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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Conservative Party of BC has hired Apollo Chung, a member of the separatist Republican Party of Alberta, as director of operations and Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, a former writer for Juno News, as caucus communications director. @jenstden.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

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BC Conservatives Hire an Alberta Separatist and Far-Right Media Figure | The Tyee

Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay commits to a MAGA approach to winning power.

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Here’s something: if blue whales emitted their song out of the water, the effect would be so loud, it would cause immediate hearing loss in humans. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, for Orion’s issue THE DEEP DIVE, writes on voices (both human and whale), listening, and frequency.

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Blue Whale Radio

What was I really reaching for—a sound, or a feeling?

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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I retweeted this yesterday without comment so I feel like today I can add that Kelsey Pfendler's arms & shoulders (like her determination, because that solo row is terrifying) are formidable.

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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

MELTDOWN is shortlisted for the general category for the 2025 SWCC Book Awards! Congratulations to our author, Sarah Boon, and the other shortlisted authors. Winners will be announced in September. About the book: bit.ly/41lawaq @snowhydro.bsky.social @swc-can.bsky.social

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Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca · 16/06/2026

Vancouver Poet Laureate @eleekg.bsky.social will be launching "sometimes, forest" at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social tonight at 7 PM. @nikkireimer.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @sjonespoet.bsky.social and I will be reading briefly, in support. Hope to see you there!

Event poster with the following text: Book Launch June 16 | 7 PM | 1302 4 St W | Free
Shelf Life Books
With Author
Elee Kralji Gardiner

Joined by
Tolu Oloruntoba
Samantha Jones
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Nikki Reimer

There is a photo of the cover of “sometimes, forest” by Elee Kralji Gardiner at the left corner of the graphic. Photos of the readers are also featured against a teal background.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Looking for manuscript editing work. Don't let the robot hallucinate a pile of regurgitation that will only make you look dumb and false. Hire a real person with 25 years of experience, 17 books, and a deep love of the English language to collaborate with you to make your book unforgettable :)

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

...and as for prize culture, what I would TRULY love to see is more funding and attention for reading series, small presses, independent bookstores, and individuals who have dedicated their lives to creating literary community. you know, the oh so essential infrastructure of it all.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEpW... and for something more "heart warming" here is an early trailer for my fall book, Sixteen Homes (Wolsak & Wynn) featuring 16 homes and voices of family members speaking about what home "is" to them.

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16 homes: a book trailer

YouTube video by catherine owen

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

LOL

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Adrienne Mason @toughcitywriter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Gulp. Cover story by moi.

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Joanna Streetly @joannastreetly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Things were getting a little O’Keefe in the rain today… 🌱🌱🌱 #gardening #victoria

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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thank you to @roblucastaylor.bsky.social and @readlocalbc.bsky.social for featuring this interview! Rob always asks the good questions!

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Joanna Streetly @joannastreetly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

@cowenwriter.bsky.social reminding us that books don’t vanish readers after the initial launch publicity is over. Pleased to see “All of Us Hidden” mentioned here along with books by @rheatregebov.bsky.social and @tolu.ca

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Please come —this is a literary picnic, a smorgasbord, a buffet!

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Joanna Streetly @joannastreetly.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

More cherry blossom magic. Spring #gardens are the best! 🌱🌱🌱

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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

TONIGHT! Burnaby poetry reading! Claire Gordon, Artist in Residence, reads from her collection of bushwork poetry at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. 7:30 pm - Studio 103 6450 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby🌠📕

Poetry reading poster featuring Claire Gordon rockin' a chainsaw!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

3/3. This is my summary of why the Hungarian elections matter the world over. snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

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The Hungarian Candidate

Is Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Yes, should be noted that when Vance joins Kushner and Witkoff he is not joining a team of negotiators but a pair of war profiteers.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Maybe if the media and the international community had not largely given Trump a pass on his Venezuelan crime spree we wouldn’t be here. America’s president is basically just knocking over countries like they’re liquor stores right now.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I have been editing manuscripts in all genres for over 20 years and this is the slowest it has ever been in my "bits and piecing" existence. Please hire humans to do your book- perfecting work. The robot thieves just cheat all of us. Contact me at catherineowenwriter@gmail.com :)

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Lorne Daniel @lornedaniel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Looking for an editor? Catherine is insightful and has a quick turnaround. Highly recommended.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

www.youtube.com/channel/UC1L... check these documentaries on older women artists out and if interested in working with me to make one for yourself or someone you love let me know at catherineowenwriter@gmail.com :)

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The Clio Project: chronicling older women artists

Conceptualized, interviewed, shot and edited by poet Catherine Owen, these documentary shorts honour the art and lives of older women artists from around the world, seeking to draw attention to art an...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.

