Love seeing all the amazing journalism up for awards this year! Congrats to all the nominees!

Bookmarks for Canada’s Endangered Animals. One side has a link to gracekennedywrites.ca. The other side has little Polaroid drawings of each animal.

Stickers! Of the Gaspesie Caribou, the Little Brown Bat, the Vancouver Island Marmot, and the Ord’s Kangaroo Rat.

Stickers! Of the Spotted Turtle, the Five Lined Skink, the Oregon Spotted Frog, and the Eastern Tiger Salamander

Stickers! Of the Northern Spotted Owl, the Piping Plover, the Ivory Gull, and the Red Knot.

Book swag hot off the press!

(Free if you come to my book launch on May 30 — details to come.)

The Case of the Experimental Farm Built for 19th-Century Tourists | The Tyee In the 1880s, the federal government opened a new science-focused farm to foster research — and colonialism.

#PlaceDetective🔎: Drive too fast between the Fraser Valley communities of Agassiz and Harrison Hot Springs, and you might miss it: a small sign secured to an antique pillar, beckoning visitors into more than a century of history.

@gracekennwrites.bsky.social writes.

The Slimy BC Invader That Came from the West | The Tyee The violet tunicate is a hermaphroditic reproducer that shellfish farmers have been blasting off oysters for nearly a century on the West Coast.

It didn’t arrive on a meteorite, crashing into a suburban town to feast on human flesh.

But an alien blob has been circulating in British Columbian waters, spreading its colonies in marinas and oyster farms. Grace Kennedy writes. 🪸👽

The Slimy BC Invader That Came from the West | The Tyee The violet tunicate is a hermaphroditic reproducer that shellfish farmers have been blasting off oysters for nearly a century on the West Coast.

It’s … alive!

Loved writing this story about violet tunicates for @thetyee.ca Whenever there’s an opportunity to talk to scientists about slimy blobs, you have to take it.

Also have a love-hate relationship with the newly relevant childhood game “astronaut” which involves extremely gravity-bound kids “floating” around the living room

Watching the Artemis return with the kids, which is both extremely cool and extremely nerve-wracking.

A male Oregon spotted frog in a natural wetland, held firmly in a researcher’s hand.

The horrors persist but so do the Oregon spotted frogs.

(Another frog interview today, this time in agricultural frog-land.)

A picture of the front page of Canada's Endangered Animals: Twelve Species At Risk of Disappearing Forever (Written by Grace Kennedy) with an Adobe pop-up saying: This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant.

Adobe AI agent: This document is too long. Read my summary instead.
Me: This is a children's book. With many pictures. I sure hope I, a 32-year-old adult, could read it fully by myself.

One month of prep, six surprise fry, two unexpected snails, and now finally this one adorable bristlenose pleco.

First time doing taxes as a freelancer and I am NOT loving it.

Wetland zen from yesterday. (Thanks @cangeo.bsky.social for giving me a reason to get out with frogs!)

A male Oregon spotted frog, reluctantly allowing biologists to measure, weigh, and pit tag him.

We found three male Oregon spotted frogs today, but I cannot remember if this is the same boy or not.

I got to spend a spectacular (if chilly) day out near Sts’ailes checking out Canada’s most endangered frog on assignment for @cangeo.bsky.social

10/10 would always recommend a visit with these handsome froggy boys.

You can read a small recap of the day here: gracekennedywrites.ca/2026/03/10/i...

The first snowdrops from back in January.

The first crocus is always yellow. I don’t know why.

Mint that escaped from someone’s yard and is now growing between cracks in the pavement.

An accidental pansy in the toilet planter, alongside a well-established dandelion.

Purple crocuses finally blooming, after a few weeks of yellow flowers.

This unidentified weed. We’re excited to find out what it will become.

Daffodils almost ready to make their yellow trumpeted appearance.

Celebrating Anne Shirley’s birthday with photos from my garden, as she would have wanted.

An all black image with white text overlaid on the black. The text reads: "Day of Mourning. British Columbia grieves with Tumbler Ridge."

Today is a Day of Mourning in BC for the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge.

Our thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives, students and staff, first responders, and the entire Tumbler Ridge community.

Please join us in observing a moment of silence at 12:00 PM (PST).

