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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

An guaillibh a chèile 🥰 Shoulder to shoulder (anns a' Ghàidhlig / in Gaelic)

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

My gratitude to every one of them. This morning’s divide & conquer announcement was utter 🐂💩

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Mòran taing / Many thanks Cheryl! Bluenosers will have to fight to keep their #1 position in terms of how many have signed, Ontario's coming up fast! Does anyone know people in Nunavut who would be willing to sign?

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

O mo chreach, I forgot to include the link!! Thank you! And here it is: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-6931 - Petitions

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My petition to the Government of #Canada about #Gaelic publisher funding is open to sign by Canadian citizens & residents until 11am EST, 5 Dec 2025! 🇨🇦 Please sign & share to all the Canadians you know TODAY! 🙏

Publisher Emily McEwan of Bradan Press stands in front of a vending booth decorated for Christmas. Wooden shelves hold many different books in Scottish Gaelic and English about Gaelic culture.

A screenshot of an e-petition from the Canadian House of Commons website. The petition title is "e-6931 (Culture and heritage)". Keywords are Gaelic, Government assistance, Publishers.

E-petition
Initiated by Emily McEwan-Fujita from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Original language of petition: English

Petition details
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
• Gaelic is a heritage language of 6 million Scottish Canadians today, the third-largest ethnic group in Canada;
• Scottish settlers and immigrants have contributed significantly to Canada’s history, politics, and culture, but their Gaelic language was erased from history books and shamefully suppressed, with children beaten and punished for speaking Gaelic in school; and
• Gaelic publishing has taken place in Canada for nearly 200 years, but Gaelic publishers can’t access the federal publisher funding they need to survive as Canadian minority-language publishers.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to change the eligibility criteria for publisher support grants from the Department of Canadian Heritage so that Gaelic book publishers in Canada will no longer fall through the cracks of federal publisher funding.

History
Open for signature
November 5, 2025, at 11:16 a.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
December 5, 2025, at 11:16 a.m. (EDT)

Member of Parliament
Darren Fisher
Dartmouth—Cole Harbour
Liberal Caucus
Nova Scotia

511 signatures

Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.

Province / Territory Signatures
Alberta 40
British Columbia 63
Manitoba 10
New Brunswick 18
Newfoundland and Labrador 4
Northwest Territories 1
Nova Scotia 168
Ontario 151
Prince Edward Island 5
Quebec 23
Saskatchewan 6
Yukon 3

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

My Christmas at the Forum thread from my company account! Haligonians, if you're planning to come do your holiday shopping, check out my advice!

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

when they said there'd be bread and circuses, they should have specified that the bread would cost 200% more than it did four years ago and the circuses are only available on your least favourite streaming network for $19.99/month

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

ahh another beautiful day in the glorious age of technology, sure hope my doorbell doesn’t stop working because an online bookstore took over and then broke the entire internet

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

5pm on November 1: let’s go for a walk, it’s still light out! 5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

me watching for the first leaf to fall so I can switch to a seasonal diet of hearty soups and rich stews

Animated Snow White with her face squished into a window pane

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Bradan Press @bradanpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Our Nova Scotia #Gaelic flag sales to the USA🇺🇸 and UK🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 have reopened for a very short window! All orders must be in by THU 4 SEP 2025. US orders go out Fri Sep 5 by USPS. UK Sep 15 Royal Mail. Due to the unfortunate tariff nonsense, we don't forsee having another chance to ship to the USA in 2025.

The Nova Scotia Gaelic flag, the Nova Scotia provincial flag, and the Canadian flag fly from the back of bleachers in the late afternoon sunshine at the Antigonish Highland Games 2025.

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Bradan Press @bradanpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Tha sinn a' reic na brataich againn dha na Stàitean Aonaichte agus an Rìoghachd Aonaichte a-rithist fad greiseag! Cuir an òrdugh agad a-steach ro DHIARDAOIN an 4mh dhen t-Sultain, an t-seachdain seo fhèin! Mòran taing! #gàidhlig

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Happy weekend! From c. 3,600 years ago, here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a blue spherical bead in the form of a hedgehog curled up in a defensive ball displayed on a grey background. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material with a shiny blue glaze. The hedgehog’s face, ears, feet and tail are shown in relief, and the quills are represented by black dots painted over the surface of the bead. A hole for threading runs through the sphere - it can just be seen on the right hand side of the bead. The hedgehog’s long ears suggest this is a desert hedgehog. Desert hedgehogs may have symbolized rebirth because they reappear after hibernating underground in winter. Dated c.1985 - 1650 BC. On display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

[optimistic for the future of human life on earth] it's good that we're getting a hurricane soon, it might put out some of the uncontrollable wildfires

