Publishers are donating about $1 million worth of brand new books for the program, including titles like Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged by Jody Nyasha Warner, The Long, Long Line by Tomoko Ohmura and Fern and Horn by Marie-Louise Gay. cbc.ca/books/food-ban…

I wrote about homelessness as a human rights issue vs homelessness as a property rights issue, and argue that the two are incompatible latimes.com/california/sto…

A damn good mail day. Do right by calling your local bookstore and requesting they stock it!

"The dead, gone forever, departed before you, pull amniotic sacs over their heads and get in line to be born again and say that they need to learn their mother tongue all over again" Don Mee Choi, translated from the Korean written by Kim Hyesoon griffinpoetryprize.com/category/poem-…

💌 Another good mail day

Found Amia Srinivasan new book in my mail—fantastic mail day! 📬

Visit the NBF website to learn about the ten titles on the 2021 #NBAwards Longlist for Poetry. nationalbook.org/2021-national-…

FYI: If you, or know someone who doesn't have access to a printer and need to print your proof of vaccination, TPL is offering to print vaccine receipts for free. This can be done at any TPL branch: torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/news_releases/…

With baseball coming to an end I was thinking about Ichiro Suzuki... look what popped into my mail!

The Advance Brampton Fund is accepting applications for the Emerging Projects Stream, providing up to $5,000 in matching funds for new and innovative projects to local charities and non-profit organizations. The deadline to apply is Oct. 29. More at brampton.ca/abf

Students heading into postsecondary education face fierce competition, rising tuition, plus the tumult of starting a challenging new phase of their lives. How much of a toll has all of this taken on their mental health? Story by Simon Lewsen. thewalrus.ca/inside-the-men… 1/5

Even though A Perfect Bowl of Pho won't be in our hands until later this month, the ebook is now available! Get your ecopy of this genre-bending musical of silly soup songs here: bit.ly/3bDqwdJ

I talked to the Raptors’ Masai Ujiri about building basketball courts and basketball teams newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…

This is a crucial paragraph. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Introducing RAT Tracker—a citizen-powered tool for anonymous reporting of rapid antigen test results for Toronto students. The data collected will fill a gap in our understanding of Omicron’s spread and inform the COVID-19 situation at each Toronto school. thelocal.to/rat-tracker/

I usually am spending my time baking and running on weekends. Traded that for an Ohtani mound day.