Chantal Braganza

I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?

Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!

Here are 5 other things to know:

@nickhunebrown.bsky.social I got a couple of pitches from this person in 2023!!

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

This is...crazy? And depressing! thelocal.to/investigatin...

Baa Bazaar is having a cute lil anniversary party next Friday, Aurora Stewart de Peña is hosting, and @nikostratis.com, @meakoopa.bsky.social, Sydney Hegele and I are reading. It's going to be fun, and you should be there. www.instagram.com/p/DOJT_hNkxN...

one of the true gifts of parenthood is surrendering your illusions of control; no scientific advancement in the world can tell you who your child will be, how they'll resemble you or surprise you, what they'll be capable of, how much you'll love them. eugenicists refuse to accept this reality

absolutely delighted that my tender lil freak of a book is on this list

How My Vintage Dishware Obsession Got Out of Control - Chatelaine Resale sites are flush with vintage dinner sets right now—and I can’t stop buying them.

Would you like to read about the time I went fully insane and started collecting more vintage dishes than I will ever use in my lifetime? chatelaine.com/food/vintage...

If Carney wants to show Canada's sovereignty beyond archaic symbols and empty words, he could revoke the safe third country agreement today.

Have trad wives changed the way we view motherhood? @chantalbraganza.bsky.social, author of "Story of Your Mother," talks about the line between satisfaction and dissatisfaction in modern motherhood.

Watch her interview with @namshine.bsky.social on May 9 on The Agenda

2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel - Committee to Protect Journalists Introduction More journalists were killed in 2024 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 124 journalists and medi...

More journalists were killed in 2024 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data. At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed last year, nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israel.

cpj.org/special-repo...

For Some Parents, There’s Only One Election Issue That Matters | The Walrus The future of $10-a-day daycare is unclear

Took a lil walk through Canada's 50-year pattern of planning for, then scrapping, universal childcare—and how this election fits into it for @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/child-care-e...

For some parents, there’s only one issue that matters this election: the future of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) plan, a policy that reduces daycare fees in some provinces to as little as $10 a day. @chantalbraganza.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/child-care-elect...

Watching her child acquire language left @chantalbraganza.bsky.social with remorse. “I’d often wonder about that version of me—someone who shared a first way of speaking with her mother.” thewalrus.ca/the-secret-langu...

it's disingenuous to pretend only the right cares about people having babies — it's that only the right wants to *compel* women to have them. progressive policies like accessible childcare, robust public education, affordable housing etc are "pro-baby" but also pro-everyone else.

The Secret Language We Share with Our Children | The Walrus My mother loved me in Spanish. It’s shaped my understanding of parenthood

Delighted that @thewalrus.ca has a preview of Story of Your Mother in the June issue 💜 thewalrus.ca/the-secret-l...

Anne!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

MY INCREDIBLE FRIEND JUST RELEASED ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. read this article, then read her book!!!! @hazlitt.bsky.social @chantalbraganza.bsky.social

Chantal Braganza’s debut essay collection examines stories we tell about where we come from Story of Your Mother satisfies boundless appetite for motherhood narratives, like Miranda July and Leslie Jamison

for @theglobeandmail.com, I wrote about this gorgeous, surprising, unusual work of nonfiction by @chantalbraganza.bsky.social. the tl;dr — read it! give it to the moms in your life! www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...

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and on april 22, find Amil Niazi, Emily Keeler, Marlowe Granados and me doing readings on the theme of BABY. tickets are free, just RSVP
www.eventbrite.ca/e/story-of-y...

feeling extremely delighted and lucky that my first book launch event is (a) at Type Books @ Queen on April 10 and (b) hosted by THEE @namshine.bsky.social 💜❤️💜❤️💜❤️

Alice Munro’s Passive Voice The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.

Devastating to discover how many very specific, very sad, biographical details made their way into Munro’s fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I feel like the fact I've been having these urges to listen to the Garden State soundtrack the past couple of weeks might herald some kind of personal crisis

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I cannot stress this enough, the news about the TVO layoffs extremely sucks.

The Killing of the Science Centre | The Local The 55-year old museum shuttered without warning one Friday in June. Then devastated staff were given four months to dismantle it. A former employee on the last days of a beloved institution.

“Some 75 people were working inside the Ontario Science Centre building on the day of the torrential downpour. No warning was given to staff about danger. No one was instructed to evacuate the building. And as it happens, the roof did not fall. It did not even leak.” thelocal.to/ontario-scie...

Want to Raise a Kid in Canada? That’ll Be $293,000 | The Walrus . . . and climbing

A child is a human being, not a luxury—so how did we arrive at a place where the latter *feels* true? For @thewalrus.ca, I spoke to families across Canada about the financial realities of having and raising kids today.

Someone recently noted to me that stemware works the same way as the hemline index and now I can't unsee it

Also: there is good vanilla ice cream out there in the grocery aisles, I promise https://chatelaine.com/food/best-grocery-vanilla-ice-cream/#gallery/best-vanilla-ice-creams/slide-15

Absolutely tragic: I got this perfect Sandy Liang dress at like 85% off but it doesn't fit me!!!