@blockshopbooks
Women/Queer-owned curated bookstore connecting people with great new books. A safe space. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 11-4 Co-owned by - Jo Treggiari 125 Montague Street, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia B0J 2C0 www.blockshopbooks.ca
Tim Houston made hundreds of thousands in cuts to tourism and culture, but had $300,000 to gift to mining developers, citing that “mineral exploration brings $35 to $50 million per year to Nova Scotia communities”
Meanwhile tourism revenue in NS in 2025 was $3.7 billion, growing ~8% per year.
While all these cuts are horrifying, I want to be clear that, at the moment, these are PROPOSED cuts. There’s still time to your voice heard. Call or email your MLA. Call or email Tim Houston’s office. Call or email the Ministers related to the cuts you’re most angry about. See below for contacts.
Highly recommend all Nova Scotians read this article by @timbousquet.bsky.social @halifaxexaminer.ca for a clear-eyed analysis of what’s happening here. Link in next post.
Ellis on Guard is slowly making its way into the wider world! Locally, it’s now available at @woozlesbooks.bsky.social, @blockshopbooks.bsky.social, and Indigo Halifax, Dartmouth, Sunnyside Mall, and Coles in Halifax Shopping Centre. It’s also now available for online ordering. Phew!
Also incredibly disturbing. Even those who don’t care about wildlife or the environment should be concerned about what this means for tourism and wildfire prevention.
We have it! And the French version too!
Sorry! I don't check this account very often. Yes, the bookstores have stock of the vouchers.
As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder.
Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.
Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings
Independent bookstores across the country can’t keep copies of Heated Rivalry in stock. “As soon as we get them, they sell out. It’s a good problem to have.”
https://bit.ly/3MgEVCx
Hey Sal- what's your question?
BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up.
Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
when the tides of power shift - and they will - there need to be tribunals to hold to account every person who was involved in this regime. accept nothing less.
Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam
An executive threatened me with legal action because I shared my own drawings of characters from an original show they canned!!
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
This is very funny to me idk. Like we've just all lost it
A huge thank you to Jo from @blockshopbooks.bsky.social for a wonderful review of The Austens! “Emsley's elegant prose, her careful and vivid representation of the inner lives of these two women, is pitch perfect.” blockshopbooks.ca/item/LbY7dHg...
Jo’s Staff Picks for August!
Please join us for this lovely event celebrating a new Canadian-authored anthology and featuring Maritimes’ writers Tricia Snell and Bev Vincent. Thursday July 31st at 6 pm. #tidewaterpress #savethedate #authorreading #blockshopbooks #localauthor #lunenburgnovascotia
Great to see you as always, Dean!
Block Shop Books in Lunenburg #novascotia has autographed copies of my historical #truecrime books
Check out this great #indie bookstore on your next visit
@harpercollinsca.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social
@blockshopbooks.bsky.social
Murmuration – a stunning animated poem about our connection to nature and each other www.themarginalian.org/2021/01/29/m...
Jo’s Staff Picks for July! #blockshopbooks #indiebookstore #lunenburgnovascotia
A hand holding a book in front of a bookcase, just words on the cover. How to Art by Kate Bryan with illustrations by David Shrigley
Just had some book post at work, looking forward to reading this on the bus home
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Picture spotlighting trans lit from this year's LGBTQ Writers in Schools program that feature a young trans character or written with a young trans reader in mind. Books spotlighted are "There Are Trans People Here" by H. Melt, "A Million Quiet Revolutions" by Robin Gow, "More Than Organs" by Kay Ulanday Barrett, "Freedom House" by KB Brookins, "Dear Mothman" by Robin Gow, and "Sorted" by Jackson Bird.
Today, we're spotlighting just a few trans lit titles featured in our LGBTQ Writers in Schools program. 🏳️⚧️✨🏳️🌈
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