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Anishinaabe Territory
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116 Third Ave, Ottawa
Anishinaabe Territory
Canada
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tiktok.com/@octopusbookstore
instagram.com/octopusbooks
facebook.com/octopusbookstore
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In a world fractured by violence, what does it really mean to protect human rights?
Author and human rights lawyer @alexneve.bsky.social reflects on the power of memory, witnessing, and collective action: thewalrus.ca/why-i-still-beli...
Author and human rights lawyer @alexneve.bsky.social reflects on the power of memory, witnessing, and collective action: thewalrus.ca/why-i-still-beli...
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In a world fractured by violence, what does it really mean to protect human rights?
Author and human rights lawyer @alexneve.bsky.social reflects on the power of memory, witnessing, and collective action: thewalrus.ca/why-i-still-beli...
Author and human rights lawyer @alexneve.bsky.social reflects on the power of memory, witnessing, and collective action: thewalrus.ca/why-i-still-beli...
Meet the author & discover a new great read at one of our Fall 2025 book signings, outside our shop at 116 Third Ave!
🗓️ Sun Oct 26, 2pm-4pm: Amélie B., "the things we left unsaid"
🗓️ Sat Nov 1, 1pm-3pm: Maïlie Dumas, "Coincés À Newark"
🗓️ Sun Nov 2, 1pm-3pm: Sue Davidson, "Dread Comes at Daybreak"
🗓️ Sun Oct 26, 2pm-4pm: Amélie B., "the things we left unsaid"
🗓️ Sat Nov 1, 1pm-3pm: Maïlie Dumas, "Coincés À Newark"
🗓️ Sun Nov 2, 1pm-3pm: Sue Davidson, "Dread Comes at Daybreak"
October 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Meet the author & discover a new great read at one of our Fall 2025 book signings, outside our shop at 116 Third Ave!
🗓️ Sun Oct 26, 2pm-4pm: Amélie B., "the things we left unsaid"
🗓️ Sat Nov 1, 1pm-3pm: Maïlie Dumas, "Coincés À Newark"
🗓️ Sun Nov 2, 1pm-3pm: Sue Davidson, "Dread Comes at Daybreak"
🗓️ Sun Oct 26, 2pm-4pm: Amélie B., "the things we left unsaid"
🗓️ Sat Nov 1, 1pm-3pm: Maïlie Dumas, "Coincés À Newark"
🗓️ Sun Nov 2, 1pm-3pm: Sue Davidson, "Dread Comes at Daybreak"
Join Carleton University’s Department of History for a talk by @milleridriss.bsky.social as she discusses her latest book Man Up: The New Misogyny & the Rise of Violent Extremism.
Thrs Oct 30, 6PM at CDCC, 355 Copper St., Ottawa
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Thrs Oct 30, 6PM at CDCC, 355 Copper St., Ottawa
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Join Carleton University’s Department of History for a talk by @milleridriss.bsky.social as she discusses her latest book Man Up: The New Misogyny & the Rise of Violent Extremism.
Thrs Oct 30, 6PM at CDCC, 355 Copper St., Ottawa
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Thrs Oct 30, 6PM at CDCC, 355 Copper St., Ottawa
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Join us at The Happy Goat on Laurel for this great book launch on Thurs Oct 28!
Join us for the Ottawa launch of The Cheese Cure! 🧀
Author @mikefinnerty.bsky.social will be in conversation with CBC’s Robyn Bresnahan to discuss his new memoir about passion, purpose, and yes—cheese!
📍 October 28, 7-9PM
Register here: bit.ly/4qbAhVI
#BookLaunch #OttawaEvents
Author @mikefinnerty.bsky.social will be in conversation with CBC’s Robyn Bresnahan to discuss his new memoir about passion, purpose, and yes—cheese!
📍 October 28, 7-9PM
Register here: bit.ly/4qbAhVI
#BookLaunch #OttawaEvents
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Join us at The Happy Goat on Laurel for this great book launch on Thurs Oct 28!
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education welcomes @jonathan4212.bsky.social to Octopus Books for the launch of his new book, We’re Coming for You & Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon & Upended Big-City Politics.
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education welcomes @jonathan4212.bsky.social to Octopus Books for the launch of his new book, We’re Coming for You & Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon & Upended Big-City Politics.
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
Book launch: Lordship & Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties, a groundbreaking new book by Dr. Muhannad Ayyash.
Fri Oct 24, 12pm at the University of Ottawa
Free registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/decolonial...
Fri Oct 24, 12pm at the University of Ottawa
Free registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/decolonial...
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Book launch: Lordship & Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties, a groundbreaking new book by Dr. Muhannad Ayyash.
Fri Oct 24, 12pm at the University of Ottawa
Free registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/decolonial...
Fri Oct 24, 12pm at the University of Ottawa
Free registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/decolonial...
Join us for the Ottawa launch of Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization, featuring author Martha Paynter in convo with Sabrina Lee, OBGYN, & frederique chabot of Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights.
Fri Oct 24 @7pm RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/events/37463...
@fernpub.bsky.social
Fri Oct 24 @7pm RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/events/37463...
@fernpub.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Join us for the Ottawa launch of Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization, featuring author Martha Paynter in convo with Sabrina Lee, OBGYN, & frederique chabot of Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights.
Fri Oct 24 @7pm RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/events/37463...
@fernpub.bsky.social
Fri Oct 24 @7pm RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/events/37463...
@fernpub.bsky.social
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Ottawa friends, attend an expert panel discussion on challenging Canada’s perpetuation of settler-colonial violence in North America and the Middle East on October 23.
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ottawa friends, attend an expert panel discussion on challenging Canada’s perpetuation of settler-colonial violence in North America and the Middle East on October 23.
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
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📚 Perspectives Journal has just arrived at @octopusbooks.ca in Ottawa!
Issues No. 2 and 3 are in stock—featuring bold progressive ideas, sharp analysis on political economy, and fresh visions for Canadian social democracy.
Stop by Octopus Books in the Glebe (116 Third Ave) to grab your copy.
Issues No. 2 and 3 are in stock—featuring bold progressive ideas, sharp analysis on political economy, and fresh visions for Canadian social democracy.
Stop by Octopus Books in the Glebe (116 Third Ave) to grab your copy.
October 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
📚 Perspectives Journal has just arrived at @octopusbooks.ca in Ottawa!
Issues No. 2 and 3 are in stock—featuring bold progressive ideas, sharp analysis on political economy, and fresh visions for Canadian social democracy.
Stop by Octopus Books in the Glebe (116 Third Ave) to grab your copy.
Issues No. 2 and 3 are in stock—featuring bold progressive ideas, sharp analysis on political economy, and fresh visions for Canadian social democracy.
Stop by Octopus Books in the Glebe (116 Third Ave) to grab your copy.
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Are you coming? Just over a month away! @atbaypress.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
October 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Are you coming? Just over a month away! @atbaypress.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
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“Violet’s Song” has now officially been released! Visit @octopusbooks.ca to grab your copy today, or order online.
October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Violet’s Song” has now officially been released! Visit @octopusbooks.ca to grab your copy today, or order online.
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On the surface, Ontario's "Safer Municipalities Act" seeks to address public drug use. In this brief, Brianna Olson-Pitawanakwat Mskwaasin Agnew, and Kelsi Balaban argue it maintains too-familiar traditions of Indigenous displacement and colonial harm: yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/ontario...
September 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
On the surface, Ontario's "Safer Municipalities Act" seeks to address public drug use. In this brief, Brianna Olson-Pitawanakwat Mskwaasin Agnew, and Kelsi Balaban argue it maintains too-familiar traditions of Indigenous displacement and colonial harm: yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/ontario...
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Book Launch! @octopusbooks.ca will be selling Books at House of Targ on Bank Street - Thursday November 6th 5-7 pm. Come buy books, original art, listen to some poetry, play pinball, eat pierogies, and have a beer.
September 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Book Launch! @octopusbooks.ca will be selling Books at House of Targ on Bank Street - Thursday November 6th 5-7 pm. Come buy books, original art, listen to some poetry, play pinball, eat pierogies, and have a beer.
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Vince Gasparro, the Parliamentary Secretary for "Combatting Crime," just announced that the Irish band Kneecap are banned from entering Canada, 3 days after he met with Israel lobbyists.
September 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Vince Gasparro, the Parliamentary Secretary for "Combatting Crime," just announced that the Irish band Kneecap are banned from entering Canada, 3 days after he met with Israel lobbyists.
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I think Sandy is Thoughtful Insights and I am Engaging Wit.
Thanks to the ever-brilliant @sandela.bsky.social & @nolore.bsky.social for joining us last night to discuss the big ideas in their new books with a packed audience in Ottawa! An examination of the serious issues facing Canada presented with their trademark thoughtful insights and engaging wit.
September 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I think Sandy is Thoughtful Insights and I am Engaging Wit.
Thanks to the ever-brilliant @sandela.bsky.social & @nolore.bsky.social for joining us last night to discuss the big ideas in their new books with a packed audience in Ottawa! An examination of the serious issues facing Canada presented with their trademark thoughtful insights and engaging wit.
September 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Thanks to the ever-brilliant @sandela.bsky.social & @nolore.bsky.social for joining us last night to discuss the big ideas in their new books with a packed audience in Ottawa! An examination of the serious issues facing Canada presented with their trademark thoughtful insights and engaging wit.
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We Keep Each Other Safe.
Power to the people of Los Angeles.
And if you think Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is dangerous, learn about Carney’s Bill C-2. Check out migrantrights.ca for more information #statusforall
Power to the people of Los Angeles.
And if you think Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is dangerous, learn about Carney’s Bill C-2. Check out migrantrights.ca for more information #statusforall
June 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We Keep Each Other Safe.
Power to the people of Los Angeles.
And if you think Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is dangerous, learn about Carney’s Bill C-2. Check out migrantrights.ca for more information #statusforall
Power to the people of Los Angeles.
And if you think Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is dangerous, learn about Carney’s Bill C-2. Check out migrantrights.ca for more information #statusforall
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Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
June 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
We Keep Each Other Safe.
Power to the people of Los Angeles.
And if you think Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is dangerous, learn about Carney’s Bill C-2. Check out migrantrights.ca for more information #statusforall
Power to the people of Los Angeles.
And if you think Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is dangerous, learn about Carney’s Bill C-2. Check out migrantrights.ca for more information #statusforall
June 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We Keep Each Other Safe.
Power to the people of Los Angeles.
And if you think Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is dangerous, learn about Carney’s Bill C-2. Check out migrantrights.ca for more information #statusforall
Power to the people of Los Angeles.
And if you think Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is dangerous, learn about Carney’s Bill C-2. Check out migrantrights.ca for more information #statusforall
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Liberals, please tell your party that C-2 is an unacceptable attack on migrants and threats the rights of everyone in Canada.
June 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Liberals, please tell your party that C-2 is an unacceptable attack on migrants and threats the rights of everyone in Canada.
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Vandalizing the National Holocaust Monument is shameful and hateful. This sacred space honours the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust and the strength of survivors.
Antisemitism, hatred, and intolerance have no place in Canada. Those responsible must be held accountable.
Antisemitism, hatred, and intolerance have no place in Canada. Those responsible must be held accountable.
June 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Vandalizing the National Holocaust Monument is shameful and hateful. This sacred space honours the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust and the strength of survivors.
Antisemitism, hatred, and intolerance have no place in Canada. Those responsible must be held accountable.
Antisemitism, hatred, and intolerance have no place in Canada. Those responsible must be held accountable.
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Defacing the Holocaust monument is not okay. I am devastated that this happened.
The National Holocaust Memorial is a solemn and sacred place in Ottawa designed to honour the millions of innocent people who were murdered under the Nazi regime and to recognize the significant contributions of Holocaust survivors in Canada. It’s shocking and disturbing to see it defaced today.
June 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Defacing the Holocaust monument is not okay. I am devastated that this happened.
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Yesterday we made Palestine and the genocide in Gaza unavoidable in Ottawa, the nation’s capital in Canada. Protestors took over the streets in front of CANSEC, an arms trade show where tech and weapons used to slaughter Palestinians are being bought and sold.
May 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Yesterday we made Palestine and the genocide in Gaza unavoidable in Ottawa, the nation’s capital in Canada. Protestors took over the streets in front of CANSEC, an arms trade show where tech and weapons used to slaughter Palestinians are being bought and sold.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip need action, not words.
Join us in calling for an end to Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
✊https://takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/162327/action/1
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Join us in calling for an end to Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
✊https://takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/162327/action/1
🍉🍉🍉
May 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip need action, not words.
Join us in calling for an end to Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
✊https://takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/162327/action/1
🍉🍉🍉
Join us in calling for an end to Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
✊https://takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/162327/action/1
🍉🍉🍉
