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hater nation
www.scaachi.substack.com
scaachi.koul@slate.com
Curious Canadian wanderer, retired writer, journalist, broadcaster, photographer, constituency assistant and grocery clerk.
We offer creative writing courses, programs and events that centre mentorship, community and connection. Join our monthly chats and sprints!
https://sfu.ca/write
Into communications, #illustration, web publishing. Interested in science, discourse, journalism, politics, and epistemology. Big fan of archives and libraries. Thinking about whiteness and toxic masculinity. (he/him)
www.sherwinarnott.org
Retired Curmudgeon at Large. Ne’er do well of questionable morals. Proud purveyor of unmitigated tommyrot. Prone to exaggeration and totally unnecessary embellishment.
Always curious, always learning.
Just a dad who loves his city
West coast Canada
Cargo bikes, blue jays and Habs are my interests 😆
Massachusetts ❤️📍
The American version, not one of the 7 British Pamela Davies (though I may have your invoices/ appointment reminders/ flight information/ insurance quotes, British Mes.)
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Solidarity > fear.
She/her
lək̓ʷəŋən territory
#yyj #elbowsup #canucks
Environment, public health PhD. I love cities, birds and music. I’m mostly around #yyj biking with my family, caring a lot about housing and the toxic drug crisis, and singing tenor in a choir. Genderqueer. The Olive Ridley is a sea turtle!
Canadian West Coast indie musician and pop culture designer • mtthw.ca • Listen on Spotify - https://spti.fi/mtthw • Designer of clever tees for bands that don’t exist but should • easyassembly.co • Healthcare system innovator
Providing health and care services to people on Vancouver Island, surrounding islands and communities.
Author of IF I SURVIVE YOU, a NY Times Editor’s Choice, IndieNext Pick, & International Bestseller. Nom’d for the National Book Award, PEN/Jean Stein, PEN/ Robert W. Bingham, & Story Prize. Booker Prize, PEN/ Faulkner & NBCC John Leonard finalist.
Researcher, organizer, medic | Surrey Union of Drug Users | Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, UVic | Former: EIDGE, VANDU OPS
Victoria-based communications professional.
Freelance Editor, Writing Coach, Perpetual Student, and Sensitivity Reader. Black southern she/her. Tessera Editorial Alumna✨
Victoria City Councillor and CRD Director in Victoria, B.C. PhD in History. Loves gardening, cello, democracy, climate action, housing, cycling, and family. Views my own.
Communications, partnerships and engagement leader. Rower, coffee addict, vinyl lover. Living gratefully on Lekwungen territory.
📍Victoria, BC
Husband, Dad, Writer of SidewalkingVictoria.com and Photographer
Award-winning Canadian journalist at the Vancouver Sun/Postmedia covering organized crime. Canucks fan since 1970 (sigh) kbolan@postmedia.com 604-219-5740 WhatsApp/Signal
We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Political staffer. Parent. Lake swimmer. Prairie-raised, BC-infused. She/her
Retired MLA Victoria Beacon Hill, past Finance Minister, and Deputy Premier.
Care deeply about community, family, friends, and politics!
News and information from Vancouver Island.
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climate comms | outside learning about nature whenever possible | used to write about the toxic drug crisis, still carry that
photographer. trans. still masking. trying to be useful.
let's chill...in the comments or among the wildflowers
Vancouver, B.C. journalist covering politics and housing for TheTyee.ca
Instagram and TikTok: @jenstdenis
Email: jstdenis at thetyee dot ca
MLA for Victoria-Beacon Hill / #bcpoli / Momma to Asher & Eve / PhD / Lover of running & all things #yyj / she/her
Legit, fast & easy side hustle. I help you make 💰 💰 💰 without all the BS.
🇨🇦 West Coast Dreamer 🌊
🎨 Artist | 🧘Healer | Visionary Entrepreneur 💼
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Stubbornly sesquipedalian, just not at work
B.C. politics reporter with The Narwhal
She/her
Recent work: https://thenarwhal.ca/author/shannon-waters/
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you don’t know how to treat the cryptkeeper | 25 | she
Host @Crackdownpod.bsky.social VANDU veteran. Drugstore cowboy. National bestselling author. Award-winning journalist. Policy analyst. Shop steward. Blind. Be safe-Keep 6
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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Poet and cultural critic. I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World, The People’s Project.
🎤 Host of “Give It To Me Straight”
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📍 Las Vegas, NV
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💎 La Diva Grande Dame de Philadelphie 💎
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#TheCristalBall
www.sapphiracristal.com
Founder + Agent @Starling Literary + Media, representing authors & Illustrators. Wife, mom of 3, MFA grad, & former Asst. Director for film & TV. https://www.starlingliterary.com | http://querymanager.com/query/Jemiscoe
Writer: NY Mag, Esquire, The Atlantic, Vogue, etc. Head of Social Media @ tech job. Mostly posting about dogs & books. Opinions all mine. vershbowiswriting@gmail.com
https://www.sophievershbow.com/writing
Funny writer of fiction and satire. INSIDE JOKES: A COMEDY AND CREATIVITY GUIDE FOR ALL WRITERS out March 10, 2026.
