James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@social.cleverlibre.org

What is the Greatest Heritage Minute?

I want to rank all 100 Heritage Minutes from Historica Canada based on the votes of my followers on Twitter and Mastodon.

Let's begin!

Edmonton Grads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxJcXsFxyLI

Frontier College:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFgnnEmjbmA

@scottsantens just because something works or is good, people won't necessarily do it.

it's been proven for decades now that schools starting later lets students learn better but hardly anywhere does it

“On Sept 15, a company controlled by developer Michael Rice bought the property for $80M. The agent promoted it as a ‘prime land-banking opportunity’ … a person with the name Michael Rice donated more than $10.5K to the PC Party since 2018”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-sales-of-greenbelt-land-raise-questions-for-ford/

Historians actually have a word for people who pal around with nazis and that word is nazi

A developer company linked to Doug Ford borrowed $100 million at an interest rate of 21% to purchase land from the Greenbelt. No one does that unless they know they’re going to get a hefty payoff.

This whole thing stinks & needs to be investigated. #onpoli

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-sales-of-greenbelt-land-raise-questions-for-ford/

Surprise Surprise!

Ford government failed to follow expert advice on highway projects, auditor general finds

https://globalnews.ca/news/9314304/ontario-auditor-general-report-2022/?utm_source=notification

The remarkable concentration of total household wealth held by the wealthiest 10%
🇺🇸 US 79%
🇳🇱 Netherlands 68%
🇩🇰 Denmark 64%
🇩🇪 Germany 60%
🇨🇱 Chile 58%
🇦🇹 Austria 56%
🇬🇧 UK 52%
🇨🇦 Canada 51%
🇫🇷 France 51%
🇳🇴 Norway 51%
🇦🇺 Australia 46%
🇪🇸 Spain 46%
🇫🇮 Finland 45%
🇮🇹 Italy 43%
🇯🇵 Japan 41%
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/e2879a7d-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/e2879a7d-en&_csp_=629b9a65616a4d96ca81e8985e607a2f&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book#section-d1e599 @sociology @economics

Upper Loch Torridon was very still yesterday.

Autumn in Phinney Ridge. 🍁

#Autumn #AutumnLeaves #Seattle #Photography #FallColors #November #PhinneyRidge #Washington #SeattlePhotography

BREAKING: Jacob Rees-Mogg says abortion rights are a "cult of death", but this description definitely does not apply to the Tory Party who've only caused 334,000 excess deaths since they came to power x

After a very wet few weeks we're finally getting some proper dry weather. Loch Shieldaig and Shieldaig Village.

According to my chocolate Advent calendar there's just 3 days until Christmas.

CHINESE SPACE STATION: I stacked 5% of the images I took of tonights flyover..

#space #fediverse #astronomy #astrophotography #photography

The problem is not simply that capitalism produces too much, but that it produces the wrong stuff: SUVs, fast fashion and planned obsolescence instead of public transit, affordable housing and universal healthcare. It overuses resources and still fails to meet even basic needs.

BREAKING: A remarkable study has shown that 4-month-old crows can match adult chimpanzees on intelligence tests and easily outperform all humans who think Matt Hancock is a decent bloke x

Nationalism: Being proud of things you haven't done & hating people you've never met.

Why do they sell clementines in an orange fish net package? They're already sexy.