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Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hello, it is Monday now so perhaps people are thinking about work. Please consider sharing this job posting with smart Canadians who know about queer and trans issues and culture. Social video experience a must; journalism experience a huge asset. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Xtra Magazine hiring Social Video Producer in Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 11:32:14 PM. Do you want to help make the world better for queer and trans folks through social media?Xtra…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When seizures scatter the cognitive abilities of her child, a mother adapts to live a life she no longer recognizes. Pre-order Silence and Seizure now from your favourite bookseller! Launching September 16 in Winnipeg at McNally Robinson www.mcnallyrobinson....
Fresh, original, and necessary, Silence and Seizure is poetic, gorgeously rendered, and deeply moving. A must-read. - Adelle Purdham, author of I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself

The cover features a silhouette of a child running against a cream background
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
just read a really fun oral history of bands from athens ga and they partly lived there because it was cheap. LES art scenes in NYC in 70s? Cheap rent. Bands in the UK any time? National Health, subsidized art colleges. These things come up ALL THE TIME when artists talk about launching careers
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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Introducing the 2026 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show! Read more about this year's selections, contributing to the tradition of design excellence in the university press community: bit.ly/4ut2E3f And explore this year's exhibition online: design.up.hcommons.org/
logo for 2026 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
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Chris Banks @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Why Read Poetry?: The Woodlot’s Second Birthday and National Poetry Month 2026
By Chris Banks I started The Woodlot: Canadian Poetry Reviews, Interviews and Essays two years ago, and so far we have published over sixty poetry reviews and over forty essays so although it is a …
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Grateful to have been invited back on the "She is Your Neighbour" podcast to talk about stalking and bystander intervention. They also gave me the space to share my two hot takes : AI sucks and is anti-feminist AND we don't need more survivor stories. We need action.
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Bystander Intervention and the Rise of AI with Julie Lalonde
Podcast Episode · She Is Your Neighbour · March 26 · 51m
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
No reason anybody can find for any inquiry into policing in Canada.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
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‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit
A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Call for Afro-Canadian or Black poets! Black Psalms of the Shivering Ones seeks new works and fresh voices on the seasonal life of Black Canada to join the already thriving canon of Afro-Canadian poetry. Submit to osalawu[at]torontomu.ca
➔	Black Psalms of the Shivering Ones seeks new works and fresh voices on the seasonal life of Black Canada to join the already thriving canon of Afro-Canadian poetry. ➔	Submit to: osalawu@torontomu.ca. Subject: Black Psalms “Last Name” Open to all Afro-Canadian poets or Black poets invested in winter imaginaries of Canadian life. To be published by WLU Press
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Coming soon! Arab Techno for the People, by Jillian Fulton-Melanson. Pre-order your copy on our website or from your favourite bookseller. www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
An image of a book with a woman wearing colourful robes. The book title is Arab Techno for the People, by Jillian Fulton Melanson and is published by WLU Press. The text reads: “This book captures the throb and flow of Arab techno worlds in Toronto and Montreal through snapshots, sketches, sounds, and stories that speak to the complexities of diasporic dancefloors, buzzing with connection and tension, yearning and release.
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Stacey Russell (she/they) @staceycrussell.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
To avoid going to a home for adults with disabilities, a young man with Down syndrome tricks his sister into a trip through the South Island of New Zealand to find the rest of their family, and themselves. Austin Film Festival Finalist 2025 #screenpit
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Firearm access is one of the main reasons why rural women represent less than 16% of the Canadian population but make up almost 1/2 of all femicides. Most of the firearms are owned legally, proving we need true prevention strategies to stop the epidemic of femicides in Canada.
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New gun law protections target domestic violence, but real prevention must start earlier
Without comprehensive legislative and societal reforms to address intimate partner violence, the measures in Bill C-21 risk being little more than a bandage on a gaping wound.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/08/2025
Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”
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A ‘world first’: New AI teaching ‘sidekick’ to debut at this Canadian university in the fall
An upcoming course at Simon Fraser University is setting a precedent by helping students learn using a live, 3D artificial intelligence tool named Kia.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.
Multicolored silhouettes of people facing each other with speech bubbles above their heads. The text reads New Podcast! Community of Praxis with Brenna Clarke Gray. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This weekend I wrote about Doug Ford’s plan to sell off a large chunk of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park. Exactly the opposite of what should be happening: parkland expansion.
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Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford’s plan to sell off chunks of this popular beach threatens something we should hold dear
If Doug Ford wanted to create a real legacy, he’d start an aggressive expansion of public parkland in Ontario to keep up with its massive population.
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I looked into "orange cat core" for Nat Geo. Turns out, it might actually be a thing. 🧪 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Are orange cats really the goofiest cats? Genetics may have an answer.
The best science on ginger feline behavior hints, yeah, there might be something special about them.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"Pre-election, the Liberals promised to “never” compromise women’s rights in Canada. Now the government is talking about cuts so deep that they will exceed those that laid waste to the women’s sector during the Harper years."
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Cuts to Women and Gender Equality Canada will take us back to the Harper days - CCPA
On April 28, women voters delivered a major victory for the Liberal party, turning around the electoral fortunes of a party that had been trailing its major opponent by 25 points in the year leading u...
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NPR @npr.org · 28/07/2025
Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Caleb Zakarin interviewed Amie Souza Reilly on New Books Network about her book Human/Animal. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/human-animal
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New Release! Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind is available now at your favourite bookseller. UK readers can purchase Graphic Refuge at uk.bookshop.org/p/bo...
The cover of Graphic Refuge features a detail from An Empty Promise (PosNeg), which tells the story of one woman’s journey from Nigeria to Sicily, particularly highlighting the dangers she faced while crossing Libya. The blurb reads Graphic Refuge is a thorough interrogation of graphic-narrative responses to the massive human migration that now challenges a Western world heavily implicated in the wars and climate change that drive it. (Joe Sacco)
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Clare @clarehitchens.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
If you're at Congress at George Brown, please come say hi! Happy to also sepp you a book!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
They routinely pretend they have no actual influence but are somehow standing behind a glass partition just quietly observing what happened, so they takes no responsibility for outcome, even as they exhibit huge biases and overt agendas, up to and including major impact on American elections....
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"I'm the Problem; It's Me": On the Confession the Mainstream Media Won't Make
An unnamed source says that at an earlier point in time it was thought that a octogenarian might come to need to use a wheelchair at a future date, but the person in question has as of press time not ...
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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Ronna Bloom's "The Needs of Strangers", from our latest Issue 174! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-needs-of-strangers/
Excerpt from Ronna Bloom's "The Needs of Strangers" from Special Issue #174 of The New Quarterly.
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Clare @clarehitchens.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I was enjoying learning Spanish but the app is now deleted.
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Clare @clarehitchens.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The news I needed
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Clare @clarehitchens.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Loved the book!
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Meme
Guy 1: redistribution of wealth doesn’t work.
Guy 2: did the guys with the wealth tell you that?
Guy1: squints and stares back at him
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If you saw someone being sexually harassed on the train, would you know how to help? If you saw transphobia at your local coffee shop, would you know how to intervene without making things worse? Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free! Register : zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Stand Up against Street Harassment!

May 28, 2025
11am - noon EST
Free webinar on the 5Ds of effective bystander intervention!
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Ridley @rid-ley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead". A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces. Legal protection for heritage trees needed. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
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Toby Carvery admits felling ancient Whitewebbs oak tree
The owner of the pub chain falsely claimed the tree was dead as justification for the felling which has shocked local people and prompted outrage from conservationists across the country
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Dr. Hedy Fry 🇨🇦 - Strange to see Pierre Poilievre suddenly talking about enticing municipalities to get housing built. He voted against Liberal housing, partnering with municipalities, and forbade his MPs to help their mun get LIb gvt housing grants. Funny what u do when u are desperate. #cdnpoli
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Clare @clarehitchens.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so
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🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
FACT CHECK: Canada Proud is run by Jeff Ballingall. These aren’t grassroots movements — they’re well-funded propaganda pipelines built to smear opponents and flood your feed with rage bait and falsehoods. They’re part of the same operation Poilievre’s team has brought on to run digital comms.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/04/2025
I cannot overstate the crisis in basic access and inclusion rights the disability community is facing right now as Trump shreds all the agencies and entities responsible for upholding the laws tha protect us.
