Michelle Hébert (she/her)
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Preorder "A Good Girl's Guide to Lying: Losing my Memory, Searching for Truth, & Confronting Complex Trauma"at https://linktr.ee/michellehebertwrites | Halifax/Mi'kmaqi
The PC’s response to this is despicable, as were the MLA’s ‘songs’. He wouldn’t have recorded things that didn’t reflect who he is. The Premier’s spokesperson backing up the misogyny is on brand for this government.
Trevor J. Adams@trevorjadams.bsky.social · 2d ago“Houston's spokesperson, Catherine Klimek … asked if CBC News was planning to do stories on offensive past comments made by other politicians, singling out Wab Kinew and Jaime Battiste, which CBC has done.”
PRETEND: “Give me something I haven’t seen before!” ACTUAL: “But it needs to fit on the shelf next to three identical books already optioned for television. Risky but safe, edgy but soothing, queer but market-tested.”
A Queer Writer’s Survival Guide to the Literary Agent Hypocrisy Circus: PRETEND vs. ACTUAL
PRETEND: “We want queer joy! Write freely!” ACTUAL: “But make sure there’s a straight best friend to guide the reader through the scary parts. If anyone has ...
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It is funny that Trump thinks we are all going to buy American booze again as soon as it is put on the shelves. The grocery stores have had USA products all along and I haven’t bought a single one since the tariffs started. And I am not about to start.
Hockey Canada suspensions remain for four players on 2018 junior team www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...
Hockey Canada suspensions remain for four players on 2018 junior team
An independent appeal board has ruled that five players from Canada’s 2018 world junior team acquitted last year of sexual assault breached the Hockey Canada code of conduct.
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Happy 13th birthday to the cowcats, Ivy and Smudge. Already planning their Sweet 16.
Today marks the Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval. It began in 1755 when Acadians were forcibly removed by the British from their homes in present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and P.E.I. Between 1755 and 1763, about 10,000 Acadians were deported on crowded ships. Thousands died.
Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation
YouTube video by Historica Canada
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Ms Freeland is spot-on, quoting the late, great Leonard Cohen in this @nytimes.com piece today. ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
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Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
Our power has been out all day today in my little pocket of north end Halifax. Who knows why? Salty raccoon? Vigilante crow? Just for the heck of it?
En reprise | Le regard de notre caricaturiste Godin sur l'actualité du jour 👉 bit.ly/4vHepmH
Canada has approx. 369 million hectares of forests — only 30% are accessible by roads US has approx. 304 million hectares of forests — 70% are accessible by roads When we have wildfires in Canada in areas not accessible it makes it harder to put them out. Facts matter, don’t lecture us.🖕
A Good Girl’s Guide to Lying went to press today! It'll be in the world on Sept 15th. Launching memoir feels so much more vulnerable than a novel. Will people judge me? Will they get what I’m saying about misogyny in our social institutions? Will it change how people think about trauma? 1/3
Brenda Thompson and Memoirs of a Welfare Mother: ‘Always. Question. Authority. Not as a slogan. As a demand. A discipline.’ Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social
Brenda Thompson and Memoirs of a Welfare Mother: 'Always. Question. Authority. Not as a slogan. As a demand. A discipline.' - Halifax Examiner
"This is one hell of a story and life to be proud of."
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it is extremely telling that when california was on fire canadian firefighters mobilized to provide wildfire relief, but when canada has 800 active wildfires americans are just moaning about the air quality lol
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
*Whispers* Amazon doesn't need your money, but your local independent bookstore does.
New report shows women in Atlantic Canada still being paid less than men Reported by Yvette d'Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social www.halifaxexaminer.ca/women/new-re...
New report shows women in Atlantic Canada still being paid less than men - Halifax Examiner
“The gender pay gap is not inevitable. It is the result of policy choices, labour market structures, and how society values different kinds of work."
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Homelessness doubled in Halifax under government’s housing plan: N.S. NDP #NovaScotia This is one of many reasons to remove Tim Houston as Premier in the next election, he has also made things more costlier for Nova Scotians halifax.citynews.ca/2026/06/18/h...
Homelessness doubled in Halifax under government's housing plan: N.S. NDP
Nova Scotia’s NDP leader is questioning the government’s efforts on housing and preventing homelessness. Claudia Chender says three years after announcing a $1.7 billion housing plan, the province is ...
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James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.
So proud that Nimbus is publisher for my novel, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, and my upcoming memoir, A Good Girl's Guide to Lying. AI is incredibly damaging to the writing and publishing industries. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The AI book wave and how a Halifax publisher is resisting it | CBC News
The publishing house hasn't been immune to the many AI controversies impacting the world of books.
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The province should be ashamed. They aren’t, but they should be. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.S. public libraries relying more on fundraising to balance books | CBC News
As provincial funding stagnates, libraries are turning to other sources to make up budget shortfalls and avoid branch closures.
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I think about this as I look at the dipshits in charge of most decision-making in Nova Scotia.
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 3mo agoThere is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.
