"Cities thrive with women in charge" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Advantages of being a heart surgeon in Canada vs the U.S. 👏👏👏🇨🇦

You just can't make this stuff up... it's Monty Python territory 😵‍💫 @benjaminforest.bsky.social @excubs.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fund public education! ⚡️⚡️👏👏👏

"Western science is great, but it has to be guided by traditional knowledge," says world-travelling professor Oliver Sonnentag. @geographieudem.bsky.social #Arctic #carbon #Indigenous @mila-quebec.bsky.social @ivado.bsky.social @bgc-jena.mpg.de @exeter.ac.uk nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Preparing to Bite' by @keilerjean.bsky.social and published by @dandq.bsky.social shows realistic and funny snapshots of family life, partially over the pandemic years. Roberts's spare line drawings nicely capture mundane and absurd aspects of daily life.

I think it's time to put pressure on Montreal-based, Quebec-subsidized GardaWorld to divest itself of its US concentration camp construction subsidiary. How Montreal-based GardaWorld ... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a ten-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers," writes @sanders.senate.gov. "Let’s choose democracy over oligarchy."

"On Good Morning Britain, presenter Susanna Reid asked: if Brits moved to Dubai to avoid paying tax, shouldn’t they pay for their own evacuation?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Cassandra Darke', by Posy Simmonds, is a suspenseful mystery set in London. The heroine is a grumpy and wealthy old art dealer whose lodger is targeted by a violent criminal. Highly recommended as a fun escape from current events! @jonathancape

In a profound and elegiac work of investigative journalism, the writer Chris Hedges and the cartoonist Joe Sacco collaborate to present the testimony of displaced Palestinians who lived through the genocide: Requiem for Gaza is out 10/6. https://ow.ly/WKqI50YhoUz

"There is no ceasefire" ...In the past six months, Israel has killed over 650 Palestinian civilians in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Anna' is the inventive debut of Mia Oberländer (trans. by Nika Knight), and is a sort of feminist fairytale about three generations of women named Anna whose bodies are too tall for their tiny German village @fantagraphics.bsky.social

"The US, for the first time in more than half a century, has lost its long-term status as a liberal democracy. The country is now going through a rapid process of [...] 'autocratisation'." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

I guess this is the 'art of the deal' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands' by @katebeaton.bsky.social has emerged as one of the great graphic novels of the decade. Beaton is a talented artist and story teller and shares her experiences of being a grunt in Canada's male-dominated oil sector @dandq.bsky.social

The brilliant Isata Kanneh-Mason 🤩

Outdoor ice skating twice in less than 24 hours in Montreal 💓⛸️.... first at the 'Montréal en Lumière' temporary rink....

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Gaza in My Phone' by Mazen Kerbaj, is a series of single-page cartoons created after Oct 7, 2023 in reaction to what was appearing in his phone. To Mazen, drawing is an act of solidarity and a way to stay grounded and sane in the escalating madness @orbooks.bsky.social

Join us on April 22, 2026, at 6  p.m. as we discuss queer food at the @museemccordstewart.bsky.social www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/activitie... @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social

Israel is starving Gaza.

*Graphic novel of the week! 'The Wrong Place', by Brecht Evens, is a gorgeously illustrated, entertaining, gossipy romp through a few evenings with a group of friends. Translated by Rhian Heppleston, @michehut.bsky.social, and @laurawat.bsky.social and published by @dandq.bsky.social

I vote that everything named after the former Prince Andrew be renamed to honour Julie Andrews 💓 (Julie Andrews Place, Julie Andrews Drive, Julie Andrews Court, Julie Andrews Island, etc.) @mayoroliviachow.ca @matsiscoe.bsky.social

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Beirut' by Barrack Zailaa Rima, draws from 3 previously published works based on the author's 3 different visits to Beirut. It's a chaotic and dream-like book that depicts conversations, meanderings through Beirut, protests, refugees, and political clashes

Another thing to love about Dolly.... Recent research shows that Dolly Parton's 'Imagination Library' initiative dramatically boosts early childhood literacy 📚💓 @lunavives.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/artic...

