Happy Three Corporations in a Trenchcoat Day

I have a new picture book coming out in September, one that is very personal and means so much to me. Any librarians heading to Chicago for #ALAAC26 - you can stop by the Macmillan Booth #2525 to grab a galley of REBECCA. Words by me, art by the incomparable Sydney Smith. @mackidssl.bsky.social

Our Executive Director Mary's staff pick this month is @katebeaton.bsky.social & Sydney Smith's REBECCA, a breathtaking picture book about love, loss, and the life that blooms after sorrow❤️ tinyurl.com/37rard5j #edusky #newbooks

Future dystopian sci-fi has imagined things like nuclear wastelands, sure. Totalitarian oppression, climate catastrophe, sure. But rarely has it imagined today's real horror of AI making stupid and annoying people 100x worse.

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Funding cuts to the Arts here in Nova Scotia have hurt many institutions I care deeply about. Conundrum comics @conundrumpress.bsky.social is one of those very special small publishers who fill in the gaps necessary for Canada to own its place of pride as a producer of great comic artists.

The only Olympic hockey commentary i need www.facebook.com/share/v/18DN...

Why should any of us believe in the economic vision of a Tim Houston Nova Scotia government that had a historic, anomalous surplus and went RalphBucks with it.

How about being at all concerned about racists burning down the Mi’kmaw encampment on Hunters Mountain in the middle of the night when people could have been sleeping there instead of dreaming about …impounding Mi’kmaw property yourselves www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I don't like Nova Scotia Beyond Thunderdome

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Greg Ketter, founder/owner of DreamHaven Books & Comics, Winner of the Will Eisner Spirit of Retail Award, 1999. As Greg has said here, the store's site has crashed from the traffic/flood of orders. But a GofundMe is still live to help with the store's renovation. www.gofundme.com/f/dreamhaven...

Carney going Pearson-ish on the world stage, that is an interesting one to think on

A visit to the post office with CTV Live at 5! www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/vid...

Yesterday was a great day to have a stamp unveiled by Canada Post! Rural places like mine depend so much on CP, we support the workers, and I’m honoured to be in this 2nd graphic novel collection with 5 others! 📬 www.instagram.com/p/DRTQlk4jG9...

Yay!! Shark Girl on the NYPL best of the year list! 📚🦈 www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.

Hello! This is an important one, so it won’t be the last time I post it. The Land Defenders on Hunters Mountain are gearing up for winter. They are resolute. But they need supplies, they are winterizing the cabins they built, there is food and firewood and gas for generators needed.

wow, the Daily Mail! Unexpected. They do like the drama though, they like the tea www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

On the radio today, I was a guest of the Todd Veinotte show. You can hear me at the 37 minute mark, talking about what's going on here. Thanks to this show for the call, and for the conversation. halifax.citynews.ca/podcasts/the...

The issue of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park is important to the entirety of Nova Scotia because handing it over to create a golf course would set a precedent for all protected land in the province. If they can do it here, they will do it anywhere. Comments on this: www.youtube.com/live/RP1xHzB...

The issue of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park is important to the entirety of Nova Scotia because handing it over to create a golf course would set a precedent for all protected land in the province. If they can do it here, they will do it anywhere. Comments on this: www.youtube.com/live/RP1xHzB...

Only a few days left!

Well I have spent all my money on @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social the Shortbox Comics Fair but I have no regrets. It is one of the best places to see upcoming comics talent, esp for out of the way people (not near a city centre) like me, and Zainab can do no wrong. www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

Here is what I said. I am proud to be a Cape Bretoner, a Nova Scotian, a Canadian. And I am with the Mi’kmaw land defenders on Hunters Mountain. (1)

On opening night of the Vancouver Writer’s FestivaI, I was with seven other authors where we were given the prompt to talk about being a Canadian now under this new pressure from tariffs and talks of annexation by the US. Everyone spoke powerfully. (Cont’d)

I dug a bit into Cabot’s dealings with the Florida gov over state parkland last year. What I read should be a warning to Nova Scotians. In short, secrecy, money and contempt for the public. The post was to inform my local community on fb, but here it is with links: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/37x8c...

Claudia Chender, leader of the official opposition, will be in Mabou on Monday. We want to hear from local residents about your thoughts on West Mabou Beach - join us for a community conversation Monday, October 20th from 2pm - 3pm at the Mabou Gaelic and Historical Society. Hope to see you there!

I dug a bit into Cabot’s dealings with the Florida gov over state parkland last year. What I read should be a warning to Nova Scotians. In short, secrecy, money and contempt for the public. The post was to inform my local community on fb, but here it is with links: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/37x8c...

Cape Breton is a place of beauty, art and culture. It is also the home of Donald Marshall Jr., William Davis, and the Tar Ponds, among others.

The best time of the year!!!

An abridged version of my letter appears in the Provincial paper today, the Chronicle Herald. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Look at this, another one. And here I never even heard of it until now, on my own island. Trying to open up a 100 year old copper mine and displacing homes. Cape Breton is just for sale to anyone. www.keepcoxheathclean.org

Protect the land that inspired this page.

I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper. Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...

@caseyexplosion.bsky.social Hello! Long time no see, I’m not on socials much. I just wanted to say hi and hope you are well. It’s a pretty dismal time, and G.L. in the headlines again, I think of you and I remember your kindness to me years ago, when I tried to approach him and his views on twitter.

Canada still allows military goods to be sold to Israel, has yet to even recognize the genocide in Gaza, though it “strongly condemns” what is going on over there (wow, chilling). But it’s definite hardline action barring an Irish musical group from the country because we don’t tolerate terrorists.

Sent money to the World Central Kitchen today. It's hard to know where to send $$, but at least it is one thing within our power to do, to help people in an immediate sense. wck.org

We recognize that Britney Spears was pilloried in the public eye as a child star becoming a young woman, picked apart, laughed at, and we wanted a reckoning. Now I don't know much about Jojo Siwa but all the same my feed is full of people being pointedly cruel to her as though she deserves it.

Writers Against the War on Gaza is doing good work. Showing up, educating, protesting, being loud, being angry and unafraid. www.instagram.com/p/DMliukYSpm...

duunnn dunnn... it's Shark Week! 🦈🩸 Whether Shark Week reminds you of Jaws or Baby Shark, we've got your storytime for the week sorted! SHARK GIRL by @katebeaton.bsky.social is a subversive hilarious spin on the little mermaid fairytale that will inspire little readers 🧜‍♀️ #sharkgirl #sharkweek

I was on CBC's The Next Chapter talking about some early influential books, some shout outs to beloved history professor the late David Torrance, and my great friend @badmachinery.com - www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

"The “Palestine exception” has become the norm in Canadian establishment media." breachmedia.ca/national-pos...

Speaking of Patreon I am drawing some journal comics for it right now you can find it here www.patreon.com/c/katebeaton

My daughter and her friend go to a Gaelic immersion primary school

Stanfield airport is always full of little old men that look like this character with the moustache I drew in Shark Girl. It is a land of short kings, good to be home

At TCAF, I had the opportunity at my event for a public thank you to Toronto Writers Against the War on Gaza, & the No Arms in the Arts campaign. These artists work hard, at no small expense to themselves, to defend the lives of Palestinians, and to insist that arts funding is not also blood money.

That VideoGame Blog's @barebigboss.bsky.social begins a new life in the city in the PAX East demo of Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the coming-of-age point n' click narrative adventure sequel to Meredith Gran’s award-winning title Perfect Tides ✏️🎓🚆#gamespr