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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 11h

Interested in romance, shipwrecks or real-life cyberespionage? This year’s festival deserves multiple spots in your social calendar. #TyeePresents

Vancouver Writers Fest Lights Up Granville Island | The Tyee

There are 87 events to choose from! Join Canadian and international authors as they champion books, ideas and dialogue from Oct. 20 to 26.

thetyee.ca

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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 3h

“Besides exploring on-ice events and hockey personalities, Habs Nation also explores the Montreal Canadiens’ significance to the people of Quebec.” @lisatimpf.bsky.social reviews HABS NATION from Baraka Books. #hockey #montrealcanadiens www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/habs-natio...

Habs Nation Provides a "People's History" of Storied Team

Reviewed by Lisa Timpf

www.theseaboardreview.ca

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Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️ @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 31m

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 17d

NOW OPEN: Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem.

Submit your best poem for a chance to win $2,000 CAD and be published in The Fiddlehead! This year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.

More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 6h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️ @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 40m

Pity she’s blocked me so I can’t celebrate in style😉

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 10h

Why Canada needs public grocery stores
breachmedia.ca/why-canada-n...

Why Canada needs public grocery stores ⋆ The Breach

Food analyst Aaron Vansintjan explains how a public food network could transform Canada

breachmedia.ca

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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 11h

(while I'm at it, check out this year's impressive crop of @cwillbc.bsky.social 📚!) #canlit #kidlit #readcanadian🇨🇦

cwillbc.wordpress.com/bctla2022/

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CBC Books: Canadian books we’re excited about for the second half of 2025 #CanLit
www.cbc.ca/books/all-th...

All the Canadian books we're excited about in the second half of 2025 | CBC Books

Looking for your next read? Check out the Canadian fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics and children's books to read in the second half of the year.

www.cbc.ca

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 12h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

go you
through the town to Frogmore.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1h

Two English Bulldogs
William Blair Bruce
1903

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 4h

Ben Loman by the Sea
Maud Lewis
c. 1962

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 14h

Northern Lake
Lawren Harris
1923

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Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️ @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 11h

Yep www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Montreal mayor extends last call, takes jab at Toronto nightlife | CBC News

Montreal's mayor is putting his city's renowned nightlife to the test — and taking a shot at rival Toronto in the process.

www.cbc.ca

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Gail Anderson-Dargatz @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social · 13h

Another great event (if I do say so myself) from @bcwriters.bsky.social. In this session, we'll talk about ways to feed our muse. To register, go to: www.bcwriters.ca/event-6349094

#writingcommunity #writershelpingwriters #writersky #amwriting

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 18h

Would I could find a fine frog!

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 19h

We're excited to announce the winner of our 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest is Shelley Pacholok for her essay "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor"! Keep an eye out for when our autumn issue goes live to read an excerpt from her essay!

See the full announcement on our website:
bit.ly/4obSKPU

The graphic announcing Shelley Pacholok as the winner of The Fiddlehead's 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 2d

One week left to enter EVENT’s 2025 Non-Fiction Contest. $3,000 in prizes, publication for winners, and judged by Vinh Nguyen. Students get a discounted entry (Only $19.95) Deadline: Oct 15th: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 17h

Warm in Offskip
Robert Genn
1978

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 21h

Box Drum
Reg Davidson ~ Haida
1991

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

Caledon Hills
Valerie Palmer
1981

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

One answer is to look at the data. After the launch of GPT-5 in August, some thought that A.I. had hit a plateau. Expert analysis suggests this isn’t true. GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.

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The Canadian Children's Book Centre @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social · 18h

The Science Writers and Communicators of Canada are accepting submissions to the 2025 SWCC Book Awards, which includes a youth literature category. Submission deadline is October 31, 2025. Learn more at https://sciencewriters.ca/bookawards/submissions

#CanLit #KidLit #Science #STEM #BookAwards

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