Why is Google Maps so bad at labeling rivers? Trying to convince someone that the thick blue ribbon by Burnstown is the Madawaska, but Google is not helping.

Prepared to host my book group’s discussion of María Gainza’s Optic Nerve with a load of alfajores and a pile of ammunition for the great autofiction debate.

So many vivid passages in ⁦Patricia Lockwood⁩’s “No One is Talking About This” but this description of a viral moment is just brilliant.

After 2 years of quarantines, work from home, reading, reading, reading, and zoom meetings, I've lost the ability to hold a conversation. I expect everyone to speak in well-thought-out, flowing paragraphs so I can sit back and think about it. Oh, you want me to say something?

CKCU just played covers of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald back-to-back for half an hour. That's *my* Ottawa. Thanks CKCU 93.1 FM.

I will not be complacent. #Ferron It Won't Take Long youtu.be/u-rKOEo7j_g via YouTube

The New York attitude. #8th Ave.

This whole conversation at council and CBC article without a single mention of rakes or brooms. Using less energy is greener than replacing with electricity 1:1.

Autumn pilgrimage. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

Thank god the NFB never gave up on stop-motion. This is the best chaotic motherhood in all of moviedom. How is that even possible, she says. Freaks of Nurture nfb.ca/film/freaks-of… via National Film Board of Canada

Today is primidi 11 Prairial in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating the strawberry.

We’ve found the Book of Hours captured by Holbein in his famous portrait of #ThomasCromwell! Cromwell’s book is one of the few objects depicted in a Tudor portrait to survive. Tracy Borman OBE has dubbed it “the most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation - if not more.”

Vote to save the research value of the Experimental Farm,Mark Sutcliffe. The developers want to suck the value from the Farm to sell the view—while setting precedent to remove active research land all along Carling. You live in this neighborhood—protect it!

Don’t waste hundreds of millions of dollars on the continued uglification of Lansdowne, letting developers cast literal and metaphorical shade on one of Ottawa’s best assets. Mark Sutcliffe Riley Brockington Tim Tierney Catherine Kitts

Losing both CBC Radio Tapestry and Eleanor Wachtel 's Writers & Company this year is a hard blow. Two hours of absorbing radio for our Sunday afternoons. Or thoughtful re-listens on long train rides. Hoping CBC Radio has more velvet-voiced women developing intelligent, humanist radio.

Remembering the French filmmaker, Albert Lamorisse on his 102nd birth anniversary. 'The Red Balloon' (1956) had one of the largest non-theatrical runs in the history of American cinema. Thousands of 16-millimeter prints were distributed to schools across the country.

"I am the light of happiness and I am a dancing owl" Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuk artist #womensart #WorldHappinessDay

A song for the vigils tonight in Montreal. 🕯 youtube.com/watch?v=mI4zBP…

Best part of the walk home from work on these short days, the seniors’ centre’s crèche at dusk.

Starting the new year with the best news! Thanks to judge Zilla Jones for her close and generous reading of my story. Proud to have my work in the always excellent The Fiddlehead