@SwimBikeRun_RMc@photography thank you for sharing! It looks great!There are dozens of new murals popping up every year in the city. I had to stop after 200 murals. I couldn’t keep up! Lol
Alice Munro, the Canadian writer, has died at age 92. In 2013, she became the first Nobel winner cited exclusively for short fiction — an achievement that came after her retirement from her 60-year writing career. Prior to that, she had won Canada's Giller Prize twice, then disqualified herself in 2009 to make way for younger writers. Ms. Munro “brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels,” the jury of the Man Booker International Prize declared in 2009, awarding her the prize for her overall contribution to fiction. Here's a tribute to her from the Globe & Mail. [Story may be paywalled]
Are you in #Canada? I need some assistance from one reader in each of those countries, please. (US & UK now taken)
What do you get out of this? A free book! An actual physical book! You can take your pick between the Starship Teapot books or the Vigilauntie Justice books.
What do I get out of this? To test my new website and fulfilment system!
Comment below or DM me and I'll send you instructions and a link.
#CFP for "Symposium on Black Methods in Science, Technology, and Innovation Research in Canada and Beyond" closing today -- there's still time to submit!
Young nature lovers will love this Animal illustrated series ! It mixes fun-filled animal facts with intricately detailed illustrations about Arctic animals. Each volume contains first-hand accounts from authors who live in the Arctic, along with interesting facts on the behaviors and biology of each animal.
"Your encampment is a threat to the global witch hunt campaign (IHRA) to change the meaning of anti-Semitism (Being against #Jews because they are Jews). The #IHRA campaign attacks you as anti-Semitic because you criticize #Israel racist apartheid. The IHRA opposes the wearing of the Kyffeyeh and persecutes all defenders of #Palestine freedom." #Gaza#SolidarityWithPalestine#NotAntisemitism @palestine@israel
Today in Labor History May 20, 1776: The Mohawks, under the leadership Joseph Brandt (Thayendanegea), defeated the American Revolutionaries at the Battle of the Cedars (on the St. Lawrence River). A day earlier, Benedict Arnold, commanding the American military garrison at Montreal, surrendered to a combined force of British and Indigenous troops. Brant was born into the Wolf Clan of the matrilineal society, where power was divided between male chiefs and clan mothers, with decisions made by consensus between them. Much of this history is portrayed in the wonderful novel Manituana, by Wu Ming (2007), an Italian writing collective formerly associated with the Luther Blissett Project.
Immigration, trade, inequality, residential schools, war, fertility, Presidential elections & much more are analyzed in 21 economic history papers at this year's meeting of the Canadian Economic Association - May 24, 31 & June 1 at Toronto Metropolitan University
Congratulations to Canadian Public Policy on its special 50th volume Issue & to Professor Donn Feir who gives the CPP lecture May 30 at the CEA meeting in Toronto "Policies for Other People: Reflections from an Economist on Research & Federal Policy Regarding Indigenous Nations in Canada Post-1975"
Some #BookHistory: French lawyer & author Marc Lescarbot (d.1641) (‘ML’) had a client involved in an expedition to Acadia, New France. He invited ML, who accepted. 1606 July: They reached Port Royal (now in #NovaScotia )… with ML’s #books in tow: the 1st known library* in what is now #Canada.
Depending on your definition of ‘library’, of course. Let’s say, ‘Lescarbot’s books are regarded as the first known collection of European-style codices in what is now Canada’. @bookhistodons