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Symbiosky @symbiosky.bsky.social Make Decisions Through Conviction,
Fund Public Good like Journalism, Academic Content, Education
https://www.symbiosky.com/
Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social Writer, reader, punk | MFA UBC | He/him
Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, out now!) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
David Jón Fuller 🇨🇦 @davidjonfuller.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Author of VENUE 13, out now from Ravenstone. Interested in history, knitting, baking, cycling infrastructure, not necessarily in that order. Talar smá íslensku. He/him.
@combatradio.bsky.social @combatradio.bsky.social Survived Warner Bros Studios/Now Exec Director of Combat Radio/Brigade-Radio-One based at NBC/Universal Studios. MMA practitioner. Terrorist attack survivor. Monk. https://linktr.ee/ethandettenmaier
Stormie Wang-Hoskins @isabellawangbc.bsky.social 
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Kevalkumar @kevalkumar.bsky.social Motivational Quotes Writer
Nadiad, Gujarat, India 🇮🇳
Contact:+918866868474
Yolande House @healthruwriting.bsky.social memoir writer, grant consultant, survivor (she/her), MA
Words: The Rumpus, Grain, Joyland, The Fiddlehead, PRISM, Hippocampus
Threads/IG: healthruwriting
Twitter: herstorian
HoH 🏳️🌈 #binders
linktr.ee/yolandehouse
yolandehouse.com/services/grants
Chris Farley Ratcliffe @dadgoesround.bsky.social Dad of 3| Reproductive Freedom | LGBTQ+ parent | bike commuter | health systems | woodworker | retired #dadblogger | holder of opinions | Ottawa | manager at RCPSC | he/him
Patrick @pvszlanta.bsky.social 
José Arturo Hinojos (Artista Plástico) @josearturohinojos.bsky.social Pintor mexicano cuyo estilo, fácilmente reconocible, combina elementos figurativos, expresionistas con seres amorfos.
Canal de youtube:👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvUW4bBcwX8&list=RDDvUW4bBcwX8&start_radio=1
CKCU 93.1 FM @ckcufm.com Turn Up What Matters
www.ckcufm.com/donate
#TeamCKCU #CommunityMedia #TurnItUp
Evan H. Potter @evanhpotter.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Communication
University of Ottawa
Art & science of persuasion: Strategic Coms, PR, Information Warfare, Government Coms, Political Coms, Place Branding, Public Diplomacy, Cultural Statecraft.
Maggie Helwig @maggiehelwig.bsky.social She/they. Sometimes I do conceptual art. Sometimes I don't. Gangster pastor, allegedly.
"The only way that we, the small and the ordinary, might survive in any decent way, is if we learn to take care of each other."
It's Me. Lia. @liak.bsky.social Community Member
Music, Radio, Tech Nerdo.
Sentimentalist
Dog Person
Gilmore Girls rewatcher
Station Director @ #CKCU
Support independent Media
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/
Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social Actor, Playwright, Ghost Researcher, Author, Book Lover (she/they) 🌈✨🇨🇦
My first book:
“A Curious Presence: An Exploration of Ghosts and the People Who Haunt Them” Coming October 6th from ECW Press
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Adan Roy Cohoon @arcohoon.bsky.social Adam Cohoon is an independent Artist and Disability Advocate whose work has included tweeting, photography, filmmaking, and public speaking. Based in Toronto, ON Canada
Kevin Arjoon @kevinarjoon.bsky.social 
Kim Hellemans, she/her @drkimhellemans.bsky.social Cannabis, stigma, and substance use health. Neuroscientist, science communicator, professor 🇨🇦
Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social Ahora, jubilado. Formerly, School of Journalism and Communication & Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 Writing on disinformation, the twilight of the news media, and politics.
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Parkways For People @parkwaysforpeople.bsky.social Putting the Park back in Parkways🌱
Reimagining the Parkways for everyone.
Ottawa,Canada
info@parkwaysforpeople.ca
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Naeela Salis @prettynaeela.bsky.social Passionate , self loved , very understanding and honest to every situation , my dm is kindly for positivities .
Nicola Vulpe @nicolavulpe.bsky.social Poet, writer, sometime thinker, indignado
🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🍉 🇺🇦 🇮🇸 🇨🇺
Postscript @postscriptapp.bsky.social 🖼️All-in-one creative suite web app
Socials Post Maker • Book Formatter • Cover Designer • Photo Editor & more
No AI. No subscription. Free to use
www.pscript.app
@talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social 
Matthew King @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist/Game Developer @ Flex Fish Games. We're makin' a BAD-ASS, Pac-Man-styled, HAND DRAWN!!!!... 2D Arcade Game called... SUPER PUNKS N GUTS for consoles and PC cause we cool, yo! Follow our journey as we game dev the CRAP out this TREASURE!!!
