@greatnovels.bsky.social My most ambitious novel. Not my place to say if it's the best or the worst--but it's got more story, plot, character, history than the others. Published in the Covid lockdown period, so I wasn't able to get out and promote it as it deserved. @cormorantbooks.bsky.social

Except the public racism is so normalized here now. I don't know if many non-minority people recognize how bad it has become.

Ditto.

What a disgusting man.

This week, marks the 25th anniversary of TransMilenio. It turned a chaotic "system" of busetas, competing for passengers on the streets of Bogotá, into the largest bus rapid transit network in the world. 🧵

Not the whitest Christmas in Canada's history but, at least, having finished three manuscripts in 2025, I have a desk that's clearer than it was last year.

Greenland has announced it will annex the United States, citing humanitarian concerns, chronic leadership instability, and an urgent need to protect valuable land from reckless mismanagement. Officials assured Americans they'll soon enjoy free healthcare, quieter politics, and less gold plating.

A reviewer called this "the most important book in the world." Hyperbole aside, it's hard to disgree. With foreign journalists banned from #Gaza, these four diaries of young & youngish Gazan women uncover the genocide that responsible journalism might have shown us. (@biblioasis.bsky.social)

I have a bad feeling about 2026

"— Merry Christmas! the man threatened." - William Gaddis

The one good piece of news today.

The New York Times Book Review included Vijay Khurana's debut novel THE PASSENGER SEAT in its list of 2025 hidden gems! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

You can travel 50 kilometers on #Montreal 's new transit line in 55 minutes. That's the same amount of time it takes to travel 10 kilometers on #Toronto 's new transit line.

More likely six million Torontonians sighing with relief that nobody will expect them to get out of their cars.

President Trump sanctioned nine ICC staffers, including six judges and chief prosecutor Karim Khan, barring U.S. entry and prompting banks, tech firms and service providers to close accounts, freeze payments and disrupt ICC operations.

Progressive Conservative joins Progressive Conservative party

It's nice when your review is posted on line, but it's not really real until you receive the print copy @thetls.bsky.social. .

The divide between how Canadians see the U.S. and how our political/business leaders see them is wild. It’s one of the biggest divides in perspective I have ever seen. Canadians are clear eyed. Our leaders are not.

A tanker... Yes, it IS about the oil. www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...

Once again everyone predicts that the far right will win in Romania, and once again it loses. A model for upcoming elections elsewhere in Europe? www.reuters.com/world/buchar...

Ortega and Murillo see the universities as breeding grounds for opposition to the regime (though the most rebellious young people are in exile or underground).

In the two decades that I've been studying southern Africa, I've found that many people overlook how racially mixed it is. This map is a good example.

At the end of the Cold War, we hoped Russia would become more like the United States- democratic, with a market economy and respect for rule of law. The new NSS makes clear that Trump’s goal is to make the US more like Russia, supporting Putin’s transactionalism and spheres of influence approach.

6 Décembre 1989. I'll never forget being in Montreal on that day.

Is "accommodation" --extra time on tests given to students who pay several thousand dollars to get classified as disabled-- simply another way for rich kids to get ahead? Tentative answer: yes. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

No idea what to make of this creative writing competition sponsored by the um Canadian Department of National Defence www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

Little-known fact about President Claudia #Sheinbaum of #Mexico: her younger sister is married to Gabriel García Márquez's son, film director Rodrigo García Barcha. www.sudbury.com/world-news/w...

Merz throws his full weight behind the EU & Belgium to share the risk burden & is going to Brussels to press @Bart_DeWever to let Europe use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s defense. It’s refreshing to see a 🇩🇪@bundeskanzler step up, even if Belgium seems unlikely to budge.

Let's be clear about this: PEOPLE WILL DIE. It will take years, though, as chronic HepB infection manifests its impact insidiously later in life. But people will die. Unnecessarily, as this is a vaccine with a remarkably good safety profile. JFC.

I also wonder when academic leadership became a matter of explaining over and over why things have to be this way. I'm not talking BOG-level people: nobody expects any better from them. But if you're an academic explicitly asking people to stop teaching well, what are you even doing.

A few of my favourite titles by my father, Tom Henighan, who died on Saturday, as a result of an accident, at the age of 91.

Some responses to Thomas Hodd: The Short Story’s Short Time Left youtu.be/icXrTwoCZRY

In Lebanon. Can hear the Israeli drone constantly now. I’ve only been back for a day but folks here deal with it 24/7, for months. It’s psychological torture. You can even see it, just flying around. The Israelis want to let everyone know that they can kill whoever they want whenever they want.

The exhaustion I feel at seeing my institution advertise an institutionally subscribed brand of AI for exam studying while at the same time identifying student AI use as presenting “clear risks for the integrity of online learning and assessment.” is complete. 🤦‍♂️ www.instagram.com/reel/DRuRY7V...

Buying groceries in #Guelph this evening, I spotted the writer formerly referred to as #Indigenous buying his groceries with a long-brimmed hat pulled VERY low over his face.

If there are any people out there who think that Herzog is the liberal and reasonable face of Israel, I don't know on what planet they're living. Herzog is a nepo baby, who stands for nothing, and did nothing to stop Israel's slide into a genocidal authoritarian regime.

When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.

In Guatemala --governed by a democratic centrist party--a renegade Public Prosecutor's Office is STILL succeeding in jailing journalist José Rubén Zamora for reporting on corruption, against the will of the President. elpais.com/america/2025...

II wrote this @thetls.bsky.social in November 2005. I never thought I'd see my suspicions so unequivocally confirmed.

If it's cheap to build, #Ontario will never adopt it because the kickbacks for Doug Ford's cronies will be too small.

I grew up with a family rumour about Indigenous ancestry. As a young adult, I checked it out with genealogical research and DNA testing. I am not Indigenous. Neither, it turns out, is Thomas King.

My Thomas King files…

(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

More than six weeks after the Gaza ceasefire came into force, journalists are still prevented by the Israeli military from entering the Gaza Strip.