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We’re only 3 months away from the @CAJ national conference, May 30-31, in Calgary for the first time. We’re lining up some amaaaaazing speakers and plans, and cannot wait to tell you about them. Save the date! Tickets on sale soon.

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“Absorb” Canada = invade Canada and try to take our country by force. Let’s start calling this what it is. And not normalize it with stories like this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

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Edmonton pals! The great new Porch Light Books will be stocking signed copies of my nonfiction story collection, No Sleep 'Til Fairbanks. Pre-order by Feb. 23 if you're interested, so we know how many to ship down, and please help spread the word! 💡📚

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It would take an invasion and a war.

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A grimly poetic warning from @timothysnyder.bsky.social. “It is as though we have boarded a train without thinking about the destination…I worry that we will not see that line approaching, that no one will get out, that no one will stop the train.” open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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An interactive Canadian products shopping guide from The Globe and Mail. Fill out the form to suggest more! 🇨🇦 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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It is so fun — and so rare — to see one of your stories out in the world in such a joyful way. Loved seeing so many copies of @theglobeandmail.com around at Monster Pro Wrestling last night, after our feature about Sage Morin aka The Matriarch. Read it here: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Last call: pandemicuniversity.com/travel-writi...

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SCOOP: Danielle Smith's government fired the head of Alberta Health Services two days before she was to meet with the Auditor-General to discuss her internal investigation into procurement contracts and deals for private surgical facilities. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg

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Wow! Amazing! I'm a longtime subscriber and I encourage you to do the same. We need Canadian-owned, local media more than ever.

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For weekday readers: My new longread about the rise of Sage Morin, aka The Matriarch, and the unlikely places we can find resilience and healing after tragedy. In the @theglobeandmail.com with photos by the great @amberbracken.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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“It feels important when they see this Indigenous woman come out, and I’m not a villain and I’m not a victim. I’m victorious.” My longread profile of the incredible indie wrestler Sage Morin, aka The Matriarch. 📸 by Amber Bracken. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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“It feels important when they see this Indigenous woman come out, and I’m not a villain and I’m not a victim. I’m victorious.” My longread profile of the incredible indie wrestler Sage Morin, aka The Matriarch. 📸 by Amber Bracken. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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An inspiring, beautifully written feature about a woman who found healing through wrestling, by @janapruden.bsky.social: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Dominique Pélicot is serving 20 years for drugging & raping his wife for years. He is now being investigated for stranger assaults & a murder dating back to the '90s.

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Really excited to be bringing my online writing class back this spring. We have a lot of fun in this class, and a bunch of great pieces have been published from it. For both experienced writers, and people who just have a story to tell. Deets here: pandemicuniversity.com/product/true...

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And here's how things are going in Jasper these days: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By the excellent @janapruden.bsky.social

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Arguably the best newspaper feature writer in Canada below. It is a paywall but if you sub to the Globe and Mail, this is def. worth reading.

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This is a fantastic bittersweet and doux-amer long read engagingly told by @janapruden.bsky.social . Make time for this sometime this week.

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I went to Jasper, where people are thinking about the power and beauty of fire, amid the destruction and pain it causes. With stunning photography by Todd Korol. @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Woody Guthrie’s New Years Rulin’s 1943. Always relevant, some years even more than others.

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So honoured to see In Her Defence: 50th Street named one of Amazon's best podcasts of the year. I’m so grateful to the Tuccaro family for trusting me with Amber’s story, and it means a lot to know it’s reaching people. At this link or wherever you get podcasts: music.amazon.com/podcasts/4fe...

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Two days after this piece by @janapruden.bsky.social was published, on the 35th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, a woman was shot dead in my neighbourhood and her partner charged with first-degree murder. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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This piece by @janapruden.bsky.social - read it. Read it twice. It captures everything, every damn thing. Don't look away. Don't ignore it because to say something means you may be regarded differently by your peers. Think about how you have involuntarily contributed to the hatred of women. 1/

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Gifting this piece by @janapruden.bsky.social for reflection and thought today (I hope this gifting thing works in this context). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a758c5f...

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@theglobeandmail.com is looking for a reporter to join our Ottawa bureau: can242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

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They died because they were women. Today is the 35th anniversary of the Dec. 6, 1989 Polytechnique Massacre. 14 women, most engineering students, were murdered by a misogynist gunman. December 6 is now the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

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I was 15 when the École Polytechnique shooting happened. As an adult, women’s safety feels even more fragile. By me (with a gift link): www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7232de0...

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I was 15 when the Polytechnique massacre happened. It changed how I saw the world. 35 years later, I find myself afraid, by @janapruden.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #femicide

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Quite specific, but okay

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Truth, reconciliation, democracy: Connie Walker's career connects them all. In 2024, alone, she won a Pulitzer, a Peabody and a Columbia-Dupont Prize for her podcast, "Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's." www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/... via @cbc-news.bsky.social @conniewalker.bsky.social #journalism

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CAJ Mentorship Program is the best gift you can give yourself, and it's free for CAJ members. 6-week private mentoring by, omg omg: @conniewalker.bsky.social @nickhunebrown.bsky.social @sarahcrgr.bsky.social @adrianklee.bsky.social @shireenahmed.bsky.social MOAR. Apply now: caj.ca/programs/men...

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