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Has anyone written about why modern camper design is so terrible and how after the mid-to-late 80s it all just became black and white and beige and unhinged reject font graphics or should I? Write that? Book-length even?

Joanna Lilley @joannalilley.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Love that a FAQ on the City of Whitehorse "snow & ice control" webpage is "what does the city do?" I asked same when a tow truck tried to pull a stuck cab from my unplowed neighbourhood & got stuck, & when I found out a fuel truck left behind a Sarlacc Pit of danger after getting stuck also.

Delighted and excited to be helping @TrinaMoyles launch her new and very amazing book, Black Bear, in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, at 7pm on Friday 9 January at the Beringia Centre. Join us! #blackbear @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social

Join us for an evening of art and storytelling about human-bear coexistence at 7pm on Friday 9 January 2026 at the Beringia Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Author Trina Moyles is launching her new book, Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival (Knopf Canada, 2026).
Filmmaker, Allan Code, will screen "Grizzly Consensus", a short documentary film about Yukon salmon and grizzlies, featuring bear guide, Phil Timpany, shot at Bear Cave Mountain.
Author/poet, Joanna Lilley, will be hosting an engaging conversation with Trina Moyles, Allan Code, and Phil Timpany, on the themes of human-bear coexistence, art, writing, climate change, conservation, and more.
This is a free event, everyone welcome!
DOORS OPEN AT 6:45 PM
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
BOOKS FOR SALE

BLACK BEAR: A STORY OF SIBLINGHOOD AND SURVIVAL (Knopf Canada, January 6, 2026):
When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as “the bear guy,” brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Calgary Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina’s lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus—the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a nuisance to human society. As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her beloved older brother, she understood bears to be invisible entities: always present but mostly hidden and worthy of respect. Growing up during the oil boom of the 1990s, the threats in the siblings’ hard-drinking resource town were more human, dividing them from a natural reverence for the land, and eventually, from each other.
After years of working for human rights organizations, Trina returned to northern Alberta for a job as a fire tower lookout, while her brother worked in the oil sands, vulnerable to a boom-and-bust economy and substance addiction. When she was assigned to a tower in a wildlife corridor, bears were alarmingly visible and plentiful, wandering metres away on t…

My NY resolution is to support real people thinking real thoughts and making real stuff I love to read, listen to and look at. This month I've subscribed to @annehelen.bsky.social's Culture Study; @thisamericanlife.org; @texasmonthly.bsky.social; @thewalrus.ca; @newyorker.com ...

Amy Kenny @amykny.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Legit my house this morning when we read it's going to jump to -33 today www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkDv...

RMR: Seven Day Forecast

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Dave White knows the hockey hot takes you've been missing are my thoughts on the Sportsnet analysts' style. That's why we talked about it on the radio yesterday. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Amy Kenny @amykny.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The romance of Emily in Paris rings extra hollow and plastic after Heated Rivalry.

Turn off the AI overview: surl.li/tsivog

How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google Search?

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Nothing like the high of having assigned all your features for an issue.

I love New York

It was a joy to write about hockey, underestimation and ambition for the current issue of @upherepublishing.bsky.social.

‪I think the "born and raised" angle to any Yukon candidate campaign sounds gross and racist?

Amy Kenny @amykny.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Project the Jays game on the front door of your house this Halloween if you support parents.

Little late, but last week the mag I edited in 2024 won magazine of the year in its circulation class at the International Regional Magazine Awards.

Amy Kenny @amykny.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Happy 10th anniversary to my favourite fall read from someone whose redheaded partner might wonder same: "around this time of year, maybe people are just more horny to sleep with someone who kinda looks like a tree." medium.com/the-hairpin/...

Toward A Theory Of Fall Fuckability

Toward A Theory Of Fall Fuckability 1. This summer I did not fuck a single person. As the axis of the earth tipped toward the sun, my sex life was reduced to transactional hand brushes with …

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Amy Kenny @amykny.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My dog's getting a big head with all this media attention.

Up Here Publishing@upherepublishing.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Ever wondered what your pup is really thinking? 🐕 A psychic spills the secrets straight from the dog’s mind in this wild read. 'I’ll Be Doggone' Story/Photo by Amy Kenny Read the full story here: uphere.ca/articles/ill...

Amy Kenny @amykny.bsky.social · 11mo ago

As someone whose job is writing/editing and for whom AI-generated shlock is a serious issue, I am enraged every time I open word and it asks if I want to use copilot—how do I shoot it into the sun and never have to see a trace of it on my computer again?

Up Here Publishing @upherepublishing.bsky.social · last yr.

This week's article features a powerful story about two friends out in the wilderness that we think everyone should have a chance to read. 'One Came Back' Story by Rhiannon Russell Read the full story here: www.uphere.ca/articles/one-came-back

Best cover to end my run at Yukon, North of Ordinary.

100 sleep score, ama

Today in northern fact-checking—"Does the chicken's passport differ from the standard pet passport?"

The Gretzky family is well and fully exiled now, yes?