Joanne Roulston, MSW, JD @ottawakiwi.bsky.social Lawyer, social worker, teacher, and writer.
Montréal born, Ottawa based. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Bilingual/bilingue. Pro Oxford comma. ☘️🍁🥝
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
https://joanneroulston.substack.com/
@johnkingbain.bsky.social @johnkingbain.bsky.social 
Nancy Dewman @nancydew.bsky.social 
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
Urbanvessel / Juliet Palmer, Artistic Director @urbanvessel.bsky.social Composer, interdisciplinary artist. Scores and recordings at: www.musiccentre.ca and www.sounz.org.nz. Find out more at www.urbanvessel.com and www.julietpalmer.ca.
@clairewyl.bsky.social @clairewyl.bsky.social 
@badhousekeeping.bsky.social @badhousekeeping.bsky.social 
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival- S Sue Cavanaugh @skcavanaugh.bsky.social
Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
Nightwood Editions @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social Innovative literary book publisher based in British Columbia, Canada. https://linktr.ee/nightwoodeditions
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Cassandra Olsthoorn @cassandraols.bsky.social Co-Leadership at Arts Ottawa
Mom of 2
Knitting and gardening
Bedlamite Rising @bedlamiterising.bsky.social Listen to Relïgion (feat. Fronz of Attila) youtube.com/watch?v=sOHSk0796XI
Follow us on Spotify! open.spotify.com/artist/2GNVwIUPvJ01c0HkKmzFiH
itunes.apple.com/album/id/571039212
Instagram.com/bedlamiterising
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social Classical Music host with a face for radio.
CKCU-FM 93.1, Ottawa, “Music for a While” (https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/info.html)
"Classical Muse" for other stations and YouTube
Ex CBC Radio
Always time for tea.
LarDog @lhar58.bsky.social Retired 🇨🇦Educational Admin
He/him
Hobbies: Golf, Curling, Hiking, Biking, Motorcycles, Camping, Travel, Cruising, Woodworking, tools, cooking, art, poker, music(all)
Like meeting and chatting with interesting people.
@normanroots.bsky.social @normanroots.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Grandpa of 9, genealogist, MS Access developer, economist
Minister Denzil Carnegie @lloydmill.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 Faith Family Outreach Ministry focuses on sharing the good news of salvation to all nations Jesus Christ teaching on repentance and forgiveness of sins to all nations Toronto Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 ♥️ ❤️ 💙
Johanne Boucher @johanneboucher.bsky.social Tea addict|book lover|writer.
Neurodivergent|Info Specialist (MLIS)
Montréalaise à Ottawa
*Blocks yellers/political partisans*
📚/🎾/⛸️/soap fan.
Profile pic of red tea lights+candles on white holders.
Background yellow + red tulips near pathway and canal.
Heather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
Kristina Zakhozhai @kristinazakhozhai.bsky.social Canadian Artist 🇨🇦
My comic: https://www.pigeontower.com
My clothing brand: https://www.fulinc.ca
Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social slow-lane poet, insect- & fungi-portraitist Good Omens DT & MS fan, rabid reader & writer in Quebec Canada
www.pearlpirie.com
🏳️🌈 gender costume: she/they Alt image: white person in glasses. long wavy greying hair, wonder woman bracelet
@canuckxican.bsky.social @canuckxican.bsky.social 
Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social Running to be the next mayor of Ottawa to build a city that works.
Candidat à la mairie d'Ottawa pour bâtir une ville qui fonctionne.
leiper2026.ca
Jennifer Mulligan 🇨🇦 🍀 ⚜️ @mizmulligan.bsky.social Born in the wilds of West Quebec. Writer. Director. Cat herder. Dog companion. Authentic hillbilly bloodlines. Future 6th Generation Farmer. Distant relative of famous Mulligan Golf Dude! Opinions mine. 🚫 Messages unless we have DMed before.
David @dgy13.bsky.social Plum Village, cycling, cats, coffee, art
Chris Hopkins @hopkins11.bsky.social 
Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
Jordan Moffatt @jordanmoffatt.bsky.social Writer (civic issues in Ottawa), author (fiction)
Website: https://jordanmoffatt.website/
Newsletter: https://threespeed.substack.com/
Citizens for Responsible Development Ottawa @crdottawa.bsky.social Citizens for Responsible Development Ottawa is a volunteer-driven group that fosters community dialogue on urban issues.
mb baker @bethmaru.ca She/Her/Elle
Canadian.
Curious.
Contrarian.
Contentious.
Contrasts.
Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). My new Collection, UNRAVEL, was a National Book Critics Circle finalist.
Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
thatVargas @thatvargas.bsky.social 
Amy Lavender Harris @alharris.bsky.social Geographer. Torontonian. My work focuses on the stories we tell about place. Also interested in nature, environment, art. I like democracy.
