publisher @pressassembly lapsed poet, occasional tarot reader
Joined May 2011
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Leigh Nash retweeted
god i miss when i could just buy something and it wouldn't generate 50 fucking emails in my inbox
Leigh Nash retweeted
At least $50 billion for another pipeline.
$82 billion in new military spending in 5 years.
$300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit.
But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada. Despite the heroic efforts of the @psac_afpc workers who'll remain, camping will be chaos next summer.
If you’re not a big corporation or foreign investor, you might just be invisible to this government.
2,671 PSAC members at Parks Canada received notice this week that their positions may be cut. These cuts put our environment, natural and cultural heritage, parks, and national historic sites at risk.
psacunion.ca/psac-raises-ala…
Leigh Nash retweeted
If you live in, let's say Chesley, Ontario and have a medical emergency between the hours of 5PM and 7AM, or on the weekend, your ER is closed. Yet, Doug Ford's government is blowing $50 million on removing bike lanes in Toronto.
chesleyfoundation.ca/our-hos…
Leigh Nash retweeted
If you live outside of Toronto, the Ontario government is blowing $50 million of you tax dollars on ripping bike lanes out of Toronto. This is money that could be spent on keeping your local hospital's ER open or fixing your local school's roof.
Leigh Nash retweeted
Instead of hating out-of-context (but still good, imho) Anne Carson fragments on Twitter dot com, how about you dig into this stunner of an essay on her Parkinson's diagnosis, Cy Twombly, and Catullus.
There's so much humanity, thinking/feeling, here.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/…
Leigh Nash retweeted
This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Poetry interview with Anne Carson, who has just received the Nobel Prize in literature. buff.ly/mR5HpYb
Leigh Nash retweeted
YES, Anne Carson won the Nobel!!
Here's one of my faves by her: “Short Talk on the Mona Lisa”
Leigh Nash retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
Leigh Nash retweeted
This is a fun website. If you put in your postal code it will tell you how much the Ford gov't cut from the education budget in your area. Our local school was cut over $500,000 a year or $3000 per student. Put in your postal code and prepare for shock.
buildingbetterschools.ca/
Leigh Nash retweeted
I’m greedy: I want way more financial support for new, less commercial literary novels AND I want reissues of work that hasn’t received its due, AND I want enough space in book criticism to write about all of it on its own terms.
Leigh Nash retweeted
Canada has two moods.
"I'm sorry" and "You're about to be sorry."
We're at the latter stage.
Same boat, at least we can still quote tweet! 🙌
