority to do.

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