So today's speech by the LG *is* the throne speech in an altered form

I did not pick that up from yesterday's press release

Sounds like it will be short and focused on the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, rather than the government's priorities for the session

Government House Leader Official Opposition House Leader BC Greens House Leader JOINT STATEMENT Joint statement on changes to the legislative calendar in recognition of Tumbler Ridge tragedy VICTORIA - Mike Farnworth, Government House Leader; Á'a:líya Warbus, Official Opposition House Leader; and Rob Botterell, BC Greens House Leader, have released the following joint statement on changes to events in the legislature over the coming days in reflection of the tragic events in Tumbler Ridge: "The horrific shooting and tragic loss of life in Tumbler Ridge have devastated this small community and impacted people across B.C., Canada and around the world. "In recognition of these events, the planned Throne Speech for tomorrow will not be delivered. "Thursday, Feb. 12 will be proclaimed a day of mourning in the province of British Columbia. "At noon, the legislative assembly will stand for a moment of silence in honour of the victims in Tumbler Ridge, their families and the entire community. The house will then adjourn. "At 2 p.m., the lieutenant governor will deliver a speech in the house dedicated to the people of Tumbler Ridge, followed by brief legally required procedures. "The people of British Columbia mourn together with the people of Tumbler Ridge. We are united and will continue to ensure every possible support for community members in the coming days."

Tomorrow will be a day of mourning in BC and the government's throne speech is being pushed back

The legislature will observe a moment of silence in honour of Tumbler Ridge at noon tomorrow followed by a speech from The lieutenant governor at 2PM #bcpoli

RCMP press conference is happening now. RCMP say that as police approached the school, they were shot at. The suspected shooter is identified as Jesse Rootsellar (I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling.)

Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...

Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge.

Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today

styleguide.transjournalists.org

Donate to Supporting families affected in Tumbler Ridge, organized by Tumbler Ridge PAC Supporting Families Impacted by the Recent Tragedy in Tumbler Ridge … Tumbler Ridge PAC needs your support for Supporting families affected in Tumbler Ridge

If you want to help Tumbler Ridge from afar, consider donating. Every bit helps: even if you can only afford $5, it’s still like you’re buying a grieving parent a cup of coffee. Which I know a lot of us would do in person if it was our community.

Also, posted these on my site, but posting here, mostly in case media wants to use. Dear media: Rights are as such: I know I am the local reporter but I have been so tied up with media requests and trying to get information out to community, I haven’t been outside in eight hours, so these are the images I have. Everything I know I have posted to my lives on Facebook and later, YouTube. If you want to grab stuff that’s okay, but we are a community funded newspaper. You can use any of this information, if, and only if you pinky promise to make a donation. We have a patreon site, https://www.patreon.com/c/tumblerridgelines I don’t have an easy way for one time donations, but I have this: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/204606215-Can-I-make-a-one-time-payment Images are : A group of worried parents gather outside Tumbler Ridge Secondary School as RCMP investigate inside. The students were soon sent to the nearby community centre to shelter in place there. And RCMP take up position outside a home on Fellers, where two additional bodies were found.

A message from Trent Ernst, the only reporter who lives in Tumbler Ridge

🔴 LIVE: 10 dead, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. YouTube video by CBC News

Mayor of Tumbler Ridge Darryl Krakowka: "I will know every victim. I've been here 19 years ... I don't call them residents, I call them family." www.youtube.com/live/-SIOpuE...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

A comic panel that reads: My Canadian Lovebird is the Canada Goose. With an image of a married goose saying to someone offscreen “Did you just honk at my spouse?!” The other goose looks on in admiration.

Obsessed. Thank you @michellecyca.com @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social and @thenarwhal.ca for this quiz that I will now make absolutely everyone take.

projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-quiz

Thanks Keili!

If you are an ugly fish expert (esp this ugly fish) please hit me up! I’d love to interview you.

The front page of the COSEWIC assessment report for the Roundnose Grenadier. This image of the fish looks as though someone surprised a weird little letter opener.

I have a lot of stuff on the go (book coming out, freelance work, book I need to write) which is great! But it means I have not spent enough time with my favourite ugly endangered fish: the Roundnose Grenadier.

And shout out to me for including the wrong Indigo link: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/canada...

This is why copy edits are so important haha

Shout out to @kingsbookstore.bsky.social for re-posting despite my aggressive typo in their name haha. Love my alma mater bookstore!