2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 45, 1944. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 44, 1943. Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 43, 1942. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. 📚💙

This! Understanding marginal tax rates— When the government says that tax cut will put an average of $1,400 in your pocket. (Nova Scotia) Or how adjusting brackets for inflation helps everyone the same? NM all the tax breaks that the highest income also get -the Effective tax rate which is lower.

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 42, 1941. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 41, 1940. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. 📚💙

Nova Scotia is now the only province in Canada that does not provide direct funding to publishers. Full article written by workers at @fernpub.bsky.social

March 2026 Reads. 📚💙

David Climenhaga: Who could have imagined that social democrats, democratic socialists and their ilk wouldn’t want Conservative policies rebranded as Liberal policies from their own party as well? #canpoli #abpoli

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 40, 1939. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 39, 1938. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 38, 1937. Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz. 📚💙

Listening to the audiobook of The Sentence, narrated by the author Louise Erdrich. It is so damn good. Something about the style and narration is giving me real Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead vibes. Similar dark, wry humour. I love books where the love of books is central.

Philip nails it in this piece. « Finding ourselves, seeing our neighbours: Why access to art and libraries aren't add-ons » www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 37, 1936. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 36, 1935. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 35, 1934. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 34, 1933. Lost Horizon by James Hilton. 📚💙

Let’s talk about the morality of the negative economic impact of Tim Houston’s attack on Nova Scotia Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

Hoping I can get far enough ahead on my reading challenge this year that I can still get in some horror reading in October. 💙📚

Heartbreaking www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 33, 1932. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 32, 1931. Sanctuary by William Faulkner. 📚💙

Thank you @charlieangus104.bsky.social for an excellent talk at Acadia University last night. Keep fighting, truth telling, and inspiring people across this country and beyond.

118 elementary school girls killed by Israel and the United States. Bombed and buried under rubble while they studied with their friends.

The African Nova Scotian community simply isn’t having it. ✊ -ND

In the wake of the coming wave of media coverage of war in Iran, don’t lose sight of the things these deeply unpopular presidents are trying to distract us all from at home and abroad: genocide, fascism, corruption, incompetence, the deep implications of the Epstein files, etcetera, etcetera.

February 2026 Reads. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 31, 1930. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 30, 1929. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes. 📚💙

There are a number of amendments to existing legislation too that are being overlooked because of all the chaos. It's much like last year, throw everything at the wall to see what sticks. Please contact your MLA and let them know that this style of governing is contrary to a healthy democracy.

All of my work colleagues live outside of Nova Scotia. Yesteday, in a meeting with two who are in Ontario, they were both like, isn't Nova Scotia about tourism??? Anyway, this focus on resource exploitation is embarrassing.

Malice, ignorance, or both? The downstream effects of the province’s cuts Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Tim Houston continues his attack on the institutions that make this democracy worthwhile Morning File by me

Exactly this: "We need to understand this deeply: the debt crisis is entirely the creation of the Houston government...for the ideological project of making the rich richer, the poor poorer, and working people more uncertain and thus less likely to object to deep political restructuring."

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 29, 1928. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. 📚💙

The local squirrels aren’t too excited about our newest regular visitor.

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 28, 1927. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. 📚💙

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, fuck Tim Houston. He’s taken advantage of a majority government to go full authoritarian. His attacks on higher education, public service, Mi’kmaw sovereignty, the environment, and more are unconscionable and will do long term damage to this province.

Will definitely be picking this up in October.

Week 2 complete. 1,052 push-ups down, 948 to go. www.thepushupchallenge.ca/fundraisers/anthonypash/the-push-up-challenge

What a week. Not only have we lost the great civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, but the film world has lost both master documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman and one of my favourite actor/director/writers Tom Noonan.

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 27, 1926. Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 26, 1925. Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 25, 1924. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. 📚💙

2026 Reading Challenge (1900-2026) Book 24, 1923. Cane by Jean Toomer. 📚💙