I admire all of @thelocal.to reporting, and this piece on Woodbine racetrack is a banger. I love horse racing, even though it's a pretty dark sport. @nickhunebrown.bsky.social confronts the darkness, the economics, and the doomy shadow over the backstretch. Great writing too!

This is such a great piece of reporting and writing. As with so much of what @thelocal.to does, it takes something important happening in plain sight that we’re not paying attention to, and helps us appreciate the beauty and troubles underneath the surface.

Good journalism www.thestar.com/news/gta/as-...

I promised myself I'm not going to lose my mind on this.....but stop this nonsense. It was a mild program. There were warning signs for the cameras. Make it a moral fight. Stop this nonsense capitulation compromise stuff that will get people killed.

The Golden Knights asked me to leave their practice facility and revoked my credential because I asked one of their players about the Hockey Canada 5. Their sensitivity underscores the dicey nature of the decision VGK and Carolina are facing. My story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

Taxpayers will pay [?$Ms?] for taking down photo radar and pay for putting up flashing lights and building speed bumps across the province for Mayor Doug Ford; while he fails to address the crisis in care. So that some of his friends can drive faster, and he comes across like a bro to bro voters.

Doug Ford is telling you to break the law, in case it's not clear. Four wheels good, two wheels bad. He's a disgrace.

"We need to have more women elected, because we can create the right policies in order to have a better gender balance in politics." — @senatorsenior.bsky.social on women in leadership roles, at 8pm with @namshine.bsky.social at AMO | Producers: @britweaver.bsky.social & @mayaabramson.bsky.social

Yikes. Painful. So much BS. Oz: in your time of need "you don't want to be surrounded by intellectuals. You want men of action!" Read: Thoughts bad. Smashing good. Love how TMZ hosts explain correlation ≠ causation to Oz. The guy has no shame. www.tmz.com/watch/dr-oz-...

My girls would never let me go out with my foundation looking like this. You'd think he'd know how to apply his makeup after seven decades

From 2011: "Thousands of people around the country have spent the last few days taking to the streets and saying final goodbyes before Saturday, Judgment Day, when they expect to be absorbed into heaven in a process known as the rapture" www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/u...

Last year I interviewed Fred Trump, who said his uncle Donald harboured profound cruelty towards people with disabilities. Fred has a disabled son, and Trump said to him: "Maybe you just let him die and move to Florida." In case this autism obsessions seems new... it's not.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

"Scott, a married father of two young children, was allegedly in a dispute with a woman." Why won't the police or Doug Ford talk about the arrest of MPP Chris Scott? What are they hiding? www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

This whole thread is great. I will say once again that pronatalists have NO IDEA how hard pregnancy and childbirth are on women's bodies (especially the bodies of Black women, who receive worse health care)

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

This paper from the Varieties of Democracy Institute is excellent and, yes, we are going to win

it's really jarring to see how little media attention the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert received in comparison to the notable death of a non-elected leader of a right-wing organization.

Lol nobody's going to have a baby now Do they have any idea how much pain pregnancy causes

The next few years are going to be littered with millions of untold stories like this. Mothers watching their babies die of starvation because Musk took a woodchopper to USAID www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/a...

This is such a smart column by @shawnmicallef.bsky.social -- I like the metaphor of Toronto as an unruly teen

There are many things we will look back on with incredulity but what has happened over the past ten days, is absolutely criminal.

Watching this from Canada is like watching an old friend slowly* lose their mind and there's nothing you can do about it *quickly

Essentially, women don't just become "tradwives" because they buy into conservative thinking. They can also be forced into trad roles by an insufficient social safety net. And being forced into trad roles can lead them to become more conservative. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Mutant carrots, or how I look when writing the final chapters of a book Thank you, Bracebridge Fall Fair!

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Ok I vaguely remember writing a story about flag-jacking when I lived in London and I just looked it up. 2012! When we were the pariahs on the world stage! Loollllll www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/...

Trump is truly insane when it comes to his hatred of Black women. The vendetta against Lisa Cook, firing Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, targeting mayors like Karen Bass. He hates their accomplishments -- and the fact that they won't bow to him

Today in misogyny: Somebody spray painted "Kill women" and "females should be hung" on a bridge in London, Ont. There were 187 femicides in Canada last year. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thought this, from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, was really great. youtu.be/RP8Oxe6OxJc?...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Gwyneth Paltrow employs a zucchini calligrapher and somehow that seems to explain this current moment better than anything else www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/s...

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move? Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."

I didn't realize heroic Margaret Rossiter had died. She spent decades finding women scientists who'd been lost to history, and returning to them the recognition they deserved www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

Betty White in her 90’s was asked after such an impressive career if she had anything left to do, and she replied “Robert Redford”

Canada is the Jose Bautista card in this deck

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

Also, it appears Chrystia Freeland is one of the MPs who did NOT join the standing ovation for Charlie Kirk. I'll be sad to see her go.

She should have been prime minister

This is Mao's Cultural Revolution brought to the U.S. Tens of thousands of Americans have already silently snitched on friends, family, and co-workers. They are alleging WrongSay. The definition of WrongSay is always changing shape. Next: WrongBeing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

SCOOP “I have folks claiming my information is all over 4chan telling me in the same breath that they hope I get ‘raped and killed’" @rachelgilmore.bsky.social tells me, after her information was posted to a site called Charlie's Murderers www.wired.com/story/right-...

I knew the punditry would be embarrassing today but my goodness. It's way worse than I expected.

I don't know what's wrong with Andrew Scheer, but turning his followers on @rachelgilmore.bsky.social for raising a legitimate point is dangerous and vile. He's turning into Bernier 2.0

Day 1,295 of this...

I can't even keep up with the Today in Misogyny headlines, but let's start here: The world's richest man thinks a rapist should be president of Ireland. I mean, he helped get one elected president of the United States. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Read this. This is how elite men, including Trump, view women and girls. As not even human. Flesh coins to be used and traded.

In Ontario criminal vigilantism is acceptable, effective & can influence government policy. When Doug Ford gives his tacit approval of criminal vigilantism, indicating it can influence his government's public policy, it's a frightening moment for Ontario. My column on what we should think about.

I don't understand why every other faculty member, the faculty association, and the union representing them wouldn't stage a walkout in support of academic freedom. Is it incredibly naive to ask this question?