Navneet Alang
@navneetalang.com
One of a few editors @ Toronto Star Opinion. Pitch me op-eds, essays at [email protected].
Writer, columnist, bylines all over. PhD. https://navneetalang.com/categories/blogposts/
Writer, columnist, bylines all over. PhD. https://navneetalang.com/categories/blogposts/
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Navneet Alang
@navneetalang.com
· Dec 31
Bluesky: I’m a better person than you
Twitter: I’m a better person than you because I’m white
Instagram: I’m a better person than you because I’m hot
LinkedIn: When people say “I’m a better person than you” this is what it teaches me about B2B marketing
Twitter: I’m a better person than you because I’m white
Instagram: I’m a better person than you because I’m hot
LinkedIn: When people say “I’m a better person than you” this is what it teaches me about B2B marketing
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Totally shocked to see quite a few people walking on Lake Ontario
February 8, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Totally shocked to see quite a few people walking on Lake Ontario
Totally shocked to see quite a few people walking on Lake Ontario
February 8, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Totally shocked to see quite a few people walking on Lake Ontario
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In this weekend’s @thestar.com column I look at how churches have a tradition creating needed housing in Canada & Cabbagetown’s objection to height at St Luke’s is wrong. It’s also voter-supported city policy to force all density into a few areas so you can’t have it both ways, yo.
Shawn Micallef: How high is too high? Why Toronto’s beef with the size of residential towers misses the point
The pressure to go higher in places like this is because it’s not possible in a lot of Toronto where multi-unit apartment bias is strong.
www.thestar.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
In this weekend’s @thestar.com column I look at how churches have a tradition creating needed housing in Canada & Cabbagetown’s objection to height at St Luke’s is wrong. It’s also voter-supported city policy to force all density into a few areas so you can’t have it both ways, yo.
Maybe there’s something to this critique of the smart home but some people live in a completely different reality than me:
February 7, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Maybe there’s something to this critique of the smart home but some people live in a completely different reality than me:
I still check Twitter, partly for work and (relatedly) partly bc there are still smart people there amidst all the muck. Pretty remarkable, though, how it's just normal there now to log on to quite explicitly racist debates playing out. Really feels it's the place where that stuff became normalized.
February 6, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I still check Twitter, partly for work and (relatedly) partly bc there are still smart people there amidst all the muck. Pretty remarkable, though, how it's just normal there now to log on to quite explicitly racist debates playing out. Really feels it's the place where that stuff became normalized.
Folks... I'm starting to have my doubts about this Donald Trump fella
February 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Folks... I'm starting to have my doubts about this Donald Trump fella
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Doug Ford is wrong about supervised consumption sites #Opinion
Doug Ford is wrong about supervised consumption sites
New data suggests that consumption sites do not cause crime to spike.
www.thestar.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Doug Ford is wrong about supervised consumption sites #Opinion
I will say that it would be hard for us to have multiple family members over because they all live in car dependent suburbs and parking would in fact be an issue. Some could take transit, some physically could not, others would simply balk at the idea.
"I just can't imagine current requirements being adequate," says Cheng of visitor parking. She rejects the idea that the "market" should decide the amount of visitor parking in a new building, because people buying units just assume parking will be available and don't think about it before they buy.
February 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I will say that it would be hard for us to have multiple family members over because they all live in car dependent suburbs and parking would in fact be an issue. Some could take transit, some physically could not, others would simply balk at the idea.
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An account you control, @PagliacciDaClown, has been suspended for the following post: "Who up doing clown shit, lmao? I'm thinking about ending my own life."
Our moderation policies aim to encourage healthy discourse. For an example of a user we think exemplifies this spirit, see @PagliacciDaClown
Our moderation policies aim to encourage healthy discourse. For an example of a user we think exemplifies this spirit, see @PagliacciDaClown
February 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
An account you control, @PagliacciDaClown, has been suspended for the following post: "Who up doing clown shit, lmao? I'm thinking about ending my own life."
Our moderation policies aim to encourage healthy discourse. For an example of a user we think exemplifies this spirit, see @PagliacciDaClown
Our moderation policies aim to encourage healthy discourse. For an example of a user we think exemplifies this spirit, see @PagliacciDaClown
i wonder what happens to poptimism in the era of slop
February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
i wonder what happens to poptimism in the era of slop
Huh. Keen to read this later. Ime, these "gremlin boxes" are incredibly popular amongst S. Asians in the GTA too, as they give ppl access to hundreds of channels from India
Just in time for the Super Bowl, we asked @jank0.bsky.social to dive deep into all the aunties and uncles streaming every channel and sports feed available with generic IPTV boxes, which have created a fascinating parallel tech economy across America: www.theverge.com/streaming/87...
February 4, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Huh. Keen to read this later. Ime, these "gremlin boxes" are incredibly popular amongst S. Asians in the GTA too, as they give ppl access to hundreds of channels from India
Definitely worthy of a trigger warning, but confronting this sort of thing seems important (even if one already knows). www.thetimes.com/article/3c43...
I studied the latest Epstein files. As a woman, this is what I felt
They show a hidden world oiled by porn-saturated misogyny. I spent two days reading them
www.thetimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Definitely worthy of a trigger warning, but confronting this sort of thing seems important (even if one already knows). www.thetimes.com/article/3c43...
“Problematic” movie that you have nonetheless watched numerous times and will watch many times again? Mine is Sicario
February 4, 2026 at 3:12 AM
“Problematic” movie that you have nonetheless watched numerous times and will watch many times again? Mine is Sicario
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The biggest Canadian song of the moment being “Yukon” and the fact that it is referring to the vehicle, not the territory, means something, I just don’t know what
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
The biggest Canadian song of the moment being “Yukon” and the fact that it is referring to the vehicle, not the territory, means something, I just don’t know what
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one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
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Worth taking some time to see Greenland through Greenlandic eyes.
Jason Farago on Inuuteq Storch's photography at MoMA PS 1:
‘Raw, sometimes romantic pictures taken across the island ... focus[ing] on the usual, the modest. What’s fleeting. What melts.’
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...
Jason Farago on Inuuteq Storch's photography at MoMA PS 1:
‘Raw, sometimes romantic pictures taken across the island ... focus[ing] on the usual, the modest. What’s fleeting. What melts.’
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...
February 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Worth taking some time to see Greenland through Greenlandic eyes.
Jason Farago on Inuuteq Storch's photography at MoMA PS 1:
‘Raw, sometimes romantic pictures taken across the island ... focus[ing] on the usual, the modest. What’s fleeting. What melts.’
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...
Jason Farago on Inuuteq Storch's photography at MoMA PS 1:
‘Raw, sometimes romantic pictures taken across the island ... focus[ing] on the usual, the modest. What’s fleeting. What melts.’
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...
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Well, what does it mean for AI to be "fake?" Language evokes intelligence - in the reader. It's a powerful illusion. A reasonable critic sees that computation at scale can fuse language w/math in ways that do things. That is not "intelligence," and the problems that come that error are bountiful.
You can totally point out that some aspects of AI are overhyped, you can believe that AGI is not possible, you can criticize how the companies and governments developing AI are using or being coopted by these tools. There is a lot to criticize.
But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.
But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.
February 2, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Well, what does it mean for AI to be "fake?" Language evokes intelligence - in the reader. It's a powerful illusion. A reasonable critic sees that computation at scale can fuse language w/math in ways that do things. That is not "intelligence," and the problems that come that error are bountiful.
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My policy of not using profanity on these internets is... tested
"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
My policy of not using profanity on these internets is... tested
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"The world is looking to Canada for reassurance that a stable, thriving multiracial democracy is not only possible but desirable. This is the message Carney left out of his speech - and it is one our prime minister must urgently convey." - www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @rondeibert.bsky.social
What Mark Carney didn’t say in Davos is what the world needed to hear most
Democracies everywhere are looking to Canada for reassurance that a stable multicultural society is not only possible but desirable.
www.thestar.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 PM
"The world is looking to Canada for reassurance that a stable, thriving multiracial democracy is not only possible but desirable. This is the message Carney left out of his speech - and it is one our prime minister must urgently convey." - www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @rondeibert.bsky.social
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Logging into Bluesky
What the fuck?
January 31, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Logging into Bluesky
It seems so completely, plainly obvious that absurd amounts of wealth and the corresponding power that comes with it are corrupting, morally on an individual level and more broadly on a social level. People will look back on the early 21st century and wonder how it was allowed to happen.
January 31, 2026 at 2:58 PM
It seems so completely, plainly obvious that absurd amounts of wealth and the corresponding power that comes with it are corrupting, morally on an individual level and more broadly on a social level. People will look back on the early 21st century and wonder how it was allowed to happen.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:09 PM