SPRUCE TO CEDAR (Brick Books) is a collection of poems by debut poet Lasänmą exploring healing despite the limitations of a colonial society. The poems reflect on growing up Indigenous & the ongoing work of reconnecting with language & culture. Read two poems here: alllitup.ca/two-poems-sp...

“House Republicans worked quickly to advance legislation to ban books from public schools nationwide. House Resolution 7661 (H.R. 7661), also known as the ‘Stop the Sexualization of Children Act’…” there’s a much more obvious way for you guys to stop the sexualization of children… just sayin

My story for the Star on cowardice and courage in sport www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

*TODAY* Join us for a Black History Month movie screening organized by PhD Candidate @joy_cel, a human geography scholar researching racist logics in property data. Thank you event sponsors: Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Work, and the Institutes for Transdisciplinary Scholarship.

Just chased my greyhound around the backyard and successfully retrieved a deli salami the magpies dropped and he promptly tried to gulp down. The stamina, the determination, the bravery. The Olympics might be over, but I just achieved something great.

This is all a bunch of racist, xenophobic bullshit.

So let's be real, when Smith says you have to be a taxpayer to access our services, she is setting the scene to target immigrants, but also people who work for low wages who live in poverty, children, seniors, disabled people, the list goes on... this is so so dangerous. #Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli

Special day 😎 Last year I registered my debut book, Attic Rain, with the Canada Council for the Arts Public Lending Rights Program—a way for authors to be compensated for their books that appear in libraries across the country. Thank you, love your libraries, and keep funding the arts ✌🏽 #CanLit

It’s -32 and my greyhound has been holding his pee for 15.5 hours now…

Jesus H it’s slippy out there #yyc. If you need to be out today Calgary fam, please please drive to arrive. Or as my mama always so poetically articulates, better late than dead 💀

Oooo got some mail from home today 😍 The African Nova Scotian flag.

living the academic dream today. read some cool papers to support my writing and now i don't know what my own paper is about anymore. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Tonight ❤️📚

New emails obtained by CBC through access of information show that before announcing the end of EDI at the University of Alberta, the president sent his announcement to the UCP before publication. How's that for institutional neutrality?

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

*EVENT* NorthWest Passages, Feb. 12, 7-8- pm MST. Join hosts Elizabeth Haynes (TWUC National Council rep for Alberta, NWT & Nunavut) and Jackie Carmichael for this free online reading by authors Lori Hahnel, Samantha Jones, Karen K. Lee & Maiden Manzanal-Frank. #CanLit #ReadingSeries #TWUC

A new "Hot Take" in @theseaboardreview.ca. Check out Volume 3, Issue 5 of The Seaboard Review of Books, February 2, 2026 to read more about a novel I thoroughly enjoyed, Lake Burntshore by Aaron Kreuter (ECW Press). www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa...

Me and my dad in the 80s. #BlackCanadian #AfricanNovaScotian

Whatcha reading?

I just wanted to follow up on this email…

💔💔 truly

This hit so fucking hard today.

😢

Every time I went outside today I thought about that poor reporter wearing four pairs of pants in Greenland.

I’m a use anything for a bookmark kinda girl. Did I just pick up a book with a dog poop bag (unused obvs) marking the page? Why, yes.

Two recent reviews/reactions by yours truly in @theseaboardreview.ca. 📝 Review: Where They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal by the Black Community Resource Centre. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/where-they... #CanLit #NonFiction #Reviews #WritingCommunity

Queer and trans authors say they're seeing more rejections and less royalties.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This could have been an email.

Is this speech just photo album story time… or is there something else?!

If you're asking what to do now, and the idea of getting involved in your community to change the world is new to you, I highly recommend this essential book as a starting place. It is kind, instructive, and useful for finding your way in a disorienting time. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

Keep making art, y'all. Yes, even now. Especially now. 💚

For real tho. This is how your email finds me.

From Canada with love 😘

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

No clouds make for an interesting sunrise pano this morning.

Thinking of setting up a consulting business to help Americans

Gotta brag about my lil sis who has a cool book chapter hot off the presses. Check out Ch. 12, Working the land: Resistance, reclamation, and regenerative farming, by SJ Jones. #AfricanNovaScotian #Agriculture #BlackStudies #ExperimentalArcheology #MaterialCulture www.bloomsbury.com/ca/dwelling-...

And they talk about just coming up to Canada to take over… meanwhile in Calgary we are like snow removal what’s that?! Could be a few points in our favour ;)

Onnea Kapanen!! 15th goal of the season 🏒 #GoHabsGo

Canadians, sign the petition!! And don't forget to buy your copies of Heated Rivalry from an indie bookstore instead of the big box place all entangled with the HESEG Foundation.

As incompetent as they are evil.

Who is making the piano/voice sheet music compilation book of all the French bangers on the #HeatedRivalry soundtrack?! I’m lined up to buy.

Girl 👀👀 #CanadaReads www.cbc.ca/books/canada...

Remember that Danielle Smith has named Noem as one of her heroes. We should probably stop slipping down the slope while we still can. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has filed a lawsuit against the Alberta government on earlier this week in response to their upcoming separation referendum. The Cree Nations says that it violates treaty number eight.

Reading is a superpower. It builds amazing skills like critical thinking, empathy, and knowledge. Here's to not only more reading in 2026, but using our superpower to create a better world 💗

Good luck! 🇨🇦 Onnea! 🇫🇮 Bronze medal game 🥉 #WorldJuniors

We expect that all liberated oil tankers will be gently guided and kindly unburdened of their cargo according to international law. — Anita Anand and Mark Carney probably #cdnpoli