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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A Thanksgiving story found in old emails sent by friends. #HappyCanadianThanksgiving

Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I pledge to read the printed word. readtheprintedword.org I found this years ago. The link still works and I'm still reading books in print!

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sex trolls need better manners! I am REALLY tired of being asked to follow sex workers on bluesky. I do not post about looking for sex. I do not follow any sex workers.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No way are there 32 necessary cookies which I can not shut down for looking at ONE page of a website!!! There is no way to contact the Bath Spa Univ. The popup takes over most of the screen space. This is NOT GPC compliant #Cookiebot Can I block Cookiebot? #GPC

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To the epidemic of lonely men... get a cat and avoid people who burn you.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Men, be safe. Assume the answer is NO! thatgrrl.com/blog/?action...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How does AI see you? thatgrrl.com/blog/?action...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Be careful what accounts you follow on social media. A LOT of them are just AI pollution. Generated content, random and often incorrect, to make money for someone sitting behind the scenes doing not much at all. A lot of Canadian history accounts are actually US based.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Need a boost today? Look up your name in the Urban Dictionary. www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1930 Bathing Pavilion Sunnyside Toronto Canada - This is long gone now. I forget what it was demolished for. My Mother and her family visited Sunnyside, before the 1960's. #CanadianCulture #OntarioHistory #CanadianHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

1906 Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dorchester Street in Winter. #CanadianHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From Nova Scotia Past and Present on Facebook. www.facebook.com/groups/11867...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Windfalls for Cider...The Poems of Raymond Knister - 1925.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I would think lawyers would pay attention to details and proofread any documents for errors. Seems they slipped up. #ProofreaderNeeded

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Find a way to step out of your own shadow today, at least for today. "Most of the shadows in life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson - ASCII art by ldb asciiartist.com

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Abandoned Military Installations of Ontario - Paul Ozorak. I found this on ebay. Self-published 1991. People looking for places to explore would like to find this book, but the price is very high. How about a reprint? www.ebay.com/itm/38967015... #OntarioHistory #MilitaryHistory #AbandonedOntario

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think I bought this book years ago, but the cover was different. Or, maybe the same name was used with different authors. I will try to find it, I love the old houses. www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4... #OntarioHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Squashed lizard coaster - Good for a laugh or two. www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Found online - Grandeur, ghosts & gargoyles : the entertaining history of Ontario's Parliament building - 1970 - Gordon Donaldson, Canadian government publication. dn760109.eu.archive.org/0/items/3176... another edition - dn720003.ca.archive.org/0/items/3176... #CanadianHistory #OntarioHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Early Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario. "Early Painting Postcard Toronto ON Foot of Yonge Street Old York 1834 Circa 1909" www.ebay.ca/itm/26753368... #OntarioHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The RVH is still around but very different looking now. I don't think those houses exist at all now. I can't think of where they would have been even. I've lived in Barrie for years. This was nice to find. www.ebay.ca/itm/15791339... Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Do you think you're buying Canadian beef? This was new to me. I haven't bought any beef, or much meat at all for awhile. Now I will have to watch that it is not ungraded. I've gotten used to trusting that all the meat in our grocery stores is a good grade - and Canadian. I guess not always.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Why is one software company allowed to control so many personal computers? When I buy a PC I do not want an MS account.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Keep Canada beautiful for all of us.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Does anyone know what this has to do with Canada? Is is something that comes up for everyone, just changing the name of the location/ country? en.wikipedia.org I'd expect better from Wikipedia. What are they trying to pull? @wikimediafoundation.org

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Bad things happen to even good writers.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sir Henry Pellatt and his Castle in Toronto - thatgrrl.com/blog/?action... #CanadianCulture #CanadianHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Embed Bluesky on your web site. embedbsky.com

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Somewhere in Canada... My niece and nephew are taking the VIA Rail across Canada this summer. This is her photo.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Have you seen this while looking at sites online? Who would be crazy or careless enough to trust a website to do all or any of this? Not me! I left the site. Not worth it! If you have a site, this could be keeping people away, far away, from your site. #CloudFlare

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

How to identify Canadian food - Government of Canada - inspection.canada.ca/en/food-labe...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I've been buying Kicking Horse Coffee, thinking it was still Canadian. It is not! So disappointing. I feel I have been lied to by all the grocery stores which say it is Canadian. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I took this photo just last week, in good time time for Canada Day. On a road trip (with my Mother) just outside of Barrie, Ontario. I think it is in Springwater but I'm not sure.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Mural Map of Canada from Mural Routes - Public/ street art maintained in Canada. #CanadianCulture

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Sometimes it is hard to believe people are legitimately posting stuff like this. Believing in the devil is one thing.. being that ignorant about female biology is another.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ranching in the Canadian West - postcard from 1911. www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1... #CanadianHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Vintage postcard "Mule deer Canadian Rockies".

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Trump's Folly. A wrestling compound costing $60-million. Celebrating the US’s 250th anniversary on June 14 to accommodate Trump's birthday. So... what will they actually do on July 4th?

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Gilbert Blythe and the Trans Canada Highway - Canadian Spelling Ezine - canadianspelling.com/oldsite/2026...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

CBC - Why do Canadians say 'soccer' instead of 'football'? - www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #CanadianCulture #CanadianHistory #CanadianSports canadasoccer.com

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I will be posting about Katherine Hale in my next ezine. In one of her books about Canada (1926) she wrote "Old Canada stands here... dominant and unchanging" with one of the illustrations. I think Canadians have to be stubborn (dominant and unchanging) to still be Canadian. #CanadianCulture

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's Zed Not Zee - The Canadian Spelling Ezine - canadianspelling.com/oldsite/2026... #CanadianCulture #CanadianHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Merry World Environment Day asciiartist.com

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Write "about" not "on". Even the Government of Canada site about writing, gets it wrong. nos-langues.canada.ca/en/writing-t... #CanadianWriting #CanadianSpelling #CanadianCulture

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Tasting History with Max Miller - www.youtube.com/c/tastinghis... - "Every Tuesday, I show you how to make a different historic dish while exploring the history surrounding it."

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It Begins with Turtles - Canadian Spelling Ezine - canadianspelling.com/2026/it-begi... #CanadianCulture #CanadianHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I wonder if that's real? If so, why would they leave the car there, taking up space in the parking lot and, who covered it?

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