really excited to launch the newest residency at Upstart & Crow, which is specifically for parent-writers and includes a childcare stipend in addition to a residency grant and space to work. the residency I have dreamed of! applications open this weekend: upstartandcrow.com/programs/par...

daylight saving time is over. let’s leave it that way! as I wrote for @thenarwhal.ca, there are zero benefits and plenty of costs to changing the clocks twice a year: thenarwhal.ca/daylight-tim...

Me sowing a passing interest in the World Series: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

or the best????

never watched a baseball game before in my life, are they all like this

deciding to get in on the baseball bandwagon in the 7th inning of Game 7 looking like the worst decision of my life

As we covered in @thenarwhal.ca this week, it's worth looking at the credentials of the people who claim Indigenous rights are a threat to your own — it turns out a lot of them are representing corporate interests, not yours! thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-b...

It would be great if everyone got on board with the government upholding its treaties, fiduciary responsibilities and legally-binding agreements with First Nations, but Indigenous rights are not actually subject to popular approval! They exist whether you support them or not.

a hot take from @elaineanselmi.bsky.social!!

In 100 per cent unsurprising news, the bank that supposedly pulled funding from a Richmond project because of the Cowichan court decision says it definitely did not pull funding because of the Cowichan court decision www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/cou...

Some news from me — I'm teaching a new class on freelancing at @ubcjournalism.bsky.social next term as the Asper Visiting Professor. jwam.ubc.ca/news/ubc-jou...

really worth watching the clip here

hosted in Simon Fraser's namesake institution and you better believe we're going to talk about his appearance in "We Survived the Night"!!

"Of 934 Crown land use applications currently listed on B.C.’s online database, only five are labelled as First Nations. There are 81 labelled as industrial and over 250 associated with agriculture, energy production and other commercial land uses."

Hello! The Narwhal is looking to talk to people in Canada who regularly send money home to Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti or the Bahamas and might increase it in the wake of Melissa. I am at [email protected] 💚

so fun — my story about obstacle parenting for @thewalrus.ca has been published in Italian! 🤌 www.internazionale.it/magazine/mic...

Indigenous journalists in B.C feeling stuck in their careers with big cool dream reporting projects — apply to this!!

The "drill, baby, drill" slogan belies the relatively small role of *all* mining, quarrying, O&G extraction activities in the Canadian economy. It's hugely capital intensive (only 1.2% of all jobs) but rip, strip and ship activities contribute just 5.1% to GDP... not even in the top 10 sectors.

the ideal Halloween warm-up because what’s scarier than colonization? it’s free and I can promise scintillation and wit (Julian is supplying)

this letter sounded bananas but reading it is really something else: totally disconnected from legal or historical reality, brimming with AI-generated nonsense, attributed to a made-up nation, and signed — this is the best part!!! — by "Manitou Wabski Kinew" !! www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh". www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

what does Timothee Chalamet have in common with a proposal for the world's largest data centre? @savannahridley.bsky.social has the answer:

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

RED ALERT: Ken Sim Plans to Drop HUGE CUTS on Vancouver's Public Services THIS WEDNESDAY That could mean cuts to: ❌ Libraries ❌ Community Grants ❌ Road Safety ❌ Homelessness supports ❌ Arts & Culture ❌ Reconciliation ❌ Climate change programs Write to council now: www.votecope.ca/stopsim

forgot some key words here: Sim is directing staff to focus exclusively on a 0% *property tax* increase scenario for the 2026 budget

Tomorrow, Vancouver City Council will hear a motion by Mayor Ken Sim directing the city to draft a 2026 budget based on a 0% increase, despite city staff saying 5-7% increases are necessary to maintain service levels & address critical infrastructure needs (1/3) council.vancouver.ca/20251008/doc...

summer is over, but I'm still reminding people to be cool and not racist about park closures ☺️

Oct 30! Talking to Julian Brave NoiseCat about his memoir, which everyone should read, just an incredible gorgeous heartrending work. Tickets are free but limited: www.eventbrite.ca/e/we-survive...

