Carole Pope on the new doc Antidiva: 'I was so tired of being underappreciated as an artist' | CBC Arts Punk legend Pope writes an essay about why she agreed to make the new film Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions, which is a celebration of her radical career directed by Michelle Mama.

CBC Arts: Carole Pope on the new doc Antidiva: "I was so tired of being underappreciated as an artist"
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Karen Gansel Short Fiction Award Open to writers and authors from across Canada of all skill levels, this award is to showcase the great literary talent our nation has from coast to coast. The challenge is simple, write a new origina...

Congrats to Mark McClure, Barbara Darby and Jean McCarthy, our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of the @canadianauthors.bsky.social Karen Gansel Short Fiction Award. I was honoured to sit on the award jury with Terry Fallis and Richard Stursberg.

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Montreal-based cartoonist Lee Lai shortlisted for $205K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction | CBC Books The North American prize is the largest prize celebrating women and non-binary authors.

Montreal-based cartoonist Lee Lai shortlisted for $205K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
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Black-and-white group portrait of ten men posed in two rows against a dark backdrop. Five men sit in the front and five stand behind them. They wear suits and ties; one man in the back row wears a uniform with a peaked cap. The men have short hair and serious expressions. A newspaper or placard rests against the knees of the seated men, with large visible text reading Free the Winnipeg Six Rioters and smaller, less legible text below.

In 1933, residents in Blairmore, Alberta voted in Canada's first communist town council.
The council brought in relief payments for the unemployed, replaced Remembrance Day with a celebration of the Russian Revolution and put a tax on purebred dogs.
This is the story.

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On this day in 1980, Jacqueline Gareau won the Boston Marathon. She initially finished second to Rosie Ruiz but it was soon revealed that Ruiz cheated. Gareau was named the winner in a ceremony the following week. She is the only Canadian woman to win the Boston Marathon.

Haunted by ‘Dark Thoughts,’ Louisiana Father Kills 8 Children

If this man had murdered eight strangers the story would lead every news outlet. But because they are his children, it's "family violence," "domestic violence" -- undeserving of the same attention. Even though this violence is much more common
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Top (left to right): Headshot of Victoria Addona; Editor, Lisa Frenette, sitting at a desk and writing in a notebook; Headshot of Marguerite Pigeon; Bottom (left to right): Cover of Zomia Garden by Yutong Lin; Cover of REDress: Art, Action, and the Power of Presence by Jaime Black-Morsette; Cover of Visions Journal

Editors Canada has announced the finalists for the 2026 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. Congratulations to Victoria Addona (Montreal, Quebec); Lisa Frenette (Mississauga, Ontario); and Marguerite Pigeon (Vancouver, British Columbia)!

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The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the world’s largest English-language literary prize for women and non-binary writers, has announced its shortlist. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4cnyUON

Necropsy of Love If it came about you died it might be said I loved you: love is an absolute as death is, and neither bears false witness to the other-- But you remain alive. No, I do not love you hate the word, that private tyranny inside a public sound, your freedom's yours and not my own: but hold my separate madness like a sword, and plunge it in your body all night long. If death shall strip our bones of all but bones, then here's the flesh and flesh that's drunken-sweet as wine cups in deceptive lunar light: reach up your hand and turn the moonlight off, and maybe it was never there at all, so never promise anything to me: but reach across the darkness with your hand, reach across the distance of tonight, and touch the moving moment once again before you fall asleep--

So moved by Leonard Cohen's plaintive reading of this iconic Al Purdy poem in Al Purdy was Here (2015).

Photo of man with white hair and glasses, in blue-striped white shirt against a backdrop of greenery with headline that Tom Wayman wins the 2026 Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize.

The $10,000 prize recognizes the most outstanding new book of poetry published in Canada in 2025 by an established poet with five or more published poetry collections. Read the full story here: quillandquire.com/omni/

Look at Purolator's profits over that time. Despite being over 90% owned by Can Post and poaching profitable parcel routes from CP, leaving the unprofitable ones, not one cent of their billions in profit over that time counts on CP's books.
CP is being deliberately destroyed and you're being conned.

