24 hours? Not this year. 🤷♀️
International Women’s Day comes up one hour short this year. Today, PWHL players who wear 24 are wearing 23 — a reminder that when women get less, the answer is to give women’s sports more.
In the AI game I'm now forced to play in the English classroom, it's not about preventing cheating and shortcuts; it's about promoting authenticity and uniqueness
Framing it that way with kids is really helpful
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
So sorry for your loss. Dogs sure leave their paw prints on our heart
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
Congrats to my wife Sherry for her contest win!!
Prime Minister Carney is presented a jersey by the national women’s hockey team.
Prime Minister Carney watches the Winter Olympics.
Prime Minister Carney poses for a photo, wearing a hockey jersey.
Prime Minister Carney watches the Winter Olympics.
Could not be more proud of you, Team Canada.
You’re coming home with 21 hard-fought Olympic medals. Though what Canadians will remember most is how you wore the Maple Leaf: with pride, with grit, and with determination.
These are the ideas NB is apparently kicking around re: higher education.
Unhinged is putting it far too kindly.
They literally suggest schools accredit… themselves???
Repurpose infrastructure for private development?
“What if we only had two public universities?”
This is profoundly unserious.
a tiny brown & tan chihuahua in a pink sweater is sitting, looking up at the camera. two white strands of hair stick out the top of her head. they’re curled into a perfect heart.
This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)
So difficult — my thoughts are with you and Sam 🤗
Dakota Casey interviews @ianletourneau.bsky.social about his new @gaspereaupress.bsky.social poetry collection, "Metadata from a Changing Climate," for the Miramichi Reader:
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
“How can you run when you know?”
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
New chapbook alert! Emergency Flash Mob Press (me) is happy to release into the world a new chapbook of poetry by Ross Leckie! $10 for local pickup/drop off or add $3 for shipping in Canada. DM for more details!
The Power of Poetry with things falling apart and anarchy let loose, it was only poetry, he found, which had any use, so he reached for his copy of The Complete Works of Yeats and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
That whole book is 🔥
A good lunch read.
And I’m primed because I picked up a beautiful Folio Society copy in an antique shop in the summer!
Might try! Havent read since undergrad! substack.com/@glutenbergb...
Here’s the description of Dust, the first I’m reading.
Back home in Fredericton after a family Christmas in northern NB. Here’s my Christmas 2025 book haul!
Textile artwork featuring a wintery blue icy rural landscape of hills and trees under a swirling sky
'Winter Embroidery' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #WomensArt
Celebrate traditionally published Canadian and Indigenous literature with us here at River Street! Just follow along, and if you’re interested in reviewing new and forthcoming books, drop us a line.
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We’ll tell you how to get started (it’s easy!). ♥️ 📚
And another review before the year end! Thanks @kimfahner.bsky.social and FreeFall magazine! freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ia...
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