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Yikes! Also, that shouldn’t actually be too hard to do right now 😬🔥 (Also also, I hope you were able to take the dead tick in to get it tested, and/or get prophylactic antibiotics if needed)

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

And to think they could have just recycled this one

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Tormod and every reporter & interviewer I've spoken to since have been the kindest, the most professional, and the absolute best at helping you sound your best while expressing yourself tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig. Feuch e! 6/🧵

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I also just want to say that if you're feeling shy to speak on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal as a Gaelic learner, do it anyway! My first time on with Tormod C. some 25 years ago felt terrifying and I still remember it like yesterday... 😅 5/🧵

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Èisd fad 30 làithean aig: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... ('S e am prògram le Iain Caimbeul agus Iain Stephen Moireastan a th'ann) #gàidhlig 4/🧵

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BBC Radio nan Gàidheal - Naoi gu Deich, le Cathy NicDhòmhnaill

Tha Iain Caimbeul agus Iain Stephen Moireastan air aoigheachd aig Cathy.

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Mìle taing do Chathy is Aileen airson seo a chur air dòigh! Tha Cathy na bana-ghaisgeach do leabhraichean Gàidhlig agus is mi a tha taingeil dhi 🥰 #gàidhlig 3/🧵

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So much to say and so little time, but I read a few pages aloud from 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗵 and we had a great chat along with Gillebride MacIlleMhaoil, John Norman from the Gaelic Books Council, and Finlay MacLennan from Western Isles Libraries. 2/🧵

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It was lovely to be back on "Naoi du Deich" this morning with Cathy Bhàn NicDhòmhnaill talking about translated Gaelic children's books, including our brand-new 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗵 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗶𝗹, the translation of Teddy Is Ready by Cape Breton author/illustrator Joanne MacDonald! 1/🧵

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It's the 5-year anniversary of the ANNA RUADH book launch!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

the ability of AI to "understand" satire

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Indeed carrying a foreign flag is not illegal. The NYC Tartan Day Parade has entered the chat. (And yeah.)

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

And someone had included the bogus hallucinated ChatGPT reference in a a Ph.D. dissertation? 😬

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

OK this actually clears up a lot for me. Also reminds me of what our standard poodles look like when they stand up on 2 legs. We call them “person in a poodle suit”…

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Sometimes I can’t get a receipt for something like a hotdog or a slice of pizza from a food truck at a festival… I take a picture of the food 😂

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Focusmate (website not app). It works great for body doubling. I have a referral code for the paid version if anyone ever wants it. But you can get pretty far on the free version and see if you like it.

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It’s the sleep deprivation. (There’s a reason why sleep deprivation is used as a method of torture…)

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I agree that’s pretty terrible. Given the Halifax V-E Day Riots it’s weirdly suitable though... I give them a different meaning in my mind—the one laying down is just so tired of everything, but still lit at least. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax...

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Halifax riot - Wikipedia

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

You can buy the ebook from Kobo or Barnes & Noble.

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Both of them are a public art installation on the Halifax Harbour waterfront called "Got Drunk, Fell Down"! There's also a third one you can see behind them in this photo called "Fountain." www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/l...

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Lampposts on a bender

Two NSCAD alums’ art reflects mischievous behaviours, illuminates waterfront

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Not a gif, but solidarity from Halifax

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Also it's my first "Gael force" headline, iykyk

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The designer in me wants to rotate the photo 1-2 degrees counterclockwise to straighten up my bookshelves 😁 But they caught me on a good hair day!

A Facebook thumbnail screenshot. In the left half is a photo of a white woman with glasses and brown curly hair. She holds two books, one in Gaelic and one in English. In the right half of the screenshot, the URL, title, and first few sentences of an article read as follows: "SUSTAINABLENS.CA / Gael force: Keeping Scottish roots alive in Nova Scotia / Nova Scotia Journal of... / Once suppressed, the Gaelic language and culture in Nova Scotia are experiencing a resurgence, driven by passionate individuals, educational initiatives and community efforts. For many, the face of Gaelic culture in Nova Scotia is ceilidhs, bagpipes, and..."

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Thank you to the Nova Scotia Journal of Sustainable Community Development for the interview and cover photo focusing on my work with Bradan Press! A lovely focus for Mìos nan Gàidheal / #Gaelic Month in #NovaScotia! sustainablens.ca/2025/04/gael-force-keeping-scottish-roots-alive-in-nova-scotia/

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Gael force: Keeping Scottish roots alive in Nova Scotia • Nova Scotia Journal of Sustainable Community Development

Once suppressed, the Gaelic language and culture in Nova Scotia are experiencing a resurgence, driven by passionate individuals, educational initiatives and community efforts For many, the face of Gae...

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Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

😳😣 I can’t accept that with a smile. Going to turn up the dial on my denial.

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