Octopus Books
@octopusbooks.ca
Woman owned, independent, and committed to making the world a better place.
116 Third Ave, Ottawa
Anishinaabe Territory
Canada
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116 Third Ave, Ottawa
Anishinaabe Territory
Canada
octopusbooks.ca
tiktok.com/@octopusbookstore
instagram.com/octopusbooks
facebook.com/octopusbookstore
Tonight until 8pm - warm up with a toasty snack of roasted chestnuts at Octopus Books in the Glebe. Plus enjoy 10% off everything in store! #shoplocal #shopindependent #intheglebe #ottawa
December 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Tonight until 8pm - warm up with a toasty snack of roasted chestnuts at Octopus Books in the Glebe. Plus enjoy 10% off everything in store! #shoplocal #shopindependent #intheglebe #ottawa
Last week we hosted a talk with @alexhim.bsky.social, whose latest book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism points a way forward from the stale policies of austerity, deregulation, & corporate control which have gutted social supports & protections in Canada.
Thanks to host @kevinskerrett.bsky.social!
Thanks to host @kevinskerrett.bsky.social!
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Last week we hosted a talk with @alexhim.bsky.social, whose latest book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism points a way forward from the stale policies of austerity, deregulation, & corporate control which have gutted social supports & protections in Canada.
Thanks to host @kevinskerrett.bsky.social!
Thanks to host @kevinskerrett.bsky.social!
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If you’re an #Audiobook listener, you can pick up my audiobooks via @libro.fm and *still* support local brick and mortar (all my audiobook purchases support @octopusbooks.ca)!
I have two queer holiday titles available in audio on Libro, "Handmade Holidays" and "Upon the Midnight Queer."
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I have two queer holiday titles available in audio on Libro, "Handmade Holidays" and "Upon the Midnight Queer."
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November 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
If you’re an #Audiobook listener, you can pick up my audiobooks via @libro.fm and *still* support local brick and mortar (all my audiobook purchases support @octopusbooks.ca)!
I have two queer holiday titles available in audio on Libro, "Handmade Holidays" and "Upon the Midnight Queer."
(2/2)
I have two queer holiday titles available in audio on Libro, "Handmade Holidays" and "Upon the Midnight Queer."
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Local #Ottawa Folk, if you’re looking for my titles in print for the holidays, especially "Dogs Don’t Break Hearts" or "Stuck With You" (hi-lo queer YA books for queerlings in your life), @octopusbooks.ca will order them for you. They rock, and supporting indie bookstore = joy.
Also… (1/2) #BookSky
Also… (1/2) #BookSky
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Local #Ottawa Folk, if you’re looking for my titles in print for the holidays, especially "Dogs Don’t Break Hearts" or "Stuck With You" (hi-lo queer YA books for queerlings in your life), @octopusbooks.ca will order them for you. They rock, and supporting indie bookstore = joy.
Also… (1/2) #BookSky
Also… (1/2) #BookSky
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Had a great conversation w/ @uh.edu scholar #DavidMcNally about his new book, “#Slavery & #Capitalism” @octopusbooks.ca event in Ottawa. Echoing CLR James, W.E.B. DuBois & Sylvia Wynter, McNally argues that the enslaved who worked the plantations of the Americas constituted a modern working class.
December 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Had a great conversation w/ @uh.edu scholar #DavidMcNally about his new book, “#Slavery & #Capitalism” @octopusbooks.ca event in Ottawa. Echoing CLR James, W.E.B. DuBois & Sylvia Wynter, McNally argues that the enslaved who worked the plantations of the Americas constituted a modern working class.
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Opinion: The inconvenient truth: Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Cherokee hits hard
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Bluesky, what are the best independent books stores in Ontario? GO.
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Bluesky, what are the best independent books stores in Ontario? GO.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Join socialist activist & scholar @redprof.bsky.social for the launch of Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, in conversation with @caradrianh.bsky.social.
Sat Dec 6, 7pm-8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/mcnally
Sat Dec 6, 7pm-8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/mcnally
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Join socialist activist & scholar @redprof.bsky.social for the launch of Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, in conversation with @caradrianh.bsky.social.
Sat Dec 6, 7pm-8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/mcnally
Sat Dec 6, 7pm-8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/mcnally
Join us for a vital discussion with @alexhim.bsky.social about his book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge, in conversation with @kevinskerrett.bsky.social.
Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb
Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Join us for a vital discussion with @alexhim.bsky.social about his book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge, in conversation with @kevinskerrett.bsky.social.
Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb
Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb
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Ottawa really Manned Up last night! humbled & honored by the space- as a preacher’s kid, felt right at home in the architecture, the rows of audience pews.
Grateful to @carleton.ca @fesonline.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
& @monkeysvsrobots.bsky.social for bringing my ideas to life visually!
Grateful to @carleton.ca @fesonline.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
& @monkeysvsrobots.bsky.social for bringing my ideas to life visually!
Thrilled with the evening event. @milleridriss.bsky.social was brilliant, we had 200+
folks, and there were tons of good, difficult questions about misogyny and hate and the far right extremist pipeline.
folks, and there were tons of good, difficult questions about misogyny and hate and the far right extremist pipeline.
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Ottawa really Manned Up last night! humbled & honored by the space- as a preacher’s kid, felt right at home in the architecture, the rows of audience pews.
Grateful to @carleton.ca @fesonline.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
& @monkeysvsrobots.bsky.social for bringing my ideas to life visually!
Grateful to @carleton.ca @fesonline.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
& @monkeysvsrobots.bsky.social for bringing my ideas to life visually!
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a packed house at Ottawa’s Octopus Books for Regina writer Ken Wilson and Kingston writer Sadiqa de Meijer, // @octopusbooks.ca @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
a packed house at Ottawa’s Octopus Books for Regina writer Ken Wilson and Kingston writer Sadiqa de Meijer, // @octopusbooks.ca @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social
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In a world fractured by violence, what does it really mean to protect human rights?
Author and human rights lawyer @alexneve.bsky.social reflects on the power of memory, witnessing, and collective action: thewalrus.ca/why-i-still-beli...
Author and human rights lawyer @alexneve.bsky.social reflects on the power of memory, witnessing, and collective action: thewalrus.ca/why-i-still-beli...
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In a world fractured by violence, what does it really mean to protect human rights?
Author and human rights lawyer @alexneve.bsky.social reflects on the power of memory, witnessing, and collective action: thewalrus.ca/why-i-still-beli...
Author and human rights lawyer @alexneve.bsky.social reflects on the power of memory, witnessing, and collective action: thewalrus.ca/why-i-still-beli...
Meet the author & discover a new great read at one of our Fall 2025 book signings, outside our shop at 116 Third Ave!
🗓️ Sun Oct 26, 2pm-4pm: Amélie B., "the things we left unsaid"
🗓️ Sat Nov 1, 1pm-3pm: Maïlie Dumas, "Coincés À Newark"
🗓️ Sun Nov 2, 1pm-3pm: Sue Davidson, "Dread Comes at Daybreak"
🗓️ Sun Oct 26, 2pm-4pm: Amélie B., "the things we left unsaid"
🗓️ Sat Nov 1, 1pm-3pm: Maïlie Dumas, "Coincés À Newark"
🗓️ Sun Nov 2, 1pm-3pm: Sue Davidson, "Dread Comes at Daybreak"
October 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Meet the author & discover a new great read at one of our Fall 2025 book signings, outside our shop at 116 Third Ave!
🗓️ Sun Oct 26, 2pm-4pm: Amélie B., "the things we left unsaid"
🗓️ Sat Nov 1, 1pm-3pm: Maïlie Dumas, "Coincés À Newark"
🗓️ Sun Nov 2, 1pm-3pm: Sue Davidson, "Dread Comes at Daybreak"
🗓️ Sun Oct 26, 2pm-4pm: Amélie B., "the things we left unsaid"
🗓️ Sat Nov 1, 1pm-3pm: Maïlie Dumas, "Coincés À Newark"
🗓️ Sun Nov 2, 1pm-3pm: Sue Davidson, "Dread Comes at Daybreak"
Join Carleton University’s Department of History for a talk by @milleridriss.bsky.social as she discusses her latest book Man Up: The New Misogyny & the Rise of Violent Extremism.
Thrs Oct 30, 6PM at CDCC, 355 Copper St., Ottawa
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Thrs Oct 30, 6PM at CDCC, 355 Copper St., Ottawa
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Join Carleton University’s Department of History for a talk by @milleridriss.bsky.social as she discusses her latest book Man Up: The New Misogyny & the Rise of Violent Extremism.
Thrs Oct 30, 6PM at CDCC, 355 Copper St., Ottawa
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Thrs Oct 30, 6PM at CDCC, 355 Copper St., Ottawa
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/man-up-the...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Join us at The Happy Goat on Laurel for this great book launch on Thurs Oct 28!
Join us for the Ottawa launch of The Cheese Cure! 🧀
Author @mikefinnerty.bsky.social will be in conversation with CBC’s Robyn Bresnahan to discuss his new memoir about passion, purpose, and yes—cheese!
