Heather J. “I Should Be Writing” Wood
@rollwithheather.bsky.social
Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
Canadians Maria Reva and Eric Chacour longlisted for $161K Dublin Literary Award
www.cbc.ca/books/dublin...
www.cbc.ca/books/dublin...
Canadians Maria Reva and Eric Chacour longlisted for $161K Dublin Literary Award | CBC Books
The prestigious prize annually recognizes the best work of fiction in English from anywhere in the world. The shortlist will be revealed on April 7, 2026.
www.cbc.ca
February 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Canadians Maria Reva and Eric Chacour longlisted for $161K Dublin Literary Award
www.cbc.ca/books/dublin...
www.cbc.ca/books/dublin...
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TONIGHT! CIUT 89.5FM 10pm - 11pm host @valentinoassenza.bsky.social with Lisa De Nikolits talking about her book “Mad Dog & The Sea Dragon” (Inanna Publications) & Alison Gadsby with “Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive” @guernicaeditions.bsky.social TUNE IN TONIGHT!
February 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
TONIGHT! CIUT 89.5FM 10pm - 11pm host @valentinoassenza.bsky.social with Lisa De Nikolits talking about her book “Mad Dog & The Sea Dragon” (Inanna Publications) & Alison Gadsby with “Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive” @guernicaeditions.bsky.social TUNE IN TONIGHT!
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Canadian authors. The PLR program is open. Don’t forget to register your new titles.
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The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program
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February 17, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Canadian authors. The PLR program is open. Don’t forget to register your new titles.
publiclendingright.ca
publiclendingright.ca
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Reflections of Oranges
Mary Pratt
1996
Mary Pratt
1996
February 17, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Reflections of Oranges
Mary Pratt
1996
Mary Pratt
1996
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Canada has won gold in Speed Skating Women's Team Pursuit! Canada is back-to-back Olympic champions in the event.
Since the event was introduced in 2006, Canada has won a gold (2022) and a silver (2006).
Since the event was introduced in 2006, Canada has won a gold (2022) and a silver (2006).
February 17, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Canada has won gold in Speed Skating Women's Team Pursuit! Canada is back-to-back Olympic champions in the event.
Since the event was introduced in 2006, Canada has won a gold (2022) and a silver (2006).
Since the event was introduced in 2006, Canada has won a gold (2022) and a silver (2006).
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On this day in 1955, Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden won gold in pairs figure skating at the World Championships. It was their second World Championship. They also won the North American and Canadian Championships that same year.
February 17, 2026 at 3:57 PM
On this day in 1955, Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden won gold in pairs figure skating at the World Championships. It was their second World Championship. They also won the North American and Canadian Championships that same year.
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Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes...
www.404media.co
February 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
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Our indie bookstore and art space is close to making its funding goal! Please consider donating and spread the word!
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February 16, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Our indie bookstore and art space is close to making its funding goal! Please consider donating and spread the word!
leaderpost.com/business/loc...
leaderpost.com/business/loc...
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Doug Ford says there's not enough money to keep funding Ontario healthcare.
He should make a TV ad about that.
He should make a TV ad about that.
Ontario spent record $112M on taxpayer-funded advertising, auditor finds | CBC News
Ontario spent a record $112 million on tax-payer-funded advertising last year, with the province’s auditor saying nearly 40 per cent of the campaigns could have left a “favourable impression” of Premi...
www.cbc.ca
February 17, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Doug Ford says there's not enough money to keep funding Ontario healthcare.
He should make a TV ad about that.
He should make a TV ad about that.
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MAPLE 🍁 LEAF MAGIC
They were not going to be defeated today. Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Val Maltais are draped in the 🇨🇦 and dripping with gold.
They have successfully defending Olympic gold in the team pursuit. That’s three-straight days of gold for Canada at the Games.
They were not going to be defeated today. Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Val Maltais are draped in the 🇨🇦 and dripping with gold.
They have successfully defending Olympic gold in the team pursuit. That’s three-straight days of gold for Canada at the Games.
February 17, 2026 at 3:55 PM
MAPLE 🍁 LEAF MAGIC
They were not going to be defeated today. Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Val Maltais are draped in the 🇨🇦 and dripping with gold.
They have successfully defending Olympic gold in the team pursuit. That’s three-straight days of gold for Canada at the Games.
They were not going to be defeated today. Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Val Maltais are draped in the 🇨🇦 and dripping with gold.
They have successfully defending Olympic gold in the team pursuit. That’s three-straight days of gold for Canada at the Games.
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‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?
‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?
The long read: His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle has become about much more than literary ethics
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:21 AM
‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?
