We just got 25 cm MORE snow (we’re over three meters since Christmas), and I’m about to lose my fucking mind because of it. So enjoy my grumpy news gathering!

- Former Maple Leafs CEO to open bookstore…Gee, I hope it’s called “Mid Season Choke Bookstore” or “Childhood Dreams Destroyed Yearly Books”;
- RIP: Ernesto Cardenal, 95;
- What books to read based on your astrology sign…and if you like this, I have some Gwenyth Paltrow products to sell you to stick in some hole in your body;
- There’s a secret tree in Ireland covered with carvings from famous writers, none of whom were apparently vegans, for obvious reasons;
- Chris Ware talks about becoming a cartoonist through Peanuts and being bullied;
- Arthur Conan Doyle helped a dying friend finish his mystery book;
- Simon & Schuster Canada drops out of London Book Fair over coronavirus fears… Shouldn’t all this be done over video conference now anyway, given the costs and pollution involved?;
- How Desmond Cole wrote his book about being black in Canada;