In The Red on 101.7 FM CHLY Nanaimo @intheredcanada.bsky.social ITR broadcasts stellar Canadian rock music every Wednesday from 8 - 10 PM Pacific on 101.7 FM CHLY #Nanaimo, #BritishColumbia on traditional Snuneymuxw territory. Stream us at CHLY.ca/listen or on the TuneIn app 🎙️🎶
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social 5’3 / pretty messy / does not modulate voice / satisfactory appearance 🦕❤️🦖
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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DES DEMONAS @desdemonas.bsky.social 
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Rush is a Band @rushisaband.bsky.social A blog devoted to the band RUSH and its members, Neil Peart, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson https://www.rushisaband.com
Live Music Canada 🇨🇦 @livemusiccda.bsky.social Connecting Canadian Audiences With Artists All Across The Country, Simply Because We Love It! #IndependentNotForProfit
Dodie Bellamy @belladodie.bsky.social Writer
Simon Dardick @simondardick.bsky.social Co-publisher at Véhicule Press.
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca 🚑 Providing medical care where & when it’s needed.
🥼 Fournir des soins médicaux humanitaires là où les besoins sont les plus grands.
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Nightwood Editions @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social Innovative literary book publisher based in British Columbia, Canada. https://linktr.ee/nightwoodeditions
Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social Human poet/artist. Latest book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch
Wilco @wilcohq.bsky.social Your band's favorite band.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
S P A R K S @sparksofficial.bsky.social Ron Mael & Russell Mael | 💿 LIVE ON THE MOON 🌑 - out now! | subjects of #TheSparksBrothers | writers of #Annette | www.allsparks.com ✨
Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
Dylan Michael Jenkins @coachingbydylan.bsky.social Empowerment Coach - Indigenous Two Spirit Knowledge Keeper - Storyteller - Intuitive Practitioner - Keynote Speaker
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Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social New to this platform!
Literary Poet (author of Cult Life)
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Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry
www.planetearthpoetry.com
Host of The Poet Laureate Podcast
@poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria (2025-2027)
@banffcentre.bsky.social @banffcentre.bsky.social 
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social writer, teacher, superhero...
ifhan 🎟️ @ifhan.bsky.social Cinéphile à géométrie variable, bdvore, DBA & SIG
@stereolux.bsky.social @stereolux.bsky.social 
Queer Momentum @queermomentum.ca Accelerating Social & Gender Justice for 2SLGBTQIA+ People. Addressing rising anti-2SLGBTQIA+ hate and challenging government inaction on 🏳️🌈 issues. #CdnPoli. MomentumCanada.net
Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social Deputy Opinion Editor, @theglobeandmail.com. Former Globe and Mail/National Post Books Editor.
Author of Live to See the Day, a national bestseller. https://linktr.ee/mark.medley
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond.
www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social
Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
The Internet's Hazlitt Magazine @hazlitt.bsky.social 
Strange Light @strangelightbooks.bsky.social Boundary-pushing books. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/imprints/89/strange-light
Flic Taylor @flictaylorwrites.bsky.social Freelance writer | Burnout Podcaster
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
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FR: @santepubliqueottawa.ca
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Français = @ottawasante.bsky.social
Public Art Ottawa @publicartottawa.bsky.social City of Ottawa | Public Art Program
Collect. Commission. Exhibit.
Ville d'Ottawa | Programme d'art public
Collectionner. Commander. Exposer.
@talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social 
Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com books, bugs, bolitics 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/cavatica
Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario. 
@bradleygaudet.bsky.social @bradleygaudet.bsky.social 
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Margaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social Comedian etc
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.
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poésie d’Ottawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / l’administration du Programme des poètes lauréats d’Ottawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social Poetry. Well-served.
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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social Band from Athens, GA, 1980-2011, made music, lasts forever.
Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)
https://undertowpublications.com/
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net Books Booze Belles Balls | Publisher | http://littlepuss.net | We're a feminist press run by trans women | Buy PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID and MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS | Ecclesiastes 12:12-13
Cindy Deachman @joditch.bsky.social Composing music. Making music, making art. Taking in life.
Tony Fouhse @tonyfouhse.bsky.social Photographer, etc.
Here: A lot of photographs from around my house and my life, work in progress, a bit of archives and, occasionally, some hype. (Not for everyone.)
More info: www.linktr.ee/TonyFouhse
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Lunenburg Community Bulletin Board @lunenburgns.bsky.social Welcome all Lunenburgers, South Shore residents of Nova Scotia to post and discuss neighborhood events. Please be kind and respectful (or your comments/posts will be deleted).
Susan Johnston @joycuriosity.bsky.social Creativity | Dialogue and civic engagement | Community resilience | Arts and coffee Friday mornings @ CKCUFM.com
Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social All about the books
Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
FOLD @thefoldcanada.bsky.social Updates on the Festival of Literary Diversity, FOLD Kids Book Fest, FOLD Academy, FOLD Reads and all year-round events supporting underrepresented Canadian authors.
Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social On a mission to support & celebrate Canadian writers. Discover our literary award-winning books at writerstrust.com
Lisa Whittington-Hill @lisawhitt.bsky.social This Magazine Publisher. Words in Longreads, The Walrus, Catapult, Hazlitt and more. Author of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women and a 33 1/3 on Beauty and the Beat by The Go-Go's.
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com
BBC Gardeners' World Mag @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social Leafy updates from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine and www.gardenersworld.com 🌿
Juxtapoz Magazine @juxtapozmag.bsky.social Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine. est. 1994.
The Toronto Zoo @thetorontozoo.bsky.social The official account of your Toronto Zoo, a community funded conservation organization, operating a world-class zoo. WARNING: may contain traces of cute 🦁🐧🐸 #torontozoo
Chrissie Hynde @chrissiehynde.com ‘Chrissie Hynde & Pals - Duets Special’ is out now, available on vinyl, CD & streaming. https://linktr.ee/chrissiehynde
All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social An independent online bookstore and blog showcasing and selling Canada's best in indie books. Visit us at alllitup.ca
City of Ottawa @en.ottawa.ca Official account of the City of Ottawa.
Not monitored 24/7. Currently testing this new channel. Posting Monday to Friday, occasionally on weekends.
Stay updated with the latest info.
Français: @fr.ottawa.ca
Service-related requests: ottawa.ca or call 311
@jennemem.bsky.social @jennemem.bsky.social 
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Jane Siberry @janesiberry.com 
swooncor @swooncor.bsky.social swooncor posts six times a week
(including Saturday in colour)
established March 17, 2023
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.
Andrew Hood @andrewnhood.bsky.social Author of Pardon Our Monsters, The Cloaca, and Who Needs What. Signed, personalized copies available at the local Value Village 
Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social I Felt the End Before It Came / The Guardian, The Globe and Mall, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, Geist, The Malahat Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Best Canadian Essays / He/him
danielallencox.net
@delbauchery.bsky.social @delbauchery.bsky.social Writer, poet, farter.
Dave Bidini @davebidini.bsky.social Publisher @westendphoenix Rheostatics. Author of 13 books. Hockey Nomad. Movies. Also: Ballpoint Agency.
Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social it's me
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
Writer (✨✨✨)
https://linktr.ee/caseyplett
Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
Christine McNair @christinemcnair.bsky.social Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
Brian Busby 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰 @brianbusby.bsky.social Writer, écrivain public, anthologist, literary historian, bibliophile, and three-time winner of the Ice Capades Colouring Contest.
Author of Character Parts (Knopf), A Gentleman of Pleasure (McGill-Queen's UP), and The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis).
Andrew Steinmetz @middlenameeinar.bsky.social Pushes pen and strums guitar. Keeper of an Aussie Shepherd. Arsenal junkie. https://www.andrewsteinmetz.ca
Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social The largest museum in Canada - we showcase art, culture, and nature from around the world and across the ages.
Corey Redekop @coreyredekop.bsky.social Canadian author, SHELF MONKEY, HUSK, assorted literary sundries. Socially friendly, emotionally distant. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758661.Corey_Redekop
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Qwerty Magazine @qwertymagazine.bsky.social Qwerty publishes new poetry, fiction, and art, and is staffed by creative writing students based in the Poets' Corner of Canada
QWERTY CRYSTAL: THE BEST OF QWERTY MAGAZINE PART I
Now Available
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Jack Illingworth @illingworth.bsky.social ED, Association of Canadian Publishers. Kayaker and general nature nerd. Neurodivergent cancer “survivor.” Tkaronto for my work and Niibing for my soul.
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...