‘There’s fire all around us, this is it’ – This is climate breakdown

Folks around the Great Lakes: today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. “…That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came early…” youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?...

I forgot to tell you about this, from last night

@jonathanslaght.com I thought you'd like to see this from today's 'The Observer' ( UK Paper) have a great day

I got experimental brain surgery. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

We'll be closed all day Sunday November 2nd for our semi-annual inventory count. We'll be back open for our regular hours on the 3rd. On a totally unrelated note, on Saturday November 1st, all books will be 10% off! (Please buy everything in the store, that way we don't have to do inventory.)

There's NewPoetry today from Guy Gavriel Kay (@guygavrielkay.bsky.social). newpoetry.ca/2025/10/27/t...

83. A Trio of Vast Ideas writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... 86. Closing Night Event: Susan Orlean with The Current’s Matt Galloway writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... 87. The Crime Scene writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

We’ve arrived at the final day of #VWF2025, and today’s offerings are among the best. Tickets available for: 78. Food for Thought writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... 79. The Divorce Diaries writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... 81. Global Political Narratives writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

I met these beauties in Lynn Canyon Park, a great place to be a mushroom

Timflation — a piece I wrote using quotes from news stories, academic papers and online discussions about coffee prices and Tim Hortons in @globeandmail.com today. [gift 🎁 link] www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13...

This tree in Trinity Bellwoods, doing its very best

The expansion of a #NovaScotia program is set to be good news for book lovers. Residents can receive $10 off books written or published by Nova Scotians starting this Friday. A total of 4,000 vouchers will be available until Feb. 28, 2026. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

We are thrilled to share that 5 TNQ authors have become finalists of the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Awards. They are: @clairecameron.bsky.social

Musician, writer and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has a new album out this week. She talked to us about the need to "find awe and inspiration in every piece of the natural world ... regardless of how much harm they carry from extraction, neglect and exploitation." thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...

Lake Ontario on the eve of game 7

Good morning from Lake Winnipeg.

been reading a lot of medieval English history recently and it's instructive as to why the Anglo political tradition evolved away from monarchy. every 4th king or so would turn out to be a murderous lunatic, people got sick of it

At long last, I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, will be published on November 11, 2025 and is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

"What NPS anthropologists provide...is the ability to recognize the crossroads and overlaps between what the Park Service hopes to accomplish and the traditions and lifeways of communities who will be affected by their actions." Good piece @sapiens.org by Ellyn Demuynck #anthropology #nationalpark

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Seems like a good time to remind people that Canada Post will deliver any piece of mail to federal elected officials for FREE. No stamp necessary! Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

"This would push the split between our own ancestors, Neanderthals and Homo longi back by at least 400,000 years and...raises the possibility that our common ancestor – and potentially the first Homo sapiens – lived in western Asia rather than Africa." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Hannah Oliver Depp: "For the month of Aug., we were down about 60% year over year... People are in pain, they’re suffering, they’re scared... Not-for-profits who might be aligned with us...fear repercussions if they were seen to support a Black, queer, Asian, disability-owned independent bookstore."

The 38th annual Vancouver Writers Fest lineup is so good. It includes A Trio of Vast Ideas with @clairecameron.bsky.social, elin kelsey, and @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social: writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... @writersfest.bc.ca

In June, I visited a book club at Grand Valley Institution for Women, a maximum security prison. After a great conversation, I asked if they wanted to write a poem together. This is the poem: clairecameron.substack.com/p/to-be-good...

Graham Greene helped make the rest of the world see Indigenous people as real human beings. The first time I saw him on screen was in Dances With Wolves and the last time was in The Last of Us. What a tremendous legacy! RIP ✊🏽🙌🏽❤️

Can you fall in love with AI? My piece assembled using online debates, news articles and expert opinion about chatbots in @theglobeandmail.com today. [gift link] www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13...

Tickets are now available for my event with author Lily King. We'll be talking about her new novel, HEART THE LOVER. This will be at the Toronto Reference Library on October 27. Tickets are free but you have to register. www.eventbrite.ca/e/lily-king-... Hope to see you there!

Field notes from our travels to Old Crow, Yukon, to learn about how U.S. politics is threatening food security & cultural identity in Gwich’in communities across the border. Photography by Atsushi Sugimoto and Michael Code.

We can’t wait to hear from these featured authors at the VWF this fall! Otoniya J. Okot Bitek Tanya Boteju Eddy Boudel Tan @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social Holly Brickley Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social Tim Cook Stay tuned for event details at #VWF2025, taking place Oct 20–26.

EXCELLENT!! "The judge ruled Wednesday that Cycle Toronto and others "have established that removal of the target bike lanes will put people at increased risk of harm and death, which engages the right to life and security of the person." #OnPoli #ToPoli

So thrilled to be sharing a new interview with @clairecameron.bsky.social where we discuss her breathtaking memoir, HOW TO SURVIVE A BEAR ATTACK.

In June, I visited a book club at Grand Valley Institution for Women, a maximum security prison. After our conversation about my book, we wrote this poem together. It’s in @theglobeandmail.com today. [Gift link] www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13...

In @theglobeandmail.com, I wrote about camp & outdoor education: "I can’t shelter my children from everything that’s potentially dangerous. It won’t necessarily keep them safer...learning to recognize and manage risk is an important part of staying alive." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game." ~ Anita Brookner

I can't believe this feature is nearly ten years old. I think about it so often as a benchmark for feature writing in science journalism. It won a Pulitzer too. So good. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

It’s me!

LOOK at this stunner of an Orangespotted Sunfish! Caught and released from a floodplain lake off the Minnesota River. Yes, freshwater fishes can be quite colorful too!

I have a soft spot for the groovy orange 1970's / 80's Canadian Pacific fleet. (imagine the cigarette smoke in there)

This is a painted grasshopper nymph (Poekilocerus pictus). Gorgeous. Yes, it’s real. I caught and released an adult one of these in Arondizuogu, Nigeria once. 😃 My cousin said it looked like a masquerade and I’ve thought of them like that ever since.

Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous-led conservation are both crucial to Canada’s future — but they’re also widely misunderstood. @michellecyca.com explains in our latest video: thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-s...

Two bears named Mish and Lucy — 5-year-old siblings — escaped their enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary in Devon, England. They devoured a week’s worth of honey in about an hour.

Today's #1000wordsofsummer letter comes from the great @clairecameron.bsky.social and it's on the magic of KENNINGS, perhaps our nerdiest letter yet 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/day-10-100...

they cast long gleams of light over the turbid sea

More recommended reads: @clairecameron.bsky.social on how her skin cancer diagnosis turned her noctural. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/m...