Elizabeth d'Anjou
@elizdanjou.bsky.social
Freelance editor and workshop presenter. Editing instructor at TMU. Vegetable gardener. Shares space with husband, dog, cats, and bunny. Doting aunt. Ask me about bringing Eight-Step Editing to your team or organization. https://eightstepediting.ca
Holy crap.
Worse than Harper.
"Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years."
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
"Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years."
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers
Sneaking a change of this magnitude into a 600-page bill that will not get parliamentary scrutiny raises a red flag, Althia Raj writes.
www.thestar.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Holy crap.
This looks very cool! (They won't send physical copies to Canada so I'll need to get a digital subscription. Too bad, as I rather liked the idea of the tabloid format.)
My copy arrived today from @badhandbooks.bsky.social. Such a cool idea. About to give it a read.
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This looks very cool! (They won't send physical copies to Canada so I'll need to get a digital subscription. Too bad, as I rather liked the idea of the tabloid format.)
I had the privilege of copy editing the report on this initiative! Loved reading about Jane's Walk and so many other great local projects that other cities can learn from. It was a joy to work with @uoftcities.bsky.social on a document full of success and hope.
Jane's Walk was featured in the Learning From What Works initiative led by @uoftcities.bsky.social and the Canadian Urban Institute
December 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I had the privilege of copy editing the report on this initiative! Loved reading about Jane's Walk and so many other great local projects that other cities can learn from. It was a joy to work with @uoftcities.bsky.social on a document full of success and hope.
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
"You won't be sitting around drafting stories."
A newsletter in Alberta’s Bow Valley is hiring a contract “reporter” to feed and babysit chat GPT. jeffgaulin.com/jobs/JobDeta...
JeffGaulin.com: Jobs
jeffgaulin.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"You won't be sitting around drafting stories."
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PH's tweet certainly warrants a response.
BUT
Hands off #Franklintheturtle
#Canadian author Paulette Bourgeois/ Canadian illustrator Brenda Clark, are the creators of the Franklin series. It promotes honesty, friendship and empathy.
Please stop the cascade memes and one ups featuring Franklin.
BUT
Hands off #Franklintheturtle
#Canadian author Paulette Bourgeois/ Canadian illustrator Brenda Clark, are the creators of the Franklin series. It promotes honesty, friendship and empathy.
Please stop the cascade memes and one ups featuring Franklin.
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
PH's tweet certainly warrants a response.
BUT
Hands off #Franklintheturtle
#Canadian author Paulette Bourgeois/ Canadian illustrator Brenda Clark, are the creators of the Franklin series. It promotes honesty, friendship and empathy.
Please stop the cascade memes and one ups featuring Franklin.
BUT
Hands off #Franklintheturtle
#Canadian author Paulette Bourgeois/ Canadian illustrator Brenda Clark, are the creators of the Franklin series. It promotes honesty, friendship and empathy.
Please stop the cascade memes and one ups featuring Franklin.
The sun was rising and the clocks were striking thirteen.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “The sun is always rising.”
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the sun is always rising.
December 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The sun was rising and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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Ontario’s Conservatives are misleading you about Bill 46 and what it means for loyalty points.
With one quiet regulatory change, the Ford govt could let corporations make your points expire. I wouldn’t trust this govt to run a lemonade stand, let alone protect consumers. #onpoli
With one quiet regulatory change, the Ford govt could let corporations make your points expire. I wouldn’t trust this govt to run a lemonade stand, let alone protect consumers. #onpoli
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ontario’s Conservatives are misleading you about Bill 46 and what it means for loyalty points.
With one quiet regulatory change, the Ford govt could let corporations make your points expire. I wouldn’t trust this govt to run a lemonade stand, let alone protect consumers. #onpoli
With one quiet regulatory change, the Ford govt could let corporations make your points expire. I wouldn’t trust this govt to run a lemonade stand, let alone protect consumers. #onpoli
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Vote for the Canadian English 2025 word of the year.
Poll closes December 5, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET. 🍁
Poll closes December 5, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET. 🍁
2025 has been an eventful year for Canada's identity. To commemorate the year, The Society for Canadian English is choosing a 2025 word of the year (CWOTY), based on the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles.
Have your say: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Have your say: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Vote for the Canadian English 2025 word of the year.
Poll closes December 5, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET. 🍁
Poll closes December 5, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET. 🍁
Tag yourself - I'm
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
I put that envelope under that garbage.
Tag yourself - I’m if ya wanna end war and stuff ya gotta sing loud.
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Tag yourself - I'm
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Canadians! You can now vote for the Canadian Word of the Year!
(If we had the option to choose a Canadian WOTY in French as well, I'd suggest the gender-neutral pronoun "iel" which has been in the news a lot in Quebec this year, but probably not applicable since this is an English dictionary)
(If we had the option to choose a Canadian WOTY in French as well, I'd suggest the gender-neutral pronoun "iel" which has been in the news a lot in Quebec this year, but probably not applicable since this is an English dictionary)
2025 has been an eventful year for Canada's identity. To commemorate the year, The Society for Canadian English is choosing a 2025 word of the year (CWOTY), based on the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles.
Have your say: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Have your say: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Canadians! You can now vote for the Canadian Word of the Year!
(If we had the option to choose a Canadian WOTY in French as well, I'd suggest the gender-neutral pronoun "iel" which has been in the news a lot in Quebec this year, but probably not applicable since this is an English dictionary)
(If we had the option to choose a Canadian WOTY in French as well, I'd suggest the gender-neutral pronoun "iel" which has been in the news a lot in Quebec this year, but probably not applicable since this is an English dictionary)
I went to a clinic to get treated for Lyme disease and the routine covid test turned out to be positive. (I had no respiratory symptoms at first--only ones that were also symptoms of Lyme disease. Which I also had.)
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I went to a clinic to get treated for Lyme disease and the routine covid test turned out to be positive. (I had no respiratory symptoms at first--only ones that were also symptoms of Lyme disease. Which I also had.)
O sneaky dumb opening quote marks, I don't know what you are doing here, since your closing buddies (along with every other quotation mark and apostrophe in this document) are smart, but it's time to to say goodbye.
#AmEditing
#AmEditing
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
O sneaky dumb opening quote marks, I don't know what you are doing here, since your closing buddies (along with every other quotation mark and apostrophe in this document) are smart, but it's time to to say goodbye.
#AmEditing
#AmEditing
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Canadian Policy Research Network --> Canadian Policy Research Networks
#AmEditing
#You'reSneakyButICaughtYou
#AmEditing
#You'reSneakyButICaughtYou
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Canadian Policy Research Network --> Canadian Policy Research Networks
#AmEditing
#You'reSneakyButICaughtYou
#AmEditing
#You'reSneakyButICaughtYou
"Problems evolve, and may need to be solved more than once."
This, from a report I'm currently editing, hit me hard as a Major Life Truth.
This, from a report I'm currently editing, hit me hard as a Major Life Truth.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Problems evolve, and may need to be solved more than once."
This, from a report I'm currently editing, hit me hard as a Major Life Truth.
This, from a report I'm currently editing, hit me hard as a Major Life Truth.
Love.
But, the researchers seem to have assumed that the effect was triggered by the fact of "an unexpected event," as if it could have been anything. Surely the specific event in this case -- feeling as if one is under the watchful eye of the caped crusader himself -- could have been relevant!
But, the researchers seem to have assumed that the effect was triggered by the fact of "an unexpected event," as if it could have been anything. Surely the specific event in this case -- feeling as if one is under the watchful eye of the caped crusader himself -- could have been relevant!
When someone dressed like Batman was on the Milan metro, 67% of people offered their seat to someone who was visibly pregnant. Without Batman, only 44% of people offered.
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Love.
But, the researchers seem to have assumed that the effect was triggered by the fact of "an unexpected event," as if it could have been anything. Surely the specific event in this case -- feeling as if one is under the watchful eye of the caped crusader himself -- could have been relevant!
But, the researchers seem to have assumed that the effect was triggered by the fact of "an unexpected event," as if it could have been anything. Surely the specific event in this case -- feeling as if one is under the watchful eye of the caped crusader himself -- could have been relevant!
Hard same.
This made me cry at my desk
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hard same.
My client said this chapter had some particular issues and her boss stressed that it was going to need the "full Elizabeth treatment." 😎 #AmEditing
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
My client said this chapter had some particular issues and her boss stressed that it was going to need the "full Elizabeth treatment." 😎 #AmEditing
I appear to be training for some kind of contest to see how many times I can check my style sheet as to whether we're using "onsite" or "on-site" in this book. #AmEditing
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I appear to be training for some kind of contest to see how many times I can check my style sheet as to whether we're using "onsite" or "on-site" in this book. #AmEditing
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Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=i...
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=i...
Blissfully nerding out on @thatwordchat.bsky.social as @petersokolowski.bsky.social spills the tea on MW's 12th Collegiate.
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Blissfully nerding out on @thatwordchat.bsky.social as @petersokolowski.bsky.social spills the tea on MW's 12th Collegiate.