We stand with Minnesota ✊❤️ Selling armoured vehicles to ICE isn't Canada Strong. @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social STOP the sale of Canadian arms to ICE and #CloseTheLoopholes! act.gp/4jY60a0 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social

All are welcome to a candle light Christmas Eve service tomorrow evening at 5 pm. Come listen, sing, and celebrate Christmas with us at First Mennonite Church! You can find us at 922 Notre Dame in Winnipeg.

A local theatre in Winnipeg is teaming up with the bookstore McNally Robinson and the North West Company to organize a book drive for kids up north.

Across the River from the Capital (A Northern Nativity) William Kurelek 1975

Wolseley School will be renamed after a perennial grass that grows in nearby Omand’s Creek following overwhelming support from families who live steps from the park #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

The flu continues to wreak havoc across the northern hemisphere. In Canada, we've had at least two dozen deaths so far, including among small children, over a handful of days. Here are some things you need to know: Thread [1/12]

In 2024, NL Public Libraries mailed ~214,000 books to residents across NL. A report found that NL libraries are funded 42% below the national average Most of the province’s 94 libraries are located in rural areas. The library relies on Canada Post to get books into the hands of rural residents.

What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh. What do you call a dog magician? A labracadabrador. What did the buffalo say when his son went to college? Bison.

To publishers, authors, & others posting about illustrated books, including covers that have illustration: Please credit the ILLUSTRATOR. This not only helps boost the illustrator, but also shows that you value HUMAN illustrators. #PicturesMeanBusiness

Educators: You can help show next generation the value of HUMAN creativity. When talking about illustrated books, pls mention illustrators by name? Display student artwork on your walls w/credit. Discuss illustrators w/your class. Invite illustrators to visit your school! #PicturesMeanBusiness

Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

Bill C-12 could import Trump-style immigration policy to Canada. This isn’t about safety. It’s about blaming migrants for our national woes instead of holding corporations and the ultra-rich accountable for the affordability and housing crises. ACT: act.gp/3LPUL6y

I’m game.

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Using the notwithstanding clause to strip away human rights is an attack on democracy and must be fought with everything we've got. It started with the SaskParty's Bill-137 and now it's Alberta with Bill-2. This is rising authoritarianism (a la USA) and we need to call it out for what it is.

I wrote this in 2019 to remind myself why I was dragging my ass out of bed at 5:30AM to make ADHD comics before work. Six years later… it still hits. Happy ADHD Awareness Month, everybody. 🧠🫶🏼

Just a reminder that the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation is not a holiday to celebrate. It is an acknowledgement & remembrance. We need to not lose sight of that.

Breaking! City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.

Read aloud to your kids. Keep reading aloud to them, well after they can read any book to themselves. Do the character voices. Talk together about the characters and the problems they face. (Yes, I am still reading to 11yo every night before bed.)

#FavQuotesFromLynne Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Marc Garneau

Greta Thunberg on why it’s essential for climate activists to speak out on Gaza: "The reason I am a climate activist is not because I want to protect trees. I'm a climate activist because I care about human, planetary well-being and those are extremely interlinked."

Yesterday, at 87, my dad & former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis, stood for an hour by the road in his old riding. As a Jewish elder, he stood against genocide embodying the values he has always championed. I am so proud to see him on the right side of history – as always. ❤️

Terrorists are threatening Greta and the entire Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

This is classic fossil fuels. #Saskatchewan #wildfires largely caused by burning fossil fuels, emitting carbon pollution. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli

This is beyond dangerous. The people on this flotilla are pure courage. Pray for their safety.

In the Opinion video below, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why they are leaving the United States.

Definitely saving this 👇

Today's Editorial: On Sunday afternoon, thousands of Manitobans gathered on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building to express their love for Canada and celebrate the national pride we all share.

Is there any connection between Long COVID and foot neuropathy? #LongCOVIDAwarenessWeek

Protesters from Jewish Voice For Peace occupy Trump Tower to protest the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil. (via @btnewsroom.bsky.social)

The arbitration panel has ruled that classroom complexity will be included in a new labour contract for Saskatchewan teachers, says the Sask. Teachers' Federation. #sask #saskpoli tinyurl.com/mteb6n3x

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Terry Pratchett on fantasy:

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Tomorrow I get the great and fun privilege of dropping into Tanis MacDonald's university course on hopepunk fiction at Wilfred Laurier university. I think a lot about hope.

In any dictatorship, writers are among the first to be imprisoned, and vocabulary is quickly diminished and language deteriorates. Writers, if their vocabulary is not leashed, are quick to see injustice, and rouse the people to do something about it. 1/2