Navneet Alang
@navneetalang.com
Editor @ 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
· Jan 9
My goal for 2025 is just to become hotter and more lethal
Alas, I think that might be 2025's goal too
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Since publishing our investigation into "Victoria Goldiee" at @thelocal.to, I've heard from editors from around the world who've had their own run-ins. A quick follow-up, plus a conversation with @cstarnino.bsky.social about journalism in a world of AI fakery. thelocal.to/fallout-from...
The Fallout From Our AI Freelancer Investigation | The Local
A conversation about the future of journalism in a world of “Victoria Goldiees.”
thelocal.to
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Since publishing our investigation into "Victoria Goldiee" at @thelocal.to, I've heard from editors from around the world who've had their own run-ins. A quick follow-up, plus a conversation with @cstarnino.bsky.social about journalism in a world of AI fakery. thelocal.to/fallout-from...
maybe i'm being oversensitive but wineries selling "holiday survival" mixed packs feels a a shade too dark to me
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
maybe i'm being oversensitive but wineries selling "holiday survival" mixed packs feels a a shade too dark to me
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
[me to a server at a fancy Indian restaurant]
could you tell the chef how impressed I am? this eggplant dish is absolutely baingan
could you tell the chef how impressed I am? this eggplant dish is absolutely baingan
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
[me to a server at a fancy Indian restaurant]
could you tell the chef how impressed I am? this eggplant dish is absolutely baingan
could you tell the chef how impressed I am? this eggplant dish is absolutely baingan
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“(W)hen Canada walks away from feminist policy, it abandons a key driver of poverty and strife. And when Canada appears to bow to bro-signalling, it means Canada has joined the league of polite misogyny”
Mark Carney is giving in to the bros, @supriya.bsky.social writes www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Supriya Dwivedi: Mark Carney is giving in to the bros
Fighting poverty and violence around the world means embracing feminist ideas.
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“(W)hen Canada walks away from feminist policy, it abandons a key driver of poverty and strife. And when Canada appears to bow to bro-signalling, it means Canada has joined the league of polite misogyny”
Gonna go on the record here and say this is quite bad
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Gonna go on the record here and say this is quite bad
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I’ve got an article out in the Star today about the Thomas King issue:
Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next
#Opinion from Robert Jago
#Opinion from Robert Jago
Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next
Though not a shock to some, it's time to reckon with the harm done.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’ve got an article out in the Star today about the Thomas King issue:
Things may seem dark. They may appear foreboding. But if you’re anything like me, there’s hope. One more Black Friday purchase is going to fix me. I can feel it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Things may seem dark. They may appear foreboding. But if you’re anything like me, there’s hope. One more Black Friday purchase is going to fix me. I can feel it.
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Leave motion smoothing on this year. Who cares. Your parents or in-laws are upscaling a compressed HD image to 4K anyway. Also nothing matters.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Leave motion smoothing on this year. Who cares. Your parents or in-laws are upscaling a compressed HD image to 4K anyway. Also nothing matters.
B says such impossibly nice things to me that I’ll keep between us, but for whatever reason someone once telling me there was something “magnetic” about me is one I remember. I mostly assume people don’t like me!
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
B says such impossibly nice things to me that I’ll keep between us, but for whatever reason someone once telling me there was something “magnetic” about me is one I remember. I mostly assume people don’t like me!
i mean... it's not *not* racist
Twitter, after they turned on the location visibility feature.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
i mean... it's not *not* racist
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I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...
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As @rjjago.bsky.social points out in this excellent editorial, this is not a victimless crime. And King has profited greatly from ethnic fraud: he has made an entire career from speaking for (and not just writing about) Indigenous peoples.
This is probably the most important point though:
This is probably the most important point though:
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
As @rjjago.bsky.social points out in this excellent editorial, this is not a victimless crime. And King has profited greatly from ethnic fraud: he has made an entire career from speaking for (and not just writing about) Indigenous peoples.
This is probably the most important point though:
This is probably the most important point though:
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have lived in the US for 15 years and this is how I learned that “it’s a bit of a gong show” is a Canadian figure of speech
How A Campy 1970s Game Show Became Part Of Canada's National Lexicon | Defector
On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he s...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
have lived in the US for 15 years and this is how I learned that “it’s a bit of a gong show” is a Canadian figure of speech
People tend to dismiss the idea of echo chambers but since The Great Balkanization of social media(TM) I'm feeling a bit less sure, at least recently. Log on to Twitter and it's a whole separate world in which AI, autonomous cars and conservative ethnic nationalism will save us.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
People tend to dismiss the idea of echo chambers but since The Great Balkanization of social media(TM) I'm feeling a bit less sure, at least recently. Log on to Twitter and it's a whole separate world in which AI, autonomous cars and conservative ethnic nationalism will save us.
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Just in time for today's Toronto premiere of my housing film, I wrote this piece in The Star. It gives a good overview of the main messages and insights from the documentary.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
The market alone isn’t going to fix the housing crisis. These Canadian towns are showing us how it’s done
We need a variety of approaches to our inescapable housing problem.
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just in time for today's Toronto premiere of my housing film, I wrote this piece in The Star. It gives a good overview of the main messages and insights from the documentary.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
-hey boss, just wanted to check: when does our 2 weeks off for Christmas start?
-the what?
-you know - our two weeks vacation at the holidays, like kids get in school
-nav I’m going to need you to sit down
-the what?
-you know - our two weeks vacation at the holidays, like kids get in school
-nav I’m going to need you to sit down
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
-hey boss, just wanted to check: when does our 2 weeks off for Christmas start?
-the what?
-you know - our two weeks vacation at the holidays, like kids get in school
-nav I’m going to need you to sit down
-the what?
-you know - our two weeks vacation at the holidays, like kids get in school
-nav I’m going to need you to sit down
Guess you could say I'm a bit of an outlier. Bit of a rebel. But what can I say? I'm only human. I too find the most beautiful women alive attractive.
Once again, I will always be a 90s supermodel guy.
Christy Turlington in Milan.
Christy Turlington in Milan.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Guess you could say I'm a bit of an outlier. Bit of a rebel. But what can I say? I'm only human. I too find the most beautiful women alive attractive.
Me: all I need to do to be happy is read, write, spend time outdoors, and be around the people I love
Also me: what's this? the steamdeck is on sale?
Also me: what's this? the steamdeck is on sale?
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Me: all I need to do to be happy is read, write, spend time outdoors, and be around the people I love
Also me: what's this? the steamdeck is on sale?
Also me: what's this? the steamdeck is on sale?
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
I for one did not predict the vibe shift was going to be... *points to everything*
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I for one did not predict the vibe shift was going to be... *points to everything*
Why do I get so bothered by Star Wars talk? It's not like I don't also have the same nostalgia for the franchise etc etc. For some reason, though, I find the incessant chatter about it off somehow. It can't possibly need to be rehashed this much!
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Why do I get so bothered by Star Wars talk? It's not like I don't also have the same nostalgia for the franchise etc etc. For some reason, though, I find the incessant chatter about it off somehow. It can't possibly need to be rehashed this much!