Ann Douglas

You want to understand the timing of Ford's $750 classroom spending account for teachers announcement today? THIS is it. It's absolutely, 100% not a coincidence. Ford and his handlers wanted to own the education news cycle.

So cynical. It's gross.

#OntEd #OnPoli

Cc. @isaaccallan.bsky.social

"The arts are not a luxury good. They are a fundamental asset to any city or community," writes Sébastien Labelle.

"The arts should not be treated as just an expense, but rather as an investment that yields strong returns, and can actually help fight a budgetary deficit."

Imagine having real leaders who serve their people and tell the truth.

Again, instead of dealing with his systematic underfunding of education in Ontario, this is about Ford looking like the hero who is fixing a problem with education.

He's going to get so much earned media for this announcement. Just like this.

This is a PR sleight of hand.

#OntEd #OnPoli

Congratulations on powering through the hard things. 🙌

Killing time while a covid test runs before I can enter a conference and (a) it is amazing that science makes this possible in 15 minutes in the corner of a restroom and (b) big shout out to the organizers for showing collective care in action.

Thank you. I love living in the Ottawa Valley. ✨

The world may be a mess but the tea cupboard is meticulously organized.

Masked at the Movies presents A GOOFY MOVIE A respirator-mandatory screening of A GOOFY MOVIE

Hey Toronto COVID-safe(r) friends! This month’s Masked at the Movies is family-friendly with a screening of A GOOFY MOVIE. It’s on Sunday afternoon and I hope to see you there! Details, accessibility info, and free registration all at the link! 💕 www.eventbrite.ca/e/1983826064...

Very happy for you and future readers of this book, including me!

Screenshot of title page of my book: Her Body, Her Cure On the Personal & Political in Wellness Culture Michelle Cohen

Screenshot of a portion of my book (opening lines of Chapter 1)

Thrilled to share an update on my book!

I wrote about wellness culture, women's health, and the history & politics of both.

Have you wondered why the wellness industry is ♀️ dominated? Or why COVID seemed to push wellness culture to the far right?

I explore this and more - coming out early 2027.

Please participate on March 15th, International Long COVID Awareness Day!

Toni Morrison said, “Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading. If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. It took me a long time to do a short book... once it began to float I knew I could not not do it.” Start, then keep writing.

Brilliant sunrise sky over a schoolyard with melting patches of snow. The sky is vibrant with gold at the horizon and orangy-pink moving up to speckled pink and blue overhead.

The same sunrise moments later, zoomed in to capture the vibrant pink-orange light in the clouds.

One thing about the time change… I got to work early today so I saw the sunrise from my classroom windows. It blazed a hot pinkish-orange for a few minutes, up into candy floss clouds high above.

For some reason, I had made a point of keeping every single royalty statement I had ever received. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hope is something you do

If your blood pressure's too low right now, can I recommend reading @offhandremarks.bsky.social's liveposting on the shit the US is trying to pull in real time?

Cousins are such a gift. Ditto for childhood memories of times spent at a family cottage.💗

(This project was inspired by the need to pour through a couple of bankers’ boxes worth of materials while I was working my way through the Anthropic Copyright Claim process recently. I never want to put myself through anything like that again!)

In other news: I managed to sort through 29 years‘ worth of book contracts and royalty statements over the weekend. The most relevant materials have been filed away neatly in two binders. The rest will be fuelling the wood boiler.

A snow-covered yard on a sunny, late-winter day. The sky is blue and the sun is shining. There are tall pine trees on the edge of the yard.

It’s warm enough to sit on the front porch so I am. 😍

Anyone supporting the U.S. and Israel in this war is supporting ecological destruction, along with bombing of schools and hospitals. You don’t get to pick and choose what parts of war you support.

🎶 The boys are back in town, the boys are back in town… 🎵

1/ I was in Toronto last night to surprise my incredible mother, Michele Landsberg, as she received the Ursula Franklin award from Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.

You look amazing — so chic and so elegant.

Thanks for your continued dedication and hard work. It will be great to have that bigger picture view.

I've updated wwater.ca so that the next data refresh will generate graphs covering up to 30 months (2.5 years) of data, instead of the current 12 months (1 year).

Thank you all for your interest and for sharing wwater.ca with your communities and loved ones. Stay safe!

Five clocks in a row, labelled Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, London, Somewhere. The "Somewhere" clock is set a 5 o'clock.

I've reset the newsroom clocks.

The North of North production cast and crew outside the Unikkaarvik Visitor Centre/Iqaluit Centennial Library in Iqaluit. It is night time. The building is blue and designed to look like an iceberg. There is a crane. It is winter and snow is on the ground.

North of North is shooting scenes tonight at the building where I work, the Unikkaarvik Visitor Centre/Iqaluit Centennial Library. It is a main location in the series. Our building exterior serves as the town hall/community centre where the main character Siaja works.

I spend a lot of time at the beginning of every project figuring out which POV/tense is going to serve that story. I'm aware many readers take an "I don't like mushrooms" approach to these tools, and that's fine, but it's not my job to try to guess whether there are more mushroom lovers or haters.