I've been *so* looking forward to this & it's just as good I'd hoped ❤️

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

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Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives: journal.cofutures.org

Our last chance to stop Lansdowne 2.0. Show up this Friday.

Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.

The Better Ottawa Lansdowne 2.0 Forum begins in 10 minutes. Live from Barrhaven. Tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QggO...

The Auditor General recently released her second sprint audit for Lansdowne 2.0. The risks are very concerning and if realized will lead to tens of millions more in costs for the city of #Ottawa.

Proud to join renters and activists as we fight back against Ford's attack on tenant rights. Bill 60 would: 🚨 Make it easier for tenants to be evicted 🚨 Make it harder to fight back against bad landlords 🚨 Limit appeals against evictions

There’s a lot about this to be angry about, but the idea that any art has a ‘service life’ is so offensive

Workers replacing lights along the Rideau Canal paths have finished up by putting in new soil and sod where they’ve dug up trenches. Here, they’ve done it on a slope next to a deep depression where the path itself is failing. It fills, wall to wall, with maybe two inches of water every rain.

Just stress-bought $150 worth of whistles. If anyone wants to kick in a few bucks: givedan.money

Wondering what StoryADay November is all about? I hopped onto YouTube earlier to talk about it. (All the essentials in under 3 mins, then me--enthusing--for another 8!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9J...

Janeway and crow-friend are ready for Halloween 🎃🐈‍⬛🐦‍⬛

It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...

Makes a note to go to Pizzeria Badiali next time in Toronto

Just because the committee approved it today, doesn't mean Lansdowne 2.0 is a done deal. We encourage everyone to write to their councillor and tell them to vote NO on November 7th. Here's a tool for you to easily send a pre-written email: www.horizonottawa.ca/stop_lansdowne

People (mostly children) are going to die because of this. Because Doug Ford has friends who are annoyed they get speeding tickets. Because the people in this province keep voting for him. (And I don't care how pathetic the other parties are, this is so much worse.)

It's Hallow-week & Janeway thinks you should check out *Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: an anthology of haunted tales from Canada* & read my story "The Fish of Cart Lake" books2read.com/u/3GkdOL

did you know that right now, we're only a partial skeleton? we're not fully funded, and so we're missing some critical bones. this is truth and sadly not sustainable help us be a full skeleton? patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla... our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

There are so many #gulls near by (along the #RideauCanal). I like how they just stare you down (I always say hi to them). #BirdOfTheDay

It's Hallow-week & Janeway thinks you should check out *Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: an anthology of haunted tales from Canada* & read my story "The Fish of Cart Lake" books2read.com/u/3GkdOL

24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026! It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment

As a first reader for @diabolicalplots.com, this is one of my favourite times of the year :-) I'm so excited for other people to read these stories over the next year!

It feels very inappropriate for the city’s official account to be pushing a one-sided pro-Lansdowne argument pre-council vote. Was this supposed to come from the mayor’s account?

Blue Jays dedicate 11-4 blowout to Donald Trump 🇨🇦

Trump slammed for demolishing White House before Canadians could burn it down again

Well that’s fucking horrifying

A family member in Portland Oregon died unexpectedly and left behind a 2 year old husky who is currently on a 5 day hold in a shelter while I try to figure out a way to get her to me here in Portland Maine so that I can adopt her...without it costing All the Money. Anyone have any ideas?

"We’re going to cut waste and spend less on government operations" = we're going to cut services (that most people think are good) "so we can make the big investments that will grow our economy and create new opportunities for Canadians" = to benefit corporations & the very wealthy

Here’s a secret the city doesn’t really want you to know about - they have already taken out over $300 million in debt authority for Lansdowne 2.0 before the project is approved by Council.

Next week's debate on Lansdowne 2.0 is critical, and I hope that residents let their councillors know their position. Today's article in CBC Ottawa on the "key numbers" is useful. Right now, I'd like to talk about how Lansdowne 2.0 will impact the PWHL Charge. 1/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How do you write when the world is falling apart Earlier this month, I moderated a panel titled "How do you write when the world is falling apart" at Rainbow Space Magic.

Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: an anthology of haunting tales from Canada is out today 🎉 You can read my northern Ontario climate horror story, "The Fish of Cart Lake" (along with other great stories). 🐟 👻

This looks so good! I can't wait to read it.

Pst! If you, like me, couldn’t get to Perfect Books for @premeemohamed.com's awesome "The First Thousand Trees" launch, and you, like me, are an audiobook nerd you can still kinda/sorta do the thing! Libro has the audiobook, and you can support local brick-and-mortar when you buy at Libro. Win-win.

Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: an anthology of haunting tales from Canada is out today 🎉 You can read my northern Ontario climate horror story, "The Fish of Cart Lake" (along with other great stories). 🐟 👻

Well, that certainly brought back memories

Ottawa area peeps—you should totally, as in Totes McGoats, go to Perfect Books on Elgin St tonight at 7 for the launch of the latest book by @premeemohamed.com, who will be in conversation with @kateheartfield.com! Cannot wait to read THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES!

Nothing like an excellent weekend at one con (@canconsffh.bsky.social) to prompt me to register for another (@tricon-hfx.bsky.social). Can’t wait!

I don’t quite know how to capture my feelings about #CanCon2025. Gratitude, joy, relief, hope, fatigue, glitter(!), love, the magnitude of something freed from the past and sparkling brighter toward the future. Thank you all for coming. For caring. For being kind. 💖💖💖 Now to sleep. 😴

My #CanCon2025 book haul. I think I showed admirable restraint!! Daughters of Britain by @smcarriere.bsky.social (this is a Christmas present for my daughter, who isn't on Bluesky lol) @sarahgailey.bsky.social's Spread Me Bury Your Gays, an anthology edited by @sofiaajram.bsky.social 1/ cont

Such a great conversation this morning with @smcarriere.bsky.social, JF Garrard, & Terri Favro on creating historical protagonists this morning at #CanCon2025

I really enjoyed talking about submitting short fiction with @ympang.bsky.social and @andregeleynse.com this afternoon at #CanCon2025 -- I think we could have kept going for quite a while! What a pleasure to meet you both!

A most excellent description of the experience of #CanCon2025 at the Brookstreet

As #CanCon2025 comes to an end, we'd like to thank all our amazing volunteers who made the whole weekend possible, all the vendors who brought wonderful things for us to take home, and all the guests who came to be a part of our community's weekend! Thank you for supporting us, and see you in 2026!

My #CanCon2025 panels are tomorrow!