Ann Douglas
@anndouglas.bsky.social
Author of 26 non-fiction books, including NAVIGATING THE MESSY MIDDLE (a book about midlife). Trying to teach myself how to write my first novel. Passionate about democracy and social justice. http://anndouglas.ca
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More than 50,000 people died preventable deaths under Trudeau due to Canada's toxic drug supply.
Trudeau's government knew safer supply would save lives and chose not to act.
Carney is making the same choice.
It's intentional.
They choose death.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Trudeau's government knew safer supply would save lives and chose not to act.
Carney is making the same choice.
It's intentional.
They choose death.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
They’re at risk of dying from opioid overdose. The government cut funding that could help them | CBC News
As deadly drug overdoses climbed across Canada, decision-makers faced political backlash for funding programs that gave drug users prescribed opioids and, against their own experts’ advice, scaled bac...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
More than 50,000 people died preventable deaths under Trudeau due to Canada's toxic drug supply.
Trudeau's government knew safer supply would save lives and chose not to act.
Carney is making the same choice.
It's intentional.
They choose death.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Trudeau's government knew safer supply would save lives and chose not to act.
Carney is making the same choice.
It's intentional.
They choose death.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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"A government needs to know when to walk away, to break a promise even. Not only would a deal with Trump be subject to sudden dismantling, the cost of securing one — what Canada would have to give up — is unlikely to be worth the expected returns."
#CdnPoli
#CdnPoli
Will Canada get a good trade deal from Trump? No. Should we try for one anyway? I'm not so sure anymore.
Welcome to Deal or No Deal: No Deal Edition!
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Welcome to Deal or No Deal: No Deal Edition!
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/deal-or-no...
Deal Or No Deal: No Deal Edition
Canada isn't going to get a fair and lasting deal from Donald Trump. As Lao Tzu said: You gotta know when to fold 'em.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"A government needs to know when to walk away, to break a promise even. Not only would a deal with Trump be subject to sudden dismantling, the cost of securing one — what Canada would have to give up — is unlikely to be worth the expected returns."
#CdnPoli
#CdnPoli
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One of the best things about life in the West End.
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
One of the best things about life in the West End.
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This is a good reflection on the catastrophic vibe shift in tech
It kills me that this is probably the most widely read thing I'll ever publish and NYT copy editors deleted all my Oxford commas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | I Worked All Over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is a good reflection on the catastrophic vibe shift in tech
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I've called PM Goldman Sach's approach trickle-down. This whole column is worth a read.
"While Carney hails his budget as “generational,” it’s actually a glossy repackaging of the “trickle-down” economics popularized by U.S. President Ronald Reagan"
#GiftLink 🎁
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"While Carney hails his budget as “generational,” it’s actually a glossy repackaging of the “trickle-down” economics popularized by U.S. President Ronald Reagan"
#GiftLink 🎁
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I've called PM Goldman Sach's approach trickle-down. This whole column is worth a read.
"While Carney hails his budget as “generational,” it’s actually a glossy repackaging of the “trickle-down” economics popularized by U.S. President Ronald Reagan"
#GiftLink 🎁
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
"While Carney hails his budget as “generational,” it’s actually a glossy repackaging of the “trickle-down” economics popularized by U.S. President Ronald Reagan"
#GiftLink 🎁
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Very glamorous cat in Central Park photo shoot today.
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Very glamorous cat in Central Park photo shoot today.
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
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Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
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Been traveling a little today. Want to guess where I saw the highest % of people w/masks? Airports? Flight? Bus from airport to city (most riders seemed to be working people, mostly people of color)? The conference I'm at?
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Been traveling a little today. Want to guess where I saw the highest % of people w/masks? Airports? Flight? Bus from airport to city (most riders seemed to be working people, mostly people of color)? The conference I'm at?
Hermit mode: ON
Duration: 120 days
Options selected:
✅ Tea
✅ Books
✅ Warm sweaters
✅ Fuzzy blankets
Duration: 120 days
Options selected:
✅ Tea
✅ Books
✅ Warm sweaters
✅ Fuzzy blankets
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Hermit mode: ON
Duration: 120 days
Options selected:
✅ Tea
✅ Books
✅ Warm sweaters
✅ Fuzzy blankets
Duration: 120 days
Options selected:
✅ Tea
✅ Books
✅ Warm sweaters
✅ Fuzzy blankets
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I shared this essay by my mentor Donella Meadows with some young friends today. Maybe you'll find it clarifying too!
donellameadows.org/archives/a-l...
donellameadows.org/archives/a-l...
