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  1. @ShaulaEvans

    Sitcom: without a doubt, "Corner Gas" (CTV). Set in a small prairie town, created by someone from such a town - and immediately recognizable to anyone who's spent any time on the prairies. We felt seen - and it was funny as hell. I think what pushed it above and beyond was the fact that it didn't come out of a committee like pretty much every CBC sitcom since ... leaded gasoline, probably.

    There were a bunch of good scifi series that came out of canada over the last twenty years, but I won't go over those in detail. It would be hard to pick just two.

    #CornerGas #BrentButt #sitcom #comedy #Canada #prairies #SmallTownLife

  2. @ShaulaEvans

    Sitcom: without a doubt, "Corner Gas" (CTV). Set in a small prairie town, created by someone from such a town - and immediately recognizable to anyone who's spent any time on the prairies. We felt seen - and it was funny as hell. I think what pushed it above and beyond was the fact that it didn't come out of a committee like pretty much every CBC sitcom since ... leaded gasoline, probably.

    There were a bunch of good scifi series that came out of canada over the last twenty years, but I won't go over those in detail. It would be hard to pick just two.

    #CornerGas #BrentButt #sitcom #comedy #Canada #prairies #SmallTownLife

  3. @ShaulaEvans

    Sitcom: without a doubt, "Corner Gas" (CTV). Set in a small prairie town, created by someone from such a town - and immediately recognizable to anyone who's spent any time on the prairies. We felt seen - and it was funny as hell. I think what pushed it above and beyond was the fact that it didn't come out of a committee like pretty much every CBC sitcom since ... leaded gasoline, probably.

    There were a bunch of good scifi series that came out of canada over the last twenty years, but I won't go over those in detail. It would be hard to pick just two.

    #CornerGas #BrentButt #sitcom #comedy #Canada #prairies #SmallTownLife

  4. @ShaulaEvans

    Sitcom: without a doubt, "Corner Gas" (CTV). Set in a small prairie town, created by someone from such a town - and immediately recognizable to anyone who's spent any time on the prairies. We felt seen - and it was funny as hell. I think what pushed it above and beyond was the fact that it didn't come out of a committee like pretty much every CBC sitcom since ... leaded gasoline, probably.

    There were a bunch of good scifi series that came out of canada over the last twenty years, but I won't go over those in detail. It would be hard to pick just two.

    #CornerGas #BrentButt #sitcom #comedy #Canada #prairies #SmallTownLife

  5. @ShaulaEvans

    Sitcom: without a doubt, "Corner Gas" (CTV). Set in a small prairie town, created by someone from such a town - and immediately recognizable to anyone who's spent any time on the prairies. We felt seen - and it was funny as hell. I think what pushed it above and beyond was the fact that it didn't come out of a committee like pretty much every CBC sitcom since ... leaded gasoline, probably.

    There were a bunch of good scifi series that came out of canada over the last twenty years, but I won't go over those in detail. It would be hard to pick just two.

    #CornerGas #BrentButt #sitcom #comedy #Canada #prairies #SmallTownLife

  6. Mouthing, by Orla Mackey

    This novel blew my socks off. Or stunned me rigid. Or nearly made me cry but didn't quite make me laugh. It certainly made me furious about the behaviour of at least one of the characters (little Joanne Henderson's appalling grandmother) but not many others because the cleverness of this novel, told in very brief first-person accounts by different people at different times in their lives, is that you keep learning about mitigating circumstances, and, again, in one appalling event, the insane […]

    katemacdonald.net/2026/05/15/m

  7. A wealthy landlord, a struggling town, and the quiet weight of being the one everyone leans on. A short story about generosity, burnout, and boundaries.
    Read here: mattsheabooks.net/small-town-1

    #ShortStory #SmallTownLife #Community #Generosity #Fiction #Heartfelt

  8. A wealthy landlord, a struggling town, and the quiet weight of being the one everyone leans on. A short story about generosity, burnout, and boundaries.
    Read here: mattsheabooks.net/small-town-1

    #ShortStory #SmallTownLife #Community #Generosity #Fiction #Heartfelt

  9. A wealthy landlord, a struggling town, and the quiet weight of being the one everyone leans on. A short story about generosity, burnout, and boundaries.
    Read here: mattsheabooks.net/small-town-1

    #ShortStory #SmallTownLife #Community #Generosity #Fiction #Heartfelt

  10. A wealthy landlord, a struggling town, and the quiet weight of being the one everyone leans on. A short story about generosity, burnout, and boundaries.
    Read here: mattsheabooks.net/small-town-1

    #ShortStory #SmallTownLife #Community #Generosity #Fiction #Heartfelt

  11. A wealthy landlord, a struggling town, and the quiet weight of being the one everyone leans on. A short story about generosity, burnout, and boundaries.
    Read here: mattsheabooks.net/small-town-1

    #ShortStory #SmallTownLife #Community #Generosity #Fiction #Heartfelt

  12. The Enduring Drift: Youth Exodus Continues From Small Towns, Despite Shifting Tides

    Young adults are leaving small towns for better job and housing options. Communities are trying new ways to keep them, like building more homes.

    #SmallTownLife, #YouthExodus, #CommunityDevelopment, #HousingSolutions, #RuralAmerica

    newsletter.tf/young-people-lea

  13. The long, quiet walk to the first bell.

    Dumbleyung, Western Australia.

    Photo by Bron, edit by Kev.

    © 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

    (𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

    #Photo #Photography #2PeepsAndACamera #Australia #WesternAustralia #path #Dumbleyung #SmallTownLife #SchoolDays #StreetPhotography #OutbackAustralia #WalkingPath

  14. The long, quiet walk to the first bell.

    Dumbleyung, Western Australia.

    Photo by Bron, edit by Kev.

    © 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

    (𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

    #Photo #Photography #2PeepsAndACamera #Australia #WesternAustralia #path #Dumbleyung #SmallTownLife #SchoolDays #StreetPhotography #OutbackAustralia #WalkingPath

  15. The long, quiet walk to the first bell.

    Dumbleyung, Western Australia.

    Photo by Bron, edit by Kev.

    © 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

    (𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

    #Photo #Photography #2PeepsAndACamera #Australia #WesternAustralia #path #Dumbleyung #SmallTownLife #SchoolDays #StreetPhotography #OutbackAustralia #WalkingPath

  16. The long, quiet walk to the first bell.

    Dumbleyung, Western Australia.

    Photo by Bron, edit by Kev.

    © 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

    (𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

    #Photo #Photography #2PeepsAndACamera #Australia #WesternAustralia #path #Dumbleyung #SmallTownLife #SchoolDays #StreetPhotography #OutbackAustralia #WalkingPath

  17. The long, quiet walk to the first bell.

    Dumbleyung, Western Australia.

    Photo by Bron, edit by Kev.

    © 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

    (𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

    #Photo #Photography #2PeepsAndACamera #Australia #WesternAustralia #path #Dumbleyung #SmallTownLife #SchoolDays #StreetPhotography #OutbackAustralia #WalkingPath

  18. Talking with some Americans who retired to Portugal, I was struck by the push-pull dynamic in their decision to move. Push: healthcare costs and the US political situation. Pull: Life in a cozy walkable small-town urban environment where you'll run into your neighbors at the market, at a restaurant, in the town square, or when you join one the many community groups and activities.

    I find the 'pull' aspect particularly interesting, because it's a form of small-town life that's very hard to achieve in the US. While you can still find it in a few cities and college towns (both of which may be cost prohibitive), with interstates, suburbs, and big-box stores, the thousands of small town centers that used to have communities like this have been mostly hollowed out.