Heather J Wood

Coincidentally, there's a House Hippo thread today bsky.app/profile/cdnh...

Seriously, this commercial from Concerned Children's Advertisers in 1999 is so good.

We need media literacy taught at scale: both young adults and boomers are caught in its net, and in truth any of us can be suspectible.

It's never been more important.

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: The Naked Gun, Murderbot, Dead Talents Society, Riddle of Fire

And of course, there's Stephen Harper's IDU.

I'm convinced that Conservative politicians from across the country all got together and agreed to target bike lanes as a provincial wedge issue (because apparently only we downtown pinkos ride bikes) instead of addressing health care and education and other areas of provincial responsibility.

Back Garden
Prudence Heward
1938

Only Wish
Billie Rae Busby
2023

Enter the Dream Weave
Leah Dorion ~ Métis
2008

Mrs. Varley in Front of Her Tent
Frederick Varley
1925

Park Corner PEI
Susan Christensen
n.d.

a woman with red lipstick and a #schitts creek logo Alt: a woman with red lipstick and a #schitts creek logo - Moira from Schitt’s Creek looking perturbed

They’re playing retro easy listening songs at the pub I’m at and I’m finding my singing along. I guess it happens to the best of us.

We're hoping to buy this building for the bookstore and reopen in a brick and mortar format, then adopt this cat and have her be our shop cat, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout.
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CBC Books' writers to watch: 22 Canadian writers making their mark in 2025 | CBC Books CBC Books has announced this year's writers to watch list! Here are 22 Canadian writers on the rise in 2025.

"Here are 22 Canadian writers on the rise in 2025."

#Booksky #CanLit

What's the state of Canadian lit mags? Most editors feel their magazines are not sustainable. Remember, if you like a magazine/creator, subscribe to keep them going! litmags.ca/survey/ #CanLit

The "Safe" Third Country Agreement should have been ended a long time ago.

Space Unicorn!

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August 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in August 2025.

August 2025 reads for the rest of us @msmagazine.com by
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July 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. Check out the top 22 books that we are excited about this month!

My latest Reads for the Rest of Us is live at @msmagazine.com. This month, Violet and I chose 22 new books we're loving this month!

Feat books by @veenago.bsky.social @xbennyboo.bsky.social
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Alley
Kim Dorland
2006

Old Orchard
Franklin Carmichael
1940

Sunset Sky
Tom Thomson
1915

Herons
Eddy Cobiness ~ Ojibwe
1993

I was kind of hoping that the frankfurter feud involved this particular person

I'll be at Riverdale Park tomorrow, chatting & signing books as part of this!

'She wanted them in the world': N.B. community maintains book shed after owner's death | CBC News A small shed sits on a property close to the ferry in Pettes Cove, N.B., on Grand Manan. It looks like any other backyard shed. But it is packed with hundreds of books — a legacy of the late Anneke De...

"I think for her, this was a way to make sure that many of the books that had nourished her and made her as smart as she was, she wanted other people to have access to."

#Booksky 📚💙

Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ has died Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.

Christopher Hitchins once insisted that a beautiful woman couldn’t be funny and he was of course a fool. You only had to watch Loni Anderson for one fabulous example 💖

Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ has died | CNN Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.

Actor Loni Anderson, best known for her role as receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on hit '80s sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati," has died at age 79

Scientists Discover Gene Responsible For Eating Whole Goddamn Bag Of Chips

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