Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦
@tomhawthorn.bsky.social
Mean and nasty Canadian. Author of "Play Ball!," a lavishly illustrated, coffee-table book about pro baseball in Vancouver, B.C., now available for sale at Nat Bailey Stadium and the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
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Hey, did you guys know my DMs are open? Truth.
I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically.
Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically.
Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey, did you guys know my DMs are open? Truth.
I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically.
Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically.
Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Thanks for including "Play Ball!"
Looking for new baseball books this fall? Check out the new edition of the SABR Bookshelf, with dozens of recently released books on all aspects of the game: sabr.org/sabr-bookshe...
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thanks for including "Play Ball!"
Hell, no, we won't go.
The US is facing a significant loss in international tourism in 2025, with the World Travel & Tourism Council(WTTC) projecting a $12.5 billion drop in international visitor spending.
This makes the US the only country out of 184 studied to be projected to see a decline, driven
This makes the US the only country out of 184 studied to be projected to see a decline, driven
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Hell, no, we won't go.
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Meanwhile Canada's tourism sector made a record-breaking C$59bn from May to August of 2025, up 6% from the same period last year, mostly because of people choosing to travel domestically, according to Destination Canada, a national tourism organisation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Canadian boycott of US travel shows no sign of slowing
October marked the 10th month of decreased Canadian travel to the US, with many staying away over political and trade tensions.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Meanwhile Canada's tourism sector made a record-breaking C$59bn from May to August of 2025, up 6% from the same period last year, mostly because of people choosing to travel domestically, according to Destination Canada, a national tourism organisation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
How do I respond to someone who says, 'I'm not racist, but…'?
Easy.
"You are mistaken."
Easy.
"You are mistaken."
How do I respond to someone who says ‘I’m not racist, but ... ’? | Leading questions
How do I respond to someone who says ‘I’m not racist, but ... ’? | Leading questions
It’s important to express your disagreement: for their sake as much as yours, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But first decide on what you aim to accomplish
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
How do I respond to someone who says, 'I'm not racist, but…'?
Easy.
"You are mistaken."
Easy.
"You are mistaken."
For me, it's when we first hear Joni Mitchell's voice singing to Neil Young's "Helpless" though she is at first unseen, then in silhouette, and hasn't been introduced. A Canadian trifecta.
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
For me, it's when we first hear Joni Mitchell's voice singing to Neil Young's "Helpless" though she is at first unseen, then in silhouette, and hasn't been introduced. A Canadian trifecta.
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Happy Thursday, Canada 🍁
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Happy Thursday, Canada 🍁
Ex-cargo
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Ex-cargo
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Receptacle for trash and a dumpster.
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Receptacle for trash and a dumpster.
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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
That feeling when the separatists care more about Canada's sovereignty than the Official Opposition…
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
That feeling when the separatists care more about Canada's sovereignty than the Official Opposition…
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Oh please just fuck off
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Oh please just fuck off
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
Dersh ("I Kept My Underpants On When Given Massage by Babushka") is so charismatic even a lowly Martha's Vineyard pirogi maker doesn't want his business.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Dersh ("I Kept My Underpants On When Given Massage by Babushka") is so charismatic even a lowly Martha's Vineyard pirogi maker doesn't want his business.
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
More like the Upper Canadian Baseball League.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
More like the Upper Canadian Baseball League.
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Just heard the news that Jimmy Cliff has died
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
RON SINGS "SITTING IN LIMBO" BY JIMMY CLIFF
YouTube video by Rawnboy
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just heard the news that Jimmy Cliff has died
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
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A garish, aspirational portrait for POTUS
#artwriting #creativeprocess
open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
#artwriting #creativeprocess
open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A garish, aspirational portrait for POTUS
#artwriting #creativeprocess
open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
#artwriting #creativeprocess
open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
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Look what we did. From the ever-creative @carlynyandle.bsky.social. And me.
A portrait for POTUS open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
A portrait for POTUS open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
A portrait for POTUS
Why a good drawing needed glitter-bombing
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Look what we did. From the ever-creative @carlynyandle.bsky.social. And me.
A portrait for POTUS open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
A portrait for POTUS open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
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Sixty-two year ago this morning, I heard a prophet speak on the Fort Ord firing range. First published in The Tyee in 2003: thetyee.ca/Life/2003/11...
As Good a Shot as Oswald | The Tyee
Rifle in hand, I heard Kennedy was murdered. Suddenly the map no longer fit the terrain. Somehow it led to Canada.
thetyee.ca
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Sixty-two year ago this morning, I heard a prophet speak on the Fort Ord firing range. First published in The Tyee in 2003: thetyee.ca/Life/2003/11...
Too soon?
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Too soon?
So I guess the middle initial in RFK Jr. doesn't stand for Fitzgerald after all.
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
So I guess the middle initial in RFK Jr. doesn't stand for Fitzgerald after all.