Arshy Mann
@arshy.bsky.social
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Journalist, displaced Vancouverite. Co-founder of The Hatchet, a podcast & newsletter dedicating to exposing power and money in Canada. Subscribe at hatchetmedia.substack.com.
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I’ve used it for years for punny episode titles.
My default is Merriam-Webster. Partially because the website has the aesthetics of a printed thesaurus/dictionary.
This is when I was trying to find a constructive of use of A.I. But I don’t really use it for anything anymore.
Synonyms are so far the only reliable use I’ve found for generative AI.
Sincerely not trying to be overly argumentative here, but what about the article was bad? I read through it, and it seemed very milquetoast to me. My sense is that people are mostly objecting to the headline, which they’re interpreting as being laudatory towards Kirk.
Either way, I agree when it comes to the fact that we don’t have an understanding of what Kirk’s assassination means yet. I suppose I’m just frustrated when people’s reflex response is to target journalistic outlets who, at least in my opinion, have gone out of their way to cover the issue before.
Alternatively, you could argue that the ability to make the claim that something is a “watershed” of political violence can only be credibly made by outlets that have dedicated resources to reporting on that specific issue well before the specific act of political violence has taken place.
Also, I don’t work at Canadaland.
Haha there are very few people more cynical than me. I haven’t followed Reuters coverage on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and if they’ve reported on that poorly, they should be called on that. All I’m saying is that on the specific issue of political violence, they’ve been quite good.
This is such a ridiculous and irresponsible accusation to hurl at a news organization that’s dedicated resources to specifically covering the rise in political violence in the US, even before the Minnesota shootings. www.reuters.com/investigates...
Fred Rogers actually got his start at the CBC!
So you're saying that you don't want to hear me play Bobcaygeon, even though I've been practising all week.
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I felt like it struck just the right tone: unflinching without being shrill, and grounded in facts without shying away from the feelings that the awful things discussed of course raise in people. I recommend it to any Canadian, from those who follow hockey avidly to those who have always avoided it.
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This podcast docuseries about the dark side of Canadian hockey is something I learned a lot from when it aired in 2023. It didn’t stop me from enjoying the game, but it helped me to contextualize the game within these awful cultural trappings that aren’t discussed nearly enough.
COMMONS: Hockey
From violence and racism on the ice, to corruption, cover-ups, and abuse off of it. Bringing you stories from inside the cult of hockey.
www.canadaland.com
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This is a must read article from Andrea Werhun. The culture of sexual abuse in hockey must stop. This weeks' episode of The Hatchet features @arshy.bsky.social interviewing Andrea about this piece and the case.

Believe women, and believe survivors.

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7cc3109...
Porn isn’t to blame for sexual assault
Discussions of a ‘porn-star persona’ in the Hockey Canada sexual-assault trial have brought the issue of the influence and accessibility of porn in our culture to the fore again
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Happy to provide sharp political insights like this on request. (Thanks to @arshy.bsky.social for indulging my take here) wealthsimple-tldr-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/wak...
Billy Corgan is basically a 9-year-old, so that does add up.
I'm with you on the last two. But I think Smashing Pumpkins works.
Absolutely right, this is a more accurate way to describe the situation
Whether you think this is the right strategy or not, it’s exactly the kind of bent-knee posture that he claimed Pierre Poilievre would’ve taken towards the US.
On Canada-US relations, Carney’s tactics are exactly the opposite of what he campaigned on. No retaliation on increased steel/aluminum tariffs. Capitulation to the false fentanyl narrative with his border bill. Now killing the DST the night before it was going into force.
This isn’t to say whether a climb-down like the one on the DST is or isn’t the best tactic at the moment. It just feels worth noting that it’s not exactly what the country was sold a couple of months ago.
But was he a History of Rome listener? That seems less likely.