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Braeden McKenzie
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📍PhD in Kinesiology and Physical Education from UofT Kin - critical risk scholar
📍Equity and Human Rights - UVic
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davidmoscrop.com
Say what you will about the Conservatives, but at least they would have stabbed you in the front.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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edgeofsports.bsky.social
More interested in betting lines than the players suffering outside the lines. What a moral sewer. My latest for @thenation.com
"Sports Media - cough, ESPN - Has Forgotten About CTE Even After Player Deaths"
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Sports Media Has Forgotten About CTE Even After Player Deaths
The NFL season has been rife with tragedy—not that the league or its media partners have noticed.
www.thenation.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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taoofstieb.bsky.social
A note to Canadian parents: It’s Game 6 on Friday, so Halloween is over at 7:30 pm this year.

If you show up at my door after then, I’m giving your children chewing tobacco.
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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davidmoscrop.com
The right is dismantling free speech. That's a threat to all of us. Here's why, and here's what we need to do about it.

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The Right Is Dismantling Free Speech. It's Time For All Of Us Push Back
The fundamental right to speak your mind is under attack, and its supposed champions are leading the charge against it. This is how we lose democracy, and freedom.
www.davidmoscrop.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and those who have canonized him.

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September 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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maris.bsky.social
Fucking yikes www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...
There's just one problem. You can use ChatGPT right now, and it is astonishing. "To put it bluntly," Bender and Hanna write at one point, "A.I' is a marketing term." Is it? Silicon Valley has a history of vastly overrating itself and ignoring its own dangers. But that doesn't mean its products aren't occasionally miracles. The authors mention one of A.I's first casualties, a man known as Pierre who died by suicide in 2023 after consulting a chatbot for therapy. Bender and Hanna cite his death as a typical example of hype, revealing the chatbot's uselessness as a therapeutic tool. Yet no merely mechanical object has ever talked somebody into suicide before. That is evidence of an extraordinary new power, no?
August 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …
August 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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zeets.bsky.social
Mo Salah is asking the right questions
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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gunnerblog.bsky.social
“It’s Arsenal. They won’t just ignore it.”

Thomas Partey, the allegations and what the club knew

For @theathleticfc.bsky.social ⬇️

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‘It’s Arsenal. They won’t just ignore it’ – Thomas Partey, the allegations and what the club knew
Arsenal have been aware of complaints about Partey, all of which he denies, for more than three years. Questions are now being asked
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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jlewenberg.bsky.social
Masai Ujiri's goodbye: "Toronto, Canada, I love you. The country that welcomed me. The city that became home. This bond we share will last forever... Now a new chapter begins but your love will always be with me... You will win again in Toronto." www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRyx...
Masai Ujiri's Tribute to Toronto
YouTube video by Giants of Africa
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July 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
Goodbye to Masai Ujiri as president of the Raptors. The dreams stayed big: it was the owners who got small. www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...
Bruce Arthur: Everything Masai Ujiri did — his dreams and his success with the Raptors — was big. Maybe too big for the team’s owner
MLSE CEO Keith Pelley said the decision to replace Ujiri was his, without explaining why. We can put the pieces together.
www.thestar.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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jimlokay.com
The "stick to sports" crowd must be having a moment
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 30
Steelers QB Mason Rudolph is now on stage at the Trump rally
May 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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julesboykoff.bsky.social
"Trump’s World Cup Will Endanger Foreign Guests. Boycott Now." My latest, co-written with @edgeofsports.bsky.social for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Trump’s World Cup Will Endanger Foreign Guests. Boycott Now
If you need to see the 2026 World Cup in person, stick to Canada and Mexico. The US isn’t safe for visitors.
www.thenation.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
Pierre Poilievre's Voting Record and the Politics of Exclusion - This is not just a political position. It’s an erasure of truth. And it’s part of a larger pattern. So let’s take a look at Pierre’s record, shall we? #PierrePoilievre #Canada #cdnpoli www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...
Pierre Poilievre's Voting Record and the Politics of Exclusion
This is not just a political position. It’s an erasure of truth. And it’s part of a larger pattern. When Bernie Sanders tells people to “Listen not to what they say, watch what they do,” that applies ...
www.greenpeace.org
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
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...
Bullying, basketball and an online firestorm: How B.C. college star Harriette MacKenzie stood up to anti-trans hate — and won
Trans athlete Harriette Mackenzie has been ostracized most of her life. One violent play during a Pac West basketball game pushed her to fight back.
www.thestar.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
braedenmckenzie.bsky.social
Stacy and I take a look at the origins of #elbowsup and the legacy of Gordie Howe amid escalating tensions between Canada and the US. Always fun to come back to our historical work on Mr. Hockey!
March 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
Time to speak up, Wayne. If you care about Canada, now’s the time. www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...
Bruce Arthur: It’s time to speak up for Canada, Wayne, and denounce your friend Trump’s treatment of your country
If you want to be seen as a patriotic Canadian, that’s the road: Denounce Donald Trump’s treatment of Canada, and embrace your country.
www.thestar.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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shireenahmed.bsky.social
Jesse Marsch has shown more patriotism than Wayne Gretzky.

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Canadian soccer coach Marsch tells Trump to 'lay off ridiculous rhetoric' of Canada as 51st state | CBC Sports
Canada soccer coach Jesse Marsch waded into politics Wednesday, telling United States President Donald Trump to "lay off the ridiculous rhetoric about Canada being a 51st state."
www.cbc.ca
February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
braedenmckenzie.bsky.social
Enjoyed reflecting on the 4 Nations Face-Off Tournament with Stacy! Our take on how the political histories of hockey played out on the international best-on-best stage:
February 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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kaleighpennock.bsky.social
First bluesky post 👋 - check out our latest #concussion paper where we discuss concussion education as a form of injury prevention and highlight issues around equity, the use of scare tactics, and when athletes experience “sufficient” education. Open access available here 👇 doi.org/10.1177/2167...
February 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
braedenmckenzie.bsky.social
Very happy to see @kaleighpennock.bsky.social and I’s most recent work published in open access! On concussion (mis)education and risk in injury prevention efforts:

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February 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
It appears that the "constitutional crisis" argument (which is very accurate) is working if they sent the press secretary out to make this very stupid statement about it.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 12
Karoline Leavitt: "The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch."
February 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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julesboykoff.bsky.social
Trump’s latest anti-trans executive order is an attempt to evict trans people from civic life. The steady flow of anti-trans bigotry in sport was the gateway to full-throttle demonization under Trump. My latest @commondreams.org co-written w/ @s-itani.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
Trump’s Latest Anti-Trans Executive Order Shows That Sports Are Never Just Sports | Common Dreams
The steady flow of anti-trans bigotry in sport was the gateway to full-throttle demonization under Trump.
www.commondreams.org
February 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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poorlydrawnarsenal.com
Humbled
MLS doing Haaland’s celebration on the ground with Gabriel next to him shocked, but poorly drawn.
February 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM