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Lorne Daniel
@lornedaniel.bsky.social
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What is Broken Binds Us
new poetry
University of Calgary Press, Sept 2025

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Thanks to @davethompsonvic.bsky.social for helping address some dangerous trends in vehicle design, including blinding headlights and monstrous truck hoods with no visibility of pedestrians.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Victoria city council joins calls for Transport Canada to address headlight brightness | CBC News
Concerns about excessive headlight brightness have bubbled up in B.C. in recent weeks, with Victoria and Vancouver city councils passing similar motions calling on Transport Canada to review national ...
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February 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
Bikes. Sailboats. Sea. Mountains across the channel.
Quite pleasant today at Cattle Point.
February 9, 2026 at 12:56 AM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
Excellent read.
Tragic, funny at times, and a wise perspective on how we accommodate one another in traveling around Greater Victoria.
www.timescolonist.com/islander/bik...
Bike v. van: My wife was seriously hurt while cycling, but she was one of the lucky ones
Times Colonist contributor David Sovka, whose wife Roseanne was seriously injured when her bike collided with a van on the Galloping Goose trail near Uptown, chronicles her ordeal in Islander, startin...
www.timescolonist.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:48 PM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
Hey (Canadian) writing community! Any reading opportunities coming up in '26? I'd love to join fellow poets / authors at events outside BC/AB. Reading series organizers in SK, MB, ON, QC -any openings? I know everyone is hit hard by grant cutbacks, so full funding not always necessary. Ideas? DM me.
February 3, 2026 at 1:10 AM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
Safe streets? Majority of British Columbians surveyed support 30km/h residential speed limits and speed enforcement cameras. Don't let auto lobbies tell you otherwise. cheknews.ca/majority-of-... #urbanism #visionzero
Majority of B.C. residents back 30 km/h residential speed limits: poll
Most British Columbians favour lowering speed limits on residential streets to 30 km/h, according to a new Research Co. survey that shows growing support for traffic-calming measures.
cheknews.ca
January 28, 2026 at 10:18 PM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
Time to listen: city noise is a health issue, and an equity issue. My blog post for Victoria Placemaking. #noise #yyj #victoriabc #urbanissues victoriaplacemaking.ca/2026/gvpn/be...
Beyond bylaws: noise and healthy places – Greater Victoria Placemaking Network
Urban noise is a health issue, an equity issue, and an urban planning / placemaking issue. Unfortunately, it is often an afterthought when we think about creating a healthy urban environment. The City...
victoriaplacemaking.ca
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 PM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
A remarkable book. I'm on my third time through.
January 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.”

— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
January 20, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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pentastich.bsky.social
Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech at DAVOS is really, really, really good. He's not pulling punches about the collapse of world institutions.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
From the speech: But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot "live within the lie" of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination. From the speech: But I'd also say that great powers can afford, for now, to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what's offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.
January 21, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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snowhydro.bsky.social
My article about what science memoir is, now up at @hippocampusmag.bsky.social www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/craf...
CRAFT: The Scientific (Memoir) Method by Sarah Boon | Hippocampus Magazine
"Science memoir is an important sub-genre of memoir, and has a lot to offer readers." -- Sarah Boon in her craft column "The Scientific (Memoir) Method."
www.hippocampusmagazine.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
Proud to be a 'Brave & Brilliant' poet.

Big thanks to the team at @ucalgarypress.bsky.social for their belief in, and support of, What is Broken Binds Us.

#poetry #newbooks
ucalgarypress.bsky.social UCalgary Press @ucalgarypress.bsky.social · Jan 9
Our literary series forwards bold and lively voices that entertain and engage. Discover Brave & Brilliant poetry. https://ow.ly/fOzG50XNrhE
January 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
A great perspective on how life alongside busy streets CAN be improved, with better movement but also healthy levels of quiet and calm.
January 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"America is an oil company with an army."

—George Carlin
January 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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mcpli.bsky.social
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
I did a bunch of interviews this fall & just got them listed & linked, if you're interested in poetry and the breaks and bonds in families. www.lornedaniel.ca/post/a-fall-...
Huge thanks to all the radio and podcast hosts!
#poetrycommunity @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
Must say, after some months on here, getting virtually no interaction. I haven't invested a lot of time, but it seemed that the old Tweet place generated its own energy. Here, a post gets maybe a couple likes, rarely comments, almost never back-and-forth conversation. Will likely set B'sky aside.
December 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
Lovely reflection on colour and emotion and all our complications.
December 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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kguiry.bsky.social
“An isolated bike lane is a toy; a useful network of bike and roll lanes is core infrastructure.”

I love this commentary on how empowering it is to have choices in your community. It’s also invigorating to know many communities in the region are contributing to a useful network of transportation ♥️
Comment: How Victoria’s bike and roll network changed my life
Even if you, or your friends, don’t use the safe bike and roll network, there are thousands and thousands of your neighbours that do.
www.timescolonist.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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cphillipspoet.bsky.social
A poem that deepens with each reading, and each time haunts me differently…
phillipcrymble.bsky.social phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · Dec 21
An old chestnut, on this, the darkest evening of the year.
STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING WHOSE woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
December 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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taras-grescoe.com
Trains have got winter sorted.

Next challenge, please.
December 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
#5 Bestseller in November among books by Alberta publishers. Thanks so much to readers, to the great independent bookstores who have stocked What is Broken Binds Us, and to the 'Brave & Brilliant' crew at University of Calgary Press. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social readalberta.ca/articles/bes...
Bestsellers: November 2025 - Read Alberta
The Alberta Bestsellers list for October 2025 includes titles from NeWest Press, Freehand Books and more! Check out all the great reads.
readalberta.ca
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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thetemzreview.bsky.social
Read Kathryn MacDonald's review of @lornedaniel.bsky.social's What is Broken Binds Us (pub. U of Calgary P) in Issue 33!

Lorne Daniel is a mature poet who has honed the poetic craft. What is Broken Binds Us is a collection to read, to enter, to understand.

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The cover of What is Broken Binds Us, by Lorne Daniel. The title is in blue bars across the background photo, which is of a shattered white porcelain statue of a face that has been knit back together with gold
December 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
lornedaniel.bsky.social
Thanks so much Harold Rhenish and The BC Review.
thebcreview.bsky.social The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · Dec 16
#BookReview: What is Broken Binds Us by Lorne Daniel “Lorne Daniel uses poetry to mend the emotional and physical breakage of contemporary human identity. These are blended performances, both textual and oral”

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December 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM