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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Soupir -- Terminées, les études collégiales dans les pénitenciers fédéraux du Québec Le Cégep Marie-Victorin et les professeurs qui enseignent à la population carcérale à Cowansville et à Joliette dénoncent cette décision de Services correctionnels Canada qui va, selon eux, à l’encontre de la […]

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Btw. Chinese EVs won't be eligible for those EV subsidies. Way to "open" the market #cdnpoli

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

.... my automatic translation tool just translated this, and I can't even... 😆 - That is goooooooood! => C'est de la bouillie pour les chats!

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

La laïcité, sauf quand c'est la religion catholique 🙏 -- Malgré l’interdiction des prières de rue, le ministre Jean-François Roberge donne sa bénédiction aux cortèges funéraires, qui pourront continuer de se faire sur la voie publique. Les maires craignaient de devoir porter l’odieux de […]

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

At least he's not Harper! Wait... --- "Carney said Harper came to Ottawa as a "conviction politician," but emerged as a "pragmatist," praising his stewardship during the global recession of 2008-09, which Canada weathered relatively well compared to other developed nations. While committed to […]

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

We only have one prime minister. How much worse someone else could have been *does not matter*. Our lives and our future are not being shaped by a hypothesis.

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

I hope the birds appreciate because this was a COLD seed refill. Also added the new food in the old/new feeder. So they can enjoy some bark butter bits and some mealworms!

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Ron Dyck @dyckron.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

"'’Backwards’ was my first thought,' said Cathy Holtslander, director of research and policy at the National Farmers Union (NFU), after learning about the email. 'Obviously, they made these cuts without knowing what they were doing — which is a big problem — and also [the cuts] suggest they […]

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

We want to go to Bruce peninsula for our yearly trip in the fall. Maybe go on the 17 from Ottawa, stop at Lake Nissiping for a day or two. We can reserve our parking to Bruce/Grotto tomorrow (this is what we've been waiting for before booking everything else lol) Anything else in the area […]

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

So thankful for vertical greenhouse technology. Being able to get fresh Québec greens in February is amazing. It's also one of the things that thankfully still gets government funding. #BuyCanadian

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

I removed the suet cages in my second big caged feeder (the birds hated this one, no idea why), bought a treat bowl, and Kyle glued it in 😅 ... Now to buy treats for the biiirds (because surely they don't have enough food choices yet).

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Someone made a new website, in both languages, of Canada's historic places :) heritageguide.ca 'When Stephen Taylor read a CBC Nova Scotia story about the imminent closure of Parks Canada's Canadian Register of Historic Places website, he knew he had to act. The register is a […]

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

Spot the morning birds (There are also at least 10 juncos around)

A box elder tree with dead seeds and some snow on the branches. You can see two bright red spots (male cardinals) preparing to go ready at a feeder

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

Ehhh. Québec is not happy about this speech that Carney made in Québec City today. Trying to erase the history of the British trying to assimilate the French. It's subtle, but it's incredibly insulting. -- "New France had fallen. British North America had begun. It would have been easy – […]

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

I'm glad he made a nice speech. I'll wait for actions

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

I don't know why but the birds couldn't figure out the suet in the cage feeder and just... didn't eat any. I got the old feeder back and Miss Downy spent so much time chirping and eating and chirping!!! Message well received my friend

A female downy woodpecker eading suet in a feeder with a tail prop at the bottom

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

This felt like a perfect representation of #Ottawa

A row of parked cars in the middle of the Byward market, a line of multicolored vertical lights behind the cars, and the sign for Barefax, a "Gentlemen's club"

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2025

No more starlings stealing Miss Downie's suet!! (That was right after she almost flew into my face 😆) #SKyard #BirdPhotography #DownyWoodpecker

A female downy woodpecker, perched, upside down, on a suet feeder

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025

Look at this gorgeous bird! A white-crowned sparrow, which is a new bird to our yard! #SKyard #BirdPhotography #Sparrow

A small bird, with brown patterns on the wings, a grey chest and neck, and bright white and black stripes on the head. The bird is at a bird feeder, looking forward

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

Look at this perfectly round junco!! :face_holding_back_tears: Just stayed there for me for so long! #SKyard #BirdPhotography

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

So.. This is a thing apparently? Lol!

A pot of Beavertails creamy sugar style spread

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

"Insects, bats, rodents and other pests have been spotted in federal buildings more than 500 times in the Ottawa area this year, as the government makes plans to get public servants to spend more time in the office." Sabourin said the pests included — but were “not limited to” — bats, birds […]

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

This is horrible. Do not buy AI translated books. Please. --- The French literary translators association (ATLF) and the collective En Chair et en Os (In the Flesh) have just published a press release (in French) relating how translators working for Harlequin were recently told that the […]

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

Even the Alberta NDP is all about oil and pipelines... fun “This MOU is good for Alberta. We need more pipeline capacity, energy exports, and the oil and gas jobs that come with it." www.albertandpcaucus.ca/news/post/n…

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Nenshi responds to Canada-Alberta MOU

Engaging Albertans to build an economy for the future.

