I love it when I have time to slow down and really pay attention to the smallest of details when I'm walking in the forest. Here are just a few of the tiny marvels that caught my eye today. #ForestLife

Wondering what other ordinary people are doing to keep their neighbors safe? You’ll find an hour’s worth of ideas and inspiration in this soul-nourishing episode of Movement Memos. (Thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social.) podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...

I’m bundled up in a blanket, sitting on the deck, ready to dive into this book. I loved the miniseries. I’m still mad it was cancelled after just one season.

Here's a video from earlier this month of a deer watching me watching him. (I was out for a walk in the forest and spotted the deer standing right in front of me. It was an incredible moment.) #ForestLife

All this stuff is just out here

Anecdotally what I'm seeing a lot is patients either avoiding the emerg completely or leaving after several hrs of waiting. Then they wait days or weeks to see me in the office, which is often not appropriate or safe. Sometimes, I have to send them straight back to the emerg. This is really bad.

No wonder so many Canadians are angry and scared about precarity. Only those identifying as 'upper class' in this Ekos poll report that they feel that their quality of life is better than the previous generation's.

Woke up thinking about how to halt the slide in Canada and thinking about FDR's warnings that the growth of fascism is made possible by the growth of private power and failure to better the lot of ordinary people. Mamdani's success shows that now is precisely the time to argue for social democracy +

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful, by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com #journalism

Every time I attend an n95-required event, I cry afterward. We can have accessible, justice-oriented spaces. We can create new ways of organizing & connecting. We can enact disability justice. We can educate & protect each other. We can get free, if we do it together. A better world is possible.

100% this. People have been warning about these dangerous idiots for years. Have y’all got the message yet? No real journalist would ever sign such a thing. The whole point is to hold authority to account, not kowtow to their demands and feed their unhealthy need for validation.

In need of some inspiration this weekend? I use these inspirational quotes in my global health courses

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”   For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.   Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

The ferns are putting on a show these days along many parts of the East Coast Trail. Near Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, Canada. #hiking #trail #backpacking

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy. I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together. We need a government that serves the many, not the money. Join in. lewisforleader.ca/ youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY

Caterpillar sweater weather

It's me again with another update 😜 #Ontario #wastewater graph updated with September 7 data - Kingston, London, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: BC, MB, NB, NS, QC, SK, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

Yes, me too. I've had two outings with friends this week. "Steadying moral anchors" is right.

Reminded me of this. Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa: “Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without all three, we have no shared reality, and democracy as we know it—and all meaningful human endeavours—are dead.”

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

There are people we will never meet who are fighting against a different face of the same machine, in rooms we could never describe on land we might never touch. And that has to be okay. Life isn’t a television show.

Concentrating on nature helps a bit. The sky brought to you by this evening’s dog walk.

From this morning‘s walk. They get it.

Vaccine availability in Ontario. Free. Everyone 6 months of age and older who lives, works or goes to school in Ontario may receive their COVID-19 vaccine starting on October 27, 2025. Some may receive your COVID-19 vaccine dose(s) and flu shot as soon as they become available in the fall.

Such a wise and validating episode of a podcast that has played a huge role in my political development. Thank you for your willingness to speak openly and honestly, particularly in times like these, Sandy and Nora. 💗 @sandela.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Offline conversations with people who share my values mean everything right now. It would be so easy to be swept away by the tidal wave of awfulness. I'm so grateful to have these steadying moral anchors in my life. And books. I'm so grateful for books and the authors who dreamed them into being. 💗

Currawong liked his tea strong

I say it again: they believe in free speech for themselves alone. They can say whatever they want without consequence. We are free to say what they deem acceptable. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s the internal logic of fascism, where they are in control and all of us are subservient.

I’ve been helping newcomers in public libraries for 20 years and these are two things I know: moving to Canada as an immigrant or refugee is a lot of paperwork and even more emotional labour. Also immigrants and refugees make our cities more interesting and excellent places.

This made me tear up simply because i so badly want to live to see a world with less fear and more dignity for millions and millions of people including myself. It is hopeful to have people who have chosen to work in politics who share that dream, genuinely.

It's #Heavyweight Eve! 💫

Each of us really can decide to do a little something every day to lessen suffering (including our own).

I'm really looking forward to reading this book! So many writers I admire have essays in it, and I can't wait to read their wisdom about how to deal with *gestures broadly at everything* and keep going. ❤️

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

This whole thread. And this is why I will neither trust nor platform the perspectives of the ppl who are not stakeholders

Grace Lee Boggs: "We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously."

The forces of evil will hate *everything* about the novel I'm trying to write. That's why I need to write it. 👩🏻‍💻

Went for a drive in the country. Read a book in the gazebo. Took an unplanned nap in the sun. I need more days like this.

Hello everything sucks right now and you might be wondering what you can do to fix it. The short answer is the same as it was last week: Help people. Build community. And fight the attempts to divide us.

Awesome. Toronto history has been repeated - racist thugs were outnumbered and told to get lost at Christie Pits. They wanted a riot, they got shouted down. Beautiful. I love this city ❤️‍🔥

Four loaves of bread in progress. Also thinking through the plot of my novel while I knead. (The two activities go well together.) #BreadSky #AmWriting 🍞📖

Tomato Nation, 2025.

I’m also not saying that you have to shoehorn political discourse into your work! I am saying that your values will filter into your work regardless in a hundred different ways. So why not develop a political consciousness and write from a place that’s thoughtful, humane, and informed?

One more week until Heavyweight returns.

Congrats to Omar El Akkad for making the National Book Award longlist in nonfiction for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... #freepalestine

Well, I guess this is a perfect opportunity to announce my li'l cookbook, out in a few weeks! It's called *After the Feast* and has recipes for using up Thanksgiving leftovers in tasty ways. The PDF will be FREE and print copies raise $$ for Qajukturvik Community Food Centre! ivacheung.com/books/