Come one, come all and help me open the Library of Brothel in Vancouver on June 13th at 3pm

This is a wild story, and everyone in Toronto should read it. A major American bank is behind the push to expand Billy Bishop airport. It has nothing to do with what people in the city want. This should be a HUGE election issue

Confessions of an accidental half-assed birder It was nice to write something fun for a change! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Good morning Toronto - see you all tonight at 7pm TPL Reference Library in that beautiful room. Thanks to @michelledean.bsky.social for coming all this way to interview me and TPL for inviting us both.

It’s publication day for Library of Brothel in Canada (US/UK will be Jan 12, 2027 by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) This novel is REALLY going to need your support. If you “tip it off a cliff“ in literature not everyone will be willing to go with you. So come out for the proletariat and buy a copy.

❤️ “Schofield’s latest requires hard work, but it remunerates at time-and-a-half.” In fairness, these days in this economy and housing crisis and 4 x an hour global lunacy …my novels are a vacation 😂

Behind the latest circus at 10 Downing Street, there's a darker reality: the British far-right's alliance with tech and crypto billionaires. A warning for all of us, which I wrote about in @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Over at the @thestar.com I wrote about the shortage of the 37.5 microgram estrogen patch. Solidarity to all in search of it and who are hot as bedamned. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

🥚She searches for herself in the "Today's Child" column on children for adoption: "I realized that some of the language sounded familiar because it was used during the 18th and 19th centuries in both slave auction ads and fugitive slave ads to describe Black people who were enslaved in Canada."

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

I wrote quite a ranty column about living in a carsick city after your child gets hit by a car www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Bonheur d'occasion (Secondhand Happiness), known as The Tin Flute in its English version, was one of the most important Canadian books of the 20th century. It helped lay the foundation of The Quiet Revolution and remains an important work to this day. This is the story. 🧵 1/8

Darcy Ballantyne discovered her father was Austin Clark. Here her powerful adoption story. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The ongoing blame and shame in the Stronach trial demonstrates why complainants need independent legal representation, Angela Marinos writes www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

@davebidini.bsky.social had some thoughts on the Team USA hockey. He's impassioned - and he's right. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

From @theathletic.com: "The U.S. men’s hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time since the 'Miracle on Ice' 46 years ago, and for a time, the joy belonged to everyone," our columnist writes. "By the next day, it didn’t." nyti.ms/4s1Csv8

I went all out for romantic love and the need to hear great love stories that endure …this week in the Toronto Star. Many thanks to my editor @debdundas.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Lansdowne and Dundas right now. Two out of service vehicles stopped and blocking traffic. What gives @ttcriders.bsky.social

@bsky.app Deep respect to @lusianalukman.bsky.social Lukman for sharing her story - shining light on abusers helps to save lives: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Winter is good. My opinion column this weekend in the Toronto Star, Canada’s most powerful newspaper. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Introducing the $25K #NancyFlight Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Editing. The award celebrates editorial excellence & highlights the vital role editors play in shaping a manuscript. The inaugural winner will be named at the #WTAwards in November 2026. writerstrust.com/NancyFlight

@karenho.bsky.social Karen - would you drop me a line I would like to speak with you. Thanks!

Quebec sovereignty is rooted in identity. Alberta separatism is rooted in grievance. Different stories. Same constraint. In both provinces, the median voter is not asking if independence is justified, but if it is safe. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/davidco...

Merry Christmas! www.thestar.com/interactives...

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

“In short, the package looks like a compromise that many Canadians can live with.” Even contentious elements generate ambivalence rather than outrage. open.substack.com/pub/davidco...

"There isn’t much race-based data for us to rely on. Canadian researchers extrapolate data about Black people from American reports — but that doesn’t always give the full story of the experience of Black Canadians." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Mark Carney’s first major test? Most Canadians see the Canada–Alberta MOU as a pragmatic compromise, not a sellout. But risks remain — especially among younger and progressive voters. Dive into the data: davidcoletto.substack.com/p/canadians...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

My #HistoricalFiction roundup for @thestar.com includes titles by 4 Canadian women novelists: Donna Jones Alward, @annykchoi.bsky.social @cestima.bsky.social & Natalie Jenner. www.thestar.com/entertainmen... @houseofanansi.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social

Michelle Good on Thomas King www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

He always nails the moment. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

I wrote about the need for us to summon "cosy times" and my contrasting approaches to do so, which involve reading, knitting and deep immersion in Samurai films on @criterionchannl.bsky.social Just in time for that Toronto weather warning lads. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I’ve got an article out in the Star today about the Thomas King issue:

@navneetalang.com Hearing you on CBC radios Day Six right now talking about nostalgia for those 6-second Vines - comparing them to the haiku ...

For the Star, I make the case for the condo/apartment as aspirational -- that the Canadian dream can also be an apartment in a dense neighbourhood and not, as is so often the case in this country, be taken to only ever mean a detached house. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

The @washingtonpost op-ed page on Friday, October 5, 2018

Happy pub day to our BEST CANADIAN 2026 anthologies! We have an exciting lineup of upcoming events, starting with tonight's launch of BEST CANADIAN STORIES in Vancouver at Upstart & Crow!

So lucky to be sitting at Souvankham Thammavongsa's table as she won her much deserved Giller Prize tonight www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

I'm very happy to say that I'll I soon start writing a weekly column for @thestar.com, where I began my journalism career [redacted] years ago as a winter intern. I was on the copy desk, and my first headline was "Christmas trees find new life as wood chips."

For the Toronto Star, I spoke with JOHN IRVING about being an outsider, finding the plot, his friendship with @stephenking.bsky.social & much more. His 16th novel, QUEEN ESTHER, is out now. #books #booksky #writers #writinglife www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Thank you Blue Jays! You united us with your positivity and your resilience just when we needed it most. Thank you! We'll be there for you next year! ⚾️⚾️⚾️

Oh, please please please Kirk! ⚾️⚾️⚾️

I AM NOT BUILT FOR THIS! ⚾️⚾️⚾️ GO JAYS!

I wrote about loving the post office and how we are losing our personhood. Thanks to my son Cúán who rapped this topic out with me And calls me a loom breaker. And is extremely funny. And @debdundas.bsky.social my editor www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Thanks to @stephenmarche.bsky.social for this one: "Why poke the bear? If you’re dealing with a ranting meth-addled lunatic on the subway, the correct plan is to engage as little as possible." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Well, my exclusive interview with the head of the Louvre was timely and untimely at the same moment. Here's a gift link: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...