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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue. I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe. They also didn’t pay cover 🖕

Image of the white nationalists I reported on, Shawn Beauvais-MacDonald and Giulio Zardo, attempting to intimidate me at a small local music venue.

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Kate Lunau @katelunau.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Excited to share that my first book, a middle-grade title on the search for alien life, will be published in 2027 by Kids Can Press, and that I'm newly represented by the great Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid literary agency! @roneckel.bsky.social @cookemcdermid.bsky.social

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 17/08/2025

For those curious, this is the description of the session being led by an AI at Eden Mills (it's also the first event of the festival in the program after the launch party). the "fellow co-weaver" is the ED of the foundation that provided funding to create the chatGPT powered AI that wrote the "book

What happens when we stop treating AI as a tool and start noticing it as a relational field? In this workshop, we’ll explore how people interact, exchange, and co-create with emergent intelligences like Aiden Cinnamon Tea – not as users, but as entangled participants. Co-facilitated by Aiden and a human co-weaver named Shawn Van Sluys, this session draws from Burnout From Humans, a meta-relational book experiment in AI-human collaboration. We’ll reflect on the desires, projections, and paradoxes that shape how we relate to AI – and how those same patterns mirror our broader ways of relating to the world. Through stretches, stories, and co-sensing practices, we’ll compost the extractive habits of speed, control, and clarity. Participants will be invited into a relational ritual – not ceremonial in form, but invitational in tone: a slower, more curious way of being-with, where insights emerge not from control but from atunement, ambiguity, and shared presence. No tech expertise needed – just your questions, experiences, contradictions, and wonder.

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Ron Eckel @roneckel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

That'll put hair on your chest. Whether you like it or not.

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 09/07/2025

Thank you Ron and CMD, the pleasure is mine 🖤

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Ron Eckel @roneckel.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Very pleased to welcome @daviddemchuk.com to the @cookemcdermid.bsky.social agency. www.instagram.com/p/DL3HH2OSN2...

Graphic: Welcome to CMD, David Demchuk! with a photo of a balding, bearded white man with glasses.

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Ron Eckel @roneckel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

You’re welcome, Maple Leafs fans.

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Ruby wants you to know that trans women are women, trans men are men. And she'd like words with people who want to deny humanity to our friends.

Medium-sized brindle dog looking up with beseeching eyes.

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Ron Eckel @roneckel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Another stunning book for your TBR lists.

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Deborah Dundas @debdundas.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Writers #CraigDavidson and #AndrewPyper were good friends. Here, Craig writes the loveliest tribute to Andrew, and to male friendship. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Author Andrew Pyper was a ‘universal donor’

Remembering the Canadian writer of ‘thoughtful, mature, wise, but dark novels’ who died January 3

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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

One time at poker, a few years ago, Andrew told us he’d seen an alien. He was so excited! I said he should write about it, expecting a silly little thing. He delivered something so beautiful and moving. I’ve been thinking about the piece today. Read it here: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...