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Leslie Greentree

@lesliegreentree.bsky.social
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Author of four books, most recently the #shortstories NOT THE APOCALYPSE I WAS HOPING FOR (2022). Avid reader. Occasional essayist. Photo snapper. Lover of trees, dogs, rust and pollinators. Sign up for my newsletter at www.LeslieGreentree.ca

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I understood that the reason people moved to the suburbs to raise their kids had little to do with the schools—it was because they had to stop seeing how much fun the childless were having. #SundaySentence from the gorgeous new short story collection, One Sun Only, by Camille Bordas. #booksky💙📚
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
âcimostâtowak (They Tell Stories to One Another) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/
Image of a scientist - me! - waist deep in peat.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Alberta separatism is provocative, divisive, disloyal to Canada, and a threat to our democracy. It is nothing less than a radicalized movement that undermines our capacity to protect ourselves against the threat of domination by the United States.” thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
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The Uncomfortable Roots of Alberta Separatism | The Tyee
It’s a home-grown movement sparked by the Freedom Convoy protests. An excerpt from ‘Divided We Fall.’
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lauren left the fire behind, a fire in which she saw her future—a bright unfuckwithable blaze forward, an effulgent laser, a bright beam burning everything ahead of it into cinder, where she could be anything and do anything and no one could stop her. #SundaySentence from @chuckwendig.bsky.social
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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
lesliegreentree.ca/thats-not-ho... Fun interview on Moving to Delilah and Sixteen Homes and gardening and my built-in bookcase and other shenanigans with the fantabulous @lesliegreentree.bsky.social ! Sign up for her hilarious and informative newsletter. You will never regret it ;) #canlit
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That's not how we read: a conversation with poet Catherine Owen | Leslie Greentree
Leslie Greentree interviews poet and memoirist Catherine Owen about her poetry collection Moving to Delilah, in a segment titled "That's Not How We Read," which celebrates great books that came out a ...
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Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As part of a global effort to demand regulation for artificial intelligence developers, The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) has launched a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes and the works they subsequently produce. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🦇 Have you ever wondered what species is that bat that visits your garden every evening during the summer? Without a bat detector it's nearly impossible to know. However, it may be possible to narrow it down to some of the more widespread species
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Red Deer + area friends, Blaine’s wonderful play CONVERSATIONS WITH COWS opens Friday at the Scott Block and it’s going to be amazing! Riverbend Theatre, formerly Red Deer Players, is pairing it with The Kiss for a full night of drama, cows, and the possibility of consensual audience painting. 1/2
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🚨 Don't believe separatists lies.👇 ZERO evidence immigrants: - increase crime (on the contrary) - hurt healthcare system (on the contrary) - hurt education system (on the contrary) - etc etc. This noise nothing more than divisive hate-mongering. thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... via @thewalrus.ca
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Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy | The Walrus
The province they describe—rural, homogeneous, under siege—bears little resemblance to reality
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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We want to transcend, we want to pass beyond the limits of safe understanding, and what better way to do it than through make-believe. #SundaySentence Don DeLillo / Falling Man
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This week’s (long) #SundaySentence is from Rachel Cusk’s Second Place: For the first time, I considered the possibility that art – not just L‘s art but the whole notion of art – might itself be a serpent, whispering in our ears, sapping away all our satisfaction and our belief in … 1/2
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/09/2026
Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’
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Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’
Her hit novel Station Eleven seemed to predict the pandemic, now the novelist is tackling the future of the US. She talks about chance, world-building and experiencing a ‘tiny bit’ of clairvoyance
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
His childhood dreams had been so bright, he had hoped for so much, it couldn’t be true that he was a nobody, although, on the other hand, what kind of somebody spends the best years of his life swearing at a photocopier? #SundaySentence from Pastoralia (short story “The Falls”) by George Saunders. 
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ok yes it seems like it's a goat show over at Elections Alberta right now. But let's remember two things... A) They're spectacularly underfunded and have been given a ridiculous task in the referendum. B) This is far too important to give up on. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Really cool feature about Jack Johnson in the NYT had this perfect quote from Ben Harper, describing Jack (& artists in general, I think). It's my #sundaysentence this week: "It takes a great deal of intensity to actually sound simple and pure."
Photo from the NYT of Jack Johnson's feet and guitar-effect pedals onstage.
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Being raised Evangelical is like getting chicken pox as a child: You might recover, but you are never free. The virus will live in your nerves until you die. #SundaySentence from Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness by Kathryn Paige Harden
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This week’s #SundaySentence from the POV of a dog, comes from Country People by Daniel Mason: He had only been outside once, but in that short time, he’d gathered from the winds a tale of roots and moles and worms, of ghosts hidden within the leaf-fall, of rats and springtails, mosses, snakes.
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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
An incredible afternoon rallying the vote for Canada today! Albertans across the province are coming together to mobilize the vote to keep Alberta a strong part of Canada, and we're just getting started. Join us: www.albertandpcaucus.ca/voteforcanada
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Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’ve admired Lorne Daniel’s poetry since we were in an online poetry class run by Yvonne Blomer a few years ago—maybe even as far back as the pandemic times. This is What Is Broken Binds Us. It’s so much about life, love, ageing, loss, & what we choose to do w/ the pain of our respective griefs.
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
That isn’t the four-letter word I was expecting from this sight … gimme your clever captions! #cybertruckcrimes
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My August newsletter is short & sweet, just like summer, with notes of Cheezies, Fringe, and music under the stars. It hits inboxes at the crack of dawn Sunday - subscribe at lesliegreentree.ca if you’re interested!
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“She often said she modeled her look on a woman others called the “town tramp”, but who held a glamorous appeal for Parton, being one of the few women she saw who wasn’t mired in childcare and housework.” God, I’m going to miss this woman. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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Dolly Parton’s flamboyant, fun style: ‘I’m not a fashion icon; I’m an eyesore’
With her gaudy rhinestones and ever mushrooming hair, the country star pioneered a new vision of femininity
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
OK, here’s some Canadian content: my books, a monthly artsy newsletter, and interviews with other Canadian writers: lesliegreentree.ca
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Author, Poet, Actor, Artist | Leslie Greentree
Leslie Greentree is the author of the award-winning short story collection A Minor Planet for You. Her second book of poetry, go-go dancing for Elvis, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Les...
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Generative AI is technocolonialism and this time they aren't just targeting specific groups, but everyone. Here me out here, I've been teaching about systems of Oppression for a LONG time, especially in regards to anti-Indigeneity. There are 5 tactics that all systems of oppression use cyclically.
The Pattern of Anti-Indigeneity: Deny. Justify. Repeat As Needed.

