On Thursday March 19 at 7pm, join Margaret Sweatman for the launch of her new novel, Night Birds (@gooselane.bsky.social), hosted by Charlene Diehl. - mailchi.mp/grant/margar...

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*sips decanted Brunello di Montalcino out of the proper stemware in his dressing room stall* GOOD F*%&ING GAME OUT THERE BOYS

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

CURLING: At the Brier, two teams both wearing green (northern Ontario and Sask.) currently playing each other. Skips are McEwen (Sask., originally from Manitoba) and MacEwan (N. Ont.); the Sask. team also features a set of twins. 😵‍💫

Manitoba writers! Please send some poems to @ariel-gordon.bsky.social and me by March 30th to be considered for this year's Writes of Spring. Theme and submission information: airtable.com/appKEfb7GFV6... #NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry4Ever

This year's Winnipeg Whisky Festival will highlight Canadian craft distillers; there's also a whole bunch of other spirits-related events happening this week leading up to the Fri-Sat tastings. A preview, for @winnipegfreepress.com: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Please note: tonight's previously scheduled event with Monique Gray Smith has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. We are looking to reschedule and will announce a new date shortly. Apologies for any disappointment!

Arts, culture and local publishing in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...

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Sending this one out to Connor Hellebuyck: youtu.be/vJP_LF0Bw8Q?...

Something's off with the Canadian men's curling team today against the Swiss, but I can't put my finger on it

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I went to the gym with the boy today, and a guy shouted out one of the bands I was in in the late '90s. And do you think the boy was in earshot? OF COURSE NOT

This is a subtly great photo if you know the slogan is "leading the pack," and the kid's backpack is right there. Also my kid goes to this school, and I agree with him that the backpack ban is so dumb

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

The entire genre of the milquetoast one-line "lol he's so mad" post followed by an eighteen-inch screenshot of his latest Truth Social rant is going to drive me out of my mind before this is all over

After two ends, Canada losing 5-0 in mixed doubles curling to... Estonia, a country with one curling club

And it’s @holland-tom.bsky.social talking as noted peanut farmer Jimmy Carter 🤣 @theresthistory.bsky.social

Very cool - Ones, a non-alcoholic venture out of the Okanagan (who IMO are making the best non-alc wine in Canada and then some), went on Dragon's Den and hit it out of the park www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/p...

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Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

LOL "Billie Eilish's theory of property" honestly made me think this was a satire account. Anyhoo, here's some of who survived the WaPo purge... and seemingly don't care about young/future subscribers

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Saw my first Habs game ever tonight (my fave team since childhood) and seeing this in person was a thing of beauty. I LOLed at Hellebuyck's delayed double take

One of those days when I feel like I should have gone into the trades

Well, let's put on my books editor hat, fire up the ol' socials and see what's happeni-

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Went to Vera — no Jon Hamm? Why do I even leave the house anymore? (jk it was stellar as always)

Keep honking: I'm wildly sleep-deprived from trying to watch the Australian Open in the Central time zone

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

i haven't done this since twitter but at the request of 1 (one) person, OSCAR NOMINEES AS SIMPSONS SCREENCAPS THREAD

*checks Environment Canada website for Winnipeg forecast* *packs bags*

The whole interview is worth it

Jannik Sinner out there in his dijon mustard kit, wasted from the heat and pretty much playing on one leg and still hanging in there. This has been a tennis tweet

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Whether it's ICE abducting five-year-olds or BlueSky wine moms putting flyers on Chris Cillizza's Tesla, both sides have engaged in norm-shattering behavior.

Just got served some Grade A, primo AI slop on Facebook in an ad (not by True North) about the Heritage Classic alumni game:

Nobody gnashes away on a mouth guard like Mark Scheifele

Aw man, such a good drummer, as exemplified in this absolute banger: youtu.be/1dV6vbb1YqI?...

Thanks to @winnipegfreepress.com books editor @bensigurdson.bsky.social for highlighting our wild & wonderful words reading series. Such a privilege to have a dedicated books section here in our city covering literature & literary events.

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The latest episode of Heated Rivalry really jumped the shark

Brought some light reading to the boy’s football camp. No particular reason. @timothysnyder.bsky.social

The stories and essays in We Will Rise Again, a new SFF collection edited by @older.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and Karen Lord, already hit hard, but in the new year I daresay they're even more on point. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

I mean if you woke up and this was the first thing you saw about "the situation in Venezuela," you would have no idea a) what had happened and b) that the U.S. was involved at all. Apparently the elbows only go up about this far: 🤷