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Monica Kidd

@monicakidd.bsky.social

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Author of THE CRANE (Breakwater, 2025) and 7 other books || Journalist || MD MSc MFA || associate editor at CMAJ || at work on a nonfiction book about coastal erosion globally || monicakidd.ca || represented by Aevitas

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 2h

I’m looking forward to serving as a reveiwer for this. www.ipcc.ch/report/speci...

Special Report on Climate Change and Cities — IPCC

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 22h

Love this. ❤️ canadiangeographic.ca/articles/for... @karenpinchin.bsky.social

For Acadians in southwest Nova Scotia, the mysterious Belliveau apple is a tangible link to the past

Untangling the roots of a hardy heirloom apple with ties to the Acadian deportations

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking and writing about protecting coastal communities against storms and erosion, how could I not return to Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach (2000)?

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 1d

Emptying out the U-Haul of my mom’s household stuff at the Goodwill donation centre today, and the woman working there, realizing what’s happened, takes the last box and says, “Be brave.” At a time when so much sucks about the world, she was just a kind soul being kind. ❤️

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 3d

I put the bees to bed for the winter. Fingers crossed they make it through their first Alberta winter. #Beekeeping

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 4d

Driving through central Alberta. Dry sloughs everywhere. Wild.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 4d

In 50 years I have never not seen water in this slough.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 10d

My cover story in the next issue of The Walrus.

The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 10d

A generation ago, measles was declared eradicated from Canada. Today, Alberta reports more confirmed cases than the entire United States. How did it become the epicentre of Canada’s outbreak? Physician and journalist @monicakidd.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-beca...

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 12d

Her happy place.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 16d

Oh sure, Canada has maples and larches that do the fall colours thing. But what about the humble trembling aspen?

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 27d

Oh, Alberta... #freedomofinformation

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 28d

“We are not, of course, in dire need of roads, transmission towers, dams, reservoirs, and gas pipelines. We are in dire need of courtesy. We are in dire need of a broadly intelligent conversation about human fate.” Barry Lopez wrote that in 1996. If anything, it’s truer today, 29 years later.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 29d

Just imagine a “fossil-fuel non-proliferation treaty.”

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 29d

I missed this in July! The International Court of Justice has ruled in favour of an action led by Vanuatu: countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and those harmed could be entitled to reparations.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 16

Wow. I made peach cobbler and one bite brought me right back to my dad’s lunch breaks from our family store and Hungry Man TV Dinners. You know, the ones with a triangles of meat-like product and instant mashed potatoes. I could almost taste the aluminum foil. What flavour brings you back?

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 13

Predawn trail run in Nose Hill Park. I’m eternally grateful to people who have the foresight and fortitude to leave places set aside to let the land be what it is.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 12

I think none. From blacklisting books in schools to this. Who hurt you, Alberta?

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 12

What legislated transphobia looks like in Alberta. I’m expected to sign this so my 12-year-old kid (who was born and identifies as female but it’s none of their business) can play school soccer.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 11

Please join me for Oct 23 for this bold new analysis of #mentalhealth research and treatment by Marianne Apostolides. With #Calgary playwright Clem Martini, co-author of the graphic memoir BITTER MEDICINE. @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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Mental Health—on the page, in the lab, and in our community

Join us for a reading and discussion on mental health and writing, featuring Clem Martini, Marianne Apostolides, and Monica Kidd.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 10

Bizarre that we’ve come this: a petition for Alberta to remain in Canada.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Well now! Look who gets to cavort with the likes of Marcello Di Cintio and Danielle Groen for a panel on structuring long-format print journalism? Very excited to open the hood on feature-writing with these two for the Alberta Magazines Conference this year, September 25-26 in Calgary.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 8

More smoky day photos, brought to you by the #Pyrocene. #arnicalake #banffnationalpark #climatechange #worldonfire

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Found in my mom’s sewing kit. Why yes, those are bullets. This may have to be the cover of my next book of poetry.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mom passed earlier this year and missed the absolute bounty of apples and crabapples in her back yard.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s been a minute since I did any printing, but I was pleased with how this turned out. The text is based on a story I was told many years ago, and the image is from a photo I took in Brigus NL and designed to look like an old newspaper clipping. Handset in Century Schoolbook, 14 pt. #letterpress