podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h... If you want to understand what happened in #Syria, this excellent conversation with #LoubnaMrie is both humane and as insightful as anything I've heard or read. @loubnamrie.bsky.social @faisalalyafai.bsky.social @finbaranderson

montrealserai.com?utm_medium=e... Latest from #MontréalSerai

Oh look! A #Canada goose (immigrant!) in the #UK has settled in and made a "mixed-race" family with a local. Babies are all lovely. Can it get any better?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Thank you, Chief #Mercredi and all #Treaty8 #FirstNations for standing up for us all. #Alberta #Canada

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Why does this look like the US trying to bully #Canada into further subsidizing its military-industrial complex? If you find this reference quaint, look up #Eisenhower --a #Republican, by the by.

Guernica author @nicolavulpe.bsky.social (On The News that Sagittarius A* Grows Hungrier) will be hosting 'Books and Biscotti' in Ottawa on June 17 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Click link for details. italianweekottawa.ca/event/books-...

Thank you Hans @ckculitnews.bsky.social

Thank you Hans @ckculitnews.bsky.social

Attention Book Lovers! 📚We hope you can join us for our final spring launch 🌷at Supermarket in Toronto. It will be a thrilling book-filled afternoon. #TOevents #BookLaunch #authorreadings

Heads up: Community Writing Workshop with the Writers Collective of Canada. Sunday, May 31, 2026 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. National Gallery of Canada Special Exhibitions Galleries (Level 2) 380 Sussex. Free with admission. Drop-in activity. No registration needed. www.gallery.ca/whats-on/cal...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... Good on #PedroSánchez Good on #FrancescaAlbanese #Spain #Palestine

Thank you, Mark and @arcpoetry.bsky.social

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Meanwhile, let's buy some Swedish planes. #Gripen #Canada #Carney #CUSMA

quillandquire.com/omni/tom-way... Congratulations #TomWayman #PurdyPrize #Poetry

elpais.com/america/2026... @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social @elpais.com Now here is someone with morals, intelligence and respect. #Lula #Brasil

Join co-authors @lindamcquaig.bsky.social & Neil Brooks for a discussion of their new book, Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax 🗓️ Wed April 22 ⏰ 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm) 📍 Abbotsford House, 950 Bank St, Ottawa RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/wealthtax

Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause*

Oh my! @lpgcanada.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social Congratulations #EvelynLau and #JosephDandurand

It's a BIG day today! ✨Happy publication day to these book beauties.🎂📚

Join us as we celebrate spring 🌷and launch more springtacular titles📚 on Sunday, April 26, 3:30 pm at Supermarket in Toronto!⁠

Good to oppose, but where are the sanctions? www.cbc.ca/news/politic... @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social #Canada #Israel #Palestinr

From @theguardian.com. Good on our PM. @mark-carney.bsky.social #Canada #Lebanon

"We are a sovereign country that does not wish to take part in illegal wars.” Spain won’t allow US to use its airbases for its war on Iran: www.bbc.com/news/article...

"So for today, so until further notice I’m not answering, not picking up." #TodaysPoem #poetry The Cockroach by @nicolavulpe.bsky.social (2023 Carousel Magazine) carouselmagazine.ca/c50-vulpe/

I am humbled & honoured, but mostly astonished. Congratulations to all! #PurdyPrize

Help us support the cause. share.nwmd.social/s/aAHMrIf6

Ikea launches its first book, and it's in Spanish. Too funny!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Just a little legal sanity, and humanity. #Free #Palestine No to #genocide

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... How about #Alberta #separatists who want to leave #Canada and join the #US do just that? It's a short bus ride south. They can renounce their Canadian citizenship on the way out. then enjoy for-profit healthcare, guns, guns, guns, ICE hunting them down, and bad spelling.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Read this through. Good for #Manitoba Good for Wab #Kinew. A small step, but it's in the right direction. Thank you, Katie Pederson and #CBC.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Relief that it's done, anger that it even happened. #Greece #ERCI #Lesbos #Mardini #Binder

Since #Minneapolis and #Minnesota are getting so much grief from the current US administration, maybe they'd like to join #Canada as our #11th province. Conditions apply, though: Please and thank you (we're Canadian, can't help ourselves), free healthcare, free education, no guns.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are experiencing the highest rates of settler and state violence in recent history, as the Israeli government enacts new policies to accelerate the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and apartheid.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Bet you didn't know this. #elbowsup #Canada

“Let’s not call it deregistration, let’s call it a death sentence  —  that is exactly what it would be for the Palestinian people,” says @sana.msf.ca, MSF Executive Director, as Israel moves to bar nearly 40 aid groups under new registration rules. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Thank you once again for another thoughtful article. @naomiaklein.bsky.social .

In this NBN episode, I speak with the wonderful Ann Cavlovic about her new novel, Count on Me (Guernica Editions, 2025). The holidays are not easy for so many with difficult family dynamics, and I think this book would be a timely read. Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/count-on-me

Our bilingual Christmas poetry anthology goes out free to subscribers tomorrow 🎄 It's available to buy on Peecho: themadridreview.com/christmas-an... #poetry #christmas #christmasvibes See you all in 2026 - Have a peaceful and good one! 🎁🤘😍

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #233 : Ann Cavlovic / @anncavlovic.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/six-...

Thank you to all who read, all who listened, and to our host #avant-gardebar @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social @anncavlovic.bsky.social @ckculitnews.bsky.social

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Shame! #BC

9 December 2025: @guernicaeditions.bsky.social #Ottawa launch at Avant-garde Bar, 135 1é2 Besserer Street, Ottawa. @margolapierre.bsky.social @anncavlovic.bsky.social @akessaris.bsky.social

ottawacitizen.com/public-servi... #ElbowsUp, #Canada! Even Lt-General #Blondin, who recommended the #F-35, now says it's a mistake. Buy the #Gripen. We need a plane we can count on.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11... What are we afraid of that we detain a #UN special rapporteur? We are afraid that the #Gaza tribunal will show that #Canada is complicit in #genocide. #Palestine #Israel

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... The #Gaza ghetto just got smaller, the #genocide continues.

montrealserai.com/article/blam... I am honoured that Montréal Serai has published these two poems. #MontréalSerai #FreePalestine #poetry

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... It does make sense to equip our military with weapons not controlled by a hostile nation threatening to invade us. #gripen #canada #sweden #saab

If you're in Ottawa and looking for something to do this Halloween, come to the Happy Goat, 35 Laurel Street. I'll be reading with the excellent Jason Purcell and Margo LaPierre. @margolapierre.bsky.social @jasonvpurcell.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #DianaButtu