Now available, Owen Schalk's Canada and NATO: Myth of a Global Peacekeeper. Join Schalk and peace activist Sarah Borbridge for a book launch and discussion at Grant Park McNally @mcnallyrobinson.com on April 10th, 7pm.

As we have said and continue to say: the absolute vibe-based public safety conversation is not going to change until we get serious about social change: library-specific deescalation work and broader social interventions around housing, youth engagement, safe consumption, and accessible healthcare.

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers will be returning her recent award won from the Toronto Film Critics Association after they censored her recorded acceptance speech once she turned attention to the war in Palestine.

“The choice before every government is clear: complicity or compliance." Read more from yesterday's emergency meeting of The Hague Group in The National.

It is standard for Western academia to support imperialist aggression. —Ali Kadri

As US/Israel aggression escalate, the genocide of Palestinians continues, as does the call to increase BDS efforts ARP is among the 140+ arts orgs in Canada now openly committed to BDS by endorsing PACBI www.bdsmovement.net/pacbi Sameer Project lifesaving support opencollective.com/the-sameer-p...

We're mobilising to Havana on 21 March. Join the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba, and support our efforts to secure critical aid for homes, hospitals, schools, and families in need.

OUT NOW: SYRIA, Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam, a 300-page anthology of Syrian literature and art that speaks to this moment. arablit.org/2026/03/01/a...

These cuts set a dangerous precedent for independent book publishing in Canada

“Canada and NATO is an exposé about the role of a country that hides behind the fact that it is not the United States, when it has supported almost every U.S. military adventure and it has defended the right of its mining companies to exploit the Global South. We need this book.” —Vijay Prashad

2026 marks ARP's 30th anniversary, and we're excited to announce that under expanded categories now including workers in publishing & visual art (+ film, music, & theatre) we've unionized, forming part of IATSE Local 63 as the union's first Canadian book publisher canada.iatse.net/cultural-wor...

Another casualty of Mark Carney’s ideologically driven government spending cuts: prison libraries. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Carl and Olliver Henry nearly got evicted by their corporate landlord for being one penny short on a rent payment. It’s part of a bigger pattern: Black tenants are being targeted for eviction by Toronto’s corporate landlords, who are intent on raising rents and remaking the city.

I had a wild conversation with a bus driver a couple days ago, and he believes the reason Graham was closed to buses is because the city and businesse want it to be harder for poor and unsheltered people to get downtown

Amílcar Cabral on the importance of culture for colonized peoples. been thinking about this a lot lately but he says it better than I ever could:

On hope and hardship in Gaza amid visiting a destroyed university.

I went to a rally this morning at city hall to protect our right to protest. City hall is 900 metres from my home. I had to take a taxi there because our sidewalks are impassable in winter in our so called “human rights city.” I tried to roll home but got stuck several times and had to ask for help.

www.noarmsinthearts.com/scotiabank-d... Campaign statement on the divestment here:

"Finally, translation is also recognized as an act of resistance, speaking to the dislocation from homelands due to colonial actions, war, and migration, and the displacements of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island." - Joseph Schreiber #Review #TamilTerrains #Bksky #Poetry #Translation

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

In a statement to The Wire, author Arundhati Roy announced she will no longer participate in the 2026 Berlinale film festival.

Congratulations to our own @tfennario and Brittany Guyot for winning the @amnesty Award in the best long form video category for Food for Project, which takes an inside look at the true costs of our food. Watch it here:

DEMONSTRATIONS ARE DEMOCRATIC - Rally against "ANTI-PROTEST" Bylaw proposed by Councillor Evan Duncan to the City of Winnipeg's Executive Policy Committee on TUESDAY, FEB 17 @ CITY HALL @ 8:45 AM

US sanctions are strangling Cuba’s oil supply, putting hospitals, electricity, and essential services on the brink of collapse. Members of the Canadian Network on Cuba discuss how this blockade isn’t just an attack on Cuba—it’s a challenge to sovereignty, solidarity, and global justice.

“The national independence struggles of the peoples of Our America have simultaneously been anti-imperialist struggles from Tupac Amaru up through our times.”

Seeing from Sameer Project that tents are breaking down. We are so angry that this is the ask since people should not have to continue to be displaced… but please pitch in so that they can replace tents that have torn and disintegrated after 2+ years. chuffed.org/project/1132...

