📚🚀🎉JULY 2: Announcing this #NIHM the launch for INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN ONE MINUTE, by Bruce McIvor, 6:30pm at Blackhurst CC. Join Bruce as he sits down with acclaimed Mi’kmaw lawyer and activist Pam Palmater for a powerful conversation on Indigenous rights and reconciliation.📚

I can't wait! I hope to see you all there. This is a really important book. All Canadians should read it!! #indigenous #nativerights #nativesovereignty #landback #firstnations #inuit #metis #UNDRIP #section35 #books #authors #cdnpoli #nativelaw

A Different Booklist Pam Palmater Nightwood Editions Looking forward to seeing Toronto friends next week. It'll be a great conversation.

📚🚀🎉REMINDER - JULY 2: INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN ONE MINUTE, by Bruce McIvor, is in stock now at A Different Booklist! Grab a copy for context on Indigenous issues in 🇨🇦. And join Bruce with powerhouse Pam Palmater for the launch next week at Blackhurst CC. Details 👇🏿 All are invited!📚

📚🚀🎉Was surprise after surprise as we launched YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET, ed. by Juleus Ghunta. From which writers were presenting to the emerging reveal in each story and whether tech would deliver. A beautiful launch of a middle-grade coll. of diverse stories!📚

📚🚀🎉The Readings:Five of ten contributors of YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET presented their stories. In the order of presentations: Ndija Anderson, Abigail Grimes, Deborah Ross-Attas, Caroline Bennett & Saira Batasar-Johnie. Educators & TLs, add it to your libraries!📚

📚🚀👏🏿Congrats to all 10 of the contributors, Juleus Ghunta (ed.), Yolanda T. Marshall (curator of the collection) & Chalkboard Publishing on this fine grab-bag of stories, each with a surprise. A few copies left - purchase from A Different Booklist: adifferentbooklist.com/item/NBxRcFBM7… TY all for attending!📚

📚🚀✊🏿TOMORROW: Join us for the launch of INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN ONE MINUTE, 6:30pm at Blackhurst CC. It's an opportunity to hear the author Dr. Bruce McIvor in conversation with Pam Palmater. An important event - is the new government really listening to Indigenous communities?📚

Amazing evening at @ Blackhurst Cultural Centre A Different Booklist during Bruce McIvor release of his book "Indigenous Rights in One Minute" alongside Pam Palmater can't wait to read this & share with other Educators.

📚🚀🎉Huge night for Bruce McIvor as he launched his book INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN ONE MINUTE yesterday at A Different Booklist! Congrats, Bruce, and 🙏🏿 to you, host Pam Palmater, and a highly informed crowd for exposing how Canadian law and legal practice desecrate Indigenous rights.📚

📚🚀Into the 💚of the conversation: Pam Palmater asks the author Bruce McIvor which Aboriginal law case he values most. He says Sparrow, which addressed Indigenous rights beyond identity and meaningfully engaged with section 35 of the Constitution. #IndigenousRightsinOneMinute📚

📚🚀🎉Highlights & Thanks:🙏🏾to all who attended, to Bruce, Pam & Nightwood for choosing A Different Booklist. We recommend Bruce McIvor's INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN ONE MINUTE to schools, educators, Canadians. The simplest, clearest book on Indigenous rights! Order:adifferentbooklist.com/item/wsxHDXv98…📚

📚🚀🎉AUG 16: In the mood for a heart-wrenching, coming-of-age story about three street kids in postcolonial West Africa? Then celebrate on Aug 16, 2pm, at Blackhurst CC, the launch of THE HAND OF IMAN, with author Ryad Assani-Razaki in conversation with scholar Chido Muchemwa!📚

Shout out to A Different Booklist!! A Different Booklist and the Toronto Chapeter of the No Name book club!

📚🚇✊🏿JULY 31: Many have asked and are excited for it each year. Yes, it's happening: Come aboard Blackhurst CC's annual Emancipation Train at 10:45pm at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre! We'll welcome in #EmancipationDay in honour of Black freedom and resilience. All are welcome!📚

One year I'll definitely fly back for this!

📚🎉🚇Today, we climb aboard the Underground Freedom Train, symbolic of the historic and continuing struggle for Black freedom, and welcome in #EmancipationDay. Celebration begins 10:45pm at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. Everyone is invited to this unforgettable night!✊🏿📚

📚🚇Stories of overcoming are all around. Conductor Brereton, an entrepreneur, shared her story of immigration from 🇧🇧 in 1964. It was tough, but she endured and rose to help others. The WTO Youth Choir sang it loud: When every hand joins every hand...that's when we'll be free.📚

📚🎉🚇 🫶🏿 to the wonderful presenters, performers, sponsors & attendees for commemorating #EmancipationDay2025 with us - a special TY goes to Conductor Patricia Brereton - and for making it extra memorable by sharing your gifts to keep us moving full force! See you next year!📚