We’ve got a twelve-month contract for a great position open: Online culture reporter. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

The Globe is hiring an online culture reporter for a 12 month contract. If that’s something you’re interested in happy to chat about what it’s like working at the newspaper.

📣 Announcing The Local Fellowship 2026—paid positions designed to provide opportunities to early-career journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. This year's Fellows will join us during the fall municipal election campaigns. Applications are open. thelocal.to/local-fellow...

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NEW: The push to prevent the Art Gallery of Ontario from acquiring a Nan Goldin work last year – which led to four resignations + an internal review – was prompted by AGO trustee + significant donor Judy Schulich, according to newly reviewed documentation www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Launching our "Cost of Care" issue @thelocal.to today, about the places where money and medicine collide. Here's @alisonmotluk.bsky.social writing the best, clearest thing I've seen on what a routine surgery says about the possible future of care. thelocal.to/cataract-sur...

Scoop: The AGO is reckoning with the resignations of a senior curator & two members of a collections committee after the group narrowly voted to not acquire a work by Nan Goldin over accusations that the Jewish-American photographer’s views are antisemitic www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

I spent some time last week answering reader questions.

When I started losing my vision in my teens, sports was one of the first things to go. They felt inaccessible. It’s a position that stuck as an adult. But shadowing a boxing class designed specifically for the Blind made me reconsider that stance. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8945558...

A touching tribute to Mike F

My book Live to See the Day is out today. I hope you read it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645965...

I interviewed Wolf Parade’s @spencerkrug.bsky.social about I’ll Believe in Anything going viral 20 years after its release, thanks to Heated Rivalry We talked about Montreal lofts, old synthesizers, aging, and Not Being Hockey Guys www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

A while back I got to speak to @grahamisador.bsky.social at the Globe & Mail about that time a @thebeaverton.com article got accidentally quoted by Time. Here's that!!

@talonbooks.bsky.social are submissions for new plays all physical or do you take digital copies as well?

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

The first episode of my YouTube series out now. But there will be more! Please help me tell the YouTube Algorithm Gods that more people should see it. You can do that by subscribing to my channel: www.youtube.com/@JustinLing

Gotta stay positive

Been hugely enjoying the live coverage put out by the Globe and Mail team for the Jays games this weeked. This update from @grahamisador.bsky.social made me laugh:

If I were running Crave, I'd bring back Are You Afraid of the Dark as a horror anthology where each episode is written and directed by an upcoming Canadian director in their own style.

I spoke with @sladkow.bsky.social @clareblackwood.bsky.social and @blakemurphy.bsky.social about the basics new fans should know if they want to support the @torontobluejays.bsky.social in the World Series.

New bedding to cop.

We have a whole Elbows Up arts package in tomorrow's paper, online today. I talked to film, TV and theatre producers about seeking out new international partnerships vs continuing to engage with Americans and their under-attack cultural institutions. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

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This is a comedy with no laughs in it. This is a movie that thinks America is made up of Santa Monica,West Hollywood, and Manhattan. And this is a movie that kills everything good it touches, so its inclusion of Johnny Cash’s “Ghost Riders in the Sky” and the Violent Femmes’ “Add It Up” is abhorrent

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

The Globe and Mail's (@theglobeandmail.com) incredible Opinion team is hiring an editor. Details below, but message me if you have any questions: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

Queen West’s Velvet Underground is all over at the end of October as their landlord takes back their lease to repurpose the space.

Try ag(AI)n, Hollywood Reporter

One of my favorite bands called it a day and it made me rethink everything about my work. @murderbydeath forever. Gift article. bsky.app/profile/grah...

This is great from @joshokane.bsky.social.

“The day after I won the Canadian Screen Award, I called the PR reps: ‘What are we doing?’ And it was, ‘I’m sorry to say, nothing.’ No press. If you want to be an actor, the industry tells you, go be a lead. Win an award. Where are the growth opportunities?” www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/televis...

I joined @wired.com's culture desk in March. From the eye-opening ways people are using AI, to modern dating conundrums, to MAGA's expanding influence on pop culture and wellness, here are some of my fav recent stories. If you're into it, please consider subscribing! www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

Someone should write an explainer on this seasons BlueJays for people who want to jump on the bandwagon

I liked the one where he said Metalica wanted him to play bass in the band.

Folk's...... The Tiny Desk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh9p...

Here’s the oral history of Honey Jam, a beacon for women in Canadian music for the past 30 years. With stories from serious heavy hitters: Jully Black, Nelly Furtado, Haviah Mighty, Michie Mee, Jordan Alexander, Kardinal Offishall, Director X, and many more www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/a...

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms: www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

RIP to the steward of one of the coolest, weirdest things I’m gladdest exists in the city www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/a...

There's been overnight break-ins 2 nights in a row @ Alumnae Theatre. Venue & #FringeTO companies performing there have had 1000's of $ worth of equipment stolen. I hear an assistance fund is planned (through @fringe-toronto.bsky.social ?), but in the meantime, buy ALL their merch. #TheaTO #ComedyTO

Modern-day freelance journalism folks

New: After nearly $10-million was stolen from FACTOR's Scotiabank account last year, I spent months sifting through court documents trying to figure out how it happened Here's the most complete picture yet of the biggest heist in Canadian music history: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/a...

Page Turn, a paid Canadian professionalization and skills-building program for emerging performing arts critics (IBPOC or from another equity-seeking background) is accepting applications to July 24. Check it out: neworldtheatre.com/projects/pag...