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Playwright, etc
I talked to Jesse Brown about the upcoming play

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Rogers vs. Rogers
Podcast Episode · CANADALAND · 2025-10-06 · 35m
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October 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The following is from Sandra Martin’s extraordinary obituary for Richard Monette in the Globe and Mail. Posting this now for no particular reason:
October 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
September 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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.
August 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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
July 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Where do I keep my testicles?
July 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
For no particular reason except he’s a genius, here’s a bit of George Walker interviewed for the Canadian Theatre Museum

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George F. Walker on television (Part 1 of 14)
YouTube video by Canada's Theatre Museum
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July 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I have Leafs fever!*

*meaning terrible allergies
May 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is an old mossy turtle that was on the golf course today
May 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
April 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The results are in
April 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Climbing a tiny mountain, singing an angry song
April 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Rory needs to be dumber. Just a little. Not quite Dustin dumb, just Bryson dumb.
April 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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.

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The leader in your mirror
Part 2: For a return of responsibility to our public life
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April 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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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/...
Crow's Theatre 2025.26 Season Announcement - Streetcar Crowsnest
Welcome to Crow's Theatre, home to groundbreaking and award-winning productions!
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April 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The most tasteless headstone in this cemetery. I love it
April 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Susan Crawford and Cory Booker struck blows for democracy today in a country that needs it.
April 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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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.
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March 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Jordan Tannahill’s newly renovated apartment in the NYT style mag
March 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Appreciate this detail from Paul Wells’ substack
March 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
March 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM