Michael V. Smith

Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.

It’s funny that all the conservatives who thought Carney shouldn’t be interim PM because he wasn’t elected are okay with Poilievre staying on as the CPC leader even though he literally just LOST an election

Poetry-only press Brick Books marks its 50th anniversary, celebrating the “unlikely feat” of publishing nothing but verse for half a century. bit.ly/44CDJAc

This was fun. Thanks for the questions, Kathryn Mockler!

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Feel free to recruit me international university even though I am not a scientist. I have other skills.

Anyone want to bring me to their town for this fun karaoke + poetry event?

Canada's oil and gas industry received $29.6B in subsidies in 2024, report finds The subsidies dwarf the previous years total and come as Ottawa said it would wind down direct financial support for the industry

The rights hypocrisy of blaming social programs that help those in need and saying nothing of the blatant bl Corporate welfare for the rich... www.biv.com/news/canadas...

Not the first time I've said it, but I do think we should sit with the fact that the folks likeliest to have predicted we'd elect a reality TV president who'd create a fascist police state where people would be put into unmarked vans for criticizing Israel have been widely ridiculed my entire life.

Schiff: "That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency: The president out on a golf cart while peoples' retirement is in flames."

It's crazy to be living in such intense times that every day there are multiple news stories of how despicable or heroic humans can be that each feel...legendary. This history is intense in the making. And fast.

Canada’s New US Travel Warning: Leave Your Phone, Grab a Burner, and Maybe Skip the U.S. Altogether April 2, 2025

“Trump has ordered border agents to look through personal devices for any anti-Trump sentiment and has turned away or detained dozens of Canadians vacationing or working in the US - legally.” 🎃🎃🎃
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Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating. My Adventures in Book Publicity Part 3 | Book Tours

Part 3 of My Adventures in Book Publicity - Book Tours

"Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating."

It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.

This speaks volumes:

Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.

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Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State American foreign policy is now all about incompetent shakedowns and cover-ups.

The Signal scandal isn't just about the security breach: it's also a window into Trump's mafia foreign policy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Queers who lived thru the AIDS crisis know about living through genocide. Joy was a huge part of the struggle. There is no fight without joy. Joy will lift us up. Do not live in despair; that story is no place to build a home. Build your home in joy.

I found one of my books in this list ffs.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Please read all of this: an account of her own detention and the stories of other detained women as well.

X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW ), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

As a genderqueer Canadian who posts about genocide like he cares for all life...I withdrew from my AWP panel and visit. Too dangerous to visit America. Too scary how basic human rights and decency are vanishing. #awp2025

Screenshot of a @palestinestrikeactionubc post on Instagram VOTE YES! Student Strike Advocating Divestment for Palestine Whereas the AMS represents the UBC student body and has historically taken a public stance on international human rights violations. Whereas UBC has not condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza which have been stated as “consistent with genocide” by the United Nations. Whereas UBC Board of Governors has failed to act on student demands that UBC divest from Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, and the other 28 companies listed by UBC Divest as complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, including by enabling illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I support the AMS student council calling for a 2 day student strike on the 24th and 25th of March 2025 to demand that the University of British Columbia divest from all companies complicit in the Israeli government’s violence against Palestinians. Note: The strike would include encouraging students not to attend class for the duration. VOTING OPEN MARCH 10-17

A banner in the colours of the Palestinian flag that says UBC STRIKE NOW unfurled by students outside the window of the Buchanan building at UBC Vancouver

The AMS vote for a UBC student strike March 24 & 25 is live!
Vote here ⤵️

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Friends, I'm putting a karaoke launch party together. Let your local festival know if you want a karaoke+poetry event in your town. It's going to be FUN!

Finally finished the memorial zine for Kim Kinakin. Dm me if you love him too and would like a copy.

This would be a perfect time for Canada to start allowing US trans people into our country as asylum seekers.

40% Off Haymarket Books for Women's Liberation We've put together a reading list to celebrate the radical women who make and record our histories, and histories of struggle for feminist and gender liberation. In recognition of Women's...

40% Off Haymarket Books for Women's Liberation

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

I canceled a conference trip to the US cuz things are way too unstable for people like me. And changing fast.

It’s like the Trump administration had a big brainstorm session on the fastest way to end western civilization, and they decided that scapegoating EDI and ignoring the climate crisis would just take way longer than causing World War 3.

Dr. Seuss cartoons about “America First” from 1941.