Paul Barrett

3 on 3 hockey for the gold medal is absurd & not hockey. It would be like deciding the World cup final with a 5 a side match. Nonsense.

Guelph's School of Theatre, English, & Creative Writing is hiring! We're looking for (quite) a range of talents, including specialization in any of: Canadian, speculative fiction, poetry, decolonial studies, queer studies... Applications due March 1!
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Sometimes the subway delays are such that you can complete an entire painting.

Guelph's School of Theatre, English, & Creative Writing is hiring! We're looking for (quite) a range of talents, including specialization in any of: Canadian, speculative fiction, poetry, decolonial studies, queer studies... Applications due March 1!
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

My CanLit students are reading Hugh MacLennan's "The Watch That Ends the Night" this term. Fiction, but drawing on historical legacy of WW2 and other catastrophes to remind us that we've faced similar evils before. Great book!

CSDH/SCHN Annual Conference Student Grant Application / Conférence annuelle de la CSDH/SCHN formulaire de bourses étudiantes If you are a graduate student and want to be considered for a travel grant, you must apply by the end of Friday the 23rd (11:59 pm EST). Si vous êtes étudiant·e de deuxième ou troisième cycle et souha...

Students — don’t forget to apply for a travel grant by January 23rd, 11:59 PM EST!

Avis aux étudiant.e.s : n'oubliez pas de soummetre votre demande de bourse de voyage avant le 23 janvier à 23 h 59 (heure de l'Est) !

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We're living in the heart of 🧊 terrorizing Minneapolis.
We're witnessing the horror every day.

If you’re able, please donate to one of these 3 organizations supporting our city. ❤️

Donate before the end of the month + email proof to be entered to win a massive MTG prize package. 🔗 to orgs below!

The Mark I Perceptron — a supervised image classification learning system created by Frank Rosenblatt in 1958

We're pleased to announce CSDH/SCHN's annual conference from June 3 – 5 in Montréal.

This year, we're exploring the theme of the “Untranslatable.” Submissions are now open at the links below.

EN: csdh-schn.ca/csdh-schn-co...
FR: csdh-schn.ca/csdh-schn-co...

Hope to see you there!

Traitorous is a strong word for Canadians who vacation in the US right now. Wrongheaded, ridiculous and even harsher terms come to mind, but traitorous seems a stretch.

You're basically done!

We are hiring! The Department of History at the University of Guelph seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in History of the Middle East.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

‘Yellow line’ that divides Gaza under Trump plan is ‘new border’ for Israel, says military chief Eyal Zamir said Israel would hold on to current positions, giving it control of more than half of the territory

Once again, Israel expanding its borders through seizing of territory and liquifying of the indigenous population: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

It's amazing to watch American & British chattering classes convinced that democracy is dead / post-liberalism is here because of cultural issues. Not once do they think, it's the economy stupid. Meanwhile, in Canada, land of no billionaires, liberal democracy is alive and well.

Are you a grad student working on post-1945 culture? Could your research benefit from incorporating some data, even minimally? Want feedback from journal editors?

This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!

Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...

I read Another Country this summer and felt the same way. Devoured it -- what an amazing writer!

Job posting: Assistant Professor, tenure track, English (Digital Narratives), Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Deadline January 19, 2026 jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/cbu/CA...

The Giller Prize Jury has published a total of 2 novels and 2 short story collections between them, all in the last two years. Slightly over one book per esteemed juror...

Every A&M professor should teach bell hooks tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next...

Image of a silhouetted cowboy singer with an illuminated dust cloud overlaid on their chest. Text on top of this image with information for the following poetry readings: No Depression in Heaven tour for ryan fitzpatrick October 21, 2025, at Shelf Life Books in Calgary, a book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, Conor Kerr, and Jason Purcell. Event at 7:00 pm. October 24, 2025, at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall in Vancouver, the Talonbooks fall poetry launch, with readings from ryan fitzpatrick, Rahat Kurd, bill bissett, Scott Jackshaw, and Drew McEwan. Event at 7:00 pm. November 5, 2025, at McNally Robinson Grant Park in Winnipeg, double book launch with ryan fitzpatrick and Cam Scott. Event at 7:00 pm. November 13, 2025, at Flying Books College St in Toronto, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali. Event at 6:30 pm. November 14, 2025, at The City and The City Bookstore in Hamilton, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, Steacy Easton, and Zane Koss. Event at 7:00 pm. More info at talonbooks.com

If you're in Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, or Hamilton this fall, I'll be swinging through with my new book No Depression in Heaven. I hope to see you there!

(I'll also be in Edmonton on October 18 for LitFest!)

More info on fall Talonbooks events here: talonbooks.com/events/

YouTube video by ShakyShorty Cindy Lee - Dreams of You, Lamb of God & Wild One (Toronto 2025)

Cindy Lee was a magical, hallucinatory, overwhelming experience.
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The Heavenly Office of Legal Counsel would like to remind the public that the official term for what Dick Cheney is currently experiencing is “enhanced repentance.”

The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal “Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israel...

“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."

CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.

Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that …

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Trump's "peace" plan is continued denigration and humiliation of the Palestinian people. No one should accept this horrific proposal from American fascists and Israeli war criminals.

Political violence is awful. Charlie Kirk was a grifting scumbag. Remember his "amazing patriot" comments? These fascists don't care about freedom of speech -- they care about silencing people, quashing dissent and destroying democracy.

Six murdered Israelis was the headline on The Guardian today. Six Palestinians were murdered, without comment, in the time it took you to read this. Humanism.

Is "This is not normal" American for "Fuck fascism!" Such muted and measured response from Americans to their new king. When will they actually, you know... do something to stand up for their republic!?!?

Sure!