I’m back covering City Hall for the Toronto Star, and for my first story I answered a question that has been bugging me for months: www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Perhaps the best piece of writing I have read about the cognitive dissonance of living in this moment: www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...

This is how we treat some of the most vulnerable children in our province. www.thestar.com/news/investi...

This piece is very much worth reading. It really underscores the reality of what LLM companies are building, and what they think of their users. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Thanks Instagram for letting me know there is an election happening in Canada. If only I could share a news story about it.

Top Chef: Destination Canada = lingering aerial shots of the Gardiner Expressway

This is WELL worth your time.

Watching Eraserhead for the first time with a teething baby who can’t stay asleep… seems like the intended way to watch it.

New rule: only three blanks in a row allowed. If you don’t score, you lose hammer.

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

Two days out from the provincial election and I still don’t have my voter information card. (My husband got his last week).

HOMAN VS EINARSON SCOTTIES FINAL The clash for the Scotties title tonight in Thunder Bay. Homan seemingly unstoppable. Einarson the only Canadian team to beat them the past two seasons. Can’t wait for this one.

Many things are bad but watching curling continues to be a joy

Interestingly I noticed at Freshco today that a few things including jalapeños were listed as from “Mexico or the US” which seemed to be a way to avoid boycotts?

Street parking along streetcar routes needs to be banned right now because too many people are idiots. There is a Bell service truck completely blocking the eastbound queen streetcar at roncy, and another car blocking the westbound streetcar a block away.

Okay good no one wins just like real life

Woke up this am to my husband telling me the Star hates my music taste

Even before its website was taken down by Trump, the vast system of global aid that USAID manages had already been plunged into chaos by an “unexplained and abrupt pause with no guidance [that] has left all our partners around the world high and dry,” a USAID official told @propublica.org

An early tribute from critic @willsloanesq.bsky.social, who calls the death of David Lynch "an unimaginable loss."

Cardamom buns are my favourite thing ever, my husband wooed me by bringing one to our first date. I will not be able to rest until I learn how to make the @hrishikesh.co /Samin Nosrat cardamom bun-milk bread mashup from the latest Home Cooking episode… please update soon!

2024 Headline of the Year nominee (January)

In case anyone was wondering what the worst change table set up of all time is

Billy Bishop airport needs longer runways. That may reopen the debate about its future.

“I know I'm American because when I walk into a room something dies. Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.” — Noor Hindi

Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard is on trial for sexual assault in Toronto. Five women are expected to testify. Story from court here, obviously difficult content: www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...

I normally avoid doing streeters but man did I have fun with this story: www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

‘The memo about protests organized all over Canada says protesters have "legitimate points to make" about what it describes as "parental rights”.’ www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A Montreal man died Friday. The funeral home notice only said he was a Holocaust survivor, without elaborating further. His life was actually quite a story, escaping from a medieval castle and joining partisan units operating behind enemy lines. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Drinking a cup of coffee and organizing some of my favorite stories in the NYT archives into various categories (you know: pets, poisoning, dentists, hats etc.) and came across one of my favorites, from Feb. 2, 1908.

pretty confident this will be my new favourite horror movie

Ooooh they let you pay by debit on GO now?!

Public health tongue-twister of the day: Initial Infection Inspection

Saskatchewan for the skyline

My MIL passed away a month ago but her garden is thriving

Sending ppl to prison for substance use issues is bad on so many levels. Most don’t actually treat substance use disorders w/evidence, inhumane, increase risk of harms and death upon release, and this is ineffective and $$$. And I write more about this in my book- Getting Wrecked!

Pro tip: all major social media companies do this. Twitter, ironically, was one of the only companies that ever pushed back against law enforcement demands for data/unmasking/etc. Now, well. Here we are.

We really just let “loneliness is tragical” go didn’t we

Do you miss everyone yelling about property taxes in the Toronto election? Well guess what…. The Toronto Star I-Team has given us more to yell about.

every time i see the phrase "gonzo journalist" i think of

I need Tiff’s bestie and Mal’s bestie to get together and run a dating show where they deal real talk to couples

What I like most about this story is that I was like NHL Kraken? Rum Kraken? Oh, crypto

Sounds like they’re really Kraken down on him

Trudeau Speaks Now

once again, bluesky is a posting retirement community for elder millennials

“You can stop being an asshole but I can’t stop being Latina.” Incredible, 10/10 no notes

Genuinely kinda sad about how I won’t be able to live-tweet city hall/court stuff now probably. It was a great way to note stuff that doesn’t make a story cut plus interact with people who care about the same issues.

OK I am going to try and consolidate this Canadian media thread, as the last one seems to be fraying at the edges. Please share this widely, and feel free to add to it! @pennydaflos.bsky.social @risingaction.bsky.social @jmcelroy.bsky.social @maxfawcett.bsky.social @jamespmcleod.bsky.social

And the points don’t matter