Here's a nice sample of some of what happened in Hamilton in 2015 the last time Canada Post tried to take away door to door. Residents took matters into their own hands, camping out to prevent installation of boxes. The city of Hamilton sued Canada Post after presentations by CUPW Hamilton.

Les vaccins contre le cancer seront prêts pour 2030, selon Moderna Début 2023, Moderna a annoncé lancer durant l’année la phase III d'un essai portant sur son vaccin contre le mélanome (cancer de la peau) à base d'ARNm, qui sera étendu à d'autres types de cancer d'ic...

Après un article sur les vaccins ARNm génériques pour combattre le cancer, en voici un sur les vaccins ARNm personnalisés.

Une techno qui offre une lueur d'espoir pour vaincre cette maladie (et d'autres aussi).

this weekend! Ottawa's current French-language poet laureate, and at least one former! // @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;

"write down everything you said to the bird
what you said about its feet, its belly, its soft red feathers
that is the beginning of the newest thing"

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
there is a deer grazing too close to highway 3
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Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

✨Happy pub date to BRAMAH’S DISCOVERY by Renée Sarojini Saklikar✨

This is the third instalment of Saklikar’s epic fantasy saga in verse, The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns (THOT J BAP).
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Let all evil die and the good endure!
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Available NOW! nightwoodeditions.com/collections/...

Did you know that Christina Shah is an avid mushroom forager? For more fun facts, check out Christina's "Author Q&A" on our website, and come back over the next couple of weeks for two more #NationalPoetryMonth Q&As from recent Nightwood authors! nightwoodeditions.com/blogs/news/a...

🌹 Every Paradise, from Sue Sinclair's stunning new collection, New-Fangled Rose

Stay tuned this National Poetry Month as we share excerpts, readings, and more from some of our favourite collections! ❤️

Find your next favourite at gooselane.com/poetry

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Jinwoo Park, author of spy thriller “Oxford Soju Club” @dundurnpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

"Jane d'Eau" by Tanis MacDonald - League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Proem" by Ayomide Bayowa.

"She likes you with wet feet, with webbed feet, clart between
your toes."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Jane d’Eau by Tanis MacDonald, forthcoming in Tall, Grass, Girl (2026 @bookhugpress.bsky.social) poets.ca/jane-deau-by...

Day 9 is Bahar Orang’s thought provoking debut, Where Things Touch: A Meditation On Beauty. This one should be read slowly in one long sitting, letting the words and thoughts wash over you in a wave. Then, read again in bits and pieces, while taking notes in the margin.❤️ @bookhugpress.bsky.social

Whitney French: Love, War, Memory, and Black Futurism Amanda and Tiffanie chat with Whitney French, author of Syncopation: A Novel in Verse, about memory, identity, and what it means to reshape yourself in a fractured world.

A wonderful discussion with Whitney French is up at Literary Mama:
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Christine Fischer Guy and Alice Zorn double book launch Join us for the launch of Mind the Gap by Alice Zorn and The Instrument Must Not Matter by Christine Fischer Guy

Spring Events are coming up fast, and we're delighted to be partnering with Another Story Bookshop and Newest Press for this great double book launch for Christine Fischer Guy and Alice Zorn at The Heliconian Club on May 25th. You can register at the eventbrite link here: guyandzornTO.eventbrite.ca

'SWIMS' upside down is still 'SWIMS.'

The graphic features an author photo of poet Meghan Kemp-Gee; she is pictured smiling at the camera wearing a dark blue lace top. In the bottom left corner of the graphic is the cover of her poetry collection, NEBULAS. In the upper right corner is the ALU logo, as well as the "POETS / RESIST" text for the #ALUPoetsResist series.

In NEBULAS (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), award-winning poet @meghankempgee.bsky.social looks to the stars to make meaning out of loss & sacrifice in unprecedented times.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with #ALUPoetsResist & read our full interview with Meghan at alllitup.ca/poets-resist...

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

"The headline finding: librarians have a notably higher rate of resistance to AI. About a third reported not using AI and having no plans to do so. (Across the full dataset, it was 20%.)"

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

Feminism means learning to listen too Effecting change can require building coalitions, and building coalitions requires listening.

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