This is super-true! I love seeing that little "You’ve supported @octopusbooks.ca pop up!" every time I pick up an audiobook. I can’t get downtown easily, but I *can* still support them easily. Win-win.

Libro.fm@libro.fm · 4w ago

We're just an employee-owned audiobook company, standing in front of readers, asking them to make the switch so they can support their indie bookstore with every audiobook purchase 💓 (We're also a Certified B Corp, offer DRM-free audiobooks, & have 600,000+ to choose from.)

We're just an employee-owned audiobook company, standing in front of readers, asking them to make the switch so they can support their indie bookstore with every audiobook purchase 💓 (We're also a Certified B Corp, offer DRM-free audiobooks, & have 600,000+ to choose from.)

Join us to celebrate the launch of Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Battle to Become the Next King of Chess, by Ottawa's own Jordan Himelfarb. 🗓️ Sunday July 19th 🕒 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM 📍 Spark Beer, 702 Somerset St W. 🎟️ RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/interregnum @houseofanansi.bsky.social

Top players grapple with burnout and anxiety. Cheating scandals roil the game. Elite chess is in the grip of a mental health and integrity crisis. Can the game sustain trust in both its players and itself? Journalist Jordan Himelfarb explores: https://ow.ly/ashj50YNbiC

A wonderful evening celebrating the launch of Crescendo by Mekyle Ali Qadir. Thank you to everyone who joined us for an evening of poetry, conversation and community. Congratulations, Mekyle! 📚✨ #Crescendo #Poetry #BookLaunch @octopusbooks.ca @diasporadialogues.bsky.social @carleton.ca

Many thanks to @octopusbooks.ca in Ottawa! Fantastic to help support a Canadian, independent, and woman-owned business in Ontario! Will definitely be supporting you and my growing addiction of buying books for my home library.

We're always told we can't tax the rich or they'll leave. What we're never told: true, they can leave, but they'll face a hefty EXIT TAX on the way out. Either way, we win. #canlab #cdnpoli

Octopus Books@octopusbooks.ca · 4mo ago

Join co-authors @lindamcquaig.bsky.social & Neil Brooks for a discussion of their new book, Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax 🗓️ Wed April 22 ⏰ 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm) 📍 Abbotsford House, 950 Bank St, Ottawa RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/wealthtax

A crucial read for the current moment. Available at Octopus Books.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you are already involved in justice work, but are struggling to hold this moment, my friends and I wrote a book for you, too. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

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New report Artworks reveals how the arts and culture sector drives economic growth and Canadians’ quality of life

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Join Cree kêhtê-aya (Elder) Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer to celebrate the launch of wîhtamawik / Tell Them, a new collection of memoirs, essays, & poems. In convo with Omeasoo Wahpasiw. 🗓️ Thr April 23 ⏰ 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm) 📍 GCTC, 1233 Wellington St. W 🎟️ RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/tellthem

Meet @curtischin.bsky.social for a discussion of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, a memoir of his time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 80’s Detroit. In convo with @donkwanart.bsky.social Thr Apr 23, 6pm - Yet Keen Senior Center, 755 Somerset St W, Ottawa

Join co-authors @lindamcquaig.bsky.social & Neil Brooks for a discussion of their new book, Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax 🗓️ Wed April 22 ⏰ 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm) 📍 Abbotsford House, 950 Bank St, Ottawa RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/wealthtax

Book Launch | The Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left, edited by Jim Harding. Octopus welcomes Joan Kuyek & Lib Spry for a conversation on how the lessons of the past can help inform our ongoing fight for a more just and equitable future. Tues Apr 21, 6:30pm - GCTC, 1233 Wellington St. W

Join Ottawa educator & author Danny Neville to celebrate the launch of Little Bee, a bug-tastic & social justice–filled early chapter book! Featuring a short reading, Q&A with the author, & fun activities for kids. Sun Apr 12th, 10am - Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Ave.

🌷 OTTAWA - Looking for a fun, thought-provoking, and soul-fulfilling experience? We've got you covered with a lineup of spring events featuring great authors! Check out our event listings: octopusbooks.ca/events

Octopus Books

Ottawa's progressive independent bookstore since 1969

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So inspired by our comrades in Minneapolis, generations of multi-racial resistance to anti-Black carceral warfare on full display.

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

Tonight until 8pm - warm up with a toasty snack of roasted chestnuts at Octopus Books in the Glebe. Plus enjoy 10% off everything in store! #shoplocal #shopindependent #intheglebe #ottawa

Last week we hosted a talk with @alexhim.bsky.social, whose latest book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism points a way forward from the stale policies of austerity, deregulation, & corporate control which have gutted social supports & protections in Canada. Thanks to host @kevinskerrett.bsky.social!

If you’re an #Audiobook listener, you can pick up my audiobooks via @libro.fm and *still* support local brick and mortar (all my audiobook purchases support @octopusbooks.ca)! I have two queer holiday titles available in audio on Libro, "Handmade Holidays" and "Upon the Midnight Queer." (2/2)

Local #Ottawa Folk, if you’re looking for my titles in print for the holidays, especially "Dogs Don’t Break Hearts" or "Stuck With You" (hi-lo queer YA books for queerlings in your life), @octopusbooks.ca will order them for you. They rock, and supporting indie bookstore = joy. Also… (1/2) #BookSky

Had a great conversation w/ @uh.edu scholar #DavidMcNally about his new book, “#Slavery & #Capitalism” @octopusbooks.ca event in Ottawa. Echoing CLR James, W.E.B. DuBois & Sylvia Wynter, McNally argues that the enslaved who worked the plantations of the Americas constituted a modern working class.

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Bluesky, what are the best independent books stores in Ontario? GO.

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Join socialist activist & scholar @redprof.bsky.social for the launch of Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, in conversation with @caradrianh.bsky.social. Sat Dec 6, 7pm-8pm. Doors open 6:30pm. Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St., Ottawa RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/mcnally

Join us for a vital discussion with @alexhim.bsky.social about his book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge, in conversation with @kevinskerrett.bsky.social. Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm. Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb

Ottawa really Manned Up last night! humbled & honored by the space- as a preacher’s kid, felt right at home in the architecture, the rows of audience pews. Grateful to @carleton.ca @fesonline.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca & @monkeysvsrobots.bsky.social for bringing my ideas to life visually!

Jen Evans@jennifervevans.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled with the evening event. @milleridriss.bsky.social was brilliant, we had 200+ folks, and there were tons of good, difficult questions about misogyny and hate and the far right extremist pipeline.

a packed house at Ottawa’s Octopus Books for Regina writer Ken Wilson and Kingston writer Sadiqa de Meijer, // @octopusbooks.ca @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social

In a world fractured by violence, what does it really mean to protect human rights? Author and human rights lawyer @alexneve.bsky.social reflects on the power of memory, witnessing, and collective action: thewalrus.ca/why-i-still-beli...