Bill Gray ☭ (nom de guerre)

"Tree of Life" by Norval Morrisseau, a prominent Anishinaabe artist known as the "Picasso of the North".

Daisy Hay · No King: Burke and Fox break up Edmund Burke and Charles Fox’s relationship could not withstand the ideological chasm that emerged between them after...

‘Burke and Fox did not concern themselves solely with royal and parliamentary intrigue. At home there were families to be supported and women to be won.’

Daisy Hay on the friendship between Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.

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There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason.

Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦

@askylitocean.bsky.social keep the William Morris coming.

Design of dense, intertwining pattern of stylized floral and foliate motifs; large, stylized flowers with red centers and orange-yellow petals, smaller reddish carnation-like flowers, and scrolling stems with green and blue-grey leaves.

William Morris

A delicate monochrome woodblock print in shades of grey and black. Two crows perch on a bare, snow-laden branch: the upper bird leans forward under the weight of falling flakes, wings slightly spread, while the lower bird turns its head upward with its beak open as if calling into the storm. Fine white specks of snow scatter across their glossy black feathers and through the misty background, where faint silhouettes of winter trees rise below. The composition is quiet and atmospheric, capturing both stillness and life in a cold, drifting snowfall.

"All this foolishness
About moons and blossoms
Pricked by the cold’s needle."

(Basho)

🎨 Shoun Yamamoto

#wintersky

Canada knows that if Greenland falls we are next. You can bet that Canada will be putting troops on the ground if Denmark issues Article IV of the NATO charter.

Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information Misinformation from the Trump administration is cited as fuelling Canadians’ concerns over childhood vaccinations

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Video rolling in of pretty massive airstrikes across Venezuela, plus low-flying helicopters which *appear* to be American.

Book illustration, don’t know who the artist is. Three hares in snowy landscape with trees in background and crescent moon.

Goodnight. May we all dream of the moon as all self-respecting hares do until we wake to the promise of a new day.

A TABLE FOR FORTUNE, William T. Vollmann’s long awaited novel on whatever we might call our national character - from Cold War to War on Terror - is available for preorder! 🔗 ⬇️

If not his masterpiece, then certainly yet another precious stone set in the crown of his oeuvre.

I'm excited to share that today is the official publication date for my new book, Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press, which more firmly grounds Van Gogh within the industrial era in which he lived & worked (thread)

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Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.

#SFU #Burnaby

The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...

Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge.
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