New: Why did Eurovision show up in the federal budget? It means much more than music: it's a chance to realign CBC/Radio-Canada, and the country, with a major European broadcast union -- a cultural realignment across the Atlantic during the Trump 2.0 era www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

"According to documents obtained by FOIAball, the Ole Miss-Georgia matchup was one of at least two games last year where the school used a Department of Homeland Security information-sharing platform to keep a watchful eye on attendees." Crazy reporting from @foiaball.com:

Meta PR has been challenging us to philosophical debates about the difference between its AI glasses harassment machine and an iPhone, this is my answer www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

Topline arts/culture notes from budget... 15% cut across Heritage dept, including into Cultural Spaces Fund, but the following boosts: -48m to Canada Music Fund -150m to Telefilm over 3yrs -128m to Canada Media Fund -26m to NFB -6m to Canada Council -no book fund mention

Dan Mangan's Side Door Concert Company Is Shutting Down

I got experimental brain surgery. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

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:

Here's a gift link to the interactive map of @margaretatwood.bsky.social #Toronto We had several authors read from her books and talk about Atwood's significance to them. #booksky #reading #margaretatwood www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/129d895...

I am looking forward to a relaxing game of baseball

Shopify unleashed AI on its support system—and merchants aren't happy. An early version of the firm's support chatbot made merchants so angry that devs created a feature that connected them to a human faster if they started swearing. Story by @aleksagan.bsky.social. thelogic.co/news/shopify...

For my first @wired.com Big Interview, I spoke to EJAE! The singing star of KPop Demon Hunters. We talked about her grueling decade inside the K-pop machine, her relationship to fame and ambition, and what it's like knowing every kid in the world knows your song: www.wired.com/story/how-k-...

Hear me out (niche maritimer post)

The problem that ticketing legislation aims to solve isn’t to make events any less appealing or special. Rather, ticket legislation can curb the ability of persons (and computer bots) to independently capitalize on that.

They're calling the costco kirkland signature x nike SB dunk low collab the "most targeted at 36 year olds" product ever invented

How To Build A SkyDome, By @chrisws.bsky.social This is so delightful! www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

……Someone yelled “Dodgers suck” in the middle of the American national anthem at yesterday’s game

I've become obsessed with the musical cues in Sportsnet's Jays broadcasts this month, from an Ace Frehley tribute to a powerful use of the Hip's Grace, Too So I called Sportsnet's chief musical vibesmith Carson Illidge to talk about his curation philosophy www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

Guillermo del Toro's Monster Mash when

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

Congratulations to my colleague @alexposadzki.bsky.social for winning this year’s National Business Book Award for the incredible Rogers v Rogers

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

If you're negotiating damages of approximately $180k through mediation with an Ottawa based lawyer who went to the Jays game last night, you should know he's currently loudly broadcasting the "confidential" (his words) details to the entire business class car on Via Rail on a phone call.

Kampfner quotes David Chipperfield, the Berlin-based British architect who has recreated the city’s iconic museum sites: “Berlin is not really there. It’s an idea.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7109...

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

Shoutout to the guys ripping cigs in the men’s bathroom at the SkyDome for finding something at this game to be happy about

The first distractingly jacked dude goes to the same gym as me and is somehow even more distractingly jacked than he appears on TV.... I have so many questions the next time I see him

1967: Only a thousand people bought the first Velvet Underground album but each one started a band. 2025: A million people watching this Jays/Mariners game are Shazaming “I’m Sticking With You” after hearing it in that Adidas commercial and adding it to their Twee Jock Jams playlist.

Good article about why lots of anglo-Canadian independent presses are celebrating their 50th anniversaries—but far fewer are celebrating a 10th or 20th. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Fifty years ago, national pride supercharged anglo-Canadian publishing. Could it happen again? by @joshokane.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com #GiftArticle #GiftLink 🎁 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a0344d6...

jon why are you holding your record like that

Months back I noticed there was a surge of Canadian publishers celebrating 50th anniversaries… but not many 10ths. So I went long on the ingredients that supercharged Canadian storytelling circa 1970 - and why they're missing today, when they're badly needed www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

The Arts team @theglobeandmail.com worked on this fantastic #culture #Canada #culture package. 1/3 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/129d895...

Biggest surprise? The Canada Council is better funded per capita now than in 1975. Least surprising? Doug Ford may be Elbows Up on tarrifs - but his Ontario is the stingiest of the provinces I looked at in supporting Canadian culture. By far.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Have I not noticed Sportsnet play KISS’s I Stole Your Love before or was that a subtle Ace Frehley tribute at the start of this inning

After Google, Toronto moves ahead with a bold new neighbourhood. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Bob Mould Reunites Sugar for First New Music, Shows in Three Decades

Regina’s Globe Theatre pulled off the difficult task of capturing the zaniness of city politics and the importance of municipal planning into a tight, well-placed package. A wonderful adaptation of @joshokane.bsky.social ‘s book. Some worthwhile lessons for councillors and council watchers as well