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Krista Daley

@Daley_K

wine, music, local theatre, keeping fit, running and the ocean.

Halifax Katılım Kasım 2010
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Krista Daley
Krista Daley@Daley_K·
@Martina I’ve always loved this part of history. Glad we (Cda) could help out in those horrible times.
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Martina Navratilova
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In 1943, Canada erased a hospital room from existence to save a royal baby — and Europe's oldest monarchy thanked them with flowers that still bloom 80 years later. The Nazis had taken Holland. Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands had fled across the Atlantic with her daughters, finding refuge in Ottawa while her homeland burned. Now she was pregnant — and that pregnancy had triggered a constitutional crisis no government had ever faced. The problem was brutally simple: If this baby was born on Canadian soil, Canadian law would grant automatic citizenship. And the ancient laws governing Dutch royal succession were unforgiving. Any hint of foreign citizenship could disqualify this child from ever ascending to the throne. Sending her home wasn't an option. German U-boats prowled the waters. The royal palace in The Hague had swastikas hanging from its windows. So Canada's lawyers did something that belongs in a novel, not a history book. On January 19, 1943, the Canadian government issued an Order in Council that rewrote reality. The maternity suite at Ottawa Civic Hospital was declared extraterritorial. Not Canadian. Not Dutch. Not part of any nation on Earth. For the span of a birth, that room existed in a legal void — a pocket of nowhere wrapped in hospital walls. Princess Margriet was born into that impossible space. The moment she drew breath, she was Dutch — purely, legally, unquestionably Dutch. No competing allegiance. No threat to her royal destiny. The lawyers closed their books. The doctors smiled. And then, as quietly as it had vanished, the room became Canadian again. The war ended. Holland was liberated. And the Dutch Royal Family didn't just say thank you — they said it in a language that would outlive everyone who spoke it. In 1945, 100,000 tulip bulbs arrived in Ottawa. Not as decoration. As gratitude made tangible. But one shipment wasn't enough to express what Canada had done. So they kept sending them. Every single year since 1945, the Dutch Royal Family sends 20,000 more bulbs to the Canadian capital. Today, if you walk through Ottawa every May, you'll find over three million tulips blazing along the Rideau Canal, flooding through Commissioners Park, turning the city into rivers of crimson, gold, and violet. Most people who stop to take photos have no idea they're standing in the middle of a thank-you note that's been growing for eight decades. Princess Margriet is 83 now. She still makes the journey to Ottawa during tulip season, walking through gardens that exist because she was once born in a room that legally didn't. Some acts of kindness become gardens. Some thank-yous outlive everyone who gave them. And some flowers bloom forever.

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Sky
Sky@SkyTheViking·
I would like to have a very strongly worded conversation with whoever invented this nonsense.
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Scott Robertson@sarobertson_·
POILIEVRE: "My [economic] education is in predicting what actually comes to pass ... and I say that with the greatest humility."
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End Tribalism in Politics
End Tribalism in Politics@EndTribalism·
RFK Jr. says HHS will fight to stop assisted suicide laws from spreading in the U.S. “I think those laws are abhorrent.” “In Canada today… I think the number one cause of death is assisted suicide.” “It targets people with disabilities and people who are struggling in their lives.” “I don’t think we can be a moral society… if that becomes institutionalized.”
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Radar Online@radar_online·
EXCLUSIVE: Prince Harry 'Devastated' He's Facing Yet Another Security Battle On Australia Trip — 'It's Just One Drama After Another' ebx.sh/69nJ3Y
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Pierre Poilievre@PierrePoilievre·
Another year of Liberals. More lofty promises. But what's changed?
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Krista Daley
Krista Daley@Daley_K·
@briangarrett Instead of “no”, your Cdn street cred would have been high if you had said “sorry, but no thanks”. That’s how we do it….
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Brian Garrett
Brian Garrett@briangarrett·
When in Canada for the first time I’m supposed to do as the Canadiens do, eh? 😆
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Jew in a Canoe ✡️🇨🇦 memoir now available!
Them: Are you Jewish? Me: Yup. Them: And you're from Toronto? Me: Yup. Them: Do you know Dave Rosenberg? He lives in Toronto. Me: Not every Jew knows each other. There 200,000 Jews here. Them: Okay, so you don't know him then? Me: I do. He happens to be my cousin.
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Acyn@Acyn·
Reporter: Do you think it’s appropriate for King George to meet with members? Boebert: I wouldn’t meet with him. Reporter: Why not? Boebert: 1776. I have nothing to do with King George or the royal family. I am an American first.
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Krista Daley
Krista Daley@Daley_K·
@USAmbCanada What a change in tone from a few months ago…better late than never
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Ambassador Pete Hoekstra
Ambassador Pete Hoekstra@USAmbCanada·
The U.S.-Canada relationship is built on shared values, deep ties between our people, and mutual prosperity. As I keep saying: we're stronger when we work together. Thanks to the Albany Club in Toronto for hosting me.
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Krista Daley
Krista Daley@Daley_K·
@KeruboSk The randomness of being hit with grief - out of nowhere
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Sophia ❣️
Sophia ❣️@KeruboSk·
What’s the grief milestone nobody prepares you for? Not the funeral. Not the first year. The weird specific one nobody talks about.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭
Jasmine 🌌🔭@astro_jaz·
the way that she’s inspired so many girls to pursue stem careers 🥹
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