My newsletter on our creative wells: https://inputandoutput.substack.com/
comedian and writer
https://theashleyray.com/
www.theashleyray.com/ashleyraycrafts
https://ashleyraycrafts.etsy.com
Writer. Widow. Sell-out. Hates mint chocolate. Got the girlies pressed. May or may not be notable. #fuckcancer.
A group of Canadian physicians who care for people who use substances and advocate for safer, more compassionate, evidence-based healthcare policies.
Victoria, B.C. needsmorespikes.com
News Director at CHEK News | #yyj
Pinterest mom. Dreamer. Firm belief in public service, equality and justice.
Here for law reform to end #maleviolence #domesticviolence ⚖️
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#bcpoli #canpoli #vanpoli
Advocacy | Law Reform | Human Rights | Politics | Education ⚖️♿🌎📚
Author. Former BC MLA, Cabinet Minister, labour leader. Public speaker. Media commentator. Mental health advocate. Love community, family, kayaking, long walks, photography, devouring good books. Politics sometimes.
Journalist/speechwriter. #Vancouver-based. Twin wrangler. Grammar nerd. #Beagle owner. Really into cheese, gardening, East Africa, volunteering. #writer #Strathcona 🇨🇦 Have lived in 5 countries.
Community, always. Politics, still. Travel, ever ready. Recovering bibliotaph (I had to look that up). 🇨🇦
Retired BC NDP MLA & Minister of Social Development & Poverty Reduction. Chair of Community Living BC. Chair, Executive Leadership Committee, National Institute of Disability Management and Research.
Victoria, BC, Canada. Legislative Reporter at Global BC. Host of Focus BC. C division curler. Rookie minors baseball coach. He/him.
Legislative reporter for CBC News BC.
LSE alum, Travers Fellowship recipient, Amnesty International Canada media award recipient.
Loves to travel (even with two toddlers apparently).
Communications, Issues & Advocacy. Recovering journalist. 🇱🇰born, 🇨🇦raised. She/Her 🌈
Not a real Office of the Legislative Assembly of B.C.
37th and current premier of British Columbia.
Deputy Premier and Attorney General of BC. MLA for Vancouver-Hastings. Lawyer. Advocate for people & the planet, star gazer💫
Pragmatic optimist. Ocean lover. Star Trek fan. Dog walker. Former #Tofino mayor. MLA for Mid Island Pacific Rim. BC Minister of Health. #bcpoli
980 CKNW Radio Host. Former Global National East Asia Bureau Chief (Beijing), Former South Asia Bureau Chief (New Delhi), former MLA.
BC Politics. Transplanted hoser from Timmins.
BC Politics + Coffee + Cats
TV: cheknews.bsky.social » Podcast/Show: Political Capital » Columns: Glacier Media and Northern Beat » Radio: CBC Radio West and CBC All Points West » Cats: bcpoliticat.bsky.social
All shows/columns at: www.robshawnews.com
Paddler, professional communicator, settler on Coast Salish territory. Fair-weather bike rider. Increasingly concerned about the state of affairs, so I'm speaking out.
💁♀️ Creative Director | Writer | Optimist | List enthusiast
📍 Beautiful British Columbia
🐈⬛ Heck yeah
↙ ↙ ↙ - Victoria B.C. - Politics/TTRPGs/Bikes/Linux/Systems Administration - Opinions are my own. I do not “follow for follow”
Writer of Hudson's Bay Company history west of the Rocky Mountains. Learn more about my books at https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nancy-marguerite-anderson/ I live in beautiful #Victoria, #BC
Mean and nasty Canadian. Author of "Play Ball!," a lavishly illustrated, coffee-table book about pro baseball in Vancouver, B.C., now available for sale at Nat Bailey Stadium and the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
David Eby & the BC New Democrats are on your side — standing strong for BC and for Canada.
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Authorized by BC NDP Financial Agent, 604-430-8600.
Associate Director, BCAFN. 2022 CoV Candidate with OneCityVan. President, UNYA; Board Member, CCPA BC; Nehithaw (LLRIB) - Treaty 6. PhD Candidate UBC (MrMatthewNorris on that other site)
Most of my wardrobe comes from Blue Sky Clothing (not affiliated with this platform). Being here feels good so far
Genomics, science, policy, hockey, books, canoeing, food and wine. Canadian.
Googling stuff on your behalf since 2016
Curious mind, mild political addiction and beekeeper so anxious about climate stuff!
Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
Politics and books. Cooperative overlapper. Hopeful collapsnik. She/her.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #vanpoli
She/Her. Photography. Books. Nature. Dogs. Food. Cooking. Running. Zoning Reform Advocate. Harm Reduction Advocate. Ex BC wine/beer sales rep. Proofreading/Editing Services for the Beverage Alcohol industry and beyond. #yyj Vancouver Island.
Still an author, still an editor, new book THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN out now, it might scare you
SUBSTACK:
The Book Maven Unbound
https://thebookmavenunbound.substack.com/
Critic @LATimesBooks
LIFE B memoir: https://bookshop.org/p/books/life-b-overcoming-double-depression-bethanne-patrick/1874245
https://linktr.ee/bookmaven
TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
Journalist with the CBC | formerly with the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail | tips: emily.fagan@cbc.ca
Canadian news reporter/producer based in Prince George, British Columbia — Dakelh territory. I live north of most of you.
akurjata.ca | Nechako x Lhtakoh | he/him
Semi-retired human typewriter
