In my last post I noted that I had been looking up passages in The Mill on the Floss for reasons I would say more about in another post. This is that other post! It’s about some exciting news…

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc.

Marlon James’s “The Disappearers” imagines a different kind of queer community

An audit report of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Missing and Murdered Unit released this month reveals staffing challenges, a backlog of hundreds of case referrals and families left without required victims' services.

This week I delve into books newly read and reviewed, roam through some of the most compelling literary commentary on the blogosphere, mark a variety of celebrations (from Tove & Moomin Month …

Back in 2023, I read and loved Claire Kilroy’s Soldier Sailor, a superb novel in which ‘Soldier’, a married woman in the early months of motherhood, experiences a loss of identity, an erasure of he…

What most struck me as I got into the flow of Darren Rix and Craig Cormick’s book Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of t…

I return to the Finnish archipelago for Tove & Moomin Month with my latest addition to the Tove Trove library – a reading of ‘The Summer Book’, Tove Jansson’s portrait of a grandmo…

“Discussions should remain focused on literary works. They should never become a platform for students to pitch the professor on a business that, in theory, ...

In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.

Charity emphasises small boat rescues are tiny part of its work and speaks out after volunteers abused by far right

Indonesian minister says ‘super El Nino’ conditions deepening drought and fuelling fires

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Laws meant to ensure individual public safety often mix with politics, to everyone’s detriment

Ukraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches.

The activist and writer, who died yesterday at the age of 92, steadfastly fought for her belief that women could change the world together.

If our institutions acted, they could hasten the ongoing exodus from services peddled by allies of the Trump administration.

Canada’s digital infrastructure is too tied to companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

Canadian tech alternatives to bring your data back across the border. by Tod and Jocelyn Maffin • see their projects • support their work

The company mocked Trump’s move to rename the water body to Lake America on social media even as bigger rivals like Google Maps and Apple Maps have complied with the change.

Canada is showing the rest of the world you “don’t have to take a knee” to the United States, Premier Wab Kinew said Tuesday.

Plus a peek behind-the-scenes about how these covers were created

“Maia has charted her own literary territory,” writes critic Anderson Tepper in his review of Ana Paula Maia's "Bury Your Dead."

The Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario recently expressed their appreciation to members of their wildfire response crews for helping strengthen Indigenous wildfire response capacity. #aptnnews…

In order to survive the 50 per cent tariffs, small, Indigenous-owned businesses will need to rely on increased financial support, says CCIB.

A celebration of a new debut poetry collection!

The findings also state that 59 per cent of surveyed Canadians has 'not very much' or 'no control at all' on whether an acceptable agreement would be reached.

Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute * Are you a Canadian boycotting US products? We’d like to hear from you Mark Carney said on Monday that while American negotiators saw the French language in Canada as an “irritant … in Quebec, these are rights,” days after receiving widespread praise from political leaders for rejecting a US trade proposal that many perceived as weakening the country’s Francophone culture. The prime minister’s remarks came hours after the US president, Donald Trump, showed little interest in retreating from the spat, posting on social media that Canada had been “ripping off the United States of America for years” and threatening a swath of new, economically devastating tariffs on cars and trucks. Continue reading...