A Letter, Anguish, and a Rubber Band
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November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I shared this essay by my mentor Donella Meadows with some young friends today. Maybe you'll find it clarifying too!
donellameadows.org/archives/a-l...
donellameadows.org/archives/a-l...
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It got much colder but remained a nice autumn day. I took a leaf-appreciation walk that led to the sea and the sunset. Well-spent afternoon.
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It got much colder but remained a nice autumn day. I took a leaf-appreciation walk that led to the sea and the sunset. Well-spent afternoon.
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It's that time of year. For me this week's remembrance serves as a reminder of how imperialism is quick to sacrifice the working class to protect and preserve power.
I'm not reverent about today but I see value in pausing to remember how the working class is exploited by imperialists, both then and now. And to that end, I remain grateful to the prof of a uni humanities class I took years ago that had me read 'Generals Die In Bed'; it started me down a path.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It's that time of year. For me this week's remembrance serves as a reminder of how imperialism is quick to sacrifice the working class to protect and preserve power.
An eye-catching intermingling of the seasons in Oakville, Ontario.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
An eye-catching intermingling of the seasons in Oakville, Ontario.
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The political class must be taught the lesson that they actually work for us and not corporations and lobbyists. And they learn nothing when we complain and keep voting for them. If you can’t see that at this point, I don’t know what to tell you. The evidence is clear.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The political class must be taught the lesson that they actually work for us and not corporations and lobbyists. And they learn nothing when we complain and keep voting for them. If you can’t see that at this point, I don’t know what to tell you. The evidence is clear.
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Forest puddles have been few and far between on my walks these last few months. But today I got to admire and capture this beauty.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Forest puddles have been few and far between on my walks these last few months. But today I got to admire and capture this beauty.
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If you were a visitor from a distant land and had to understand the purpose of the democratic party elite from only their actions not their words, what would you say their function is? I think this is an important question to understand our situation clearly.
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you were a visitor from a distant land and had to understand the purpose of the democratic party elite from only their actions not their words, what would you say their function is? I think this is an important question to understand our situation clearly.
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I remember where I was standing when Citizens United came down and the feeling of dread that swept over me and I was right to dread.
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I remember where I was standing when Citizens United came down and the feeling of dread that swept over me and I was right to dread.
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I think the headline doesn't do the best job of selling this column from Tim Wu. The column is worth a read.
We're living in an era of wealth and power concentration, and the people and firms in charge are very good at defending their dominance. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
We're living in an era of wealth and power concentration, and the people and firms in charge are very good at defending their dominance. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Can we go back to the optimism of the 1990s, before the extraction economy took over?
Our economic system benefits only those at the very top – but it’s not too late for change
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I think the headline doesn't do the best job of selling this column from Tim Wu. The column is worth a read.
We're living in an era of wealth and power concentration, and the people and firms in charge are very good at defending their dominance. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
We're living in an era of wealth and power concentration, and the people and firms in charge are very good at defending their dominance. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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The UN estimates that hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in scam centres worldwide
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November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The UN estimates that hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in scam centres worldwide
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I could go on forever about this, but my point is that the hardship of work, the struggle, the messiness, the *humanity* of it, if you will, is what's most valuable about it. It's how we learn, it's how we grow.
Replacing that with "AI" cheapens and degrades the process, and leaves us the poorer.
Replacing that with "AI" cheapens and degrades the process, and leaves us the poorer.
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I could go on forever about this, but my point is that the hardship of work, the struggle, the messiness, the *humanity* of it, if you will, is what's most valuable about it. It's how we learn, it's how we grow.
Replacing that with "AI" cheapens and degrades the process, and leaves us the poorer.
Replacing that with "AI" cheapens and degrades the process, and leaves us the poorer.
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Every writer knows what it's like to struggle to find the right words, the best argument and voice to express something. And often, perhaps always, doing that work leads to creative insight, a better argument, a more persuasive voice.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Every writer knows what it's like to struggle to find the right words, the best argument and voice to express something. And often, perhaps always, doing that work leads to creative insight, a better argument, a more persuasive voice.
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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A few weeks ago I zoomed with a group of high school students and their adult mentor to discuss taking social action. I am thrilled to report that this group of 10 students raised $10,000 in two weeks to support their local food pantry. They sent me a photo and it has them all jumping and I tear up.
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A few weeks ago I zoomed with a group of high school students and their adult mentor to discuss taking social action. I am thrilled to report that this group of 10 students raised $10,000 in two weeks to support their local food pantry. They sent me a photo and it has them all jumping and I tear up.