I talked to Jesse Brown about the upcoming play podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

The following is from Sandra Martin’s extraordinary obituary for Richard Monette in the Globe and Mail. Posting this now for no particular reason:

On the left: Tom Barnett in The Drawer Boy, with David Fox, 1999. On the right, Tom Barnett in The Drawer Boy, playing the part Fox originated, 2025

I turn 62 next week. I believe the best moment of my life was discovering a copy of the Stratford Festival’s production of The Mikado in the martial arts section of my local video store.

I was a bartender and listened to idiots making idiotic points while being unable to leave or shut them up so I’ll pass on the Jubilee debate thing

Where do I keep my testicles?

For no particular reason except he’s a genius, here’s a bit of George Walker interviewed for the Canadian Theatre Museum www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hLO...

I have Leafs fever!* *meaning terrible allergies

This is an old mossy turtle that was on the golf course today

The results are in

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Climbing a tiny mountain, singing an angry song

Rory needs to be dumber. Just a little. Not quite Dustin dumb, just Bryson dumb.

Paul Wells has been writing about federal politics with wit and insight for decades. There’s no one else I can say that about. This essay is smart, urgent and original. Sign up and read it. You’ll get a much better sense of what’s currently wrong. open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...

Big news! 📣 Michael Healey (@healey.bsky.social)'s highly anticipated stage adaptation of my book, Rogers v. Rogers, will premiere this December (running Dec. 2-28) as part of Crow's Theatre's 2025/2026 season: www.crowstheatre.com/about-crows/...

The most tasteless headstone in this cemetery. I love it

Susan Crawford and Cory Booker struck blows for democracy today in a country that needs it.

Harriette Mackenzie is such a rare athlete: she’s a BC college basketball star, and she is trans. This is the story of her season: an in-game attack, anti-trans hatred, outing herself, a lifetime of trauma, and how she kept going, despite it all. www.thestar.com/sports/baske...

Jordan Tannahill’s newly renovated apartment in the NYT style mag

Appreciate this detail from Paul Wells’ substack

Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

About time standing down

My Snow Friend is Dying

Gil Garratt in the Globe! www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

From the official photos: You can tell a pretty good story with just the hand gestures the PM made during his call with the American president yesterday.

With the stroke of a pen, we could hurt Trump’s America to the tune of $74 billion.

Nice hit Stephen

Eutelsat, the owner of OneWeb, a satellite rival to Starlink, said today that it was “actively collaborating with European institutions and business partners,” adding that it had equipment that could be “deployed swiftly in Ukraine to connect the most critical missions and infrastructures.”

Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...

Elbows up, Canada

Wordle 1,353 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The tooth-in-eye surgery comes to Canada. Surgeons removes a patient's tooth, usually the canine, installing a plastic optical lens inside it, and then implanting the whole thing into the eye. The body doesn't reject the tooth because, well, it's your own tissue. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

McCarthy Tétrault LLP has “paused” a much-heralded hiring program for Black and Indigenous law students in a move that some lawyers within the firm worry is the beginning of a wider effort to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion policies. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

When I die I’ll have a pang I spent too much time online, but I will never ever regret watching a car detailing video.

Morwyn is in tv primarily because someone else decides what she gets for lunch

This is well worth your time. A talk Cory Doctorow gave in Toronto yesterday pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/u...

Great to hear Bezos directing his media arm to vigorously defend not only existing free trade agreements but also the choices of queer kids and their parents. Inspiring.

Loosie but it’s a single rib of celery for this bolognese

It’s award season. Am I not owed the ensemble of Conclave on Hot Ones?

I just realized my life is like boring Uncut Gems

The NDP’s latest ad www.instagram.com/reel/DGdbiw8...

fight for a future you believe in

Canada-Russia hockey final tonight, just like old times.

Our Heritage Minister is currently outlining a vision for the cbc that involves increased funding, removal from political influence, and ending ads in public affairs broadcasts. A fantastic plan to take into a federal election.

Fassbender describes an uncomfortable level of leanness

Other people’s opinions about your work are none of yer bizness. Get back to work.

working on my anti-fascist puppet