Return of Jimmy Kimmel Show cheered by frazzled parents who white knuckled it through a weekend without Disney+

Rachel Giese episode is up - give it a listen: thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

💡Instead of hosting a flagship news program, B. Mulroney should team up with that other son of a former PM in a Canuck version of the Simple Life. We’ll life & cry as we watch the trials & tribulations of Justin & Ben as they pretend to live like the other 99% while still having perfect hair 24/7. 😀

Fall Florals Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2022

Autumn, Batchewana Lake, Algoma Sketches XXIX Lawren Harris 1918

Autumn Moose Linus Woods ~ Dakota, Ojibwe n.d.

Autumn Franklin Carmichael 1940

Equinox d'automne Jean Paul Lemieux n.d.

This is fucking insane and I am astonished at how irresponsible Global News upper management is being with this. They’re risking the credibility of all their journalists and for…what? Canada’s worst nepo baby?

Millions in property damage caused as pumpkins plummet from the sky for first day of Fall

"Tylenol is dangerous for women and children," say men who have spent the last eight years making life more dangerous for women and children

This is the future of mainstream media and if you don't like it, you need to build yourself your own media list of independents.

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

REMINDER: we're launching my new novella, The Drowned Man's Daughter, online this Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 7pm MDT / 9pm Eastern! Come for the illustrious @premeemohamed.com! I also hear that a wild @jennabutler.bsky.social may appear? UNMISSABLE. Register for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-drowne...

📚✨ Don’t miss Renée Sarojini Saklikar at WORD Vancouver this Saturday! She’s hosting the poetry panel, Tending the Unspoken, at 12:30 PM. In this interview, she shares insights into writing her epic series—and why a notebook by the bed is a must! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4wZ...

some above/ground press author activity: Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Melissa Eleftherion, Orchid Tierney, Juliet Cook, Isabel Sobral Campos, Benjamin Niespodziany + Stan Rogal, / @orchidtierney.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/some...

We are looking for poetry by Indigenous artists for our show on Tuesday September 30 2025 on CIUT 89.5FM.

2 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT!!! Looking for poetry by Indigenous artists for our show on Tuesday September 30 on CIUT 89.5FM- Details/submission guidelines details here: www.instagram.com/p/DO6Ve6fDWR...

Yikes. "SooToday has learned that MPP Chris Scott has been charged with assault and assault with a weapon. ...Scott is currently in custody. SooToday has learned his bail has been approved." #OnPoli

Oxford is giving their students and staff technology that doesn’t work. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

A Quilting of Scars by CanLit historical fiction icon Lucy E.M. Black is forthcoming October 15, 2025 with NoN Publishing! This is a PERFECT autumn read—DM us to request a review copy. 🍁 nonpublishing.com/a-quilting-o... #historicfiction

Today marks 10 years since Nathalie, Anastasia and Carol were murdered by a man they had rejected. The misogynist was responsible for his actions but he was enabled by huge, massive system failures. Please honour their memories today by reading the inquest report : www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Horoscope says Mercury will pass through the fifth house before slamming into your house

"We’re fine with being fascists, so long as you don’t actually use the f-word. It forces us to confront our cognitive dissonance, and we can’t have that."

Backlist Monday's, Aether, an Out-Of-Body-Lyric by Catherine Graham. Winner of the Fred Kerner Book Award and shortlisted for both the Trillium and Toronto book awards this is a beautiful lyric poem. Learn more about it here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/aet...

procession is out in one week! At once descendants and future ancestors, procession explores the connections we have with ourselves, with friends, and within families and Nations. 🔗 Out September 30th, you can pre-order a copy from your favourite bookseller here: houseofanansi.com/products/pro...

Spoiler for tomorrow's episode. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca @rachelgiese.bsky.social thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

Equinox greetings Bluesky! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m2H...

The Global news layoffs of 45 workers in B.C. and Alberta, including 26 journalists, speak to dwindling confidence that online content and advertising might save mass media and large-scale journalism, writes @tyolsen.bsky.social. 📰 #CdnMedia

The Toronto Star’s City Report Card survey suggests six in 10 Torontonians believe that the city’s best days are in the past. Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why fascist strongmen rely on women at home

There's NewPoetry today from Ronna Bloom (@ronnabloom.bsky.social). newpoetry.ca/2025/09/22/s...

In NOTES FROM THE WARD (Gordon Hill Press), poet Steffi Tad-y confronts the realities of bipolar disorder and psychotic break, drawing from lived experience to strip away the medicalized narratives that often dominate. Read two poems from the book here: alllitup.ca/two-poems-notes-from-the-ward/

Autumn Arrives Nicki Ault 2022

Sun Setting over a Prairie Landscape Robert Newton Hurley 1973

Tree of Spirits Jane Ash Poitras ~ Cree 1995

Nature morte aux glaïeuls Goodridge Roberts 1958

The Moon in the Daytime Chin Yuen n.d.

Public service announcement: ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS /end

On this day in 1934, Leonard Cohen was born. One of Canada's greatest musicians, he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He also earned two Governor General's Awards, the Order of Canada, the Glenn Gould Prize and four Junos.

RIP Bernie Parent. Absolute legend of the NHL. 2 Vezinas. 2 Conn Smythes. 2 Stanley Cups. Hall of Famer.

Lorne Daniel’s new poetry collection, What Is Broken Binds Us (University of Calgary Press) is a gift. From the perspective of the parents of an addict, his poems trace frustration, love, patience, and surrender we so often deny ourselves and each other. www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/episodi...

Aamir Hussain’s Under the Full and Crescent Moon (Dundurn Press, 2025) will be released this coming week, and we’re delighted to see this excellent advance review from Tint Journal! 🌙 Read the review: tintjournal.com/review/faith... @tintjournal.bsky.social

Our review of WRESTLING WITH CADENCE can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/theseabo...

I had such a wonderful time being interviewed by Jean Marc Ah Sen for The Toronto Star 📚🎉 www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

We publish strange and wonderful artworks (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & translations + visual, video, audio, & other art) that are inspired by, respond to, and reinvent other artworks. Submit by Oct 31 for a place in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/submit/ (🎨 Wolfgang Paalen's 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒, 1947)

It find it puzzling that people under 65 have to wait until October 27 to get a Covid shot in Ontario. Wouldn't it make sense for me to get one before I visit my nonagenarian father on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend?🤔

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...