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Stephen Aubuchon 🇲🇶🇨🇦
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J'écris. Je lis. Artiste au Polaroid. Ma famille se compose de moi et mon chat.
I write. I read. Visual artist with Polaroid. One cat family.
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A country unmoored by military invasion. A young girl on the run with a talking goose. A myth-flavoured narrative with an underlay of current realities. A literary MacGuffin. Heather O’Neill’s The Capital of Dreams is immersive and elliptical and enchanting.
January 23, 2026 at 4:32 AM
I've opened a Substack account. You can read my first entry there covering my 2025 year in books. You can also follow my writing journey there.

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My Year in Books 2025
My year in books 2025.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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Melançon: Time to tighten the rules on floor crossers montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One of the best press photographers Quebec ever produced. He will be missed.
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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“This is why ethno-nationalists like PSPP and François Legault view Marc Miller as a threat — a multilingual Quebec Anglophone Francophile tasked with empowering Quebec and Canadian culture essentially undermines everything the PQ and CAQ currently stand for.” @taylornoakes.com

#polqc
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has insulted the very people who gave Quebec its culture: the artists
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon
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December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Un petit souvenir qui est toujours d'actualité.
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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My favourite sign from yesterday’s protest against the CAQ. A gov’t unable to see Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab as complex individuals possessing their own autonomy. Always treated as docile victims or demonized vectors of religious extremism. Never just ppl making their own decisions.
November 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Toula nails it: "By preventing any hypothetical women forced to wear religious symbols from attaining an education or a job, the government is not only sabotaging their integration but also dooming them to an existence it claims it wants to protect them from: fully reliant on their oppressors."
Despite what the bill’s supporters claim, true secularism doesn’t seek the erasure of religion from the public sphere, but protects religious minorities from any state-imposed religion.
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Quebec's Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
The government of Quebec tabled a new secularism bill today aiming to build on Bill 21 — more legalized discrimination from the CAQ.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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This Tuesday at 12pm, join us for a free online screening of AGELESS, a new documentary from the Cummings Centre that confronts ageism and its impact. Free and open to all. 👇
Lunch & Learn: Online Film and Discussion on Ageism - Quebec Writers' Federation
Join us for a free online screening of Ageless, an engaging new documentary from the Cummings Centre that confronts ageism and its impact. The 45-minute film will be followed by a discussion facilitated by QWF Executive Director Lori Schubert.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Souvankham Thammavongsa is the winner of the 2025 #GillerPrize for her novel, PICK A COLOUR. gillerprize.ca/souvankham-t...
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the Winner of the 2025 Giller Prize
November 17, 2025 (Toronto, Ontario) – Souvankham Thammavongsa has been named the winner of the 2025 Giller Prize for her novel, Pick a Colour, published by Knopf Canada, taking home $100,000. The an...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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🖊✨Call for Papers! We are now accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "Authoritarianism, Anti-fascism, and Literary Resistance," guest-edited by Anna Branach-Kallas and Laura Moss.
October 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My cat Tyler. Don't question his authority. #Cats
September 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Imagine being so guilty of raping kids that you invaded your own country
September 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Reminder what the book bans are really about- religious groups forcing their morality on kids attending public, non religious schools
September 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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😞 RIP Graham Greene ♥️
September 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"Could the rain-carried pain be my banshee's caoineadh,
soothing my homesickness in its own morbid way?"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
I can't reach the greengage and my tomatoes are blight-ridden. by Sarah O’Connor (@sarahocwrites.bsky.social‬) (2024 @anthro-poetry.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/yc64ha8h
2 poems by Sarah O’Connor
After the funeralyou set the tablefor one place less. Not waitingto be asked, for once.You take down a bottle of regret,pop the cork, and pourus all a glass.Deep draughts keep us eachafloat, or some s...
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August 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
August 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#canada #canadastrong
August 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Irish author John Boyne on writing The Elements, a four-part series examining child abuse
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
August 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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“The Conservatives aren’t as much a political party as they are a ChatGPT-based slogan-generating algorithm speaking through the mouth of eveyone’s least favourite muppet, Pierre Poilievre — who has accomplished nothing during his 20 years in Parliament.”
Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
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August 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM