“159 years since Confederation and not one sitting U.S. president issues a direct challenge to Canada’s existence. Now it happens more often than garbage day.” www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ar...

NEW: The Giller Prize boycott has ended. The embattled literary prize confirmed that it is no longer sponsored by groups with ties to Israeli occupation and genocide. I spoke to previous Giller winners and nominees about the news for @thegrindto.bsky.social. www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...

This is why AI will never win.

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

“This is Jeremy, we are go for all humanity." Ivan Semeniuk reports from Cape Canaveral. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Just pure fire from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/go-ahead-a...

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

I'm a sucker for a butterfly-effect story and this is a lovely one.

"Live to See the Day, at its core, is a meditation on mortality. Human life is limited by time, yet people are oddly reluctant to restrict their ambitions within its bounds. We build, restore, protect, write, teach and imagine toward futures we may never see" www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/live-to-se...

Back on the headlight beat, this time for @nymag.com, following the brightness war as it's entered Congress and become a bipartisan bellwether issue for Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Are we making progress or spinning wheels? The answer might be in NHTSA's history: nymag.com/intelligence...

Throw them all into the sea.

Not the first and definitely won’t be the last.

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...

Free newsletter: Why're we still doing this? Despite $1tr+ in investment, every AI company is unprofitable, LLMs have yet to provide tangible productivity benefits, and private credit-backed data center debt may be the next great financial crisis. www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/

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

I wrote about AI, enshittification, language learning as hobby vs necessity, and falling out of love with Duolingo. Art by my three-year-old niece. Thank you for reading. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash

“When my three-year old niece scribbles with her broken crayons on a piece of paper … she is producing an image that is perhaps less coherent or realistic than what ChatGPT could output … but it’s still her artwork that I stick on the fridge.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

In fine company! www.cbc.ca/books/50-plu...

My new op-ed for The Globe and Mail. Canada needs a realist foreign policy, but the government also needs to be coherent and transparent about it. To understand Carney's foreign policy, too many people focus on his words - look at his actions instead. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

This is so real. It’s about hip-hop, about capitalism, about the way that marginal cultures are erased, and about a million other things, all integrated into a cohesive thing, and it’s why I keep being a loyal DEFECTOR subscriber.

US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, requests an apology from The Globe and Mail for a column by Cathal Kelly about the US men’s Olympic hockey team at the State of the Union. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

This is striking: Trump's deranged attacks on Canada have caused a big drop in Canadian visits to states like Michigan, hurting the state's economy. There are 3 vulnerable House Republicans in Michigan. So this lunacy could help cost GOP the House. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2071...

You can just say things.

Maybe I’m being cynical, but I’m starting to question the legitimacy of the Board of Peace.

After Jason Lee opened a camera shop in Eagle Rock, I thought, man, that'd be a fun story to do. I did not know that it would eventually lead to him threatening to take me to court. For @defector.com, the whole bloody affair: defector.com/a-compliment...

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal. Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

Rehabilitation is a core principle of criminal sentencing in Canada. Canada is poised to get rid of its prison libraries. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... by @tanyatalaga.bsky.social

Very big news: n+1 founding editor Chad Harbach’s new novel—his first since 2011’s beloved and bestselling THE ART OF FIELDING—is coming soon! THE BRIGHTNESS is out in October from @littlebrown.bsky.social. Read all about it—and preorder your copy—here: shop.nplusonemag.com/products/the...

Is this bad

Basically, the right-wing wants you to think that being racist is the most dangerous (and cool) thing you can do right now. Films like The People's Joker and Nirvanna The Band The Movie prove the most dangerous thing for algorithmic streaming platforms is actually copyright infringement.

Farewell, sweet prince

NEW: In Canada, NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE made $290K for 3 days and est. $350K for 4-day holiday, making it biggest opening for live-action English Canadian title since…BLACKBERRY. Toronto’s Cineplex Scotiabank was #1 location North America, ahead of NYC’s IFC Center.

So a TV show?

I’ve been waiting years for a fix. www.thestar.com/news/gta/fin...

We're all mourning these kids. Thinking of the young brothers and sisters in particular trying to understand what's happened. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

industry hive assemble for @noelransome.bsky.social's great profile of the man behind the music

A union job covering climate disasters:

"Certain critics, such as John Leonard and Elizabeth Hardwick, were usually better stylists than the writers they were reviewing." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — FAA says it has lifted temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, and all flights to resume.

here is our el paso airspace closure coverage and yes, we are as confused as you are (free link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Absolutely heartbreaking news out of British Columbia. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For every one of these Kafkaesque stories of inhumane cruelty i am guessing you can multiply by twenty the number of similar cases we don't hear about because the victim is not white, or fluent in English, or doesn't have advocates able and willing to go public www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

For @torontolifemag.bsky.social, I wrote about the city’s vicious tow-truck wars—a world of violence, arson, shifting allegiances, and paranoia. torontolife.com/deep-dives/t...

Not only is snow not cleared nearly two weeks after the storm, the city’s plough map is lying to residents. Contractors are claiming to have done work that isn’t happening Either the mayor and councillors know this and don’t care or they’re ignorant of what is actually going on

In a move destined to infuriate copy editors (among other accomplishments), Warner Bros. is insisting that critics use quotations marks when citing the title of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.” This is not a joke.

Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C