Resisting the might-makes-right order, in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland. Boycott, divest from, or exclude from contracts these complicit US companies.

Mark Carney is right to say that the old order is not coming back. But where his remarks fall short is in their insistence on answering the crises of our time through the lens of neoliberalism—an ideology that has, for decades, hollowed out the very sovereignty he now claims to defend.

Canadians who oppose Washington’s barefaced imperial violence in Venezuela—and Ottawa’s complicity in it—must mobilize and raise our voices for change. As Owen Schalk writes, it is our responsibility to the hemisphere, and to the planet, on which we live.

It seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.

For those in Winnipeg, there is an emergency rally at River and Osborne 2:30pm tomorrow Sunday January 4th in response to the US invasion today of Venezuela. Organized by Peace Alliance Winnipeg

Nearly half of the journalists killed this year were murdered in Gaza by Israel. Since the beginning of its genocide, Israel has killed more than 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers. Read the Reporters Without Borders report: rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

Congratulations to @bengymen.bsky.social on being awarded the Kerry Schooley Award for his book As Is at the Hamilton Literary Awards. As Is was also shortlisted for the HLA Poetry Award. www.thespec.com/entertainmen...

“Would you like to spend the day with me? I can show you around.” Ooooooooo, an adventure! My favourite kind of day. Let me grab my sunglasses! Kirby @itsakirby.bsky.social Reviews AS IS by Ben Robinson @bengymen.bsky.social The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social thefiddlehead.ca/content/kirb...

#ReadPalestineWeek begins today! We’ve made #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar ebook free for download tracepress.org/products/arabi… Please read Palestinian poems out loud, in public, & in community…& visit publishersforpalestine.org for full list of free / fund-raising books for Gaza.

"A book borne out of a deep love for who we are as queer Indigenous peoples and who we may still become in all our plentitude and power." -Billy-Ray Belcourt

On the heels of the federal government's jaw-dropping new war budget, we are eager to announce the March 2026 publication of Owen Schalk's latest book, Canada and NATO: The Myth of a Global Peacekeeper

This brilliant new collection of poetry from Cam Scott (@vanishingsigns.bsky.social) launches TONIGHT Wednesday Nov 5 at 7pm. Scott will be joined by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social launching his own collection, No Depression in Heaven (@talonbooks.bsky.social). www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18835/...

On Wednesday November 5 at 7pm, join Cam Scott (MANOR's RANSOM) and ryan fitzpatrick (No Depression in Heaven) for the dual launch of their new poetry books. - mailchi.mp/grant/scott-... @vanishingsigns.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social @arpbooks.bsky.social

Palestinians demand a life free from Zionism, including the structures of colonization and occupation that recreate the conditions for more violence and genocides.

This month, for Bookshelf subscribers outside of the US, we’re glad to include as an additional extra Mahmoud Al-Shaer’s 𝘈 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘺𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦, which collects the entries from his fundraising campaign www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-ma... Subscribe @ palfest.org/bookshelf

Two of our marvellous poets have been recognized on the Nelson Ball Prize longlist: Margaret Christakos, THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE Dawn Macdonald, NORTHERNY Congratulations to all! https://bit.ly/4n6Ezux @atbaypress.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @arpbooks.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social

🪶 Islands of Decolonial Love by @biidaasamose.bsky.social (@arpbooks.bsky.social) An unforgettable debut collection of short stories that weave together love, decolonization, and Indigenous resurgence. alllitup.ca/books/island... #lpg50 #canlit #alu #indigenousreads

A war of annihilation is unfolding in Gaza, but you wouldn’t know it from Canada’s establishment media. What they produce isn’t coverage—it’s a cover-up. The Breach is publishing a new book, a call for truth-telling in journalism. Order it here: breachmedia.ca/when-genocid...

This fall we are deeply honoured to be publishing A Year On the Abyss of Genocide written by poet & curator Mahmoud Al-Shaer, documenting a year of his psychological states while displaced in Gaza 2024-5. Foreword by Nasrin Himada, afterword Fadi Ennab, & editor's note by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

"It is troubling that people in prison have to rely on us, a small group of volunteers with no funding or official status, for their basic information needs. This dependence points to a broader systemic information blackout in prisons..." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...