Winnipeg, this is your reading for the day! Follow the delegations against Councillor Duncan’s disastrous anti-protest bylaw below

Who is on Mark Carney’s military procurement team, and why should we be concerned? #cdnpoli pvonline.ca/2026/01/08/n...

Some favourite music of the past year, including Hedonist, The Ex, Pink Siifu, Moleskine, Melvin Gibbs, David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar, Evan Parker and Bill Nace, Kilynn Lunsford, Aruán Ortiz, and more: www.recent-songs.com/2025-in-repl...

Now playing 'It's Christmas Again' by Max Roach. A true curio and a radical, ambivalent ritual, more on which here: www.recent-songs.com/in-the-red/

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

On Saturday, artist Amy Lam revealed that @yorkuniversity.bsky.social admin pressured them into removing the words "Free Palestine" from their work, and suggested that the gallery's eponymous donors, Joan & Martin Goldfarb, had a hand in director Jenifer Papararo's recent dismissal

Canada must end complicity in U.S. murder & the march to war on Venezuela. Withdraw from Operation CARIBBE, end intelligence sharing, lift Canadian sanctions on Venezuela. Convention resolution🔗 communist-party.ca/solidarity-w...

"The only and most likely possibility is that we will be invaded by the US government in pursuit of nothing more than the global maintenance of its hegemony at the expense of our resources, our sweat, and our blood, both ours and that of our children."

More disturbing (unsurprising) news, looks like the Liberal’s anti-immigration Bill passed in the house. I wrote about the economics of xenophobic clampdown for @peoplesvoice.bsky.social last month: pvonline.ca/2025/11/20/l...

The Communist Party held its 41st Convention Dec 5-7th in Montreal. Read the report here 🔗 communist-party.ca/report-on-th...

Here's the recording from my launch with the inimitable @vanishingsigns.bsky.social in Winnipeg last month. I was thinking about what a great event it was after Cam sent me a transcript of the Q&A. We had a great convo about poetry, cities, and country music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghia...

Mark Carney's recent visit to Abu Dhabi caps a decade-long push to secure Canadian access to a lucrative Gulf market. If that means overlooking the victims of Canadian weapons sales and the brutal consequences of UAE policy in Sudan, the government has shown it is more than willing to do so.

Plainly, Bill C-12 is not concerned with either “national security” or the fortunes of legally enfranchised workers. Rather, this act fulfills longstanding plans to further weaken labour and to divide the class by fear and isolation #cdnpoli pvonline.ca/2025/11/20/l...

I wrote about the poetry of the First World War and the construction of the soldier-poet: www.recent-songs.com/trench-confe...

The day after the City of Winnipeg proposed paint and plastic post bike lanes on Wellington Crescent, a driver crashed into Rob Jenner’s ghost bike. Poetic? Scary? Infuriating?

We're excited to announce Cam Scott's sequel of politically-inflected personal collage and city poems, MANOR's RANSOM—the second installment of a life-poem that began with the Lambda-nominated ROMANS SNOWMARE (2019).

A "curling ribbon of technophasic listening and emoting," (Steacy Easton), No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social launches TONIGHT, Wed Nov 5 at 7pm w/Cam Scott (@vanishingsigns.bsky.social), author of MANOR's RANSOM (@arpitrage.bsky.social). www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18835/...

Between commercial language and vague signposting of outcomes, the strategy contains almost no news for working people, all while wages continue to stagnate and rents soar. #mbpoli #cdnpolitics pvonline.ca/2025/10/07/k...

I wrote about Bill C-5 and its international precedents; Canadian imperialism and mining interests in Brazil; and as always, the need for resistance @peoplesvoice.bsky.social pvonline.ca/2025/09/24/g...

I wrote about Bill C-5 and its international precedents; Canadian imperialism and mining interests in Brazil; and as always, the need for resistance @peoplesvoice.bsky.social pvonline.ca/2025/09/24/g...

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Bostock was put on paid leave in November, which means we've paid him ~$93,472.38 since his last arrest, based on his rank and current salary scales.

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

Beautiful new organ work from Tiago Sousa. A sustained gesture of quietude. Take a moment if you can.

It's easy to read the desperate edgelord argot of the MechaHitler posts and imagine Grok as a Mechanical Turk with Elon jerking off inside—but that's the essence of generative AI. Let's try to remember this shit when the bot isn't Sieg Heiling!

