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Anishinaabe Territory
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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
Poster promoting an event with Alex Himelfarb discussing his book, Breaking Free of Neoliberalism, at Dominion-Chalmers Centre in Ottawa on December 2nd at 7pm. Details as in post.
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Latest @winnipegfreepress.com column

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Opinion: The inconvenient truth: Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Cherokee hits hard
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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
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Screenshot of a post by Ayesha A. Siddiqi from September 2, 2015, which reads: "every border implies the violence of its maintenance"
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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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
A poster advertising a book launch event for David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, December 6 at 7pm at the Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St. Ottawa. Details as per post.
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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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
Poster promoting an event with Alex Himelfarb discussing his book, Breaking Free of Neoliberalism, at Dominion-Chalmers Centre in Ottawa on December 2nd at 7pm. Details as in post.
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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milleridriss.bsky.social
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!
jennifervevans.bsky.social Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · Oct 31
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.
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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
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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...
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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"
A poster advertising Fall 2025 book signings at Octopus Books in Ottawa. Details as in post.
October 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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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...
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A poster advertising an author talk with Cynthia Miller-Idriss about her book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism on October 30th, 6pm-8pm, at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa.
October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Join us at The Happy Goat on Laurel for this great book launch on Thurs Oct 28!
uoftpress.bsky.social University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · Oct 17
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
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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...
Poster advertising the launch of We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System with author Jonathan Rosenblum at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave, Ottawa, on October 27 at 7pm.
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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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...
Poster advertising the book launch of Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel by Muhannad Ayyash at the University of Ottawa on October 24 at 12pm.
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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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
Poster for the book launch of Lawless by Martha Paynter at Octopus Books in Ottawa on October 24, 2025.
October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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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
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
A hand holds up four issues of Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy in front of Octopus Books in Ottawa. The covers are in blue and pink, with the bookstore’s round hanging sign blurred in the background.
October 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Are you coming? Just over a month away! @atbaypress.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
October 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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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
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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
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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
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Vince Gasparro, the Parliamentary Secretary for "Combatting Crime," just announced that the Irish band Kneecap are banned from entering Canada, 3 days after he met with Israel lobbyists.
Tweet by Gasparro reading: "On behalf of the Government of Canada I am announcing that on the advice of our officials, we have deemed the group Kneecap ineligible to enter our country. Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly." Tweet by Gasparro reading: "I joined Prime Minister Mark Carney & colleagues in a meeting with CIJA and Jewish community federations from across Canada. The Prime Minister was clear in our key legislative initiatives that will help provide more security for Jewish Canadians."
September 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I think Sandy is Thoughtful Insights and I am Engaging Wit.
octopusbooks.ca Octopus Books @octopusbooks.ca · Sep 18
Thanks to the ever-brilliant @sandela.bsky.social & @nolore.bsky.social for joining us last night to discuss the big ideas in their new books with a packed audience in Ottawa! An examination of the serious issues facing Canada presented with their trademark thoughtful insights and engaging wit.
Nora Loreto stands at a microphone reading from her book, Corporate Control, while Sandy Hudson looks on, smiling. Sandy Hudson, in profile, addresses the audience while holding a microphone. Nora Loreto engaged in conversation after speaking at an event inside Spark Beer in Ottawa. Sandy Hudson, seated, signs a copy of her book Defund for a fan after speaking at an event inside Spark Beer in Ottawa.
September 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Thanks to the ever-brilliant @sandela.bsky.social & @nolore.bsky.social for joining us last night to discuss the big ideas in their new books with a packed audience in Ottawa! An examination of the serious issues facing Canada presented with their trademark thoughtful insights and engaging wit.
Nora Loreto stands at a microphone reading from her book, Corporate Control, while Sandy Hudson looks on, smiling. Sandy Hudson, in profile, addresses the audience while holding a microphone. Nora Loreto engaged in conversation after speaking at an event inside Spark Beer in Ottawa. Sandy Hudson, seated, signs a copy of her book Defund for a fan after speaking at an event inside Spark Beer in Ottawa.
September 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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We Keep Each Other Safe.
Power to the people of Los Angeles.

And if you think Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is dangerous, learn about Carney’s Bill C-2. Check out migrantrights.ca for more information #statusforall
Picture of a hand holding a stack of books: - Undoing Border Imperialism edited by Harsha Walia - Freedom, A Mixtape edited by Marcel Stewart with Suitcase In Point - The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel - Border Abolition Now by River, Campbell, Whitener, and Medien - Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer And Trans Migrants Against The Deportation State edited by Luibheid - Defund: Black Lives, Policing, And Safety by Sandy Hudson
June 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
June 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM