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Poet photographer filmmaker French Surrealist poetry translator op-eds in Canada’s National Observer. Lives in Hamilton sometimes.

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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nicole Brossard's The Backtalking Back of Words translated by Karen McPherson is now available at The Printed Word in Dundas, Ontario, one of our favorite bookstores anywhere. #PoetryInTranslation #QuébécoisPoetryinTranslation @karenmcpherson.bsky.social @theprintedword.bsky.social
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Check out our review of Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets translated by Danielle Legros Georges @littranslate.bsky.social @zephyrpress.bsky.social @catranslation.org www.thetransformationreview.com/reviews/blue...
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Languages slip their bounds & whisper their secrets back & forth." We are pleased to share Karen McPherson's essay on translating Nicole Brossard's abecedarian www.thetransformationreview.com/essays/the-e... #PoetryinTranslation @canadianpoets.bsky.social #QuebecoisPoetryinTranslation
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Transformation Review Press/Les Éditions de la Revue de Transformation is pleased to present Nicole Brossard's Le Dos indocile des mots/The Backtalking Back of Words, translated by Karen McPherson. Available online and in hard copy. #TranslationTuesday www.thetransformationreview.com/books
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yay! Ovid Void by Maria Stepanova and Eugene Ostashevsky is long listed for the ALTA Translation Awards. Check out Dan Alter's review of the book @littranslate.bsky.social @arlozoroff.bsky.social #WorldPoetry www.thetransformationreview.com/reviews/osta... literarytranslators.org/the-2026-nat...
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anna Yin's latest essay on process, with video!! #TranslationTuesday #AnnaYin www.thetransformationreview.com/essays/on-tr...
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are SO excited to introduce Karen McPherson's introductory essay to her translation of Nicole Brossard's Le Dos docile des mots, the bilingual book available 9/15!!! #TranslationTuesday @karenmcpherson.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social www.thetransformationreview.com/essays/the-e...
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are now a small press! Here's the story of how our little journal launched itself into publishing, along with Karen McPherson's marvelous essay on translating Nicole Brossard. #TranslationTuesday #SmallPressNews #QuebecoisPoetryInTranslation www.thetransformationreview.com/essays/the-e...
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My latest in @nationalobserver.com where I argue we shouldn’t be giving government money to oilsands companies while they’re milking the cash cow and exporting their profits. #oilsands #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/05/o...
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Canada's oilsands are a big cash cow, being milked for all they're worth
No major project has been announced in the oilsands for more than a decade and the companies that operate there have been funeling the profits into shareholder wealth, dividends and share buybacks, ra...
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
What we're reading today, in solidarity with the people of Iran: #IranianPoets #PoetryInTranslation #MiddleEasternPoetry #NoMoreWar
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Written in 2017, Maggy de Coster's work speaks across time & space to this very day of illegal war & ongoing genocide. From Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets, translated by Danielle Legros George #BlueFlare #HaitianPoets #ZephyrPress
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Michelle Mirabella's insightful, engaging interview with Edith Adams, translator of Guerrilla Blooms (Eulalia Books), Chilean-Mapuche poet Daniela Catrileo's multilingual collection: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/01/27/b... @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social @eulaliabooks.bsky.social #WorldPoetryDay
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Blooming to Surface
Edith Adams talks to Michelle Mirabella about having translated Daniela Catrileo’s collection «Guerrilla Blooms», longlisted for the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry.
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Birhan Keskin reading Kargo from the collection Fakir Kene. Earthly Conditions, Öykü Tekten's gorgeous translation of Keskin's work, is available from World Poetry. Read it! #WorldPoetryDay @birhankeskin.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHpp... www.thetransformationreview.com/reviews/i-wa...
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Birhan Keskin - Kargo Şiiri(Kendi Sesinden)
YouTube video by kadın yazarlar müzik
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Austrian poet Liesl Ujvary produces mesmerizing video poems. This one uses text from Good & Safe, recently translated by Ann Cotten & Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie. Check out the video & our review of the translation: youtu.be/piUzuK_kr_4?... www.thetransformationreview.com/reviews/ujva... #Translation
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"sicher & gut"
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
a review by Sara Burant
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🎉 ALTA is delighted to get to introduce you to the judges of the 2026 ALTA awards! Learn about the awards and our judges here: buff.ly/gUwdYHE And don't forget: Submissions to these prizes close on March 16 - just three weeks away! Learn more and submit here: buff.ly/6vmvmr8
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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
An excerpt from "MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475–1564)" by Haris Vlavianos, translated from the Greek by Patricia Felisa Barbeito. Featured in WPR 12! Read the full poem: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/21/f... #translation #poetry #poem
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We've been reading Ann Cotten & Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie's translation of Austrian poet Liesl Ujvary's 1977 Good & Safe (Sicher & Gut). Monika Rinck has called this "the book of the hour" : www.thetransformationreview.com/reviews/ujva... @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social #PoetryInTranslation #Good&Safe
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We go to the online pages of World Poetry Review when we're world-weary and need the refreshment and perspective poetry in translation offers, the beautiful dance of the poet, the translator, the page, the reader.
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transformationrev.bsky.social @transformationrev.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Announcing our first open call for submissions. The Transformation Review seeks reviews of and essays about poetry in translation for our inaugural issue. Please send us your work!! #PoetryInTranslation #CallForSubmissions #LitMag #Reviews #Essays
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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Save the date! World Poetry Review will be open for submissions for Issue 13 on Feb. 1st. Translators of poetry are encouraged to apply! Check out our submissions page to review our submission guidelines and to learn more about what we're looking for: worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast is flawed on so many levels. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/o...
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Reality trumps a Poilievre oil fantasy
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast flawed on so many levels. It confuses where most of the refining of our crude oil occurs, wro...
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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Twenty-Two Poems by Paul Éluard, translated from the French by Ross Belot @rossbelot.bsky.social & Sara Burant, in WPR 12! Check them all out here: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t... #translation #poem #poetry #poems
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Beware of fossil fuel enthusiasts touting the latest IEA report and its supposed forecast of endless demand growth for oil. The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
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What the IEA's latest report says about the energy transition — and what it doesn't
The International Energy Agency's latest landmark report looks like an act of surrender to the Trump administration's fossil fuel agenda. But when you look closer, a much different picture emerges.
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Keystone XL avoids friction between British Columbia and Alberta over a West Coast project that would never be built anyway. Poilievre still loses a favourite attack line, and Smith can still say she forced the federal government to move on pipelines www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/o...
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Why Carney's pivot to Keystone XL is brilliant, even if it's just a fantasy
Keystone XL avoids friction between British Columbia and Alberta over a West Coast project that would never be built anyway. Poilievre still loses a favourite attack line, and Smith can still say she ...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Award for Poetry! here's my review of the book, in case you hadn't seen: / @houseofanansi.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/kare...
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Karen Solie, Wellwater: poems
BERKELEY HILLS, 2022 In Wildcat Canyon live the laurels. No rain in two months and nine days. Like girls do, the laurels grow from...
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World Poetry Review @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Just released: WPR 12! This issue features poetry translated from Chinese, Greek, Faroese, Persian, Spanish, French, Russian, and Italian! Check it out! worldpoetryreview.org @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social @rossbelot.bsky.social @georginamegan.bsky.social
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Very excited to have my and Sara Burant’s translation of the Paul Éluard 22 section poem L’Univers-Solitude from Éluard’s 1932 collection La Vie immédiate in the latest issue of World Poetry Review. worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t... @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social
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Twenty-Two Poems by Paul Éluard
Fruits of the day brooded by the earth A woman a woman alone isn’t sleeping The windows are lying down.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 06/10/2025
That thud you might have heard on Sept. 29 was the fall of a Canadian giant that has been staggering around for some time. But it was once Canada’s largest oil company, helping drive virtually every major innovation in Canadian oil and gas since the late 19th century, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.
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The fall of a Canadian giant
The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by Canadians. This isn’t just a corporate restructuring. It’s...
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Yet across the political spectrum in Canada the big ideas from #DanielleSmith to @naheednenshi.bsky.social, from #Poilievre to @mark-carney.bsky.social are #MorePipelines. No longer surprised they don't care about burning the world down but you'd think they'd care about economics #cdnpoli #abpoli
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My latest….The new Imperial Oil is a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada by Canadians. It’s the clearest sign yet that Canada’s oil story is drawing to a close. Our leaders still haven't noticed. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/a...
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The fall of a Canadian giant
The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by Canadians. This isn’t just a corporate restructuring. It’s...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 19/09/2025
As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.
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A reality check on nation building
We can either stay hewers of wood and drawers of water, or finish the job and keep the refining profit in Canada.
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/19/o...
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A reality check on nation building
We can either stay hewers of wood and drawers of water, or finish the job and keep the refining profit in Canada.
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Adrienne Tanner @adriennetanner.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Ontario's battle against bike lanes has always ignored facts and evidence. Now Alberta is making the same specious arguments. My latest for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/04/opinion/bike-lanes-ford-smith-court-ruling
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Bike lanes win as Ford and Smith waste time on a losing battle
The battle against bike lanes has never been evidence-based. It’s all about politics and the divide between interests of voters living in city centres, who are less likely to vote for Ford or Smith, a...
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Back then the economy was the only concern; climate change wasn’t on the radar. We should celebrate the vision of the politicians and corporations of the time. But we're no longer in that era, and leaders need to enter the new one, Ross Belot writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/31/o...
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Mark Carney and Danielle Smith — It’s 2025, Not 1947
In the 1950s, the economy was the only concern — climate change wasn't yet on government's radar. That isn't the case in 2025, and our leaders should act accordingly.