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

I'm doing some training... this is supposed to be a translator!! Whaaaat. Translating on a laptop, with no ergonomic stuff??? 😂

A cartoon woman, sitting on a uncomfortable chair, working on a laptop, on a tiny table, with.. heels?? and headphones

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

Husband is gone for a whole week for work. First time in... A decade? What do I do? Paint the downstairs bathroom, finally 😆

A corner of a room with some sky blue paint being covered with pale gray paint

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

That's a rare porch roof visit! One of our male cardinals #birding

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

The pigeons hanging out on the pergola make me laugh every time 😂

Two big rock pigeons on a pergola roof, walking around slowly

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

Prepping and roasted some veggies. Because let's be honest, that's not happening during the week 😅 Carrots, celeriac and beets

Two big casseroles filled with slices of carrots, celeriac and pretty pink and white beets

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

The American goldfinch's favourite spot! Tall stems of native plants! #SKyard #BirdPhotography

A dark yellow goldfinch, with black pattern on the wings, perched sideways on the stem of a coneflower. They're surrounded by old flowers, now going to seed

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

Look at this perfectly round junco!! :face_holding_back_tears: Just stayed there for me for so long! #SKyard #BirdPhotography

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

It's funny, but I had never seen brussel sprouts still on their stem before! And cone cabbage is new to us. We really enjoyed the delicata squash from the last basket too

Vegetables on a kitchen table. You can see some beets in a bag, Bok Choy, two peppers, a cone cabbage, brussel sprouts on a tall stem and some root vegetable

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

I was missing our New England asters from the old house this fall and thought that maybe I'd buy some next year. Well, the god of volunteer plants heard me! Guess we're at five different species of native asters now 😍 #SKyard

Two different styles of asters. The top one has darker purple petals that are thin and long. At the bottom are lilac blooms (smooth blue asters)

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

He's blurry, but look at how happy this little cutie is!! One of our white-throated sparrows #SKyars

A puffed up little bird, white chest, with brown wings, a big white patch on his throat and little yellow eyebrows, his beak open, and sun reflecting in his eye. His on a fence with fall coloured leaves behind him

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

So much attitude in such a small bird 😄 I *think* this is one of the new kids from this summer; her colours are quite tame Love seeing our female cardinals more often during the fall! They're even using the feeder a lot (it's usually the males who use it more) #SKyard

A female cardinal, mostly brown, with a pinkish beak and her crest up, beak open in a scream. She's sitting on a fence, with fall coloured leaves in the background

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

It's hard to convey how gorgeous the view is in New Brunswick. It's hill after hill after hill of green, red, orange and yellow trees. The colours have really popped since we left!

A highway with, on the left, a forest of trees with their fall leaves. The sky is blue

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

Our favourite moose warning (And yes, a moose will absolutely tower your car like that)

A yellow sign on the side of the highway. There is a car on the left and a huge moose on the right.

It says Slow down at night/ralentissez le soir
Next/Prochain 10 km

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

We did the mandatory stop at Peggy's Cove. I'm not the biggest fan of super touristic attractions (too busy!), so here I was, my back to the lighthouse, taking pictures of cool granite rocks and waves 😂 We also kept hearing the whistle from the security person […] [Original post on ottawa.place]

Three rows of gray rocks with lots of cracks in them and a little bit of ocean on the right

Mostly grey rocks with a long and thin whitish rock slate that for embedded in there at some point

Pretty big waves crashing in rock cliffs with a small village in the background

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

Art installation at the Shag Harbour UFO site (The calls about a UFO sighting were investigated, but nothing was ever found lol)

A statue in the shape of a lobster. The lobster tail has an anchor on it being pulled by an octopus. The middle of the body depicts a UFO coming down on a lighthouse by the ocean. The top are green alien hands and head

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

We took the long way between Annapolis Royal and Yarmouth today. Saw lots of fun stuff! This is Cape Forchu, with its super tall lighthouse and amazing views of the ocean #SKtrip

A tidal pool with rocks all around and blue skies

The skeleton of a fin whale that was found by a boat builder and then donated. You can see the huge mouth bones that would surround the baleen

View of the lighthouse, which is a tall tower behind a building on a hill. Behind them is a bigger building with a museum inside. At the front is a small alcove with rocks around

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Stéphanie @stephanie.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

Yesterday, we went to Fort Ann and Port Royal National historic sites. We walked through Annapolis Royal, looking at all the old historic houses. We went to a small winery, and the fall colours are starting to show on the hills ☺️ #SKyard

Part of the old grounds from Fort Ann, one of the most contested forts between the French and the British. You can see some remnants and the ocean behind

A monument to commemorate the Grand dérangement (the deportation of all Acadians). There is a cross on top of the monument

The entrance to the old Port Royal settlement. It's all hand carved wooden boards and shingles. There are three crests on top of the entrance (the French king, and the two first, and only, governors)

View on many rows of vines. In the background are hills with orange and green trees.

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