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Scholars Portal @scholarsportal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Scholars Portal Books hits 1 million! 🎉 Earlier this month, we surpassed 1 million titles on the Scholars Portal Books platform, an exciting milestone and complement to the over 75 million articles hosted on Scholars Portal Journals.

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I really do encourage everyone to read the full report. There's some really interesting stuff in there.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Side of the Road Jack Bishop 2019

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today on my podcast Canadian History Ehx: The Canadian Caper! In 1979-80, Canadians, led by Ambassador Ken Taylor, hid six Americans and helped them escape Iran. This is the true story, not the Argo story. Listen on all podcast platforms or read 👇 canadaehx.com/2023/12/05/t...

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 06/10/2026

Halloween is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than a spooky séance to see what Canada's 10th Prime Minister and his Irish Terriers have gotten up to in the afterlife? This and more essentials on The Beaverton Merch Store!

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William Lyon Mackenzie King Memorial Séance Candle

Get the gang together, join hands and light a candle to see what Canada's 10th Prime Minister and his Irish Terriers have gotten up to in the afterlife. • Soy wax • Cotton wick • 3.76″ × 3.13″ (95 × 7...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Canoe Portage Cornelius Krieghoff 1861

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026

Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Preserves Mary Pratt 1978

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

... It had literally never occurred to be to wonder what CTV stood for

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The road to reconciliation begins with truth Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe c. 2022

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

âcimostâtowak (They Tell Stories to One Another) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025

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CRKN - RCDR @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📖 Do you have a fascinating collection in your library that would benefit from digitization, or that would be a great fit for Canadiana? Apply to CRKN’s Member Digitization Projects initiative this fall! Applications are open until November 27. Learn more at our website: bit.ly/4x94zdR

The words "Apply to the Member Digitization Projects Initiative. Deadline: November 27, 2026" appear over images of historical documents.

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every year around OA Week I've started putting together what I'm calling the State of Scholarly Publishing report: This year's is now posted. elibtronic.github.io/2026_state_o... #openaccess #libraries #CdnPSE #CDNunis

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2026 State of Scholarly Publishing

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Librarianship.ca @librarianshipca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Library and Archives Canada adds “Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)” to Canadian Subject Headings librarianship.ca/news/lac-lak... LAC last week announced the addition of a new Canadian Subject Heading (CSH) for Lake Ontario to replace the Library of Congress’ updated subject heading for the lake.

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Library and Archives Canada adds “Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)” to Canadian Subject Headings - news

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Ian Gibson @iangibson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is great news! I think this will do a lot to grow the popularity of the league - it's super entertaining.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spice of Life Megan LeForte 2023

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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Aujourd'hui, c'est le jour des Franco-ontariens et Franco-ontariennes en Ontario! Cette date a été choisie pour commémorer le premier déploiement du drapeau franco-ontarien en 1975. Apprenez-en davantage sur cette communauté importante et dynamique dans notre article : buff.ly/EEFqiJO

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Francophones de l'Ontario (Franco-Ontariens)

L’Ontario abrite la plus grande communauté minoritaire de langue française au Canada, et la plus grande communauté francophone de toutes les provinces à l...

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NISO @nisoinfo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our draft Accessibility Remediation Metadata (ARM) standard is now available for public comment! The deadline for feedback is November 9. Thank you to our ARM Working Group members for their efforts to help make educational resources more accessible to all: www.niso.org/press-releas...

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Scholars Portal @scholarsportal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The September Scholars Portal Newsletter is here! Highlights from this edition include: 🔷Updates on GeoPortal, Scholaris, Ask, and Borealis 🔷New journals, books & Odesi datasets 🔷A Spotlight on Ask the Library 🔷Bug fixes & new features Catch up here: oculsp.ca/2jl0c

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A little bit about reading, a lot about how in scholarship the process should be as important as the output. Unfortunately, we were already in a world where output was king way before the AI wave came along and exacerbated all these problems. (500 papers not worth reading!!)