-Extermination
- Expulsion
- Segregation
- Integration
- Assimilation
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Your words are nice, you explain things well, but I don't trust you, and I think that the people in this room agree with me." Alberta technology minister met with jeers in Lacombe at first town hall over AI data centre www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...
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Alberta technology minister met with jeers at first town hall over AI data centres
LACOMBE - Alberta's technology minister was jeered, badgered and booed late Wednesday by a room packed with hundreds of people over the province's plans for an artificial intelligence data centre.
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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you haven't stumbled on it before, the "crazification factor" set the total at 27% more than 20 years ago and has been a pretty reliable benchmark ever since (tracks pretty close to Alberta separatist support, for example) shebloggedbynight.com/2025/the-27-...
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The 27% Club, Or: Lizard People, The Crazification Factor, and Me • She Blogged By Night
It's the 20th anniversary of the invention of the Crazification Factor, a theory advanced by John and Tyrone of Kung Fu Monkey to explain political beliefs that defy common sense.
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Of course, I kept writing. And increasingly I wanted to think about that gaze, what happened, what it meant and what remains.” #SundaySentence cluster from The Art of Looking Back by Theresa Kishkan - @fishgottaswim.bsky.social #booksky💙📚 #amreading
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 11/08/2026
Zuckerberg did not hear boat’s distress call because he had conversation muted
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Zuckerberg did not hear boat’s distress call because he had conversation muted
ALASKA - Despite his super yacht being the nearest vessel to a small boat in trouble, Mark Zuckerberg revealed the simple reason he did not respond to the distress call was that he had muted the conve...
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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It was always the other way around (this one knocked me over) #SundaySentence #poem #Margaret Atwood
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Despite all the fires in the world, on this night, in this room, they believed the whole thing might work. My #SundaySentence this week is from the luminous Whistler by Ann Patchett.  #Booksky📚💙
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026
See you in court, creep.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/07/2026
"As I picked up my first victim in my serrated claws, I expected him to beg for his life. But instead, he said, 'I think you just haven’t been with the right guy yet.'"
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I Am a Monster Hell Bent on Destroying Earth, but Humans Are More Concerned That I’m a Lesbian
“No one cared that I’m twelve feet tall, covered in razor-sharp spikes, with four prehensile tongues that taste the air to track human fear. They only specul...
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Shona Cook @shonacookto.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Imagine having a hit at 80 for your debut novel written almost 50 years ago. Art is a wild and wonderful and capricious thing. #BookSky #CanLit
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I love this bc it’s true: “Go to your nearest café and look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering me across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse.”
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sweet deals on so many wonderful books. #booksky💙📚
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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.” ~Claire Keegan, ‘Foster’ #SundaySentence
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The hardwood and brass fittings were years from their last good polish. Gently cooled air hung heavy with fried food and spilled beer. A quiet bit of paradise. #SundaySentence cluster from Seldom Seen Road by @jkdegen.bsky.social, the first in his Burnt River Mystery series. #booksky💙📚
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Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...
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National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence
Powered by SimpleSurvey.com | Build and manage your own online survey, voting, form and panel management applications.
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
When our father does the things he needs to do in the world, we understand it is his due. If our mother does the things she needs to do in the world, we feel she has abandoned us. #SundaySentence cluster from “Night Wandering,” an essay in Deborah Levy’s terrific collection, The Cost of Living.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lovely to see The Art of Looking Back on the Tyee this morning! thetyee.ca/Presents/202...
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Eight Local Books to Upgrade Your Summer Reading List | The Tyee
A curated booklist to suit varied seasonal whims.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13/07/2026
The Walrus and Peter Mansbridge have partnered to invest in emerging writers in Canada with the Mansbridge Essay. This is a new annual $5,000 program for reported writing. Submissions open till July 15. thewalrus.ca/mansbridge-essay
 A black and white photo of Peter Mansbridge.
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
How To Live A Good Life #oldknees
The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.
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Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is pure gold coming from @libbyapp.com "Shoutout to libraries for enabling our reading habits in the most financially responsible way possible. #LibraryLove #Bookish #LibbyApp"
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We have run as far as we can from the hardships of previous ages, and now we need to find a balance between what we know and what we knew. #SundaySentence from the remarkable Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May. #booksky💙📚 #amreading
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For Canada Day we'd like to celebrate the wonderful diversity of Canadian stories by highlighting three very different books, each of which introduces you to a distinct and fascinating way of thinking about and living within our country. You can learn more about the books at: www.wolsakandwynn.ca
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Will someone please make these for me?
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is the best thing I’ve read online in weeks. Long live the word nerds.
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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Read the article here: learndirt.com/learn/how-to-attract-…
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