Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️

One factor that often gets ignored when discussing the affordability crisis is that for nearly a half century our governments have colluded with business to suppress our wages.

Like last week when I saw a ped get lightly hit by a driver who didn't stop as he crossed a sidewalk and the ped apologized.

A rotten culture we have built here around cars and trucks.

Vampires are traditionalists and don’t want you mucking up the classics with a bunch of cute ingredients

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Étude de Piétons Québec | La majorité des conducteurs ne cèdent pas le passage La plupart des automobilistes ne cèdent pas le passage aux piétons lorsqu’ils ont l’obligation de le faire. C’est du moins ce que démontre une étude menée par Piétons Québec.

I’d pretend to be shocked, but I’m a pedestrian
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Toute résilience serait futile - - Québec Amérique Voici le récit autobiographique bouleversant de Julie S. Lalonde, une militante pour les droits des femmes dont le copain Xavier, un charmeur aux allures de troll inoffensif, s’est peu à peu transform...

L'édition française de ma mémoire, lance aujourd'hui! ✌🏻

Out now! Toute résilience serait futile
Vie et mort et vie de Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social

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Ontario’s 40-cent minimum wage hike still far behind the cost of living, analysts say For minimum wage earners who work 40 hours a week, the new minimum wage of $17.60/hr will mean an extra $800 a year. According to cost of living analysts, the minimum wage still falls far behind the r...

".@policyalternatives.ca releases annual statistics indicating a “rental wage,” meaning the wage an individual would have to earn in order to pay for shelter. [It should be] no more than 30 % of a person’s income." www.niagarafallsreview.ca/news/ontario...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

‘Freedom Convoy’ leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber given conditional sentences The Crown asked for Lich to be sentenced to seven years in prison, and for Barber to be sentenced to eight years.

#Breaking: ‘Freedom Convoy’ leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber given conditional sentences

As the president of a national charity that works very, very hard to remain compliant with CRA rules, this kind of thing is enraging. It corrodes faith that Canadians have in the charitable system, that charitable numbers are given to organizations that are abiding by their charitable objects.

Free from the shackles of censorship only to lick boot An assessment of the new podcast Can't Be Censored and how it, and the CBC, have differently fatal problems.

"Maybe Dhanraj didn’t do his research and thought Poilievre’s answer was reasonable. Or maybe his version of being uncensored is to actually just Lick Boot. Regardless, it’s quite the start for what is supposed to be The New CBC."

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Jumoke Verissimo's New Poetry Collection CIRCUMTRAUMA is a Haunting Poetic Reckoning In the fascinating new collection Circumtrauma (Coach House Books), one of Africa’s most celebrated literary voices turns to poetry to reckon with ...

Internationally celebrated poet Jumoke Verissimo's new collection CIRCUMTRAUMA (Coach House Books) is a haunting poetic reckoning. Check out this fascinating interview with the author right here!
#AmReading #Poetry #Verse #Books
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Saw a Cybertruck, a Hummer and a Porsche while biking on St George today and wondered if some sort of a$$hole convention was happening in the city today. #BikeTO

The book cover for Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes) edited by Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias. The illustration shows a colourful group of people sharing food around a table, passing dishes, pouring drinks, and eating together.

QUEERS AT THE TABLE (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) is a full-colour anthology of essays, comics, and illustrated recipes celebrating how food connects queer lives and stories.

Co-editors Alex D. Ketchum & Megan J. Elias and designer Jazmin Welch share how it came together: alllitup.ca/beautiful-bo...

The cover of the book "Post-Man: Essays on Being a Neurodivergent Non-Binary Person" by Alex Manley, with stacked text above reading, "Happy book birthday!", along with the book title, subtitle, and author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp dot com. On the centre of the book cover in large bold letters is the book title, “Post-Man.” A bobby pin rests on top of the title. Below the title is the subtitle, “Essays on Being a Neurodivergent Non-Binary Person.” The subtitle is in black except for the words “Neurodivergent” and “Non-Binary,” which are in shades of dark teal, appearing to fade into the background. At the bottom is the author’s name, “Alex Manley.” The background is a teal colour with faint impressions of flowers.

Photo of Alex Manley.

New this week! POST-MAN by Alex Manley is a collection of intimate confessionals on contemporary masculinity and neurodivergence from a non-binary perspective.

Available Sep 30, 2025, in Canada & the US.

👉 Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Post...

Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain Stories that fell out of my brain

Hey, readers in the US and UK! Like spec fic with queer and disability representation, humour, mentions of cake, and an emotional support dragon?

My short story collection, Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, is available on Bookshop! #BookSky #SFF

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“I'm being truthful here, I don't know if I'll bother to write another book… The world is not crying out for another Guy Vanderhaeghe novel.”

Listen my conversation with the celebrated and award-winning author:
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Pre-order for The Lizzie Borden House Anthology is now live, featuring my story The Axe Forgets What She Remembers. Release date is October 14! 🪓🩸 a.co/d/ddvde4y

Billionaires profited. The rest of us not so much.

The @thedeadlands.com annual fundraiser is here! Get a gorgeous custom coin, plus cool singed books, including the fancy German editions of Wendy, Darling and Hooked!

Alberta government to ban the number 58,008 in schools CALGARY — With the province's teachers on strike, Danielle Smith’s UCP government has tabled new legislation banning the use of the number 58,008, in order to “protect Alberta’s most precious resource...

Alberta government to ban the number 58,008 in schools

I've been quite angry on Twitter for the last week and have been trying to parse it...some thoughts:

Toronto's problems largely stem from the cost-of-living crisis. A crisis, in part, caused by the simple fact that people *want* to live here. Opportunity, culture, and fulfilment abound

🤔How is that when things like nationalized postal postal banking, telecoms, grocers, internet services, UBI, etc are proposed loud voices always shout "it can't be done" but when billionaire tech bros insist that AI is "inevitable," the loud voices always jump on the propaganda bandwagon?

I was honoured to be asked to blurb Tamara Jong’s memoir, Wordly Girls, which was released by @bookhugpress.bsky.social.

I’m also delighted that Tamara let me host an excerpt of her beautiful memoir on my website.

Visit my website to read the full piece.

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The rich are different than you and me .

If, at some hypothetical point, Doug Ford ever faces the legislature again, he should be hammered with this stuff