MayWorks poster with teal background and detailed listings at bottom reproduced at https://mayworks.org/calendar/ Two blocky and exaggerated red and grey illustrated fists held up in solidarity abut while facing different directions. Title: MayWorks Celebrating Labour & the Arts April 28-June 7 2026
The program for Winnipeg’s 2026 MayWorks Festival of Labour & the Arts (April 28-June 7) mayworks.org/calendar/
Canadian publishers strongly condemn the proposed book restrictions in @albertagov.bsky.social's Bill 28, which undermine the core principles of public libraries: open access to information, intellectual freedom, & trust in professional expertise. publishers.ca/statement-al... @lpgcanada.bsky.social
Sign and share this petition demanding that Premier Ford and @mark-carney.bsky.social bring mercury Justice to #GrassyNarrows
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/me...
The boycott of the Giller Prize is over, as all three demands have successfully been met
Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here:
www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
Campaign statement here:
www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...
Launching tonight at McNally Robinson and streaming online m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLMf... Learn about the fascist roots and expansionist goals of the Canadian co-founded, US-led military alliance that masks itself as a peacekeeping organization, and hear the strong case for Canada’s exit from NATO:
The peoples of Palestine and Lebanon stand united today against Israel’s genocide and horrific aggression.
The cover of Canada & NATO: Myth of a Global Peacekeeper appears on the left. On the right is an image of the book's author, Owen Schalk.
This Friday April 10 at 7pm, join Owen Schalk for the launch of Canada & NATO: Myth of a Global Peacekeeper. Featuring a discussion hosted by Sarah Borbridge. @arpbooks.bsky.social - mailchi.mp/grant/owen-s...
A unique contribution designed to create change within museum & arts institutional practice, But have we arrived? is the first scholarly effort to serve this purpose through an approach that places artistic developments into conversation with political histories in Canada.
Coming this September.
Using the work of Indigenous artists and scholars, current political developments, and personal experience, Morrissette exposes a divide between western liberalism's progressive veneer and regressive deeds when met with the demands of Indigenous sovereignty and principled creative expression.
With examples of inclusionary politics within other areas of Canadian society, the book calls for an examination of attitudes towards Indigenous rights & knowledge, arguing for a new evaluation of spaces of inclusion made for Indigenous people within previously exclusionary centres of arts practice.
Morrissette compares the development of recognition-based politics in Canada with liberal inclusionary progress in the arts, demonstrating how colonialism and capitalism define contemporary artistic practice in a liberal paradigm, while restricting the progress that liberalism claims to champion.
Book cover against beige background, features collage image in monochromatic dark red and coral of a treed outcropping from the right over water and against a flat sky, with a deep shadow cast across the surrounding ripples, ending at a curved cutout near image bottom and title and author in black text, centre bottom: But have we arrived? Suzanne Morrissette
We are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of But have we arrived?, Suzanne Morrissette's insightful reckoning with liberalism's failed promises to Indigenous artists against the politics of inclusion and reconciliation.
Independent Palestinian publishers suspect that Amazon Ads is blocking titles, limiting visibility and suppressing books on Palestine amid censorship concerns
www.newarab.com/features/ama...
RALLY IN WINNIPEG - Say No to Nuclear!
Show up to say NO to proposed nuclear waste storage that threatens Grassy Narrows and Winnipeg’s waterways.
📅 March 22
📍 Oodena Circle, Winnipeg
⏰ 1 PM
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/world...
#WaterIsLife #WorldWaterDay #GrassyNarrows #FreeGrassy
"The Union of BC Indian Chiefs stands in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and community members in Winnipeg who continue to defend these rights and who remain vigilant in protecting the democratic freedoms that so many have struggled to secure." www.ubcic.bc.ca/protecting_t...
Hand holding up a copy of Canada & NATO at centre against background of ARP office bookshelves. Cover is black and white and features a collage background made from photographs from the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Designed by Bret Parenteau
Now available, Owen Schalk's Canada and NATO: Myth of a Global Peacekeeper. Join Schalk and peace activist Sarah Borbridge for a book launch and discussion at Grant Park McNally @mcnallyrobinson.com on April 10th, 7pm.
As we have said and continue to say: the absolute vibe-based public safety conversation is not going to change until we get serious about social change: library-specific deescalation work and broader social interventions around housing, youth engagement, safe consumption, and accessible healthcare.
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers will be returning her recent award won from the Toronto Film Critics Association after they censored her recorded acceptance speech once she turned attention to the war in Palestine.
“The choice before every government is clear: complicity or compliance."
Read more from yesterday's emergency meeting of The Hague Group in The National.
It is standard for Western academia to support imperialist aggression.
—Ali Kadri
As US/Israel aggression escalate, the genocide of Palestinians continues, as does the call to increase BDS efforts
ARP is among the 140+ arts orgs in Canada now openly committed to BDS by endorsing PACBI
www.bdsmovement.net/pacbi
Sameer Project lifesaving support
opencollective.com/the-sameer-p...
We're mobilising to Havana on 21 March.
Join the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba, and support our efforts to secure critical aid for homes, hospitals, schools, and families in need.
OUT NOW: SYRIA, Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam, a 300-page anthology of Syrian literature and art that speaks to this moment.
arablit.org/2026/03/01/a...
$700,000 supporting 9 independent book publishers gone without warning.
Meanwhile, many millions for militarization and Al (1 million for a pilot project on Al traffic signals alone), 33.8 million for cybersecurity, etc.
novascotia.ca/budget/
These cuts set a dangerous precedent for independent book publishing in Canada
"Owen Schalk makes the definitive case for Canada to withdraw from NATO. He explains the fascist origins of the U.S.-led military alliance and how it has used violence to expand capitalism and enrich the Western corporate elite.
Canada and NATO will inform and infuriate you." —Tamara Lorincz
“Canada and NATO is an exposé about the role of a country that hides behind the fact that it is not the United States, when it has supported almost every U.S. military adventure and it has defended the right of its mining companies to exploit the Global South. We need this book.” —Vijay Prashad
2026 marks ARP's 30th anniversary, and we're excited to announce that under expanded categories now including workers in publishing & visual art (+ film, music, & theatre) we've unionized, forming part of IATSE Local 63 as the union's first Canadian book publisher canada.iatse.net/cultural-wor...
Another casualty of Mark Carney’s ideologically driven government spending cuts: prison libraries.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Carl and Olliver Henry nearly got evicted by their corporate landlord for being one penny short on a rent payment.
It’s part of a bigger pattern: Black tenants are being targeted for eviction by Toronto’s corporate landlords, who are intent on raising rents and remaking the city.