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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

What a treat to be a guest of poet and host Andrew French on his podcast, Page Fright, recently! Such a fun interview- thanks, Andrew!❤️📕 open.spotify.com/episode/6avJ...

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117. Making Life Come Alive w/ Christina Shah

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Joanna Streetly @joannastreetly.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Having recently been asked to write several reviews, I’ve found that this minefield requires more work and attention—and causes me more internal conflict—than any other form. Catherine Owen has wonderfully expressed much of what I’ve encountered. And more…

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

open.spotify.com/show/61BjGB6... from 2021 to 2024 I created and hosted this Canadian poetry podcast that features interviews, reviews, homages and even a sojourn in Iceland! enjoy Ms Lyric's Poetry Outlaws at Spotify :)

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Episode 8: Poet on the Road at Home

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Jídé Salawu @jidesalawu.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

April in view. Come join us.✨✨✨

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Joanna Streetly @joannastreetly.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

so unsurprising and yet so sickening… lives lost, the world destabilized, people and the environment contaminated by awful crude ‘rain’ and smoke—I can’t even…

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, Milo Minderbinder makes a deal with the Germans to bomb his own base. Everyone is in Milo's "syndicate," so everyone supposedly gets a share of the profits. 🙄

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Lorne Daniel @lornedaniel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Author copies! No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, from Catapult (NY). 32 writers on "the complex grief, healing and authenticity found in rupture from family." I'm honoured to have work here alongside so many writers I admire. Deep thanks to editor Jenny Bartoy for this important anthology.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

And Danielle Smith is pushing for tailings pond discharge into the Athabasca River (gift article). www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...

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Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli

Aaron Gunn: If the federal government truly believes in the private property rights of Canadians, they should probably stop opening every public meeting by proclaiming the gathering on the “unceded territory” of this or that First Nation.
Doing so reinforces the radical and dangerous legal concept that most Canadians live on “stolen land”. This is Canada. One country. For all Canadians.

𝗠𝗣 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙪𝙣𝙣: “𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙭, 𝙗𝙪𝙙.”
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Chiefs from four First Nations communities are urging the public to please approach Aaron Gunn with no caution whatsoever. He is completely harmless, though momentarily unsettled by the alarming possibility that someone might acknowledge the land before a meeting.
Yesterday on social media, the MP appeared to crash out and demand to speak to the manager of land acknowledgements, a position that observers confirm does not exist.
Chiefs whose territories make up the riding had two words for the MP - Chillax, Bud.
Land acknowledgements have never seized private property, cancelled a mortgage, repossessed a pickup truck, or altered a single title deed anywhere in Canada.
They are simply people recognizing the history of the place where they are standing.
No one is going anywhere. Canada will survive the brief moment of honesty.
Until then, Chiefs across the region continue to reassure the public that land acknowledgements have not, to date, resulted in any land back.
Hegus John Hackett, Tla’amin Nation
Chief Darren Blaney, Homalco Nation
Chief Nicole Rempel, K'ómoks Nation
Chief Kevin Peacey, Klahoose Nation

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Joanna Streetly @joannastreetly.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Book Mail Friday really made up for 8 days of ER work, the last two being 14-hour shifts. I’d been anxiously awaiting my contributor’s copy and am already in love with the way the subject matter inspired so many fabulous Canadian poets! @caitlinpress.bsky.social @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social

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Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions @caitlinpress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Barbara Pelman will be reading from her latest poetry collection, A Brief and Endless Sea, this week on March 5 at 7 pm at the Salt Spring Library! #poetryreading #saltspring

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