Libarbarian
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Peter Bailey. Tilter at windmills. Library nerd. Beer guy. Power pop fan.
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Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better.
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‘A Long December’ Always Gives Me Reason to Believe
December is a month of traditions. A myriad religious observances, baked goods, decorations and familial obligations. We all have our conventions, taking time t
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December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better.
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
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Today we remember the #Holodomor where millions of Ukrainians were starved by Stalin’s regime.
It’s heartbreaking that, generations later, Ukraine is once again fighting for survival in the face of Russian aggression. Their grief echoes across time. We remember. We mourn. We stand in solidarity.
It’s heartbreaking that, generations later, Ukraine is once again fighting for survival in the face of Russian aggression. Their grief echoes across time. We remember. We mourn. We stand in solidarity.
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today we remember the #Holodomor where millions of Ukrainians were starved by Stalin’s regime.
It’s heartbreaking that, generations later, Ukraine is once again fighting for survival in the face of Russian aggression. Their grief echoes across time. We remember. We mourn. We stand in solidarity.
It’s heartbreaking that, generations later, Ukraine is once again fighting for survival in the face of Russian aggression. Their grief echoes across time. We remember. We mourn. We stand in solidarity.
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“Those may be exactly the people who pose the greatest threat to the system: the people who can still remember, with rancor and longing and the inevitable distortions of time, what things were like before.”
― "Infomocracy" by @older.bsky.social
― "Infomocracy" by @older.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“Those may be exactly the people who pose the greatest threat to the system: the people who can still remember, with rancor and longing and the inevitable distortions of time, what things were like before.”
― "Infomocracy" by @older.bsky.social
― "Infomocracy" by @older.bsky.social
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"I dont think it's a secret, but we've always just wanted to be Sloan." ~ Yukon Blonde www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Yukon Blonde on the grounding power of being in a band
Anyone in a band will tell you it’s like being in a family — a dysfunctional family. But somehow, against all odds, the Canadian rock band Yukon Blonde has managed to stay together for nearly 20 years...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
"I dont think it's a secret, but we've always just wanted to be Sloan." ~ Yukon Blonde www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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For a party that says it’s all about free market choice, the UCP is sure eager to quash any other political party that tries to use the word “conservative” in its name.
Alberta’s United Conservative Party has filed a lawsuit against two of its former MLAs, alleging they have conspired to damage the party’s reputation by using the Progressive Conservative name. #ableg #abpoli @carrietait.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com
Alberta UCP launches lawsuit against former caucus members
United Conservative Party alleges Peter Guthrie, Scott Sinclair conspired to damage party’s reputation by using Progressive Conservative name
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November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
For a party that says it’s all about free market choice, the UCP is sure eager to quash any other political party that tries to use the word “conservative” in its name.
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SCOOP: Alberta's UCP is suing two MLAs it kicked out of caucus in order to keep the Progressive Conservative brand outta their hands.
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By @alannasmith.bsky.social and helper
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By @alannasmith.bsky.social and helper
Alberta UCP launches lawsuit against former caucus members
United Conservative Party alleges Peter Guthrie, Scott Sinclair conspired to damage party’s reputation by using Progressive Conservative name
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
SCOOP: Alberta's UCP is suing two MLAs it kicked out of caucus in order to keep the Progressive Conservative brand outta their hands.
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By @alannasmith.bsky.social and helper
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By @alannasmith.bsky.social and helper
Fantastic freshly harvested fresh hop pale ale from Sidney's Small Gods Brewing and Victoria's Whistle Buoy Brewing. Fresh Cowichan Valley hops from Maple Bay Hops and Field Five Farms malt from North Saanich. With Jim Crace's 2013 novel, Harvest. #craftbeer
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Fantastic freshly harvested fresh hop pale ale from Sidney's Small Gods Brewing and Victoria's Whistle Buoy Brewing. Fresh Cowichan Valley hops from Maple Bay Hops and Field Five Farms malt from North Saanich. With Jim Crace's 2013 novel, Harvest. #craftbeer
A lovely evening at Beth Shalom for a Kristallnacht commemoration with Bonny Reichert, and her memoir, How to Share an Egg, with @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social. Food is the key to Bonny's life story, including growing up in Edmonton, and her father Saul Reichert's story of surviving the Holocaust.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
A lovely evening at Beth Shalom for a Kristallnacht commemoration with Bonny Reichert, and her memoir, How to Share an Egg, with @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social. Food is the key to Bonny's life story, including growing up in Edmonton, and her father Saul Reichert's story of surviving the Holocaust.
Congratulations Laura!
NEWS: St. Albert Public Library names new CEO
St. Albert Public Library names new CEO
Laura Winton aims to build on SAPL’s work in inclusion, truth and reconciliation and civic partnership.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Congratulations Laura!