F*ck you Doug Ford stooge #OnPoli
In today's roundup:
Ontario finance minister says rate of health-care spending is 'unsustainable' https://globalnews.ca/news/11669653/ontario-unsustainable-health-care-spending/
⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁
Ontario finance minister says rate of health-care spending is 'unsustainable' https://globalnews.ca/news/11669653/ontario-unsustainable-health-care-spending/
⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁
February 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
F*ck you Doug Ford stooge #OnPoli
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"Russell Thornton’s new poetry collection contains the best of his entire oeuvre, and as I read through its pages, the places the poems inhabit come to be as important as the ideas and experiences they communicate..."
A wonderful review of TWO SONGS by Chris Banks in The Woodlot!
A wonderful review of TWO SONGS by Chris Banks in The Woodlot!
Under The Spell of The Rain: Russell Thornton’s Two Songs Selected Poems 2000-2025
by Chris Banks The American poet Galway Kinnell said, “To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on this…
the-wood-lot.ca
February 14, 2026 at 2:00 AM
"Russell Thornton’s new poetry collection contains the best of his entire oeuvre, and as I read through its pages, the places the poems inhabit come to be as important as the ideas and experiences they communicate..."
A wonderful review of TWO SONGS by Chris Banks in The Woodlot!
A wonderful review of TWO SONGS by Chris Banks in The Woodlot!
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GOLD FOR CANADA 🇨🇦
EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING
THE CANADIAN WOMEN SPEED SKATERS DEFEND OLYMPIC GOLD
VAL MALTAIS, IVANIE BLONDIN, ISABELLE WEIDEMANN HAVE DONE IT AGAIN
EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING
THE CANADIAN WOMEN SPEED SKATERS DEFEND OLYMPIC GOLD
VAL MALTAIS, IVANIE BLONDIN, ISABELLE WEIDEMANN HAVE DONE IT AGAIN
February 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
GOLD FOR CANADA 🇨🇦
EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING
THE CANADIAN WOMEN SPEED SKATERS DEFEND OLYMPIC GOLD
VAL MALTAIS, IVANIE BLONDIN, ISABELLE WEIDEMANN HAVE DONE IT AGAIN
EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING
THE CANADIAN WOMEN SPEED SKATERS DEFEND OLYMPIC GOLD
VAL MALTAIS, IVANIE BLONDIN, ISABELLE WEIDEMANN HAVE DONE IT AGAIN
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CANADA 🇨🇦🥌 FOR THE WIN
It’s a massive 8-6 victory for the Canadians over Sweden. That’s now three-straight wins for Homan and company. Gritty, gutsy win.
And at 4-3 Canada very much controls its Olympic playoff fates now with games against Italy and Korea remaining.
It’s a massive 8-6 victory for the Canadians over Sweden. That’s now three-straight wins for Homan and company. Gritty, gutsy win.
And at 4-3 Canada very much controls its Olympic playoff fates now with games against Italy and Korea remaining.
February 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
CANADA 🇨🇦🥌 FOR THE WIN
It’s a massive 8-6 victory for the Canadians over Sweden. That’s now three-straight wins for Homan and company. Gritty, gutsy win.
And at 4-3 Canada very much controls its Olympic playoff fates now with games against Italy and Korea remaining.
It’s a massive 8-6 victory for the Canadians over Sweden. That’s now three-straight wins for Homan and company. Gritty, gutsy win.
And at 4-3 Canada very much controls its Olympic playoff fates now with games against Italy and Korea remaining.
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: A Footnote to Freedom (Lance B. Dixon, @dundurnpress.bsky.social) & Visibly Invisible: The Black Women of the Congressional Black Caucus (Sherice Janaye Nelson, @uwpbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text.
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #bookish
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #bookish
February 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: A Footnote to Freedom (Lance B. Dixon, @dundurnpress.bsky.social) & Visibly Invisible: The Black Women of the Congressional Black Caucus (Sherice Janaye Nelson, @uwpbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text.
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #bookish
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #bookish
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It's wonderful to see both Jaime Forsythe's Yield and Richard Harrison's My Mother Joins the Resistance on the 49th Shelf's Spring Poetry list:
49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/02...
49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/02...
Most Anticipated: Our Spring 2026 Poetry Preview · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
The poetry you'll be falling in love with in the first half of 2026.
49thshelf.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:23 PM
It's wonderful to see both Jaime Forsythe's Yield and Richard Harrison's My Mother Joins the Resistance on the 49th Shelf's Spring Poetry list:
49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/02...
49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/02...
