“Right now the focus should be on supporting the community in mourning, not weaponizing this event as hate against a vulnerable group at large.” I hate profoundly that articles like this need to be written when, like Mel says, the focus should be on community. But thank you Mel for writing ❤️

A few years ago, my colleague @amandafollett.bsky.social wrote this portrait of Tumbler Ridge, a former coal mining town. thetyee.ca/News/2020/11...

Media often appended it with “Hamas-run” as a way to subtly discredit its numbers. Many experts credibly argue those figures are in fact far lower than the real number today.

Just updated my four favourites as well so why not share it all… with the cold snap it’s never been a better time to stay home and watch some absolute cinema

Nothing worse than going to karaoke and seeing someone absolutely butcher a song that you know you could body

Yet another BANGER from Vass Bednar on competition

i’ve never felt this patriotic in my life

“Serious voices in this country are sounding alarm, warning that this volatile start to 2026 means that Canadians need to stare down the reality that we no longer have the luxury of pretending it’s business as usual.” www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Beautiful, beautiful piece - what a love letter to local journalism and gorgeous meditation on the passage of time

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

CBC Books thinks I wrote one of the books to make you feel hopeful for the year to come and who am I to argue? www.cbc.ca/books/13-boo...

Had the duty/honour of explaining who Sidney Crosby is to an American who’d never heard of him the other… wish I’d had this article in my back pocket at the time, legendary stuff. Our special Nova Scotian boy

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

new quarter century more art more good

Alex Shephard from the New Republic what did I ever do to piss you off 😔

Covered Bridge in Winter Maud Lewis c. 1967

Excited for the cottage episode of Heated Rivalry bc in my experience going to the cottage with your gay love is all about getting too stoned at the beach and then crying to Adrienne Lenker but hey… what do I know

Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.

Two Maritime queens on Canada’s Drag Race… I used to pray for days like these

How to write a novel and choose what to do in life - thanks @mattearoach.bsky.social and CBC for the interview! www.cbc.ca/books/booken...

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

They say baseball breaks your heart, and the Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame what if team, now. So what does it mean to watch your team lose the World Series in one of the greatest games ever played? It means you got to feel something; you just didn’t get to choose what. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

CBC presents This Hour has 22 Innings

Alejandro Kirk is a Scorpio and this is his season let’s GO

YOU READY SHOHEI??????????????

My @thestar.com column this week: after Toronto Council requested reports on potential new rules for activities like raves, jet ski riding and pickleball, I’ve got an important reminder: it is a very good thing that people are having fun in the city. Fun is good. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Every day is a beautiful day to live in Toronto but TODAY MOST OF ALL!!!!!

“One day we will be brought to the [International Criminal Court in the Hague], not because of Gaza, because of what happens in the West Bank and we will have no good defence. Because it happens in front of our eyes and no one seems to care.” - former Israeli PM Olmert: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Any time I have to drive anywhere to run an errand I start to understand within about ten minutes why so many regular drivers’ views on municipal politics seem to be entirely informed by shit like traffic and parking. I don’t think it’s right but I get it!!

Between the purge of late night comedians, Trump allies buying up TV networks, Hollywood studios and social media platforms, and news organizations getting slapped with multi-billion dollar lawsuits, there is a full-court press to dismantle the information systems propping up American democracy

Trying to come up with an equivalent to this speed camera story but for transit riders. Imagine if, in wake of hypothetical reports of people getting mad about fines and vandalizing Presto readers, the gov was just like, well, I guess we should stop fare enforcement. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tried to do a good deed by letting my brother borrow my carry-on suitcase to go back to NS bc his is broken… now I have to go to NS as well so guess who’s stuck using the busted suitcase 🙄

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Last weekend I injured my calf in a manner befitting someone at least twice my age, and now my biggest concern is whether I can hobble to Oasis NEXT weekend without incurring permanent damage… it’s a hard knock life

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right): -Anas al-Sharif (correspondent) -Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator) -Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist) -Mohammed Noufal (camera operator) -Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

Good post by Fred DeLorey, pushing back against complaints (from non-Nova Scotians?) about Nova Scotia's fire prevention measures. freddelorey.substack.com/p/nova-scoti...

A journalist with Canada’s public broadcaster was not allowed on the Canadian plane air dropping aid into Gaza because of Israeli restrictions. When she made it onto a Jordanian plane, she was not allowed to film what she saw on the ground in Gaza because Israel forbids it from being shown.

Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” (1936)

How many books do you need for a weekend at the cottage - probably five or six, surely? How many pairs of socks? Two should be enough

Bought a new air conditioner from (redacted big box store) and immediately started getting instagram ads from the same store for the exact air conditioner I just bought… great work, all involved

Missing basically everything to do with Pride this year bc I have to move apartments but on the bright (?) side I am spending the day of the dyke march cruising around in a uhaul… very on theme

A real toxic trait of mine is I will compare any location I ever visit in terms of how much I like it compared to Cape Breton

Love to watch Jeopardy Masters and hear proper nouns I’ve never heard before in my life

cheer up Toronto, they've set the precedent that mid-size Great Lakes metros can also have Cardinals that become Popes, we'll get it next time

It’s all hands on deck for election coverage at the CBC tonight and they’ve even got me (a humble arts and culture host) doing coverage. Catch some of Canada’s sharpest political journalists and also me on the Front Burner livestream from 8pm ET: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYxM...

Francis' compassion, even with the many Problems With The Church we all know that are not reconciled, was such a bigger flex than any other world leader could claim. I hope that whatever Pope comes after him will follow that lead. I hope it will matter, if they do. www.arabnews.com/node/2597954...

Everyone is arguing about Tariffs but not me, I’m riding the subway and crying listening to “The Only Living Boy in New York” by Simon & Garfunkel

brb dialing my dad up on the ouija board to see what he thinks of Mark Carney’s takes on The Clash

Bookends is getting preempted on Radio One today in much of the country for election coverage but remember we are also available as a podcast!! If you want a breather from thinking about tariffs you can listen to me and @emmadonoghue.bsky.social talk about trains, anarchism, and more here: