New piece up. Four days in #Winnipeg: the mural, the river, Gabrielle Roy, Club 200, and a man wrapped in a Red Cross blanket on Fort Street at 11:15 a.m.

Red Dress Day is held every May 5th. It began in 2010 with the REDress Project, a creation of Métis artist Jaime Black, and is a National Day of remembrance and activism honouring the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirited People (MMIWG2S+).

On May 5th is Red Dress Day. We remember the murdered and missing Indigenous women. This red dress was posted at the gate of the former Qu'Appelle Residential School near Regina.

think about this mfer every damn day

What is it about airports that makes people forget they're in public? 😮‍💨

New blog post. Under the Bonaventure Expressway, thinking about jobs and #haunting and what it means to hold something instead of resolve it. "I've been coming to this city as someone who's leaving. I didn't notice until I sat down."

I’m still here. I’m still undone. The water already knows what to do with what I’ve brought it. vincentmousseau.net/en/2026/04/e...

According to media reports, Israel intercepted an aid flotilla bound for Gaza near Greece and detained 175 activists. Israel’s interception of yet another aid flotilla is not security. It’s the detention of people trying to relieve the extreme suffering caused by Israel’s unlawful blockade of Gaza.

It's nice out again and I'm so happy

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

This needs to be taken seriously. Along with underfunding, Doug Ford is destroying the university system. And yes, this latest move is 100% in line with what we've seen happening by state-level MAGA-hats in the US.

when canadian journalists advocate to kill the online news act so meta will stop blocking news links, i feel like they’re operating under the assumption news on facebook still operates as it did several years ago when it very clearly does not

To claim joy in a world that commodifies pain is to declare your refusal to be reduced to your suffering.

"(...) plusieurs élus bloquistes ont ajouté à cette interprétation l’idée selon laquelle le profil de la circonscription a récemment changé, pour devenir plus diversifié." Oh, pauvre Bloc,😱le nationalisme identitaire résonne moins quand le milieu se diversifie? 😭

NOUVELLE | Un millier de militant·es venu·es du monde entier, dont une vingtaine du Canada, rejoignent la plus grande flottille visant à briser le blocus à Gaza. Par @bifansun.bsky.social 👇 pivot.quebec/2026/04/13/g...

"Writing with [insert stylistic quirk] is a giveaway that it's AI." "You can tell this drawing is AI because [insert stylistic quirk]." My sweet little children, WE DID THOSE THINGS FIRST. AI didn't invent the Oxford comma or the em dash - we used them correctly, and AI *stole our work*.

Amazon’s anti-human culture put on full display. “For more than an hour, several employees said, workers in the facility were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out their next steps.”

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Objectively one of the worst people to write about this because she’s leaving out how she and other white women let a lot of these assholes slide because their first targets were Black women She called Milo charming dinner convo She can go to hell

Thread detailing Mark Carney’s war on libraries, knowledge, and culture throughout so many parts of society. His deep cuts to the public service are not in line with the vision he presents of a bold and more independent Canada.

The violence against trans people is grotesque. Genocidal.

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

A new study shows that Black women outpace every other group of women in workforce participation. Yet they are still paid less & retire in poverty at twice the rate of white women. This is a system. It is long past time this country started carrying them the way they have carried us.

The Liberal Party convention is in my coffee shop this morning. A new essay on impunity, the REDress Project, Marilyn Gladu, and what it costs to share a room with people who will never face consequences. #cdnpoli #lib2026

Stay in the know, but remember to practice self care and touch grass and seek laughter and whatnot.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

I keep coming back to this.

you will never guess what this is a response to

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

The USA is irredeemable.

From now on, before anyone in the U.S. says anything, other countries should ask: "Do you condemn your fascist regime?" So many people here expect everyone to first condemn X regime to speak about any injustice. Let's see how it feels when the shoe is on the other foot.

white people, this what happens when you keep doing that white supremacy bullshit.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”

I don’t have the time, interest, energy or mental capacity for superficial connections like I used to These are all such limited resources & simply existing requires me to expend so much of them as it is I cant do new connections that feel like a chore or that leave me depleted. I can’t. I won’t.

Stop laboring to legitimize AAVE to people who don’t see you as a full and equal human. How you speak isn’t the problem.

"The stated mandate of professional regulatory bodies is the protection of the public. The mechanism for that protection is the control of professional practice. Those two things are presented as the same project. They are not the same project." New post up on my blog, read here:

One of my favourite photos from a walk earlier today. #Montréal

To mainstream media and the bulk of “Western” civilization, black and brown lives are deemed worthless.

Israel’s new death penalty law, which exclusively targets Palestinians, did not come out of nowhere. It's passed down from scaffold the British built under military courts established by British Mandate in 1937, after 1936 uprising. The rope, as it always has been in Palestine, is for Arabs only.

I am a medieval historian!! The world always is in a state, it has never not been in a state, joy and delight and beauty is what humanity exists for

Folks, I give you the New York Times

My latest article, “Ballroom as Speculative Care: Black Queer Kinship and Health Beyond Recognition” has just been published in L’Esprit créateur’s Future Worlds of Health special issue. I’m really proud of this one! It’s open access, and you can read it here: dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp....

Did Global Affairs Try To Scrub Record Of Israel Arms Transfer? “I think that the changes they are making now is actually just pushing for less transparency.” www.readthemaple.com/did-global-a...

It was warm enough to sit outside for approximately seven minutes. 😌

MADRID (AP) - Spain says it has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war. @apnews.com

That one picture where you said “I ate that a little” Bc who’s gonna check me

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.