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Naomi Skwarna

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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This month, Toronto Public Library is doing a range of amazing looking sessions exploring Islamic craft & culture: all free, some walk-in, some requiring registration. Arabic calligraphy, geometric drawing, Fanous lantern craft, henna art & more. Register/learn more here! tpl.ca/programs-and...
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Islamic History and Culture
Home >  Programs >  Program Series  Islamic History and Culture October is Islamic History Month. Discover…
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I hope the Coyote finally kills the Roadrunner
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026
Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
As a woman in STEM I am equipped to answer the most pressing of scientific queries
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
So curious about this truck I saw yesterday that I looked it up...turns out this is the 2nd or 3rd year that the city has been delivering free skates and helmets to specific Toronto rinks all winter! Details for Toronto's Skate Lending Library here: www.toronto.ca/explore-enjo...
A black truck with an illustration of an ice skate on it and text that says Skate Lending Library, located in Toronto Ontario
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
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Amina Memory @aminamemorycain.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Very much looking forward to this conversation w/ Lisa Robertson and curator Gemma Blackshaw (Wednesday eve London time) in conjunction with artist Cathie Pilkington's HOUSEKEEPER at the Freud Museum. www.freud.org.uk/event/works-...
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Works of Care: Amina Cain and Lisa Robertson in conversation - Freud Museum London
All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Attendees will also receive access to the recording on the Monday after the event, available to
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
😳 I had no idea HIV cases in Canada surged by 35% in 2023, so recently! We have PrEP now, this shouldn’t be happening, except not everyone has access 💰 to those meds.
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Novo Nordisk is a beautiful name for a baby girl who is also a pharmaceutical company
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Delighted to announce that no
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 25/11/2025
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"Assidon believed that, at its core, the Palestinian cause is a matter of human justice, that its rationale is one of righting wrongs—and, as such, does not allow for half measures."
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The Life and Legacy of Sion Assidon
For the Moroccan Jewish leftist, the decolonization of his homeland and the liberation of Palestine were inextricably entwined.
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Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
SCOOP: Alberta intends to allow doctors working in the public health care system to simultaneously offers services in a parallel private market, according to draft amendments obtained by The Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services
Draft legislation would establish a model for medicine unlike any other in Canada
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Emperor of All M'ladies
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Potentially powerful new website launched today by the Canadian Cancer Society & Quebec–Clinical Research Organization in Cancer: a bilingual database of clinical trials that could be a valuable tool for Canadian cancer patients and their families. www.cancertrialscanada.ca
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Essais cliniques sur le cancer au Canada
Plateforme canadienne pour les essais cliniques sur le cancer.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/10/2025
Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory. The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/03/2025
Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed by Israel Was Placed on "Hit List" Before His Death
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Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed by Israel Was Placed on “Hit List” Before His Death
On Monday, Israeli strikes killed two Palestinian journalists: Al Jazeera’s Hossam Shabat, who was 23 years old, and Palestine Today’s Mohammed Mansour, who was killed in his apartment alongside his...
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
There should be another bed inside your bed that you can really get into
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Really liked this smartly positioned piece by @crowstheatre.bsky.social AD Chris Abraham. Appreciated reading about the less obvious (economic) value of Canadian theatre + a nice argument for live performance tax credits: macleans.ca/culture/put-...
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Put Down Your Phone and Head to The Theatre - Macleans.ca
The art form is an antidote to our polarized, distracted culture
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Donatella SOLSTICE
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Now is not the time for E-MAILS
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I wrote about green as a colour that lives and dies www.cbc.ca/arts/for-202...
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For 2025, the colour of the year will be a living green (which is also a dying green) | CBC Arts
While brat was a green for the screen, the earthy palette artists are gravitating toward now is a kind of memento mori — a visual reminder that death is coming.
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Shopify bulk editor tool, I'll kill you
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Body so tea it keeps the score
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Are you guys mad at me
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Angelo Muredda @amuredda.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I bet this feels good if you are a train track
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
When will Bake-Off have the courage to do a Piss Week
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Madeleine Thien wins the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award, which recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career fiction writer. She will donate her $25,000 prize to 3 charities, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross. www.cbc.ca/books/writer...
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Sheung-King, Martha Baillie among Writers' Trust literary prize winners | CBC Books
More than $340,000 was given out across seven prizes, recognizing fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Dug deep into my canva skills for this @hazlitt.bsky.social
Rear windshield of a car with the words "The Bitch U Know As Hazlitt Is Back" printed with white vinyl letters
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I truly believe that we can come together as a community and be unwell enough to make this website stick
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Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Aaron Schimberg's A DIFFERENT MAN is one of my favourite movies of the year and I particularly love @amuredda.bsky.social's brilliantly perceptive review of it: filmfreakcentral.net/2024/10/a-di...
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A Different Man (2024) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
***½/**** starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Adam Pearson, John Keating written and directed by Aaron Schimberg by Angelo Muredda Speaking at a recent Lincoln Center screening of his new meta dr...
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Ziya Jones @ziyajones.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Okay I made a starter pack of trans and non-binary writers/journalists! Please share, and comment on this is you'd like to be added. I'm an editor at Xtra, an LGBTQ2S+ publication, and I'd love to be connected to more trans media workers here. go.bsky.app/3mWT6w2
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
The activist, poet & priest Maggie Helwig has done more for more people than almost anyone I know. Now she & her family need some help. If you can provide any support at all, please do www.gofundme.com/f/rv79jr-mag...
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Donate to MAGGIE'S FAMILY, organized by Sylvia Lassam
Maggie Helwig's husband, Ken Simons, a former editor, web designer, and peace activist, is suffering, at… Sylvia Lassam needs your support for MAGGIE'S FAMILY
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