Thinking of those at Seven Oaks Hospital in Winnipeg looking after my mom.

a love that dares rip / open the chest to see what goes on singing. Dean Young

Thou hast painfully discover'd; are his files As full as thy report?

Blizzard view from my mom's Winnipeg kitchen window.

Lucky to share Hanukkah with family in blustery Winnipeg. Wishing us all more light.

Mark Strand, with the Hanukkah content we all need right now.

Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days.

Joined our synagogue to light the menorah for the third night of Chanukah on Canada’s Parliament Hill, joined by interfaith leaders. To our collective resilience and healing.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

11 people in Australia were killed today by gunmen while they celebrated the first night of Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Targeted because they were Jews. As Jewish families around the world, we place our menorahs in our windows. Our message to the world: Light will outlive the darkness.

For this relief much thanks. ’Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.

Espresso Books is hosting an event for chapbooks by me and poet David Lloyd today at 4 pm ET, all welcome. Zoom info: utoronto.zoom.us/j/88272979608

They died because they were women. December 6, 1989. National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

It could have been me. These women were my peers. I was studying a culturally gendered subject at a male-dominated university. The news broke while I was revising for my exams.

Wow! Thank you, @phillipcrymble.bsky.social !

Geneviève Bergeron, 21 Hélène Colgan, 23 Nathalie Croteau, 23 Barbara Daigneault, 22 Anne-Marie Edward, 21 Maud Haviernick, 29 Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31 Maryse Laganière, 25 Maryse Leclair, 23 Anne-Marie Lemay, 22 Sonia Pelletier, 28 Michèle Richard, 21 Annie St-Arneault, 23 Annie Turcotte, 20

Let us first see peace

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Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format. The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books! science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...

Thank you to the thousands who stand with us and know that hope is created through action. This path isn’t easy, but we know we can win because we choose to fight together.

I have a new poem in The Walrus, Jan/Feb 2026 issue. It's my first poem in print since losing my husband last year. Our three Gen Z kids said, "So, Mum, it's the sex and death issue." @thewalrus.ca

Tomorrow is the deadline! Get those submissions in! prairiefire.ca/conte...

The Beaverton speaks with CBC News about how Time Magazine mistook a fake quote for real facts!

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER DEREK WEBSTER Derek Webster's 2024 collection “National Animal” (Véhicule Press) won the QWF's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (@officialqwf.bsky.social). Visit him at www.derekwebsterwriter.com! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity

Here's a gift link to the Globe 100 for the Canadian book folks: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b287550...

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

I spoke with Sarah Tomlinson at CBC/Radio-Canada about professional creative work and artificial intelligence. You should read the article but, really, the sign over my right shoulder says all you need to know. Don't make me tap the sign. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...

Another gut-wrenching, exquisite post by my brilliant friend Amela Marin: On Celery, Safari & the Banality of Evil open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

Sam & I are part of a Vancouver group expecting a refugee family of 4 early Jan with 2 girls ages 4 & 7. We need 2 twin beds, chests of drawers, coffee & bedside tables, kitchen & other household items, winter coats & toys. If you can donate, or have a truck or van & can help move, please DM me.

Easy fix and so important!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

he’s indicted falsely.

🚨BREAKING: In a devastating blow to Donald Trump, a federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s case against former FBI Director James Comey, ruling that the appointment of Trump’s hand-picked prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, was invalid.

Wow. Simic.

Q - Why, given all the terrible things happening in the world, do people care about this? A - Micro-analysis: They see it as an example of government overreach and bureaucratic cruelty towards an independent farm. Macro-analysis: The world is getting dumber every day.

We are hiring a senior politics reporter @wired.com. Details and application info here. You'll get to work with amazing editors, namely @leahfeiger.bsky.social @timmarchman.bsky.social and @brbarrett.bsky.social -- and the rest of the WIRED Politics dream team:

Sheryda Warrener's books are ”Hard Feelings” (2010, @invisibooks.bsky.social y.social), ”Floating Is Everything” (2015, @harbourpublishing.bsky.social), and ”Test Piece” (2022, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social). She also curates www.theprovocationcollection.com.

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER SHERYDA WARRENER Sheryda Warrener is the author of the three poetry collections and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2023.  She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at UBC @ubccrwr.bsky.social. #poetry #poet #poem #poetrycommunity

No one, anywhere, should have to live like this. Aid must be allowed into Gaza without delay – everything Palestinians need to survive this winter, and everything needed to begin rebuilding the lives that have been shattered. (3/3)

Today is the start of #JewishBookMonth100! Did you know #JewishBookMonth was founded in 1925 by West End Branch librarian, Fanny Goldstein? To celebrate and learn more about Goldstein's legacy, join us for a free community book swap. Meet new people and meet new books! @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social

To celebrate Jewish book month, and its incredible 100th anniversary, I’m sharing a small fraction of my Jewish book collection 🩷🩷📚 There are so many incredible Jewish writers whose work has inspired me so much. @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social #jewishbookmonth #jewishbookmonth100

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Let him have time to see his friends his foes, And merry fools to mock at him resort; Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of sorrow, and how swift and short His time of folly and his time of ; And ever let his crime Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.

Tomorrow, November 12 at 6:30 pm at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, I'll be hosting a conversation with Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green, the Palestinian and Jewish co-directors of Standing Together. RSVP at the link and join us: share.hsforms.com/1iUYqnT5lTwm...

light-hearted lovely post by my brilliant friend Amela Marin On Dialects, Dishes & Identity open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

Of course LLMs will get larger token-handling capacities and better code to alleviate context rot. BUT their access to information/truth will DECREASE over time -- as big lawsuits (current and future) succeed, they will be cut off more and more, and creatively write around their lack of key facts