I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being.

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

they’re building a new style of interchange here and i don’t think most men are going to be able to find their way around it

"What I mean is, there has never come a time when I could be thought to have acquired dignity, common sense, still less worldly wisdom, qualities that supposedly come with age and get lost with age, too." Alan Bennett’s diary of his 90th year www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

What a powerful graphic memoir this is. The story begins after a mother’s stroke, for the narrator, Teresa Wong, as she tries to understand the dislocations that have left her and her mother so far apart. A gift to my husband and I from @clairecameron.bsky.social and I’m very happy for it.

WATCH: If your city is having a bike-lane debate that’s more about ideology than evidence, watch this news story from Toronto. The Province is attacking bike-lanes, and the local business community takes their arguments apart with data and smart messaging. Safe bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth

Many notable books here, including Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men and Casey Plett’s Dream of a Woman. lithub.com/what-was-los...

This is so exciting: a new Canadian site where you can buy from independent bookstores. 🔥 #Canada #AmReading www.booksellers.ca

Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears? @trinamoyles.bsky.social on Challenging a Canon Long Dominated by Men @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Spoiler: Women are choosing the bear, in more ways than one. #bears #bearsky

I photographed a Pizza Hut in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/f... (Gift Link)

My husband changed his last name to mine. This was a few years ago -- our experiences of the name change have been *wildly* different. Also, I've lost count of the number of people who have asked if I married my cousin. I wrote about it:

gripe your oars, and clutch your souls, now!

"Deep in the forests of Algonquin Provincial Park, a few hours north of Toronto, sits a metal monster." thewalrusca.substack.com/p/canada-is-...

"Namwali Serpell is one of the most evocative, erudite, and original writers at work today." Really looking forward to this book. lithub.com/namwali-serp...

Devastating article about the effects of the Minneapolis chaos on children: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Amber Bracken is one of Canada’s greatest photojournalists, and for the RCMP to mistake observers for participants, arrest her and prevent her from doing her vital work is a deeply dangerous precedent. This case is important for all of us.

The much atrophied Millions preview is up for Winter 2026.

As clergy pray, arrests begin

The whole speech is worth watching. Americans need to understand that the basis of the prestige and wealth of the USA is beginning to crumble m.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...

Floyd Joseph has fond memories of Cassiar, including playing hockey as a kid. But he also believes the asbestos mine is responsible for his cancer diagnosis. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

Some of us have seen this movie before....... youtu.be/Hi829EsJvVo?...

I'm in New York. Climbed up the Statue of Liberty yesterday. Here's the inside of her face.

"Maybe the key to the perfect resolution is to pick something you know you’ll never achieve." Like interstellar travel for example. I loved this piece by @markmedley.bsky.social [gift link] www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13...

One of this year’s most talked-about memoirs is Claire Cameron’s powerful How to Survive a Bear Attack @aaknopf.bsky.social! Check out our conversation with her on "The Chat": 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11... #CanLit

Singing Trees Emily Carr c. 1935

Cormac McCarthy line sticking with me this morning, from The Passenger: “Evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.”

This is the greatest review of my career financialpost.com/opinion/new-...

Blue Ice Lake Wonish Anne Savage 1935

An excerpt from @trinamoyles.bsky.social forthcoming book BLACK BEAR -- it starts: "My dad was known as “the bear guy” in Peace River." I loved this book. It's out Jan 6. thenarwhal.ca/trina-moyles... #naturewriting #bears #booksky

So much of rewriting is waking up your verbs, my God.

The Vatican held this Inuvialuit kayak for 100 years. Now it’s coming home #Canada #Inuvialuit Push to reclaim kayak led to historic repatriation of 62 Inuit, First Nations and Métis objects www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“King once wrote: “The truth about stories is that that’s all we are.” I admit to referencing it in my own writing. It is poetic, but incomplete. We are more than stories. We are land. We are family. We are community.”

I love this essay by film critic emeritus Lisa Schwarzbaum on seeing Mira Nair’s “Monsoon Wedding” 24 years ago — and being reminded of it anew during the joyful mayoral campaign of Nair’s son, Zohran Mamdani: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...

The Narwhal dropped a months-long investigation this week — biodiversity reporter Ainslie Cruickshank wanted to know how many animals are killed in train collisions in B.C. A simple question, but answers proved difficult. thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-c...

Here's a gift link to the Globe 100 for the Canadian book folks: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b287550...

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning. The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

Waiting for Lunch Linus Woods ~ Dakota, Ojibwe n.d.

In today's KINGSVILLE TIMES ~ 49th Shelf: How To Survive A Bear Attack kingsvilletimes.ca/2025/11/49th...

they always look slightly pissed off

Lake Ontario yesterday

Perfect autumn birding yesterday, rewarded with a Little Egret fleeing geese and Water Rail sneaking in the dusk reeds

"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This @nickhunebrown.bsky.social piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...

“His work is magnificent, to use a Yeatsian word, partly in its capacity to see human doings, such as books, in many ways at once” — on The Poems of Seamus Heaney [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...

While Alberta considers how to allow oilsands companies to release treated wastewater into the Athabasca River, the federal government has yet to table its own law around clean drinking water for First Nations. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oils...

More and more convinced that one day we are going to find Palaeolithic mammoth-fibre textiles: who could resist that floof?!

‘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