“You think you’re doing okay until the possibility of something different enters the picture. The contrast between what is and what could be is so great that it breaks your heart.” 🩺
“Walking through more than 100 drawings and paintings, I tried to see Emily Carr’s work as if I wasn’t from here. It is something of an impossible task.”
The idea that colour is political isn’t new, but in the year 2026 it’s taken on even greater resonance, writes @dorothywoodend.bsky.social. 🧶
“This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating hope, belonging and the quiet miracle of choosing each other again and again in a place that chose us too.” 💌
“For those who are just learning about Tumbler Ridge for the first time, know that it is so much more than the events of this week. The town is a portrait of resiliency. It has survived against the odds and emerged stronger.”
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“At this juncture, writing judgy little statements on social media isn’t useful. Do anything instead.”
Most prestige TV is bleak and violent. Heated Rivalry shows a future filled with hope. https://macleans.ca/culture/heated-rivalry-is-anti-dystopia-art/
Weekender editor @jackie-wong.bsky.social is inviting Tyee readers to share their stories of love in all forms for Valentine’s Day. 💌🍫
Whether friendship, romance, grief or animal companionship, send your submission (200 words max) to jwong@thetyee.ca by Monday, Feb. 9.
Suddenly even the corniest Canadiana feels like manna for the soul. 🇨🇦📺
“Whenever I look at his images depicting Vancouver Island, I think about my Woodend grandparents who lived in Metchosin, just outside Victoria, and cry.” 🎨
"The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see." www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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@dorothywoodend.bsky.social: Maybe at the heart of my irritation is the sensation of being trapped in a world I don’t understand and can’t seem escape from.
Dr. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has written many powerful works, but this one stopped me dead in my tracks when I first read it. Please take the time, and share widely.
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“In the past week, when facts of what is taking place on the world stage have beggared belief, the necessity of independent media has come into explicit focus.”
“Despite the everyday struggles that saturate our world, there remains the possibility that things can be different and better than what’s in front of us.” 🏒🏳️🌈
Happy old holidays
“Whether they’re old, young, middle-aged, it didn’t seem to matter — this year, audiences were out and about and clamouring for more. Is there something in the air?”
“‘Godspell’ marked a cosmic meeting of the minds. At the time, no one was famous, and everyone was dreaming of stardom.” #WhistlerFilmFestival
“It’s the expressions and representations of our people; who we are, where we come from and what we are about.”
@dorothywoodend.bsky.social: The convergence of beauty and bloodshed is truly where these two fearless women come together. 📸
We obtained hundreds of documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial in Latin America and all across the Global South.
Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social's exclusive story.
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