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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Globe 100: The Art of the Story with Margaret Atwood, Michael Crummey and Eric Andrew-Gee
Watch the Dec. 1 livestream of the conversation about writing, reading and publishing
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December 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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You owe it to yourself to read this stunning book not because it won the National Book Award (it did!) but because it will make you excruciatingly wrestle with and restore your humanity. www.nationalbook.org/books/one-da...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - National Book Foundation
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when i...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
You owe it to yourself to read this stunning book not because it won the National Book Award (it did!) but because it will make you excruciatingly wrestle with and restore your humanity. www.nationalbook.org/books/one-da...
So happy One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by the extraordinary Omar El Akkad won last night’s National Book Award for non-fiction (even though, as he said, in his speech, it’s “very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide”).
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So happy One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by the extraordinary Omar El Akkad won last night’s National Book Award for non-fiction (even though, as he said, in his speech, it’s “very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide”).
Sure, I’ve been enjoying her string of recent books, but it’s great to see Liz back in the pages of a newspaper (and its website).
Trump’s deployed the word ‘Piggy’ against a woman reporter. Here’s why that shows he’s getting scared
#Opinion from Star contributor @lizrenzetti.bsky.social
#Opinion from Star contributor @lizrenzetti.bsky.social
Elizabeth Renzetti: Trump’s deployed the word ‘Piggy’ against a woman reporter. Here’s why that shows he’s getting scared
Finally, the hounds of justice are nipping at Trump’s heels
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November 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Sure, I’ve been enjoying her string of recent books, but it’s great to see Liz back in the pages of a newspaper (and its website).
“This is just chaos. It’s like we’re playing at recess.” A behind-the-scenes oral history of this year’s fraught, thrilling, snowbound Canadian Premier League final.
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An oral history of this year’s snowy Canadian Premier League final
A stunning bicycle kick from Atlético Ottawa’s David Rodríguez amid snowy conditions in the game against Cavalry FC instantly gave the CPL an iconic calling card
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November 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“This is just chaos. It’s like we’re playing at recess.” A behind-the-scenes oral history of this year’s fraught, thrilling, snowbound Canadian Premier League final.
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Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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NEW: I spoke w/ Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault about why the CBC isn't being targeted for 15% cuts after all, how the long-rumoured Telefilm/CMF/NFB merger is inching toward reality, why permanent Telefilm funding ain't in cards, and, yes, Eurovision. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Canadian Identity Minister Steven Guilbeault on what the budget means for cultural sovereignty
Government investing $503-million in cultural sector over four years starting 2026-27
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November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
NEW: I spoke w/ Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault about why the CBC isn't being targeted for 15% cuts after all, how the long-rumoured Telefilm/CMF/NFB merger is inching toward reality, why permanent Telefilm funding ain't in cards, and, yes, Eurovision. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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The CBC should explore participation in...wait for it...#eurovision. Wha??!!! @joshokane.bsky.social explains a little item tucked away in #canada #liberals #carney #budget #canpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Why is Eurovision in Canada’s federal budget? There may be bigger reasons than music
Country’s interest in joining contest could be signal of realignment toward Europe in era of U.S. protectionism
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November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The CBC should explore participation in...wait for it...#eurovision. Wha??!!! @joshokane.bsky.social explains a little item tucked away in #canada #liberals #carney #budget #canpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
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November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
Are the WWE writers scripting this??
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Are the WWE writers scripting this??
“Only connect.”
- E.M. Forster, Blue Jays fan.
- E.M. Forster, Blue Jays fan.
November 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“Only connect.”
- E.M. Forster, Blue Jays fan.
- E.M. Forster, Blue Jays fan.
Whatever happens tonight, I’m just glad Keanu will finally get some rest.
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Whatever happens tonight, I’m just glad Keanu will finally get some rest.
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Everyone who talks about bail reform but also everyone who funds the carceral system (so, all of us) should read this.
Everyone who talks about bail reform should also have to read Brendan Kennedy’s investigation of the abuse “akin to torture” of people awaiting trial, and the cover-up at Maplehurst jail.
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Inside the many lies told by Maplehurst jail officials trying to cover up the ‘torture’ of inmates
The deceit ranged from serious attempts to conceal what happened, to absurd, easily disprovable lies that left an Ontario judge stunned.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Everyone who talks about bail reform but also everyone who funds the carceral system (so, all of us) should read this.
The Toronto Blue Jays have never lost a World Series.
The Toronto Blue Jays are undefeated in World Series Game 7s.
The Toronto Blue Jays have never lost a game in November.
November 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The Toronto Blue Jays have never lost a World Series.
The Toronto Blue Jays are undefeated in World Series Game 7s.
The Toronto Blue Jays have never lost a game in November.
Just so you know, the Toronto Blue Jays have a 1.000 record in World Series games played on Saturday nights at the Skydome (sorry, Rogers Centre).
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The Toronto Blue Jays are undefeated in World Series Game 7s.
The Toronto Blue Jays have never lost a game in November.
Just so you know, the Toronto Blue Jays have a 1.000 record in World Series games played on Saturday nights at the Skydome (sorry, Rogers Centre).
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The Toronto Blue Jays have never lost a game in November.
Just so you know, the Toronto Blue Jays have a 1.000 record in World Series games played on Saturday nights at the Skydome (sorry, Rogers Centre).
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Just so you know, the Toronto Blue Jays have a 1.000 record in World Series games played on Saturday nights at the Skydome (sorry, Rogers Centre).
Did the maintenance crew plant a loonie under the home run wall?
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Did the maintenance crew plant a loonie under the home run wall?
Can’t help but feel as if Fox is throwing a bit of shade with this reminder of the last time Canadian sports teams won their league championship.
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Can’t help but feel as if Fox is throwing a bit of shade with this reminder of the last time Canadian sports teams won their league championship.
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A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
Lol the neighbourhood has been crawling with trick-or-treaters since 5 o’clock, earliest I can ever remember that starting, almost as if their parents have something else to do tonight…
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Lol the neighbourhood has been crawling with trick-or-treaters since 5 o’clock, earliest I can ever remember that starting, almost as if their parents have something else to do tonight…