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Borealis Data @borealisdata.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🪶 Archaeology, history, and Indigenous knowledge come together in this collaborative project with the Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Council and Pointe-à-Callière museum, exploring Indigenous communities’ longstanding relationships with the land.

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Borealis Data @borealisdata.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ahead of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, discover the ongoing Tiohtià:ke Project, documenting 6,000 years of Indigenous presence in Montreal and the St. Lawrence Valley. Collection by C. Gates-St-Pierre et al. (UdeM): borealisdata.ca/dataverse/Ti...

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Projet Tiohtià:ke Project

Documents de recherche résultant du "Projet Tiohtià:ke - Pour une histoire autochtone de Montréal" Documents resulting from the "Tiohtià:ke Project - Towards and Indigenous History of Montreal"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Hid mistakes and made up data" used to be called by the cozy term "hallucination" up until it became vitally important for the IPO that AI is now evil

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OCUL @ocul-libraries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our 2025-26 annual report celebrates the collaboration at the core of all things OCUL. The report highlights new member-led digitization standards for accessible content, how we're helping build AI readiness across academic libraries, and more. Read the report: ocul.on.ca/2025-2026-an...

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CARL / ABRC @carl-abrc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#CARLat50 On October 21, 1975, representatives from 29 founding member libraries met in Ottawa and voted to create an independent association of academic research libraries. CARL was officially launched in Regina in 1976. 📸 Read more: www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-at...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026

I'm Canadian and this is accurate

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Okay but what if new Via Rail cars are a Bill Barilko situation and this actually makes the Leafs win again. Do I like trains more than I like the suffering of Leafs fans??

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The world is a nightmare but at least we have the Beaverton

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Rode out that little storm in a TTC bus. Hail rattling the emergency exit, rain streaming down the windows, everyone's phones going off simultaneously with the emergency alert, multiple intersections that lost power. And we're still within the TTC margin of error to be considered on time!

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thanks for the heads up, I saw the thumbnail and 100% thought parody 😂

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 02/09/2026

Oh shit it's a real Heritage Minute, not a parody one (despite Rick Mercer being in it)

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OCUL @ocul-libraries.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Time flies when you're having (reference) fun! We're grateful to everyone who makes Ask the Library possible, bringing real-time research assistance to campuses across Ontario.

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Scholars Portal @scholarsportal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

15 Years, 400,000 Chats, Countless Connections - it's the 15th anniversary of Ask the Library! Originally launched in September 2011, OCUL & SP's virtual reference service has since grown from 5 to 15 participating schools and expanded to a bilingual service. Read the full story: oculsp.ca/jjk79

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The real problem IMO is that the APIs aren't localized so the official US names are the default for anyone relying on them

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

correct, they will also do this for border disputes! which is where you start to see why this policy exists, because if you think for a minute you can probably figure out why “someone at Google manually decides whether Chine or India is right about a border dispute” is a bad idea

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly

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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We heard people are into Canadian lake names, so we spent a bit of time in the Canadian Geographical Names Database to come up with some fun ones... Find articles on Canada's waterways at this link;

Sing it with us... Head Lake, Shoulder Creek, Knee Lake, Toe Lake

Try not to get too sad at Disappointment Lake, Lac de la Misère, Desperation Lake, Lac Triste

Paddle your troubles away at Heaven Lake, Lac de la Joie, Wonderland Lake, Lac Merveille

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At the top, Lac Ontario identified on a map from 1688. On the bottom, the announcement in February 1867 that the new province would take its name from Lake Ontario.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Okay maybe we can cool it with takes that are basically just the militia myth

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

genuine LOL at my desk

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Sabina Pagotto @spagotto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ok what do we think Ford is going to do in his press conference this afternoon. Pour out a bottle of Jim Beam? Threaten to cut off the hydro supply to New York? Moon the TV cameras??

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I hope *French Canada* is feeling loved right now. There are literally millions of Francophones outside of Quebec and they are the ones who are the most impacted by attacks on French language or culture because they're in a minority in their environment.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Bears Foraging at Sunset Cornelius Krieghoff 1866

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