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Interesting piece by Kam Razavi, former Global News investigative reporter, on why Canada isn’t addressing its oil and gas emissions, I’m quoted in spots. medium.com/the-new-clim...
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The Petro-Bros are Selling You Out
How the hyper-masculine narratives of the fossil fuel industry lull us into climate inaction
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Piece authored by a few friends and me in the Calgary Herald calling for real discussions on climate change by all sides. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... ‪@ajwvictoriabc.bsky.social‬
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It's time to change the conversation about the economy and climate change
It's time to change the conversation about the economy and climate change
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 27/06/2025
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Mark Carney is reviving the oilsands discussion — and it's giving me whiplash
It's a fantasy that another pipeline will unlock new riches in the oilsands. But as long as the federal government doesn't pay for it, the industry is welcome to keep pining.
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Adrienne Tanner @adriennetanner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
There's a reason Canadian oil companies aren't investing in carbon capture. The rest of us should pay attention. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/26/o...
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If oil giants are reluctant to invest in carbon capture, why should taxpayers?
The fact that oil companies are reluctant to invest in their own giant carbon reduction projects speaks volumes about how they view their longevity. If anyone understands the economics of peak oil, it...
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My latest op-ed discussing the shenanigans of Carney and Smith on the oilsands. and how they don't seem to be talking about the fundamentals. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/27/o...
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Mark Carney is reviving the oilsands discussion — and it's giving me whiplash
It's a fantasy that another pipeline will unlock new riches in the oilsands. But as long as the federal government doesn't pay for it, the industry is welcome to keep pining.
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Canadians have been fed a steady diet of climate noise — photo-ops, grand announcements, and lofty targets — none of which have translated into serious emissions reductions, writes Ross Belot www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/07/o...
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Not Justin Trudeau? Prove It, Mark Carney — On Climate
Canadians have been fed a steady diet of climate noise — photo-ops, grand announcements, and lofty targets — none of which have translated into serious emissions reductions.
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
a video to go with this post www.tiktok.com/@macleansmag...
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Ross Belot used to be an oil executive. Here’s why he says market forces, not politics, killed the oil boom—and why new pipelines won’t save the country. #canadianpolitics #energy #oil #climatechang...
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
my latest piece in Canada's National Observer....Politicians, stop the magical pipeline talk and do your job. Accept the reality there will not be another oilsands boom, and look for long term opportunities for this resource. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...
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Politicians, stop the magical pipeline talk and do your job
If we accept reality and stop talking about pipeline delusions to re-create an oilsands boom, then we can talk about opportunities that might exist long-term for this resource
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Adrienne Tanner @adriennetanner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Canadian politicians must accept the reality there will not be another oilsands boom, and instead look for long term opportunities for this resource. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...
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Politicians, stop the magical pipeline talk and do your job
If we accept reality and stop talking about pipeline delusions to re-create an oilsands boom, then we can talk about opportunities that might exist long-term for this resource
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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Pierre Poilievre has proposed large-scale oil sands investments. But Ross Belot, a former oil exec, says it's a bad idea—because production will decline no matter what Canada does. macleans.ca/economy/why-...
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Why Canada’s Oil Sands Aren’t Coming Back - Macleans.ca
I used to be an oil executive. Here’s how market forces, not politics, killed the oil boom—and why new pipelines won't save the country.
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I have a piece in Macleans explaining why the oilsands boom ended and isn't coming back. And why Trump tariffs have nothing to do with that. macleans.ca/economy/why-...
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Why Canada’s Oil Sands Aren’t Coming Back - Macleans.ca
I used to be an oil executive. Here’s how market forces, not politics, killed the oil boom—and why new pipelines won't save the country.
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
More translations by Sara Burant and me from Paul Éluard's La Vie immédiate in the most recent Ezra: an online journal of translation. ezratranslation.com/current-issue/
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Current Issue | Ezra
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A great start to the year with four of Sara Burant and my collaborative translations from Paul Éluard's La Vie immédiate published by rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social in his wonderful online journal periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/01/paul...
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Paul Éluard : Four poems, translated by Ross Belot and Sara Burant
EVERY RIGHT Imagine The flowery shade of flowers suspended in spring The shortest day of the year and the Inuit night The death throe...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 19/12/2024
That threat by Doug Ford to cut off electricity exports to the U.S. was a bad move. Ross Belot crunched the numbers and Canada is far more dependent on U.S. energy than the other way around. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/18/a...
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When it comes to energy, the U.S. has Ontario over a barrel
The idea of using energy as a cudgel is unbelievably terrible for Ontario when we look at how energy is supplied to the province. Ontario has far more to lose if the U.S. slashes energy supplies to Ca...
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RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Ontario has far more to lose if the U.S. slashes energy supplies to Canada, than the other way around. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/18/a...
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When it comes to energy, the U.S. has Ontario over a barrel
The idea of using energy as a cudgel is unbelievably terrible for Ontario when we look at how energy is supplied to the province. Ontario has far more to lose if the U.S. slashes energy supplies to Ca...
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