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Tell the Canadian Government: Stop Funding Companies Supporting Trump’s Human Rights Abuses GardaWorld — a Canadian-based “private security company” — has million-dollar contracts to execute Trump's racist and inhumane immigration regime, which kidnaps people, tears families apart, and denie...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/te...

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

I have had people question my use of a walker. What can I say? Some people think it is up to them to police the use of mobility aids. Shaking my head over here.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

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#standforwolves #wolfconservation

My therapist: you tend to pursue damaged people to try and fix them. Me: you do that too cartoon image with words: therapist, listen here you little shit

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For the visual learners...

I can't breathe...

Thank you for your kind words. Padraig reading of the poems and the offerings of what he sees in each poem is amazing.

If You've Done At Least 15 Of These 35 Things, You're 1000% A Boomer If you're under 25, it's very likely you might never have heard of some of these.

Just turned 70 & am familiar with 95% of what is on this list. Reading this felt like a walk down memory lane & reminded me just how much the world has changed. I do miss some things like the slower pace of life we once enjoyed. Even so I don't want to go back.

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love that title...

yes... thank you!

Image of @dannyramadan, contest judge for the 2025 CNFC-The Fiddlehead's creative nonfiction contest. Deadline is February 14, 2025.

Only three weeks left to submit to the CNFC- @fiddlehd.bsky.social creative nonfiction contest with judge @dannyramadan.com. Time to start polishing! More info about submission guidelines here: creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/ #writingcontest

Fact check: Trump litters Oval Office interview with false claims | CNN Politics President Donald Trump littered a Wednesday interview on Fox News with many of the same false claims he made earlier in his first three days back in the White House.

Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24.
Harris beat Trump 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29.
Harris beat Trump 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39.

Trump to Fox: “I won youth by 36 points.”

www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...

The Alchemy of Illness Illness is a universal experience. There is no privileg…

Working on my fourth book and doing research, rereading this book. "We are taught to assume health, and to view illnesses as a temporary breakdowns in the well-oiled machinery of the body. But illness has its own geography, its own laws and commandments."

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Yes... it was not an easy decision for me. I left as soon as Musk bought it and have had moments of doubt. I missed seeing some people but now quite a few of them are here.

thank you Jessica!

wow... i was just thinking is there anything else i could use. you recommend this libreoffice?

Being Sentient Isn’t For the Faint of Heart: An Interview with Rhea Tregebov The author of "Talking to Strangers" talks about unified field theory, poetry forms, and keeping the ego in check.

Year Seven of my #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here!

We're going big to open this year's series, with an interview with the one and only @rheatregebov.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy it.

You ask such great questions Rob. Thank you for all that you do!!

Off the Shelf Reading Series Part 5
Featuring: CHRISTINE MCNAIR @christinemcnair.bsky.social + rob mclennan / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social

February 28, 2025 : 7 pm
SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver

www.poetrycanada.org @poetryincanada.bsky.social

Hey with all of this “buy Canadian” as a response to the tariffs, can we also remember to READ CANADIAN.

Canadian publishers will struggle to distribute books to the US, and Canadian authors struggle to get published there. American authors have a much easier time to be published here. Soooo….

Cecily Nicholson, author of the award-winning collections Wayside Sang, From the Poplars, and the forthcoming Crowd Source has been named the University of California Berkeley’s 2025 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry! Congratulations, Cecily!⁠

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I was wondering the same thing.

Thank you! I am in need of shelter.

I was in her presence a few times. She was a momma bear and would swat you with her words if you said something foolish. I did and the swat was a loving act.

a person holding a glowing object in their hands with stars coming out of it ALT: a person holding a glowing object in their hands with stars coming out of it

I believe that what I focus on grows, but am finding it hard to look away as you know who takes over as president. I invite you to join me in spending time focusing on this photo. Every time I look at it I am reminded that I can return to the light by shifting my focus and it's okay to rest.

I remember seeing her and her daughters speak at the Vancouver Writer's Festival launch of this book. Powerful stuff!! She is missed.

She said what needed to be said...