@steveloree.bsky.social @steveloree.bsky.social 
Scrivener Creative Review @scrivener1980.bsky.social Scrivener is a literary journal published at McGill University in Montreal, founded in 1980. https://scrivenerreview.com/
Submit to issue 48: http://tinyurl.com/scrivener48.
Louis Joseph @lastghostbike.bsky.social Gaspé to Vancouver, follow my winter bike trip across Canada in honour of deceased cyclists and to raise funds for different organizations. Goal…$20,000.
Resting in Vancouver a few days
🚴🏿♀️❄️🚴🏿♀️❄️🚴🏿♀️❄️🚴🏿♀️❄️🚴🏿♀️
Dhurata Ikonomi 🇨🇦 @ikonomi.bsky.social 
Aaron Percival @ampercival.bsky.social aaronpercival.substack.com
Director / @SSC_SPC / Public Sector Transformation Leader – Driving Change for Real Impact | Obsessed with Value, Cares Deeply, Gets Things Done #PublicSector #DigitalGovernment #ServiceDelivery #Transformation #GCDigital
Marten Kok @martenkok.bsky.social Foodie, Photography, Music lover, Music maker, News junkie, Politics, Businessmediator, Familymediator, Courtmediator, Conflictmediator, Lawyer in NL, Resolving disputes.
SpoonFellas#NAFO NC Gen❌🦋🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇦🇺🌈💙democrat 💛 @spoont51.bsky.social We stand together with these nations and the people of these nations 🇨🇦🇬🇪🇲🇽🇲🇽🇺🇦 #NAFO #FAFO .
Dylan Freeman-Grist 🍁 @freemangrist.bsky.social Freelance Journalist | (he/him) | Opinions my own | Toronto-Haldimand County-NYC | Settler |
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
wastrying.bsky.social @wastrying.bsky.social I'm George Evensen, new to Blue Sky, tired of the arrangements to obfuscate, confuse, and disingenuously lead us down wrong paths. I'm seeking honest thinking, which can include conjecture, searching, approval, beauty, artistry, and peace.
Tracey Bordignon @traceybor.bsky.social I have a small greenhouse where I grow herbs and salad greens. Canadian girl who loves books, gardening, women's rights and democracy. No DMs
@shrooms2001.bsky.social @shrooms2001.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🍁 Ontario , Canada
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl, a cracked and broken path
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
- KC -
Jef with one f @monhegan.bsky.social Musician (Bass, Percussion) | Audio Engineer & Producer | Graphic Artist | LGBTQIA+ Ally | Anti-Fascist | Pro-Choice | Pro-Human Rights | Pro-Science | Civil Rights Advocate | Bull Moose | 21+ — thirst traps get blocked | DMs only if necessary, please. 💙🌀
True Canuck 🇨🇦 Elbows Up! 🇺🇦 💙 @true-canuck.bsky.social A Canadian to my core. Here to support Ukraine. Dog person. Against all forms of discrimination. I don't do moderation. Prone to typos. If you identify as Canadian, I will likely follow. New substack, for longer posts: https://truecanuck.substack.com
Crown Attorney 🇨🇦 @crown-attorney.bsky.social crown attorney tweeting significant decisions of federal and provincial courts and tribunals
@posterboyca.bsky.social @posterboyca.bsky.social 
ME Luka @meluka01.bsky.social Associate Prof, U of Toronto. Techno culture, research creation & methods geek. Be kind
🇺🇬🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🅢🅢🅐🅛🅘 🇷🇼 @chrisssali2024.bsky.social Why destroy our fragile #climate just to satisfy fossil fuel profit margins when we can go green save life on Earth #StopFossilFuelsSubsidies #United4ClimateJustice #UnitedAgainstPlasticPollution @ucjglobal.bsky.social @stopfossilsubs.bsky.social
Steve Dog Father @freefromxhell.bsky.social Dog lover, lover of world peace, realizes that MAGA is a matrix, loathes autocracy.
Just call me Bea 🇨🇦 @agapostemom.bsky.social Nature, humanist, GenX, birds, canoes
Chocolate
life partner, mom, cat/dog/angelfish friend
Unceded Anishinabe Algonquin territory
School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social A hub for city research, education and engagement/outreach at U of T. Stay tuned for new #SofC initiatives at http://linktr.ee/uoftcities
Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social Empowering citizens to advocate for pollution pricing and climate-aligned finance. Building a liveable world since September 2010. Focus is our superpower.
canada.citizensclimatelobby.org
@JeffLarocque27 @jefflarocque27.bsky.social Volunteer Radio Host @93.1 CKCUFM
Working with Farm Radio International
Living in Ottawa, Canada
Laine Johnson @lainejohnson.bsky.social Candidate for re-election as Councillor for College Ward in the City of Ottawa.