An exhibit on Canadian civil rights pioneer Gloria Baylis has opened in Montreal. Baylis was a nurse from Barbados who successfully sued a hotel in Montreal in the 1960s for job discrimination based on race. The hotel fought the ruling for 10+ years but it was upheld 🔥🔥🔥 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image' by Siobhán Gallagher tells an intimate story of the author's struggles with diet culture, anxiety, and disordered eating in a peppy and funny style. @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social

Sad to hear Catherine O'Hara died. She's been making me laugh since i was a kid watching SCTV 💓

“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that – and that word is treason,” David Eby told reporters. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Good point about empty slogans (in my field: eco-city, green city, smart city)... we need specific targets, clear policies that will help reach those targets, and methods of assessing successes and failures

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Little Russia' by @francisdesharnais.bsky.social tells the story of the author's grandparents, who were farmers in an experimental village (1948-1968) north of Quebec run as a cooperative where 50% of residents' paychecks is used to develop the colony

Hard to imagine a bunch of soft-handed libertarian bros being able to hack it in Greenland

A conversation on Gaza between Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman, two titans in the field of graphic novels and comics journalism: www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

Geographers in Canada, the U.S., & beyond.... join me in submitting an abstract to the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) meeting, which will be at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC June 1-4. I guarantee you will see lots of deer, and possibly a seal! 💓 @cangeographers.bsky.social

An interesting read about four ancient cities - Çatalhöyük, Pompeii, Angkor, and Cahokia - by @annaleen.bsky.social . Loads of fascinating detail to dive into and a refreshing reminder that some 'lost' cities continued to be lived in for decades or centuries after their 'abandonment'

That's a wrap on 2025... see you in 2026!

A good news story about the low demand for dumb stuff made by a far-right white supremicist. "Despite a production capacity of 250,000 units per year at Giga Texas, the Cybertruck is currently selling at a run rate of roughly 20,000 to 25,000 units annually." electrek.co/2025/12/29/t...

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Wake Up, Pixoto!', by Weng Pixin, examines the cult-like relationship between an art teacher and his students during and after art school. Rather than mentoring students to become independent artists, this is a story of brainwashing and ego @dandq.bsky.social

"protests rarely incite policy or cultural changes overnight. Often, their rates of impact are much more gradual. For that reason, looking at them through a historical lens (...) is a helpful way to appreciate the tangible effect of taking to the streets." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A good news story about the results of banning cell phones in Quebec schools four months ago 💓 montreal.citynews.ca/2025/12/24/f...

We need a little trans joy in our lives today so we're lifting the paywall on @katelynburns.com's iconic Trans on Trains story.

*Graphic novel of the week! 'The A Word: A Global History of the Abortion Struggle', written and illustrated by @elibd.bsky.social and Higinia Garay and translated by Karen Simon, is a beautifully drawn, informative, and engaging exploration of the subject @astiberri.com @rachfreedleton.bsky.social

His second term is much worse than his first term, which even then was guided by a white supremicist ethos. In 2018, @michaelhendricks.bsky.social, @lunavives.bsky.social, and I published a paper in response to Trump's 'Muslim ban' and its many implications for crossing the U.S. border....

This is precisely what I've been thinking lately. The amount of vicious infighting and purity checks among so-called leftists feels self-serving and performative. Being easily distracted by minutiae is worse than doing nothing... it steals energy and sows senseless division.

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Burma Chronicles' by Guy Delisle is the book that made me want to write a graphic novel. Delisle travels with his wife to Burma for her 'Doctors Without Borders' job and transforms his experiences, confusion, and insights into an engaging read @dandq.bsky.social

I love this story: "Daniel DiDonato, 18, drafted new state senate districts at home on free software – and a judge picked his map ahead of professionals’ efforts to remedy voting rights violations" 🧠⚡️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Beautiful 1 minute video of 20 Paris streets before and after Mayor Anne Hidalgo's greening efforts 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

Coal is fueling data centers for Amazon, causing hellish levels of pollution in Mumbai. Does anyone need any further reasons to boycott Amazon?? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?', by Roz Chast, long-time staff cartoonist at The New Yorker, covers new ground for graphic novels: her parents' decline and final years. It's pure Roz Chast: touching, hilarious, and relatable. @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

“Adam D.K. King, Assistant Professor in the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba says Canadian media coverage of the postal strike is centering business interests ahead of the interests of workers.” #CUPW #CanLab pressprogress.ca/media-covera...