Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands. Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.

It’s funny that all the conservatives who thought Carney shouldn’t be interim PM because he wasn’t elected are okay with Poilievre staying on as the CPC leader even though he literally just LOST an election

Poetry-only press Brick Books marks its 50th anniversary, celebrating the “unlikely feat” of publishing nothing but verse for half a century. bit.ly/44CDJAc

This was fun. Thanks for the questions, Kathryn Mockler!

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Feel free to recruit me international university even though I am not a scientist. I have other skills.

Anyone want to bring me to their town for this fun karaoke + poetry event?

The rights hypocrisy of blaming social programs that help those in need and saying nothing of the blatant bl Corporate welfare for the rich... www.biv.com/news/canadas...

Not the first time I've said it, but I do think we should sit with the fact that the folks likeliest to have predicted we'd elect a reality TV president who'd create a fascist police state where people would be put into unmarked vans for criticizing Israel have been widely ridiculed my entire life.

Schiff: "That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency: The president out on a golf cart while peoples' retirement is in flames."

It's crazy to be living in such intense times that every day there are multiple news stories of how despicable or heroic humans can be that each feel...legendary. This history is intense in the making. And fast.

“Trump has ordered border agents to look through personal devices for any anti-Trump sentiment and has turned away or detained dozens of Canadians vacationing or working in the US - legally.” 🎃🎃🎃 open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Part 3 of My Adventures in Book Publicity - Book Tours "Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating."

It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

The Signal scandal isn't just about the security breach: it's also a window into Trump's mafia foreign policy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Queers who lived thru the AIDS crisis know about living through genocide. Joy was a huge part of the struggle. There is no fight without joy. Joy will lift us up. Do not live in despair; that story is no place to build a home. Build your home in joy.

I found one of my books in this list ffs.

Please read all of this: an account of her own detention and the stories of other detained women as well.

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

As a genderqueer Canadian who posts about genocide like he cares for all life...I withdrew from my AWP panel and visit. Too dangerous to visit America. Too scary how basic human rights and decency are vanishing. #awp2025

The AMS vote for a UBC student strike March 24 & 25 is live! Vote here ⤵️ ams.simplyvoting.com?fbclid=PAZXh...

Friends, I'm putting a karaoke launch party together. Let your local festival know if you want a karaoke+poetry event in your town. It's going to be FUN!

Finally finished the memorial zine for Kim Kinakin. Dm me if you love him too and would like a copy.

This would be a perfect time for Canada to start allowing US trans people into our country as asylum seekers.

40% Off Haymarket Books for Women's Liberation

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

I canceled a conference trip to the US cuz things are way too unstable for people like me. And changing fast.

It’s like the Trump administration had a big brainstorm session on the fastest way to end western civilization, and they decided that scapegoating EDI and ignoring the climate crisis would just take way longer than causing World War 3.

Dr. Seuss cartoons about “America First” from 1941.

The US is killing itself while it endangers all of us in multiple large scale ways.

Canadian writers, if you haven't already, sign up for the Public Lending Right. Check here to see if you're eligible. publiclendingright.ca

Thrilled to release the cover of my lyric memoir Soundtrack, about growing up and coming out in the shadow of AIDS. All framed by music albums/songs as mnemonic devices, for "where I was when." Pre-orders are open with @bookhugpress.bsky.social !

Canadian authors: registration for the Public Lending Right #PLR program is open now until May 1, 2025. This awesome program pays royalties to Canadian authors for books in Canadian public libraries. For those already enrolled, payments should be arriving soon. publiclendingright.ca

Poetry may not save our bodies but it will save our souls. I read Whitman whenever America gets *particularly* shitty, to remind myself of its promise ❤️

Armed military police on UBC campus today to protect IOF war criminals invited to compete at sporting events as though they didn’t serve in an army that has killed at minimum a child every 30 minutes for the past 16 months. Monitoring from the rooftops like snipers.

I had a great time discussing a poem from my new book Picturing where I talk about @kelliagodon.bsky.social and @michaelvsmith.bsky.social, the Desert Rat Writers Residency, and the 2020 movie Ammonite among other things. Check it out here: christalcooper.com/435-backstor...

@staranise99.bsky.social, @sinaqueyras.bsky.social Capilano Review, CanLit Responds, Peter Kropotkin, @booksandlilies.bsky.social, Fariha Róisín, Lisa Robertson, Rachel Gerry, Susan Sanford Blades, K.R. Wilson, @hollay.bsky.social, Aisha’s Story, @michaelvsmith.bsky.social, and more! 2/2

Send My Love to Anyone’s February Gatherings which includes links and recommended readings and viewings! sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/gatherings... Mentioned this month: Liisa Kovala, @itsakirby.bsky.social, Omar El Akkad, @literalnobody.bsky.social... 1/2

TT job in post-1960 lit, Lethbridge U: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

Maybe it's a good time to share my feel-good doc about being gender-queer. Cuz, you know. We need to increase our gender joy. www.vimeo.com/michaelvsmit...

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

My third collection of poems, UNRAVEL, will be published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and the US on March 25. I am both excited and terrified to share it with the world. The cover was designed by Jennifer Griffiths.

This is downright genocidal. Revoking access to HIV meds will cause new infections to skyrocket while current patients deteriorate as HIV goes untreated.

An important read.

BOOM, there it is 🎯

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