We are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of But have we arrived?, Suzanne Morrissette's insightful reckoning with liberalism's failed promises to Indigenous artists against the politics of inclusion and reconciliation.

Linking Canada’s withdrawal of supports for MMIWG2S+ with its aggressively ramped up military spending:

“The Indian Act turned 150 years old this year. This piece of racist and sexist colonial legislation continues its objective of eliminating the ‘Indian problem’ by assimilating First Nations people through the second-generation cut-off,” Chief Marilyn Slett www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_in_ott...

May 5 MMIWG2S+ Walk for Justice 5:30pm Oodena Circle

Over 2 yrs ago ARP publicly endorsed BDS’s PACBI campaign. The need for PACBI is as urgent as ever, and with approx 150 arts organizations across the country committed, the campaign is effectively mainstreamed and still growing www.bdsmovement.net/pacbi

Ric Esther Bienstock’s 'SPEECHLESS' sets out to explore campus free speech, but delivers a disingenuous narrative that reduces students to caricatures and leaves the deeper struggles over power, knowledge, and (in)justice in the university largely unexamined. Read Rinaldo Walcott's review:

Jennifer Ilse Black, whose first novel Small Predators won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction is back this fall with Fulfillment, a surreal polyvocal novel on the costs of Al to the bodies and minds of workers: go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

Hayden King traces the "off-ramp" approach to re-shaping the Act, showing how incremental reforms have created a landscape where First Nations are increasingly opting into new legal and policy frameworks outside the Act. Read the full Brief: yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/the-ind...

We are delighted to announce the fall 2026 publication of Owen Toews' second novel, Metal Mirror: arpbooks.org/product/meta...

May 5 MMIWG2S+ Walk for Justice 5:30pm Oodena Circle

Stop Endless War rally this Saturday in Winnipeg organized by Peace Alliance Winnipeg and dozens of local groups. March starts 1pm, from the Leg to the CMHR:

Gabe Beardy should still be here for his kids. Vigil this Friday at 6. Ride over from Central Park at 5:30 with Critical Mass.

The program for Winnipeg’s 2026 MayWorks Festival of Labour & the Arts (April 28-June 7) mayworks.org/calendar/

Canadian publishers strongly condemn the proposed book restrictions in @albertagov.bsky.social's Bill 28, which undermine the core principles of public libraries: open access to information, intellectual freedom, & trust in professional expertise. publishers.ca/statement-al... @lpgcanada.bsky.social

Sign and share this petition demanding that Premier Ford and @mark-carney.bsky.social bring mercury Justice to #GrassyNarrows you.leadnow.ca/petitions/me...

The boycott of the Giller Prize is over, as all three demands have successfully been met Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here: www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e... Campaign statement here: www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...

The peoples of Palestine and Lebanon stand united today against Israel’s genocide and horrific aggression.

This Friday April 10 at 7pm, join Owen Schalk for the launch of Canada & NATO: Myth of a Global Peacekeeper. Featuring a discussion hosted by Sarah Borbridge. @arpbooks.bsky.social - mailchi.mp/grant/owen-s...

We are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of But have we arrived?, Suzanne Morrissette's insightful reckoning with liberalism's failed promises to Indigenous artists against the politics of inclusion and reconciliation.

Independent Palestinian publishers suspect that Amazon Ads is blocking titles, limiting visibility and suppressing books on Palestine amid censorship concerns www.newarab.com/features/ama...

RALLY IN WINNIPEG - Say No to Nuclear! Show up to say NO to proposed nuclear waste storage that threatens Grassy Narrows and Winnipeg’s waterways. 📅 March 22 📍 Oodena Circle, Winnipeg ⏰ 1 PM RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/world... #WaterIsLife #WorldWaterDay #GrassyNarrows #FreeGrassy

"The Union of BC Indian Chiefs stands in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and community members in Winnipeg who continue to defend these rights and who remain vigilant in protecting the democratic freedoms that so many have struggled to secure." www.ubcic.bc.ca/protecting_t...

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.