Double the joy to have both of my 2023 books make the Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year list, 2024 Edition. Many thanks to the Children’s Book Committee! Wow, wow!!! 📚💕📚💕

Vancouver police have launched a hate crime investigation over an activist's speech in Vancouver describing Hamas' Oct. 7 attack as 'heroic and brave.'
READ MORE: trib.al/yuesidR
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At 1676 W 11th Avenue, a 20-storey tower is proposed. Existing rental building on site. Another 6 towers are proposed in the vicinity. Q&A ends May 7th #BroadwayPlan #vanpoli cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/167…

#VPDNews : Vancouver Police have made an arrest and are conducting a criminal investigation to determine whether comments made during a protest last weekend at the Vancouver Art Gallery violated hate-crime laws.
News release: bit.ly/3xYQM0B

What Patrick Swayze’s mom did for Debi Allen as a little girl in segregated Houston, Texas:

At the time it was a fabulous article and super front cover from Wunderdog® 🙏🏼 but I had no idea of the cost from #operationark that was to come… it was a price I was not ready to pay.. #OpArkTheBook published by Claret Press 8th July #nowzad #nowzad dogs

Two months post-fire and we're still blazing forward! 🔥 Us being quiet online hasn't been neglect, but a testament to the hard work our team has been doing behind the scenes. While you've been craving crunch, we've been tirelessly working to keep our chips on shelves.

#BirdFlu The culprit is a dangerous virus, H5N1.
I'm trying to resist being an alarmist here. I really am. But truth is I am seriously concerned that we are facing a major threat of a new pandemic, even deadlier than Covid-19 & heavily targeting the elderly and young children.

Loblaw Companies reported $13.58 billion in first-quarter revenue today — a 4.5 per cent increase from a year earlier.
Also today, a group of frustrated shoppers said they would begin a month-long boycott of the grocery retailer. cbc.ca/news/business/… .

The closer one lives to Russia, the more you understand the importance of keeping them out.

Tblisi.

Canadians that think private health care is just great!

The decision for @wckitchen to restart feeding in Gaza is both the hardest and the simplest one we could make.

Hard, because only a month has passed since seven of our WCK colleagues were killed in an IDF attack. These humanitarian heroes risked everything to feed people they…

Publication date... (The three older women from 'Airborne' in OLD BABES IN THE WOOD decide they need to murder several earlier offenders...)

PHOTOS: “You are now entering liberated zone.” Pro- #Palestinian protesters create walled encampment outside University of British Columbia Student Union Building. Global BC CKNW

Pro- #Palestinian protestors expanding encampment pallet wall on artificial turf field outside ⁦University of British Columbia⁩ Student Union Building. ⁦RCMP⁩ monitoring situation. ⁦Global BC⁩ ⁦CKNW⁩

Rest in peace Daniel Anjorin.
May you be surrounded by angels in paradise where safely you can play. Sending love and thoughts to your family and friends.

#DanielAnjorin

A LOT of tower applications within earshot of each other due to #BroadwayPlan . Demovictions in the thousands are coming. See our post about 1676 West 11th. By July, public hearings on projects like these will be banned in Vancouver, concealing decisions underground. #vanpoli …

This new guide has excellent advice for student protesters around the country right now, but much of it applies to “labeled” or established journalists, which is a difficult category for new journalism students. Some further advice, new on Chills. #StudentProtests

I finally made a new website! (Still glitches on phone view though) laurenmwolfe.com