📍 October 28, 7-9PM
Register here: bit.ly/4qbAhVI
#BookLaunch #OttawaEvents
Author @mikefinnerty.bsky.social will be in conversation with CBC’s Robyn Bresnahan to discuss his new memoir about passion, purpose, and yes—cheese!
📍 October 28, 7-9PM
Register here: bit.ly/4qbAhVI
#BookLaunch #OttawaEvents
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Join us at The Happy Goat on Laurel for this great book launch on Thurs Oct 28!
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education welcomes @jonathan4212.bsky.social to Octopus Books for the launch of his new book, We’re Coming for You & Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon & Upended Big-City Politics.
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education welcomes @jonathan4212.bsky.social to Octopus Books for the launch of his new book, We’re Coming for You & Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon & Upended Big-City Politics.
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
Book launch: Lordship & Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties, a groundbreaking new book by Dr. Muhannad Ayyash.
Fri Oct 24, 12pm at the University of Ottawa
Free registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/decolonial...
Fri Oct 24, 12pm at the University of Ottawa
Free registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/decolonial...
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Book launch: Lordship & Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties, a groundbreaking new book by Dr. Muhannad Ayyash.
Fri Oct 24, 12pm at the University of Ottawa
Free registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/decolonial...
Fri Oct 24, 12pm at the University of Ottawa
Free registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/decolonial...
Join us for the Ottawa launch of Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization, featuring author Martha Paynter in convo with Sabrina Lee, OBGYN, & frederique chabot of Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights.
Fri Oct 24 @7pm RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/events/37463...
@fernpub.bsky.social
Fri Oct 24 @7pm RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/events/37463...
@fernpub.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Join us for the Ottawa launch of Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization, featuring author Martha Paynter in convo with Sabrina Lee, OBGYN, & frederique chabot of Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights.
Fri Oct 24 @7pm RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/events/37463...
@fernpub.bsky.social
Fri Oct 24 @7pm RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/events/37463...
@fernpub.bsky.social
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Ottawa friends, attend an expert panel discussion on challenging Canada’s perpetuation of settler-colonial violence in North America and the Middle East on October 23.
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ottawa friends, attend an expert panel discussion on challenging Canada’s perpetuation of settler-colonial violence in North America and the Middle East on October 23.
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
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📚 Perspectives Journal has just arrived at @octopusbooks.ca in Ottawa!
Issues No. 2 and 3 are in stock—featuring bold progressive ideas, sharp analysis on political economy, and fresh visions for Canadian social democracy.
Stop by Octopus Books in the Glebe (116 Third Ave) to grab your copy.
Issues No. 2 and 3 are in stock—featuring bold progressive ideas, sharp analysis on political economy, and fresh visions for Canadian social democracy.
Stop by Octopus Books in the Glebe (116 Third Ave) to grab your copy.
October 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
📚 Perspectives Journal has just arrived at @octopusbooks.ca in Ottawa!
Issues No. 2 and 3 are in stock—featuring bold progressive ideas, sharp analysis on political economy, and fresh visions for Canadian social democracy.
Stop by Octopus Books in the Glebe (116 Third Ave) to grab your copy.
Issues No. 2 and 3 are in stock—featuring bold progressive ideas, sharp analysis on political economy, and fresh visions for Canadian social democracy.
Stop by Octopus Books in the Glebe (116 Third Ave) to grab your copy.
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Are you coming? Just over a month away! @atbaypress.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
October 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Are you coming? Just over a month away! @atbaypress.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
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“Violet’s Song” has now officially been released! Visit @octopusbooks.ca to grab your copy today, or order online.
October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Violet’s Song” has now officially been released! Visit @octopusbooks.ca to grab your copy today, or order online.
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On the surface, Ontario's "Safer Municipalities Act" seeks to address public drug use. In this brief, Brianna Olson-Pitawanakwat Mskwaasin Agnew, and Kelsi Balaban argue it maintains too-familiar traditions of Indigenous displacement and colonial harm: yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/ontario...
September 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
On the surface, Ontario's "Safer Municipalities Act" seeks to address public drug use. In this brief, Brianna Olson-Pitawanakwat Mskwaasin Agnew, and Kelsi Balaban argue it maintains too-familiar traditions of Indigenous displacement and colonial harm: yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/ontario...
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Book Launch! @octopusbooks.ca will be selling Books at House of Targ on Bank Street - Thursday November 6th 5-7 pm. Come buy books, original art, listen to some poetry, play pinball, eat pierogies, and have a beer.
September 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Book Launch! @octopusbooks.ca will be selling Books at House of Targ on Bank Street - Thursday November 6th 5-7 pm. Come buy books, original art, listen to some poetry, play pinball, eat pierogies, and have a beer.