K.H. McMurray
@khmcmurray.bsky.social
Writer, reader, civil servant. 🇨🇦 Eco-Democratic Socialist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, bi, on the Spectrum. General pain in the arse. Reader of banned books. 🚫MAGAt 🚫fascists 🚫🇨🇦 Conservative Party 🚫DMs, porn, crypto 🚫Requests for $$
If you’ve been wondering where Mitch McConnell disappeared to… Well Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man & the Lion head were sent to the Emerald City to investigate 😂 The Wizard of Was is political satire at its finest!! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance #DefendersOfDemocracy
Onw of my pastimes is gardening. Until recently, I was limited to gardening on my back balcony. This year won't be different, except that I now have a lot in a community garden. Let the planting begin! #mtl #villeray #jardindenormanville #communitygardens
"Though this world's essentially an absurd place to be living in It doesn't call for total withdrawal I've been told it's a fact of life Men have to kill one another Well I say there are still things worth fighting for." - Stereolab, "French Disko" charlieangus.substack.com/p/10-steps-t...
10 Steps to Resist Fascism and Defend Democracy
The future of our democracy and our sovereignty depends on our individual willingness to step up and fill the breach.
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Published from May 2024 until 2025 on Draft2Digital, "Photos and Designs" will soon be available via non-US sources. Many of you who follow me know why. Check out the Substack link: khmcmurray.substack.com/p/its-a-long... #khmcmurray #photosanddesigns #canlit #littqc #2010s #booksky #cdnbooksky
It's a long story (part 3)
The making of my third novel, "Photos and Designs"
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April 2022. I released my 2nd novel, Then Let's Keep Dancing. Starting it back in 2003, I paused it between 2004-2016. Read why on Substack via the following link: khmcmurray.substack.com/p/its-along-... #thenletskeepdancing #khmcmurray #canlit #littqc #mtllit #cdnbooksky #booksky
My 1st novel, Boomerangs and Square Pegs, came out in January 2021, in the thick of the pandemic. The road to completion was long, with one major layover. Read about my writing process: khmcmurray.substack.com/p/its-a-long... #boomerangsandsquarepegs #khmcmurray #canlit #littqc #cdnbooksky #booksky
Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.
Carney must stop soft-pedalling the issue and take a firm stand. charlieangus.substack.com/p/world-at-w...
World at War: Canada Must Speak Up
On the first day of the Iran war, they bombed a school and murdered 165 children, seriously injuring 95 more.
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"No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We only know that it is always born in pain." -- J.M. Straczynski The latest from Charlie Angus: charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-time-o...
No Pasaran
Algorithms are funny things.
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I have a trophy of a gold-coloured miniature sofa that I could pawn off to the US president, but I fear that he and his vice president would fight over it. 😉
Removing all indicators that US black people fought and died kicking the N*zis out of the Netherlands? The US government is deplorable! charlieangus.substack.com/p/magas-race...
MAGA's Race War Targets War Graves in Holland
Over Christmas, I was stopped in my tracks by the news that the United States government removed commemorations to Black American war dead in the Netherlands.
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Note to US ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra: Next time you speak about Canada or Canadians, please make sure to turn off your gas light. Thanks. 😉
The 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. charlieangus.substack.com/p/still-haun...
Still Haunted by the Edmund Fitzgerald
50th Anniversary Tribute
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Even in Canada, we are not immune to rage farming and hate. charlieangus.substack.com/p/how-the-ha...
How the Hate Card Could Play in Canada
A political storm is coming, and it’s going to hit hard.
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For my non-Canadian followers, an FYI: Canadian Thanksgiving is tomorrow (Monday). charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-thanksgi...
A Thanksgiving of Resistance
Every year at this time as I watch the yellow leaves being blown off the trees and the cold wind of October tingling the air, I’m reminded of a decision that changed my life.
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Banning books, burning books, torching institutes of culture and higher learning: All unacceptable. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
The War on Ideas
In mid-September, I was invited to speak at the University of Regina about the threat posed by MAGA gangsters to higher education.
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Alberta Preem Danielle Smith shows how Canadian she isn't: charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-maga-p...
The MAGA Pipeline to Breakup Canada
MAGA Alberta’s latest attempt to sow division came in the form of a two-pronged assault.
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