Claire Cameron

13 already somehow and yet it feels like yesterday...

MGM reveals its plans for a casino at Exhibition Place Exhibition Place could get a whole lot more extravagant if MGM is able to realize its vision for a casino resort on the lake front property. Executiv…

He has the plans already drawn up and everything www.blogto.com/city/2013/03...

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This is so exciting: a new Canadian site where you can buy from independent bookstores. 🔥

#Canada
#AmReading

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Wow

Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears As a daughter of a wildlife biologist growing up in the Canadian wilderness, I’ve been fascinated with bears since I was a child. When I was only five years old, my father brought home an orphaned …

Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears? @trinamoyles.bsky.social on Challenging a Canon Long Dominated by Men @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

Spoiler: Women are choosing the bear, in more ways than one. #bears #bearsky

I photographed a Pizza Hut in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for the New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/f... (Gift Link)

Claire Cameron taps into the power of a surname in this original essay | CBC Books What's in a name is a personal essay by Claire Cameron, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. It is part of Life, Rearranged, a special series of new, original writing b...

My husband changed his last name to mine. This was a few years ago -- our experiences of the name change have been *wildly* different.

Also, I've lost count of the number of people who have asked if I married my cousin.

I wrote about it:

I'd like to read your book about the suburbs, please.

gripe your oars, and clutch your souls, now!

Canada Is Building a Surveillance Network in Space A reborn Cold War telescope is part of a broader effort to stop relying on US intelligence

"Deep in the forests of Algonquin Provincial Park, a few hours north of Toronto, sits a metal monster."
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Namwali Serpell on Approaching Toni Morrison’s Work As a Reader and a Critic Namwali Serpell is one of the most evocative, erudite, and original writers at work today. She mixes Gothic and Afrofuturist styles in The Old Drift, her first novel, a three-family saga that spans…

"Namwali Serpell is one of the most evocative, erudite, and original writers at work today." Really looking forward to this book.
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A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children

Devastating article about the effects of the Minneapolis chaos on children: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Amber Bracken is one of Canada’s greatest photojournalists, and for the RCMP to mistake observers for participants, arrest her and prevent her from doing her vital work is a deeply dangerous precedent. This case is important for all of us.

The Millions' Great Winter 2026 Preview Winter demands that we slow down, take stock, rest. And while we hibernate, books can keep us company. Luckily, this season, there are plenty of noteworthy new reads to fill these cold, short days. Be...

The much atrophied Millions preview is up for Winter 2026.

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum YouTube video by Associated Press

The whole speech is worth watching. Americans need to understand that the basis of the prestige and wealth of the USA is beginning to crumble m.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...

The Town That Asbestos Built. The Cancer It Left Behind | The Tyee Former residents of Cassiar say they weren’t warned about the risks. Now, they struggle to find support.

Floyd Joseph has fond memories of Cassiar, including playing hockey as a kid.

But he also believes the asbestos mine is responsible for his cancer diagnosis.

@amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

This is such an honour!

Ohio YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic

Some of us have seen this movie before.......

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Inside the sculpture of the face of the Statue of Liberty, in dark grey metal. The picture is taken from chin level looking up. Her nose and lips are in the centre at the top, and a sturdy metal frame sits inside it for support.

I'm in New York. Climbed up the Statue of Liberty yesterday. Here's the inside of her face.

This year, I’m making a resolution I know I won’t achieve Maybe the key to the perfect New Year’s resolution is to pick something you know you’ll never accomplish

"Maybe the key to the perfect resolution is to pick something you know you’ll never achieve." Like interstellar travel for example. I loved this piece by @markmedley.bsky.social

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Stare at a white wall time!

GG Nonfiction 2025: The Chat with Claire Cameron · Blog Post · 49th Shelf One of this year’s most talked-about memoirs is Claire Cameron’s powerful How to Survive a Bear Attack (Knopf). Claire’s memoir is now the 2025 ...

One of this year’s most talked-about memoirs is Claire Cameron’s powerful How to Survive a Bear Attack @aaknopf.bsky.social! Check out our conversation with her on "The Chat": 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11... #CanLit

Singing Trees
Emily Carr
c. 1935

Cormac McCarthy line sticking with me this morning, from The Passenger:

“Evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.”

Terence Corcoran: The new Rogers v. Rogers play gets a BS rating The new Rogers v. Rogers play gets a BS rating, including the glorification of Canada’s competition chief. Read more.

This is the greatest review of my career

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Blue Ice Lake Wonish
Anne Savage
1935

Black Bear: Trina Moyles on coming of age in Alberta | The Narwhal In an excerpt from ‘Black Bear,’ author Trina Moyles recalls lessons on surviving the many threats of a young life in rural Alberta

An excerpt from @trinamoyles.bsky.social forthcoming book BLACK BEAR -- it starts:

"My dad was known as “the bear guy” in Peace River."

I loved this book. It's out Jan 6.

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#naturewriting #bears #booksky

So much of rewriting is waking up your verbs, my God.

Oh wow! I’m sorry to hear it in a way, but he’s a great one.