I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

Does Congress have any red line where they constrain Trump? He just unilaterally went to war against Venezuela. (Spare me any technicalities; we literally attacked them and kidnapped their president. That is effectively a declaration of war and he doesn’t have to put it on a scroll of parchment)

NYT: "By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors."

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Move fast, break things: A little more than 24 hours after announcing its intention to purchase Warner Bros., Netflix sends out email to subscribers in Canada about the move - and seems entirely unaware that WB’s HBO Max is not, in fact, available in this country.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti... If you're a subscriber to @theglobeandmail.com you can watch this virtually tonight! Or maybe you're coming tonight—come by and say hi!

You owe it to yourself to read this stunning book not because it won the National Book Award (it did!) but because it will make you excruciatingly wrestle with and restore your humanity. www.nationalbook.org/books/one-da...

So happy One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by the extraordinary Omar El Akkad won last night’s National Book Award for non-fiction (even though, as he said, in his speech, it’s “very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide”).

Sure, I’ve been enjoying her string of recent books, but it’s great to see Liz back in the pages of a newspaper (and its website).

“This is just chaos. It’s like we’re playing at recess.” A behind-the-scenes oral history of this year’s fraught, thrilling, snowbound Canadian Premier League final. (Gift link.) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/68b477b...

Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

NEW: I spoke w/ Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault about why the CBC isn't being targeted for 15% cuts after all, how the long-rumoured Telefilm/CMF/NFB merger is inching toward reality, why permanent Telefilm funding ain't in cards, and, yes, Eurovision. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

The CBC should explore participation in...wait for it...#eurovision. Wha??!!! @joshokane.bsky.social explains a little item tucked away in #canada #liberals #carney #budget #canpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Huh

Are the WWE writers scripting this??

“Only connect.” - E.M. Forster, Blue Jays fan.

Whatever happens tonight, I’m just glad Keanu will finally get some rest.

Everyone who talks about bail reform but also everyone who funds the carceral system (so, all of us) should read this.

The Toronto Blue Jays have never lost a World Series.

The Toronto Blue Jays are undefeated in World Series Game 7s.

The Toronto Blue Jays have never lost a game in November.

Just so you know, the Toronto Blue Jays have a 1.000 record in World Series games played on Saturday nights at the Skydome (sorry, Rogers Centre).

Did the maintenance crew plant a loonie under the home run wall?

Can’t help but feel as if Fox is throwing a bit of shade with this reminder of the last time Canadian sports teams won their league championship.

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

Lol the neighbourhood has been crawling with trick-or-treaters since 5 o’clock, earliest I can ever remember that starting, almost as if their parents have something else to do tonight…

Thanks to @simonhoupt.bsky.social for reporting on what we’ve all been saying. I’ve found in agencies, creatives never take into account what the media buyers will do to their stuff by forcing 20 views/hour and turning a clever ad into an account killer www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseb...

Almost half the population of Canada has watched some of this extraordinary World Series. (Which makes me wonder - what are the other half doing??)

the last time the Dodgers won a World Series game in 18 innings, they ended up losing the Series to the Red Sox, so

Can’t say I mind tbh.

And to think we actually booked hotel rooms in L.A. for our reporters, like they’re going to have time to use them.

Starting to think this might be a ploy to ruin Canadian productivity.

We’re at the point of the Fox broadcast where the analysts are appraising the pineapple and watermelon in the dugout.

Getting the sense our reporters in L.A. may not make tonight’s print deadline.

Made a really good batch of hummus an hour ago, so at least there’s that.

Canadian fans to get (brief) exclusive access to Toronto and Vancouver World Cup matches in the next phase of ticket sales. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

Another record broken! 💥👀 Game 1 of the #WorldSeries on Sportsnet averaged 7M viewers, becoming the new most-watched @BlueJays game ever. Game 2 averaged 6.6M, now the second most-watched Blue Jays game ever. Games 1 & 2 combined reached 15.9M Canadians.

Pretty avant garde choice for the World Series anthem choir, to be honest.

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney nails it.

See that red X off the Pacific coast of Colombia? That’s where the US military recently blew up a boat, thousands of miles from the United States. There’s virtually no chance the boat was smuggling drugs into America, if it was even carrying drugs at all.

This was from the last time, for the kids who don’t remember or maybe weren’t even around. (A1 and Sports front of The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star, Wed. Oct. 13, 1993.)

Lol

Trump has functionally killed America's international broadcasting apparatus. Russia and China are making up the difference. if we still care about democracy and liberalism abroad, countries like Canada need to step up. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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