Elon's AI is now actively recommending a second Holocaust

today in Grokology, the chatbot is doing antisemitism

Here's our latest blog post — by Cam Scott (@vanishingsigns.bsky.social) on the ongoing struggle against cops in schools and Premier Wab Kinew's right-wing attack on the movement. Please read + share! winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/blog/fault-l...

After making a speech to graduates, Manitoba's accessibility and gender equality minister Nahanni Fontaine was recorded talking about the American Sign Language interpreter who shared the stage with her, saying the interpreter was distracting.

Where private companies like DHL are instrumental in the longer plot to dismantle public postal services, the fight of @unifor.org members in the private sector has the potential to buttress the demands of @cupwsttp.bsky.social as well. #canlab pvonline.ca/2025/06/18/d...

Some of the darkest chapters of Canadian history revolve around ‘national parks’, Indigenous dispossession and expulsion, ‘enemy aliens’, many women and children, put in work camps, yet few Canadians know this, The ‘elbows up’ crowd could use a dose of humility.

Idk I think trans people having a right to exist and move freely in society is pretty material actually.

Fetterman has now come closer than anyone in a decade to the correct use of “performative,” only to miss again; senate votes are very much speech acts!

Endlessly delightful & bonkers interview with my dear @derekmccormack.bsky.social over at Full Stop magazine www.full-stop.net/2025/05/21/i...

"Why should poetry or anyone or anything do anything? But poetry is the art closest to existing itself. We are somewhat measurable, vibrate and tremble, and are beautiful." ALICE NOTLEY 1945-2025 Thank you, Alice. Photos: Kirby

Tonight on Radio State, three differently transporting field recordings, ranging from untouched documentary to psychedelic abstraction: umfm.com/programming/...

FREE MUSIC (solos pairs and small ensembles) on Radio State tonight: umfm.com/programming/...

Next time somebody asks why the Communist Party runs in elections, I’ll be able to say “in order to goad right-wing Liberals into mentioning our name in the Globe and Mail”: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

As always, new essays by @vanishingsigns.bsky.social are not to be missed.

I wrote about the functions of music under the Pinochet regime, recent attempts upon Chile's carceral infrastructure, and the work of percussionist Lukax Santana (asking, as always, “¿Qué hacer?”): www.recent-songs.com/captive-songs/

We’re launching our campaign under the banner: Peace and Prosperity, Not War and Austerity! 💥24 Communist candidates 📍Demands worth fighting for: rent rollbacks, price controls, public ownership & peace Get involved: communist-party.ca #VoteCommunist #elxn2025 #cdnpoli

The parents of Ashlee Shingoose are calling for officials to move swiftly to search the Brady Road landfill for the remains of their daughter, who was publicly confirmed Wednesday to be the victim of a serial killer.

Today, for St. Patrick's Day and my newsletter's birthday, I made you something: A playlist of the best Mary Margaret O'Hara songs and cameos that are on streaming but not on her classic 1988 Miss America album. So much for "never recorded again." carlwilson.substack.com/p/a-martian-...

new from above/ground press: Market Discipline, by Kevin Davies abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/new-...

Communist Party leader Elizabeth Rowley warns against rising militarism and corporate greed—while workers struggle with austerity. There is a lot at stake in the upcoming federal election! Read more from @nbmediacoop.bsky.social 🔗 nbmediacoop.org/2025/03/12/c...

For the latest issue I interview the great saxophonist-composer-improviser @ingridlaubrock.bsky.social & review new 💿 from Sylvie Courvoisier/ @maryhalvorson.bsky.social, Anna Webber, Anzu Quartet, @willmasonmusic.com New 📕 on Peter Brotzmann 🎷 Schlippenbach Trio live @cafeotodalston.bsky.social

Today is the publication day for Essex Hemphill's *Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems," out from @NewDirections, which Robert Reid-Pharr & I coedited! Essex Hemphill's work speaks both to its time & compellingly to our current moment. Please order a copy! www.ndbooks.com/author/essex...

HBD to the late great Charles Gayle: www.recent-songs.com/i-go-openly-...

WINNIPEG! Please save the date for this year's rally and march for International Day Against Police Brutality, happening on Saturday, March 15th at 3PM! It will begin at WPS HQ at 245 Smith and will be followed with a free community meal at X-Cues at 551 Sargent after.