300 SUBMISSIONS
64 ENTRIES
400,000 VOTES
ONE FINAL MATCH TO DETERMINE A CHAMPION
More unusual critter news from Oceania… complete with over-the-top 1940s gender stereotypes:
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
Puns, indeed! But also a great exchange on themes ranging from Indigenous cultures to settler colonialism to environmentalism to domesticity.
Lots to talk about as British Columbians attempt to choose their province’s “best” symbol…
Whoa -- Moa! Life imitating art with a big serving of Jurassic Park (and a side order of Lord of the Rings) in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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And with the totem pole still in contention why not check out (or reacquaint yourself with) John Lutz’s take on how it became a “Canadian”symbol?
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Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson
Two iconic symbols of this province. Which one will British Columbians vote as the best?
IT'S BRACKET TIME
but also an acknowledgment that the coastal symbols british columbians like most were used to sell this province at the same time the people creating those symbols were deprived of basic rights
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BRACKET TIME
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Fun to defend the dogwood this morning on the CBC Vancouver's Early Edition with @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social as @jmcelroy.bsky.social's epic BC Symbols Bracket enters the home(ish) stretch. Come for the #bchist, stay for the terrible puns!
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There's a certain symbolism in the fact that three of the four coastal finalists left in the Search for B.C.'s Best Symbol have had shifting symbolism to different people over British Columbia's histo...
