Send Canadians exclusively. We reflexively drag each other down

New bag limits as anglers gear up for opening day in Nova Scotia www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Rogers v. Rogers vs Rogers v. Rogers Happy #WorldTheatreDay

Always fun to put a new show up www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...

Cancer + a heart issue has slowed one of our greats. Help if you can gofund.me/9d5c508d6

@gmbutts.bsky.social follow back for a question pls and thank you

1/3rd of Canada daydrunk and sad at noon on a Sunday.

Pub day for this beauty. Thanks Playwrights Canada Press. Cover design by Michel Vrana

This city. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...

Thanks Shona!

Mr Jost’s comment at the end of this article is… not great

Do you live in Toronto ? Need something off of which you might eat? Teak fan? www.kijiji.ca/v-dining-tab...

I’ve never seen more Americans quoting a Canadian prime minister than today (I think).

today's random theater photos: Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle (1869)

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

That would be Michel Vrana!

I think “fork tender” is the most satisfying phrase to say with a Boston accent.

I just realized Michael @healey.bsky.social's play Rogers v Rogers could be dubbed Healey Rivalry

Compassion has to guide this conversation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/h...

You have made us proud, Nardwuar.

My takeaway from Frum’s piece is that land acknowledgments are doing their job, the conversation about true reconciliation is under way. Keep it up.

Carbon capture and storage remains deep in the fiction section of the climate solutions bookstore. reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...

Harper 2.0?

This is the greatest review of my career financialpost.com/opinion/new-...

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.

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