"It is not that the police couldn’t find me. It’s that they chose instead to embark on a harassment campaign."

Finally Rachelle can tell her story about her role in the Giller protest and her harassment by police, details I've left out of my reporting until now.

lithub.com/why-i-risked...

Call your MP and ask them to oppose Bill C-5. It's a gift to the fossil fuel industry and a violation of Indigenous rights.

These principled artists have worked hard and put a lot on the line to protest Canadian wealth that funds both the arming of a genocide and feel-good prestige arts awards. Arts philanthropy looks good, bombing people does not. We are lucky to have these people. breachmedia.ca/scotiabank-i...

I'm grateful to all the tireless organizers who spoke to me for this piece.

If you live in Winnipeg Centre, I'd encourage you to get out today and vote for @leahgazan.bsky.social, an amazing champion for this neighbourhood, anti-poverty, rent control, 2SLGBTQ rights, MMIWG, Gaza, and climate justice. Few politicians I could support this wholeheartedly.

We lost the only true moral leader on the world stage.

It's immense.

But Pope Francis led by listening to the grassroots, lifting up the people's demands.

He put "ecological debt" in the climate encyclical, a concept that emerged in Ecuador's oil-poisoned jungle.

Millions of leaders remain.

Giller Foundation cuts ties with Scotiabank—bravo, finally. Congratulations to the activists who lead the campaign to compel this change, and hoping it leads banks to yet further divestment from weapons-makers.

www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...

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Looking forward to this!

"Austerity is self-perpetuating. The reluctance to invest what’s needed in public programs means that those programs often disappoint, creating a vicious circle—underfunded programs don’t deliver the services we need, our trust in government is undermined." thewalrus.ca/common-sense...

As Europe did in wake of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, we need to rapidly make ourselves less dependent on oil & gas. These fuels are poison, not only to the earth but to democracy; the more reliant we are, the more it serves the petro-oligarchs and their political servants like Putin & Trump...

Ok, now that I've joined the masses migrating to a site not owned by an oligarchic billionaire, let me introduce myself with a thread of some of my writing from 2024.

What @creeclayton.bsky.social points out👇 is starkly visible in this documentary: gem.cbc.ca/yintah. Everyone should watch it.

Scott Gillingham on CBC lying about why he’s cutting library services at Millennium. Management, librarians, and advocates have all told him many times that the Community Connections space is a library service, answering the same questions people already asked, but in a low-barrier, supportive space

Received the first bound proof/ARC of Is A River Alive? today, 3.5 yrs after starting work on it.
Always an exciting waymark in a book’s journey.
Neon-zing meander art by @stanleydonwood.bsky.social
Lovely to hold it in hand: it exists!
Out 1 May next year: dedicated to the rivers & their guardians.

Deeply thoughtful interview with David Bergen.

Read poet and organizer Jody Chan’s Giller Prize boycott speech: “Here, today, we throw our labour into the gears of the death machine.”

Nowhere I'd rather be on the night of the Giller Prize than in a room full of friends and writers reading aloud the work of Palestinian and Indigenous poets. Here I'm reading "Remembering Mahmoud 1976" from Lee Maracle's gorgeous book Talking to the Diaspora.

Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need.

A few initial thoughts:

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