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In our latest Writer’s Block Q&A, Glenna Turnbull reflects on her debut novel THE ART OF GETTING LOST AND FOUND (@breakwaterbooks.bsky.social), balancing personal experience & research, & the Dickensian magic behind her character development.
Read the full segment at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
Read the full segment at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
February 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
In our latest Writer’s Block Q&A, Glenna Turnbull reflects on her debut novel THE ART OF GETTING LOST AND FOUND (@breakwaterbooks.bsky.social), balancing personal experience & research, & the Dickensian magic behind her character development.
Read the full segment at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
Read the full segment at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
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🎉 Happy #PubDay to TOGETHER BY THE SEA, the final work of renowned Canadian author, Marie-Claire Blais ✨
🔗 Learn more about this book here: https://ow.ly/70n850Yfos9 #BookSky #CanLit
🔗 Learn more about this book here: https://ow.ly/70n850Yfos9 #BookSky #CanLit
February 17, 2026 at 2:30 PM
🎉 Happy #PubDay to TOGETHER BY THE SEA, the final work of renowned Canadian author, Marie-Claire Blais ✨
🔗 Learn more about this book here: https://ow.ly/70n850Yfos9 #BookSky #CanLit
🔗 Learn more about this book here: https://ow.ly/70n850Yfos9 #BookSky #CanLit
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She finished fourth and vowed to perfect bigger tricks. She crashed working on tricks late last year and wasn't sure she could be here. She crashed in slopestyle and won bronze, and was brave and, near perfect, in big air. Megan Oldham, golden girl. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham almost didn’t make it to Milan. Now she’s an Olympic champion
Three months after a concussion in training, 24-year-old freestyle skier Megan Oldham stood atop the Olympic big air medal podium in Italy on Monday.
www.thestar.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM
She finished fourth and vowed to perfect bigger tricks. She crashed working on tricks late last year and wasn't sure she could be here. She crashed in slopestyle and won bronze, and was brave and, near perfect, in big air. Megan Oldham, golden girl. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
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How do we get governments to understand that spending on education (and healthcare) are investments that improve returns and lower costs in other areas?
Here's my full take on Thursday's funding annoucnement in Ontario. It's a big deal. The money to institutions is good, the way the money being raised is more regressive than it needed to be.
Ontario Status Quo Ante | HESA
Thursday morning, Ontario’s Minister of Colleges and Universities made a very big funding announcement: $6.4 billion in new funding over four years. It was certainly a welcome announcement, but as my ...
higheredstrategy.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
How do we get governments to understand that spending on education (and healthcare) are investments that improve returns and lower costs in other areas?
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Toronto used private security guards to patrol homeless shelters for years. The problem? They weren’t licensed
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
Toronto used private security guards to patrol homeless shelters for years. The problem? They weren’t licensed
The city’s actions raise significant safety and accountability concerns, legal and industry experts say.
www.thestar.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Toronto used private security guards to patrol homeless shelters for years. The problem? They weren’t licensed
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
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As the dad in a streaming family, I would just again urge CBC to create a separate Kids app like TVOKids or K:Kids - or at least introduce parental controls/kids accounts on Gem.
CBC greenlights six new kids shows; this is good.
Elise Gravel show 🎉
Elise Gravel show 🎉
February 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM
As the dad in a streaming family, I would just again urge CBC to create a separate Kids app like TVOKids or K:Kids - or at least introduce parental controls/kids accounts on Gem.
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The Olympic women's short program is today, and this is my preview / reminder for those who may be wondering what happened since the last Olympics.
At the last Olympics, as many of you know, the breathless talk of the commentators was about women doing quad jumps! Wow! Amazing!
At the last Olympics, as many of you know, the breathless talk of the commentators was about women doing quad jumps! Wow! Amazing!
February 17, 2026 at 1:24 PM
The Olympic women's short program is today, and this is my preview / reminder for those who may be wondering what happened since the last Olympics.
At the last Olympics, as many of you know, the breathless talk of the commentators was about women doing quad jumps! Wow! Amazing!
At the last Olympics, as many of you know, the breathless talk of the commentators was about women doing quad jumps! Wow! Amazing!
The women’s figure skating⛸️ final and Canada-USA gold medal women’s hockey game🏒 are at the same time on Thursday and I’m going to have to do the dual screen thing. Also I don’t ask me to do any work that afternoon.😀
February 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The women’s figure skating⛸️ final and Canada-USA gold medal women’s hockey game🏒 are at the same time on Thursday and I’m going to have to do the dual screen thing. Also I don’t ask me to do any work that afternoon.😀