If you're in Toronto on Feb 2, pls come to the Reference Library & hear me chat with Chris Kraus about her latest book, The Four Spent the Day Together. Deets & tix here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/chris-krau...

So many factors involved in the decline since '08 of reported narrative nonfiction, but the rise of AI in a saner world would herald a revival, since reporting--the kind where you put your body in places with other people--is something AI can't do. Mediocre fiction? No problem. Reportage? It can't.

Congestion pricing for all

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation  talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/unde...

Worst news cycle in quite a while, please permit me to engage in a little hero worship, for a regular guy who stood and absolutely delivered. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

Guess The Millions gave up the Year in Reading? 😥

One of the things I hope will be remembered re “gender critical” politics is that they were mostly good at forcing exclusion and basically nothing else. No serious investment into women’s charities or institutes, no desire to really partake in VAWG nor any effort to improve public toilets

Such sad news. Love his books so much

Another great—and infuriating—education story from @thelocal.to, this time from @wencyleung.bsky.social

Canadian edition: Tales from the Gimli Hospital Dead Ringers Speaking Parts The Decline of the American Empire

Someone send @robynurback.bsky.social a copy of @maggiehelwig.bsky.social's ENCAMPMENT asap. Maybe three or four copies. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Ah, the problem is not that we fail to provide everyone with adequate housing or services for people with addiction, the *real problem* is that the rest of us are forced to see the results of these things, under the label "social decay". Got it.

"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This @nickhunebrown.bsky.social piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...

The Consciousness Explorers Club needs your help cecmeditate.com/support-us/?...

"Seeing that Epstein wanted to read this book is like rolling over the dead body of the Grinch to find him clutching a copy of How the Grinch Stole Christmas." The great @danbrooks.bsky.social everybody nymag.com/intelligence...

I was at both a Loblaws & a No Frills last week & most things were still more expensive than @fiestafarms.bsky.social

Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.

John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.

While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response. It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?

How much shit will Ontario continue to eat?

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

The most maligned, ignored cohort is actually the foundation for the movement everyone is acting like they can’t find

stay tuned

Tonight just keeps getting better

One of the absolute best things you can do this month is take the @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch quiz. Such a joy from beginning to end & you'll end up with a list of fascinating books most of which will be entirely new to you secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

silver lining for the Blue Jays: 14 more seasons of Vlad Jr

Ernie Clement becomes the first player in MLB history with 30 hits in a single postseason

This is the best baseball game I’ve ever seen

This is the best baseball game I’ve ever seen

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Lots to love in One Battle After Another but tops for me was seeing Junglepussy back on the big screen (just wish she was in the movie longer)

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

Love all the restaurant & bar activity on Geary, but was just wishing there was more happening beyond new places to eat & drink. And lo, I just learned that @cavershambooks.bsky.social has relocated to the neighbourhood! Welcome!

1. We earlier reported that the volume of protests in 2025 has been far greater than during 2017, that the movement remains overwhelmingly (and even historically) nonviolent, and that protests have been geographically far-reaching. But just how far-reaching have they been?

Absolutely thrilled that @maggiehelwig.bsky.social won the Toronto Book Award for her incredible ENCAMPMENT but bitterly ironic that it was the night before the St. Stephen's encampment is scheduled to be cleared again. If you can be there this morning to support the residents, please go

We have just been informed that the encampment at St Stephen's will be cleared TOMORROW (Thursday). If you can be here in support of the residents, please come. We anticipate that things will start around 9 am and probably go on for some time.

Bike Share is a real Toronto success story, and Toronto Parking have been a good steward since it was saved from bankruptcy. All that's missing is a plan to double the current number of trips and catch and pass Montreal in the next 5 years. In the @thestar.com : www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh". www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Fun fact: the $1.7M in increased revenue generated by putting Bixi stands on Toronto island cancelled out a $1.7M loss in on-street parking revenues due to heavy snow in February secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

“Aren’t we all just wrecks from the time we’re little kids & every passing day is just a fresh manifestation of how much we’ve been demolished?” www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

They ruined Google search for nothing

#OtD 4 Oct 1939 four Italian immigrant anarchists were arrested in Canada for possession of "subversive" anti-fascist literature and threatened with deportation to fascist Italy: effectively a death sentence. But Emma Goldman helped them get acquitted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1047...

Learned so much from this, like Merve Emre’s now divorced & Boris Kachka ended up at The Atlantic www.thecut.com/article/how-...