I recognize this is old fashioned but I strongly feel that when I spend a lot of money there should be a great deal of friction involved so I can think about what I've done.

The Juno Awards telecast was great - so many notable moments. I was supposed to do a "the best, the worst..." but I really struggled to think of anything negative to say. Mae Martin's sunny ways are infectious. Plus, I mean, come on: Joni Mitchell. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Kazuma Okamoto just hit his first home run in Major League Baseball. What a debut this has been for the Japanese star with the #BlueJays

not weird bc entirely a jobs and attention economy issue. it's a struggle to get shit past non-creatives hoarding the soft power. and a hustle to get seen if you do manage. "slop" isn't just low effort but also resourced, corner-cutting, and displacing.

Multiple branches of ACTRA, the actors’ union, are warning about AI training sessions soliciting actors through traditional Canadian casting networks — and worried about what happens after letting an industry bogeyman in through the front door

HEATED RIVALARY info from Canadian Screen Awards nominations: -Connor Storrie ineligible; rules tweaked last year restricting CSAs to CDN "citizens or permanent residents" -Eligible series needed to air between 09/01/24 and 11/15/25. HR premiered 11/28/25. Yet series got 18 nods

Multiple branches of ACTRA, the actors’ union, are warning about AI training sessions soliciting actors through traditional Canadian casting networks — and worried about what happens after letting an industry bogeyman in through the front door

A Quebec online network of booksellers is expanding into Anglo Canada with Booksellers.ca. You can buy books from indies across the country and - helps the stores compete against Amazon et al. Quebec again leading the way on supporting homegrown culture www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

The English-language link is www.booksellers.ca

Here’s a story on a made-in-Quebec bookstore network that’s rapidly expanding across the rest of Canada — giving readers the deep catalogue, free/low shipping and frictionless experience of Amazon… while directly supporting local shops www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Toronto’s streetcars are the SLOWEST in the world. But they don’t have to be - tram systems around the world provide far faster and more reliable service. 10 low-cost fixes, when implemented together, can launch Toronto closer to global best practice. Be sure to read our plan below!

This profile of the great John Samson Fellows in @hazlitt.bsky.social is somehow both heartbreaking & heartwarming. I can't stop thinking about it hazlitt.net/longreads/la...

For this @thestar.com investigation, I spoke with more than 40 veterans & healthcare professionals who denounced the rehab program run by PCVRS, a joint venture involving Loblaw. Read here: www.thestar.com/news/investi...

Reporting this story brought some much-needed levity during a dark year:

Not included in today’s @theglobeandmail.com cover story: Highway’s infectious laughter (or the pranks he pulled on me that resulted in it). Really pleased to share this long-overdue profile about Tomson, Rose and the female God watching over them both: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...

I talked to The Decibel about the music industry's embrace of AI tools, which partly turned out to be an extended riff about a terribly earnest AI-generated song about Gordon Lightfoot eating 100,000 pies www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

Congrats to my many great colleagues on their National Newspaper Award nominations — especially my guy @mikehager.bsky.social, whose incredible feature on waterbed salesmen I knew was a lock from the second I read it

Obit. A posting in Beijing, brought about by a dust-up with Pierre Trudeau, put John Burns on a path to a storied career and two Pulitzer Prizes. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

One of the very best "frontman does a solo record" albums of this century tbh. I still listen to it at least once a month

Jason Isbell Explains How Music Is Like The News But For Sounds. Subscribe to The Onion at https://membership.theonion.com/?campaign=701a500001bfegPAAQ.

Russell Peters suing his Canadian tax advisors. Love reading about this stuff. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/gl...

2025 global music-industry stats are out: revenue up 6.4% to US$31.7-billion, with Canada dropping a spot to become the ninth-biggest music market, with revenue up 5.6%. IFPI, the record-label consortium, is heralding licensed AI as a big future revenue driver www.ifpi.org/global-music...

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

VERY COOL MEDIA JOB ALERT: @theglobeandmail.com is hiring a Politics Editor to lead our Ottawa bureau. This isn't the kind of job that comes around every day... jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

NEW: Wired’s editor Katie Drummond said it added 200k new paid subs last year. She told me: “If you still don’t understand why Wired covers politics, you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

If this goes through, the Dovercourt/Dundas 7-11 is gonna make approximately a billion dollars at Dundas West Fest this year

of interest to few certain strains of music heads: huge stash of NME back issues now dropping on @archive.org, 300+ issues, 1969-1983 (so far). archive.org/search?query...

WALLACE!!!!

Ryan Coogler notched his first Academy Award, winning the #Oscar for best original screenplay for "Sinners." bit.ly/4bzuoLE

Between the Patrick Watson shout-out during the Best Animated Short speech and the Peter Dreimanis cameo during the Sinners performance, this is already the most Canadian indie-rock #Oscars telecast ever.

Canadians, please tell Transport Canada to fix the murder-beams.

Florida's not just wrong on this score, he's totally disingenuous. He's read all the same literature I have regarding the importance of large, centralized hubs versus a constellation of smaller airports. I know because he told me himself when he agreed to *blurb my book.*

Also published today, an investigation by Kathryn Blaze Baum and me into what happened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in between the board of trustees hiring Canadian Sasha Suda to run the renowned museum and firing her for cause last fall. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Would jets downtown be good for Toronto’s economy? As it turns out, no. @greglindsay.org explains the truth behind the vibes: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

@puptheband.bsky.social (2x Short List, 2x Long List) have released 'Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings).'

John K. Samson is my favourite songwriter ever, and this is very much worth your time: hazlitt.net/longreads/la...

why are we still dealing w this style of record review that reads like the critic just read the lyric sheet and album bio, and didn't even listen to the album

This is an absolutely shocking proposal that would disrupt the very foundations of democratic accountability in Ontario #Onpoli #cdnfoi

Spoke with @camgordon.bsky.social about his new book Track Changes, which charts the origins of Canadian music (and music communities) online We talked about SloanNet, Stillepost, CBC Radio 3, Chromewaves + Elon Musk making life accidentally imitate art www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

"existing US legislation allows American authorities to reach Canadian-held data through US-controlled platforms in ways that would be unconstitutional if conducted by Canadian authorities ... We’re already digital serfs, and it sucks" @vassb.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

How Canadian producer J. Miles Dale, Guillermo del Toro's most trusted collaborator, helped turn Toronto into a monster of a movie industry. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...