Bar interior. Blind River, Ontario. 1956 📷 Gordon Parks (1912-2006) | © Gordon Parks Foundation ‘is it ever possible to escape metaphor or change a democracy whose foundation digs into the bones of her original people i would like to know walt if there is a place for dead poets

From 2023-25, @morrislum.bsky.social and I met every other month to sequence the photographs from his “Chinatowns” series into this book, which officially launched today. This lead image on CBC Arts was always my cover image contender. So proud of Morris and this series www.cbc.ca/arts/for-mor...

For more than a decade, this artist has photographed North America’s changing Chinatowns | CBC Arts

Visiting Chinatowns from Ottawa to Oakland, Calif., Morris Lum’s new book is a visual exploration of restaurants, grocery stores and community halls as important sites of cultural heritage.

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The thrill of seeing an undergrad student on the bus, poring over their highlighted copy of Stokstad.

Some decisive shots of Montreal life, in black and white, currently on view in the McCord Stewart Museum’s “Pounding the Pavement” exhibition curated by Zoë Tousignant.

Morris Lum’s forthcoming “Chinatowns” book, which I helped him to photo edit and sequence, is on today’s @cnn.com style page! The book is out October 28 with a book launch planned in Montreal for December 11. @morrislum.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/s...

With one of my oldest and dearest in Montreal.

Write fast and Don't Think (trying this out as a "get your book done already" mantra)

Over the last five (eight? Ten?) years I’ve realized the profound responsibility and pleasure it is to be a part of an artist’s practice via friendship and to truly understand their work as it develops. 🙏 to count @narrowrooms.bsky.social as one of my people as I watched her present her work today

Montreal is really showing off in this late summer segue into fall

Seriously! How the hell is that allowed? Full solidarity with the flight attendants. Shame on you AC.

Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · last yr.

Boarding, disembarking, delays: flight attendants work it all unpaid. How is this even allowed? The Liberal government had a rare opportunity last fall - even the Cons recognized how grossly unfair this is. This strike could have been avoided. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Just waiting for @aircanada.bsky.social to pre-emptively cancel our flight home from visiting family in Vancouver rather than returning to the bargaining table with @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants. Solidarity with the workers.

From yesterday’s lovely and generous studio visit with Emma Nishimura. Furoshiki paper printed with photogravures of her family photographs of ancestors and kin incarcerated during Japanese internment in Canada.

The first of three conversations as part of Kate Wong’s SITE project at Mercer Union unfolded today, asking why Toronto’s art institutions are in crisis and what can be learnt from their symptoms.

ELLE A GAGNÉ !!! Championne 🔥 Bravo, Victoria Mboko ! www.rds.ca/tennis/omniu...

Omnium Banque Nationale : Victoria Mboko, reine de Montréal | RDS

Victoria Mboko a remporté le premier titre de sa carrière et non le moindre à seulement 18 ans en étant sacrée championne à la maison, jeudi soir, à l'Omnium Banque Nationale.

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So long, York U office.

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Why more residents are saying 'No' to AI data centers in their backyard

The world's highest concentration of data centers is in Virginia. Many residents are not happy about that.

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I bring a text about parenting, technology & creativity to read aloud each year at MOTHRA: an artist parent residency on Toronto island. Today, we read the introduction to @hzeavin.bsky.social’s “Mother Media” and talked about extended kinship, pathologizing mothering and artists as media

“All of my favourite artists are people who think about everything — there's no aspect of expression and the way that it could be received that isn't considered. jes was one of those 'everything' artists.” 🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse: www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...

Remembering jes sachse: disability activist, artist and maker of good trouble | CBC Arts

Friend and collaborator Gabrielle Moser reflects on the late Toronto artist who approached life and work with 'radical freedom.' They died earlier this month at the age of 40.

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Paris in May is a study in having a very nice life

Is there an online support group for disappointed Parisians who have moved to any other city in the world?

I regularly teach a graduate seminar called Un-Learning the Archive at York University in the faculty of education, and every year I assign Anjali Arondekar's "For the Record" in a week about the body and the archive. Until this year, her work seemed to fly under the radar.

I love this animal.

Students who thank you for transforming their research after they hand in their final assignment: this never gets old ✨

We are looking for a postdoc for our research group in digital sociology within DIGSUM. The research is about how false information is created and spread across digital platforms, and how it can affect public opinion and undermine democracy. Spread the word! www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/...

Postdoc position to study digital disinformation — DIGSUM

We have an open position for a postdoc to come work with us at Umeå University to study how disinformation and misinformation are created and spread through digital platforms, and how they may affec...

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How are we still in a place where a child-focused supposedly trauma informed health service will ask for a mom and dad’s name — rather than the names of the parents — on their intake form? Truly astonishing

Against all odds, or maybe because I arrived here in 2006 at the height of Torontopia, I still love this city best of all

The Kahnawà:ke Lacrosse team in a studio portrait taken in Montreal by photographer William Notman. The team took part in an exhibition tour of Britain, playing matches against a touring Canadian team, under the billing ‘Twelve Canadian Gentlemen v. 12 Iroquois Indians.’ Musée McCord Stewart

We saw a wave of people running for election in 2016 and I think that's going to happen again!

Former Federal Workers Find an Outlet in Local Elections

From spurned civil servants to frustrated residents, a surge of Americans are considering running for office.

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Reconsidering Reparations Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @ashdashlee.bsky.social for a discussion about justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change. Monday, March 31st at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Today from 2-3 pm on Zoom! Please join us for "Creative Risks: Navigating Ethics in Arts-Based Research with Children and Young People," a roundtable discussion about the practical and philosophical issues at play when researching with children and youth. Register www.yorku.ca/edu/events/c...

Creative Risks: Navigating Ethics in Arts-Based Research with Children and Young People | Faculty of Education

Join us for a lively conversation about the ethical considerations—practical, philosophical, and creative—that emerging and established scholars bring to their arts-based research with children and yo...

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