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Trump’s DEI Undoing Undermines Hard-Won Accommodations for Disabled People - KFF Health News
From halting diversity programs that benefit disabled workers to making federal staffing cuts, the Trump administration has taken a slew of actions that harm people with disabilities.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
These aren't tariffs. They are a horse's head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/godfather-do...
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Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Nothing More than a Mafia Don Racket
For those who know Trump and who and what he is best, these destructive tariffs make perfect sense, even if they make no economic sense.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 03/04/2025
We're very excited to announce journalists @rachelgilmore.bsky.social and Emily Baron Cadloff are teaming up with National Observer staff for a biweekly election fact-checking segment. First post coming tomorrow! Follow for updates.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"Your retirement account is only down 5.5%, that's not a lot" sounds like excellent messaging and I strongly encourage Fox News and Republicans to double down on it.
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Susan Juby @susanjuby.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Canadians interested in learning about misinformation in the upcoming election and how we can slap it down. Join the zoom! Get involved: evidencefordemocracy.ca/the-misinfor...
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The Misinformation Crisis: What’s at Stake for Canada’s Election? - Evidence For Democracy
Event Overview: As Canada prepares for a federal election, political misinformation is at an all-time high. From misleading narratives about […]
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Fellow Canadians : Let us please do everything in our power not to elect this absolute dipshit. The man is a career politician that has never done a day of manual labour in his fucking life and yet he hides behind idiotic slogans like this. Boo this man at every turn. May he never know peace.
Photo of Pierre Poilievre at some campaign stop today standing behind a podium with the slogan "Boots, Not Suits" written on the podium. Standing behind him, are men in construction hats and orange vests.
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
BREAKING: Thousands of New Yorkers are marching to #StopTheCuts. Members of Rise and Resist and @bkindivisible.bsky.social carry tombstones to represent the two trillion (with a T) in cuts to healthcare and medicaid. RIP. Killed by “Government Efficiency” ☠️ #AbolishDOGE #StopTheCoup #Resist
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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025
In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers. The firing comes one day before contract negotiations were set to open with the University.
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Clare @clarehitchens.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
No thanks!
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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Tomorrow is International Women’s Day! This is your yearly reminder that the book industry (those publishing, writing, and buying books!) is a field dominated by women. We’re prolific, we’re in command, we carry the team, we bring the stories you love to life through our thoughtful hands. 💖🪩💪
A tall stack of books of various subject matter, all authored by women, stands tall in front of a pale blue, pink, and green quilt.
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Clare @clarehitchens.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I've had the pleasure of working with many women authors in my career but some stand out as exceptional. In Quiet Rebels, Mary Jane Mossman tells the stories of Ontario woman lawyers up to the 1950s www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/Q/Quie... #IWD2025
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Quiet Rebels
Wilfrid Laurier University Press - Transforming Ideas
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In the name of Supporting Canadians AND marking International Women's Day, I want to plug this great book that just came out! I had the real privilege of getting an advanced copy and loved it. Full of stories of every day women who fought the law and changed the country. Get inspired, friends!
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Women Who Woke up the Law
“Who was the woman trying to convince a jury in a tiny courthouse in Nova Scotia that it was self-defense when she killed her partner; and who was the young woman walking into the palais de justice in...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 06/03/2025
I called Canadian Premiers Doug Ford and Wab Kinew today as we try to find a way through this unnecessary and costly trade war. While the President may not value the partnerships that contribute billions of dollars to our economy, Minnesota does.
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