In this morning’s @winnipegfreepress.com Matt Henderson writes “In Imprinting Empire, Klassen carefully peels back the nuance of a media and capitalist oligarchy desperate for labour and investment…”

Canada’s second-sunniest province is running low on energy — but it's s turning to fossil fuels instead of solar panels. Why? @jsrutgers.bsky.social breaks it down: thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-sol...

Good lord.

today my thoughts are with the all time I have spent preparing marginally different forms of cvs for different reporting and application exercises. RIP all that time.

Virtual Event – The Grassy Narrows Living History Forum Friday, 22 May 2026 PT 12:30-13:30; MT 13:30-14.30; CT 14:30-15:30; ET 15:30-16:30; AT 16:30-17:30 Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) Living History Forum niche-canada.org/2026/05/18/v... #envhist #indigenous #envjustice

Wednesday’s court ruling blocking Alberta separatists’ efforts to hold a secession referendum this fall is a reminder that treaties are foundational to Canada’s existence, write @ginastar.bsky.social and James Rowe. #canpoli

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Demonstrators brought a city bus Saturday to the stairs of the Manitoba Legislature, where about 100 people called on the province to better support transit through dedicated funding.

So much to chew on here, and the centrality of a small group of retired academics, almost all of them white and male, deserves some sustained consideration and accounting for: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

IMPRINTING EMPIRE, designed by David Drummond, was recently featured in Spine Magazine's University Press spotlight. Check out the link below for a peek into the design process. IMPRINTING EMPIRE launches this Friday at McNally Robinson! spinemagazine.co/art...

The overdoses never seem to stop. Neither does the toll on the people responding to them.

Things that are grating on me: Mary Simon being described as not bilingual, snow in May.

There has been so much bad news, so many false starts, but this seems like it might deliver regular intracity bus travel to Manitoba, and i’ll take the hope where I find it: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Congratulations to Shelisa Klassen, whose fascinating study of Manitoba Newspapers, IMPRINTING EMPIRE, is on this week's McNally Robinson bestseller list. 🥳 Join us for the launch 7:00pm next Friday, May 8, 2026 at McNally Robinson.

On Friday May 8 at 7pm, join Shelisa Klassen for the launch of Imprinting Empire: Land and Settler Colonialism in Manitoba Newspapers featuring a discussion hosted by @adeleperry.bsky.social. - mailchi.mp/grant/shelis... @umanitobapress.bsky.social

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous

Prohibiting things that are everywhere doesn’t make the things go away, for a targetted group or in general. After a 100 years + of ineffective policy with terrible knock on effects, you’d think we’d know, but nope. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

planners: our two universities will be at the end of a peninsula and at the top of a mountain people: won't people complain about how removed they are from the city? planners: almost immediately people: will rapid transit be created in response? planners: we'll talk about it for decades, but no

Another year, another flood for Peguis and Fisher River, even with cold temperatures slowing the melt: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In all the convos about collective and state grocery stores, we don’t talk much about our the network of coop groceries that were built across western Canada in an earlier crisis of affordability and profiteering, and have survived: www.co-op.crs

This Day in History, 1986: Olaf Solheim's tragic death after being evicted for Expo 86 tourists The retired logger had lived at the Patricia Hotel in the Downtown Eastside for six decades before he was evicted. Then the 2010 Olympics evictions, now FIFA.. vancouversun.com/news/this-da... #vanpoli

This is just so blatantly untrue that it requires an almost wilful misreading of over 50 years of historical scholarship. The AI summary version of Canadian history.

Again. And again and again. Let’s talk about colonialism, water and infrastructure.

And yeah, it's this piece, out this morning. "The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money...."

We’re a century and more into an experiment with prohibition as a solution to complex things, but we apparently haven’t learned that banning things that are readily available doesn’t stop people, or particular groups of people, from the harm that alcohol, drugs, or social media can do.

finds herself innordinately happy that there is loanable library copies of the City of Winnipeg's public health annual reports from 1914.

God this poem is haunting me again.

(1/) Prime Minister Carney’s silence while Trump openly threatens genocide against millions of people is abhorrent. Real leadership isn’t complicity and cowardice, it means speaking out against Trump’s horrific threats, which channel the rhetoric of fascist dictatorships.

And in fact he still seems to be trying to justify the war: bsky.app/profile/rach...

Mark #Carney finally says something, and he does at least confirm that Canada supports some aspects of #InternationalLaw. However, he does not *in any way* address #Trump 's blatant breach of international law in calling for genocide of Iran, or the illegality and immorality of the war itself.

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

It’s hard to know what to say.

i’ve seen every social network i love die, you cannot scare me

ICYMI: "In a time when reconciliation no longer seems to be a priority & public trust in the process of locating missing children is being actively undermined, the search for the truth held in the land where children are buried is even more critical." niche-canada.org/2026/04/03/t... #cdnhist

NEW—Part 1 of many from the series 'Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes,' recorded at an Oct 2025 gathering on key Qs like: What would it mean were our storytelling to approach climate change not so much as a problem, but as a symptom? 📻 LISTEN: pod.fo/e/3e3a56

Maybe we could loan money to something else.

Puzzle me this.

another day, another appearance of anti-choice disinformation people on campus, and me saying I've been doing this, in one way or another, since the 1980s. Apparenrly I've graduated to being the salty old lady at the demo.

🆕 NEW—Part 0 of "Beyond Fires & Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes" 📻 HEAR co-convenors @candiscall.bsky.social + @rickharp.bsky.social lay out BFF's origins and objectives, ahead of the series’ first instalment of many to come! podfollow.com/mediaindigen...

Who decided that Alberta and Saskatchewan’s NDP leaders are “western Canadian” NDP leaders? Did we consult a map, or the two other western Canadian provinces & their NDP leaders? Might we construct a sentence mentioning described “two western Canadian” provinces?

Editorial: Here’s why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP – by a centrist Liberal

Nothing like an NDP convention to remind a girl that the msm has no nuance when it comes to discussing a. Western Canada (all of it, ahem) & b. The left (broadly defined). When they come together it’s something.

Publicly dunking on a newly elected federal leader on the day of the election is a really lousy look.

Yes, and also for stressed out and overextended people who are being sold genAI as a solution to their very real problems.

@leahgazan.bsky.social is one of the few federal NDP parliamentarians left standing. She believes the party needs to embrace "unapologetic socialism" in order to rebuild. I spoke with Gazan for our latest @breachmedia.ca podcast breachmedia.ca/this-ndp-mp-...

Newly declassified RCMP Security Service files of nearly 6,000 pages (!)show how Canada and Liberal govt infiltrated & sought to disrupt Indigenous organizations in 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, wiretapping, informants and countersubversion. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

today is a day when my feelings about how the national Canadian media understands and represents “the west” are renewed.