Paige and Steph were invited by Lil'wat and N'Quatqua to see why the temporary park closure matters, not only to the First Nations but to the park itself. A beautiful story to read & witness on the last day of the fall closure.

It was very special to work with six brilliant, thoughtful Indigenous writers — Michelle Good, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Eva Jewell, Janelle Lapointe, Anna McKenzie and Riley Yesno — on this series about truth and reconciliation, in print & online for @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about the state of reconciliation 10 years after the final report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

so fucking tiresome to get emails like this whenever I write about residential school history, truly. people who believe that graves don't exist if they can't see the bodies with their own two eyes possess the critical thinking skills of a baby playing peekaboo.

incredible choice for "victim of the Canadian housing crisis"

please read this story today from @moiradonovan.bsky.social, with incredible photos by Darren Calabrese, which considers the physical history of the residential school system and survivors' efforts to ensure this history is never forgotten

learned so much about Shania Twain from this week's Narwhal newsletter, which has an absolutely deranged density of Shania puns — read at your own risk

listen, I hate AI for lots of reasons but I need my fellow writers to shut up about em-dashes. no one has taken them away from you! if you worry their inclusion tips your writing into plausibly AI-generated territory then you have other problems, honey

congrats to my brilliant colleagues @sevawood.bsky.social, @sobittersosweet.bsky.social and @writermjs.bsky.social 💚

Vince Gasparro, the Parliamentary Secretary for "Combatting Crime," just announced that the Irish band Kneecap are banned from entering Canada, 3 days after he met with Israel lobbyists.

Just in time for @thenarwhal.ca's webinar on housing & climate change, a new story about designing for the wildfires of the future! Read it & then listen to @sevawood.bsky.social talk about it at 12pt: thenarwhal.ca/housing-and-...

B.C. just approved one of its largest LNG projects yet. Ksi Lisims LNG will ship 12M tonnes of gas a year overseas. Ministers say it will benefit the Nisg̱a’a Nation — but also admit it will worsen greenhouse gas emissions. #bcpoli

the website that lists Rachel first as someone allegedly celebrating Kirk's murder screenshots a tweet where she explicitly condemns violence & says she hopes he survives. for that she's receiving death & rape threats

real question: why are they talking about confining children to the roof of the school? the proposal shows it adjoining Hinge Park, which has playgrounds and fields

I'll be moderating this discussion with @sobittersosweet.bsky.social and @sevawood.bsky.social, who both reported on the intersections of climate change & housing policy this summer. Join us!

when confronted with information that contradicts one's deeply-held beliefs and biases, it's important to consider the facts, no matter how challenging. that said I emphatically reject any zodiac that classifies me as a pisces. absolutely not. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've had so many near-misses with my kids: drivers who turn right on red, run stop signs, are looking at their phones instead of the crosswalk... I worry about the worst-case scenarios but also about the burden of anxiety shouldered by tiny children who should be able to walk & bike in safety

now that it's September I can freely admit I'm excited for my first book event of the fall: chatting with R. F. Kuang about her latest novel, Katabasis, for @writersfest.bc.ca: writersfest.bc.ca/event/kuang-...

“We want safe supply and end of prohibition,” said Samona Marsh, the president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). “Respect us. Respect the agency of the individual, [the] collective agency of the community.” Hero. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Around 250 media outlets from 50 countries, plus journalists and press freedom orgs, are uniting today to demand that Israel abides by international laws to protect journalists as civilians, and that Israel allows foreign journalists into Gaza. #protectjournalistsingaza #letreportersintogaza

I used to think pockets on toddler clothes were pointless superfluities... until my 2-year-old began carrying an Emotional Support Hot Wheel with him everywhere

one of the most revealing arguments I've seen on this issue is from people who say they would not mind if the park is closed — as long as the First Nations are also prohibited from accessing their homelands, medicines and traditional foods