#PattyKrawec : "The apocalypse is, from our perspective, something that began to roll over us five hundred years ago. And the things that whitestream fiction imagines as a dystopic future describes the past and present that settlers have inflicted on us. It's only scary when it happens to them..."

From the comrade card archives

Saw a few interesting sites in #Paris Ontario yesterday- was impressed with #theParisIndependent too

Remembering to acknowledge #MMIWG is important but being willing to put the resources into finding them is crucial - bravo to #wabkinew ‘s government for spending a 10th of conservative projections and 50 days to recover 2 of many missing and murdered women

iPods were a great product that only died because they couldn't figure out a way to insert ads into your own music.

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

April 12, 1980. "Today is the day it all begins". 46 years ago today at 2:30 pm in St. John's NL, Terry Fox started to run across the country. "I touched the ocean before I left, up this old dirt road that was impossible to run on." via @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social

It doesn’t feel like #AroundtheBay without this guy running the #roadrace #hamont ‘s loss is #K’ómoks gain 🏃 @ronfather.bsky.social

Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion (www.hcci.ca) please offer this again #HamOnt

Glad to see this offered in #HamOnt

#Mamma #Racalmuto #HamOnt 1935-2025

Reading #RebelGirl by @kathleenhanna.bsky.social makes me sentimental for a time when I believed we could win fighting back - now it’s downgraded to #hope

What’s one way we can rein in ICE? We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty. Watch.

Bottle Caps Should Be ATTACHED To Reduce Plastic #Pollution and Litter? Who knew?!- they are a source of #plastic pollution that can be easily avoided by requiring bottle caps to be ATTACHED to the bottles as the #EuropeanUnion has recently mandated.

Wow, some fierce memes out there today!

Spell the Month in Books 🩵 📚 #bookchallenge The idea was created by Reviews from the Stacks. betweenthelinesbookblog.com Fifth Business Everything is Illuminated Beloved Regeneration Utopia Alias Grace Rules of Civility Yellowface

#AndStillWeRise was 20 years ago for me, it helped direct the #activism that followed in #HamOnt for years afterward. It seems time to go back to this #work now that I’ve lost the most important ’leaves’ on my #FamilyTree

#AndStillWeRise was 20 years ago for me, it helped direct the #activism that followed in #HamOnt for years afterward. It seems time to go back to this #work now that I’ve lost the most important ’leaves’ on my #FamilyTree

I have arrived! And I am excited. I think I have waited #25LongYears to get here. #olasuperconference2026 #librairies #booknerd #raisedbylibraries #RIEW

Anti-ICE protests to be held across US as organizers urge national strike

“I like the peace in the backseat I don’t’ have to drive I don’t’ have to speak I can watch the countryside, And I can fall asleep. My family tree’s loosing all it’s leaves” - took me 22 years to get it, but I get it now … #ArcadeFire #funeral #InTheBackseat

Amid contentious ICE crackdown, Six Nations urges members to carry ID when travelling in the U.S.

Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers #poetry

Amazing that this #40yearold #political button pulled out of storage could be a product of today’s political climate and will be understood completely with no context setting needed #CanadaUSrelations

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 30 #OctaviaButler #scifi

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 29 #WaterIsLife @biidaasamose.bsky.social

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 28 #beloved #ToniMorrison #genius

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 27 #BarbaraEhrenreich #StillRelevant #poverty

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 26 #ecologicalidentity #AnnPelo #GoodnessofRain #GetOutside

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 25 #RebeccaSolnit #memoir

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 24 #NaomiKlein #NoLogo #simplyradical

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 23 #joandidion #grief

Why was this #book front & centre #kenilworthbranch @hamiltonlibrary.bsky.social exactly on the day I had to leave work on a break for a walk and some #deepbreathing to calm my system down after fielding a succession of well-meaning “how was you holiday?” questions… #grief

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 22 #RobinWallKimmerer #naturalhistory #NatureWriting #Indigenous #brilliant #TraditionalKnowledge

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 21 #BarbaraKingsolver

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 20 #MrsDalloway #LiteraryClassic #100years+

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 19 Feels like a manual for #hope #radical #pedagogyofcare

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 18 #EdithWharton #HouseOfMirth #AmericanClassic #LilyBart

#Cooking & #baking things my late mum taught me. She’s been gone a month and I’m still tempted to call her to tell her how it went 😔 #grief #heartbreak settle in Impignulata is filled with ground beef (or #beyondmeat in this case) fried onions, olives & cheese all rolled up So good. She’d approve.

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 17 #MiriamToews

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 16 #SplitTooth #TanyaTagaq #Inuk

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 15

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 14 #LisaTaddeo

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 13 #historicalfiction #slavery #colonialism #imposture #Jamaica #Britain

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 12 #SentimentalValue #MargePiercy From the beginning of a reading journey💓

Come join our family in a celebration of Dad at a community round dance on Friday, Jan 23 - a day before his birthday. Miigwech to everyone at the sākihiwē festival for helping make this possible