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@emmadonoghue.bsky.social explains why fact-based historical fiction still must negotiate with the truth.
Emma Donoghue on Populating Historical Fiction
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. It began with a photograph. I’d searched for “history Montparnasse” because that was the neighborhood where we…
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November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social explains why fact-based historical fiction still must negotiate with the truth.
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The stories in RUBBLE CHILDREN by Aaron Kreuter explore contemporary Jewish Canadian identity. Now available in audio as well as print and e-editions!
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@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto
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@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The stories in RUBBLE CHILDREN by Aaron Kreuter explore contemporary Jewish Canadian identity. Now available in audio as well as print and e-editions!
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto
Happy Alberta Book Day! That is, books published in Alberta by Alberta-based publishers. It ain't easy, so kudos to them. And kudos to books published by Alberta authors and Alberta-set books too. I did a bike ride in Edmonton as an homage to them all. @abbookpub.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Happy Alberta Book Day! That is, books published in Alberta by Alberta-based publishers. It ain't easy, so kudos to them. And kudos to books published by Alberta authors and Alberta-set books too. I did a bike ride in Edmonton as an homage to them all. @abbookpub.bsky.social
"We should all aspire to his high spirit of camaraderie, charity and kindness." RIP GREG NEWBY, Project Gutenberg CEO, Internet pioneer, accessible books hero. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby helped put a trove of literature online
A professor and a fixture of the hacker community, he was also ‘undoubtedly the most consequential volunteer’ to the project, a massive library of free, public domain texts on the internet
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November 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"We should all aspire to his high spirit of camaraderie, charity and kindness." RIP GREG NEWBY, Project Gutenberg CEO, Internet pioneer, accessible books hero. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Today's Alberta Book Day and we want YOU to join the fun! Check out how you can support your local publishers this #ABBookDay. Craving a specific type of book? There’s an Alberta book for that! All day, we’ll be sharing book recs to help you discover the diverse #ABBooks published here. #ReadAlberta
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Today's Alberta Book Day and we want YOU to join the fun! Check out how you can support your local publishers this #ABBookDay. Craving a specific type of book? There’s an Alberta book for that! All day, we’ll be sharing book recs to help you discover the diverse #ABBooks published here. #ReadAlberta
What's this then? A documentary film about legendary Edmonton storyteller Tony Cashman? I'm there! I hope @anakanaschofield.bsky.social can make it too! Broadview Film Festival broadviewfilmfest.com/festival/ #yeg
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
What's this then? A documentary film about legendary Edmonton storyteller Tony Cashman? I'm there! I hope @anakanaschofield.bsky.social can make it too! Broadview Film Festival broadviewfilmfest.com/festival/ #yeg
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
LET'S FRICKING GO BLUE JAYS! My heart can't take it.
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
LET'S FRICKING GO BLUE JAYS! My heart can't take it.
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Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
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Five years ago today, the UCP revealed it would evict 75 unhoused men from the McCullough Centre in Gunn, AB and lay off 63 unionized workers.
Two years later, the government quietly signed a $20-30 million contract with a company owned by allies of Marshall Smith. 1/
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Two years later, the government quietly signed a $20-30 million contract with a company owned by allies of Marshall Smith. 1/
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Rural Alberta recovery centre for homeless men set to close by February | CBC News
The McCullough Centre in Gunn, Alta., where up to 75 homeless men could receive support to recover from addictions or mental health issues, will be closed by February 2021.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Five years ago today, the UCP revealed it would evict 75 unhoused men from the McCullough Centre in Gunn, AB and lay off 63 unionized workers.
Two years later, the government quietly signed a $20-30 million contract with a company owned by allies of Marshall Smith. 1/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Two years later, the government quietly signed a $20-30 million contract with a company owned by allies of Marshall Smith. 1/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Baseball and the beers of October: my Tomato beer guy column seems very au courant, n'est-ce pas? Did you know there was no beer at Blue Jays games from 1977-1982? #craftbeer thetomato.ca/beer-guy/bee...
Beer Guy: The beers of October - The Tomato
“Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, blossoms in the summer, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fa...
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October 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Baseball and the beers of October: my Tomato beer guy column seems very au courant, n'est-ce pas? Did you know there was no beer at Blue Jays games from 1977-1982? #craftbeer thetomato.ca/beer-guy/bee...
Open Brew Day at Edmonton's Blind Enthusiasm Brewing. Open house and field trip day for beer nerds. October 25 to 6pm. #craftbeer
October 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Open Brew Day at Edmonton's Blind Enthusiasm Brewing. Open house and field trip day for beer nerds. October 25 to 6pm. #craftbeer
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October 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM