Shannon Proudfoot
@sproudfoot.bsky.social
Feature writer covering federal politics at The Globe and Mail. Deep love for great beer, old art, all cheese, The Golden Girls and Gritty.
Ha ha. I'm a tad puzzled by the strategy there, I have to admit.
Thanks for the kind words on my writing! My little easter egg riff:
Thanks for the kind words on my writing! My little easter egg riff:
October 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ha ha. I'm a tad puzzled by the strategy there, I have to admit.
Thanks for the kind words on my writing! My little easter egg riff:
Thanks for the kind words on my writing! My little easter egg riff:
We have two as well! Ours are mother and daughter, yours? They’re stunning! Do you also get them mixed up constantly so that they feel like a magic illusion that lives with you?
October 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We have two as well! Ours are mother and daughter, yours? They’re stunning! Do you also get them mixed up constantly so that they feel like a magic illusion that lives with you?
This is Ramona (the Pest). She is so beautiful and perfect that she seems less like *a* cat or *the* cat than just “Cat,” the essence of catness embodied. I’m pretty sure she’s descended directly from someone in ancient Egypt. She’s a terrible brat and we love her to pieces.
October 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is Ramona (the Pest). She is so beautiful and perfect that she seems less like *a* cat or *the* cat than just “Cat,” the essence of catness embodied. I’m pretty sure she’s descended directly from someone in ancient Egypt. She’s a terrible brat and we love her to pieces.
This is probably the 12th time I’ve reposted it, but I still think @davidjroth.bsky.social explained the entire functioning of Trump back in 2017. I find myself constantly thinking about this piece, including yesterday, and nodding in exhaustion. thebaffler.com/latest/the-p...
August 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is probably the 12th time I’ve reposted it, but I still think @davidjroth.bsky.social explained the entire functioning of Trump back in 2017. I find myself constantly thinking about this piece, including yesterday, and nodding in exhaustion. thebaffler.com/latest/the-p...
The cat thermometer functions with perfect accuracy. The fewer bones left in the cat, the hotter it is outside. We are at full void melt.
July 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The cat thermometer functions with perfect accuracy. The fewer bones left in the cat, the hotter it is outside. We are at full void melt.
Happy Canada Day! No one can take what we have because it’s ours and it’s us.
🍁❤️🇨🇦
🍁❤️🇨🇦
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Happy Canada Day! No one can take what we have because it’s ours and it’s us.
🍁❤️🇨🇦
🍁❤️🇨🇦
I see Trump’s big boy tank-a-rific birthday parade amounted to a $45M Kirk Cameron conference room Subway birthday on the wan, sad scale. www.vulture.com/2011/10/kirk...
June 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I see Trump’s big boy tank-a-rific birthday parade amounted to a $45M Kirk Cameron conference room Subway birthday on the wan, sad scale. www.vulture.com/2011/10/kirk...
When the cats look like they have a new album dropping, you know they truly believe themselves to be on the verge of starvation (they last ate four hours ago).
June 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When the cats look like they have a new album dropping, you know they truly believe themselves to be on the verge of starvation (they last ate four hours ago).
Tonight from 6-8 pm ET, CPAC will air a couple of post-election panels from this week convened by the very clever @alexmarland.bsky.social. Come for the behind-the-scenes secrets and political analysis, stay for my ridiculous pizza story and me flipping the bird on CPAC.
May 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Tonight from 6-8 pm ET, CPAC will air a couple of post-election panels from this week convened by the very clever @alexmarland.bsky.social. Come for the behind-the-scenes secrets and political analysis, stay for my ridiculous pizza story and me flipping the bird on CPAC.
You think you’re just a person who happens to have four cats, but then you feed them all at once and realize you are in fact a person with an actual herd of cats.
April 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
You think you’re just a person who happens to have four cats, but then you feed them all at once and realize you are in fact a person with an actual herd of cats.
At the Conservative platform launch in Vaughan. The human backdrop is assembled, and all the reporters are scrambling to read the platform on their phones because it was sent out 12 minutes before Pierre Poilievre is scheduled to speak. #cdnpoli
April 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
At the Conservative platform launch in Vaughan. The human backdrop is assembled, and all the reporters are scrambling to read the platform on their phones because it was sent out 12 minutes before Pierre Poilievre is scheduled to speak. #cdnpoli
In Peterborough at a rally awaiting Carney and local candidates. Still hundreds lined up outside. Soundtrack is all-Canuck: Alanis, Bryan Adams, Nelly Furtado. The sound engineer has earned my wrath because he just switched away from the Hip’s Scared a few lines in. I guess not the right message.
April 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
In Peterborough at a rally awaiting Carney and local candidates. Still hundreds lined up outside. Soundtrack is all-Canuck: Alanis, Bryan Adams, Nelly Furtado. The sound engineer has earned my wrath because he just switched away from the Hip’s Scared a few lines in. I guess not the right message.
*Everybody* is taking the same “Ha ha, check out the enemies in adjoining parking spots” photo at Montreal airport. Here’s mine!
April 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
*Everybody* is taking the same “Ha ha, check out the enemies in adjoining parking spots” photo at Montreal airport. Here’s mine!
I still cannot believe this is real. It’s psychotic. There are many, many (SO MANY) more consequential heinous things they’ve done, but somehow the crassness of this seems like a new low. The White House shitposting like an especially mean and stupid 14-year-old.
February 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I still cannot believe this is real. It’s psychotic. There are many, many (SO MANY) more consequential heinous things they’ve done, but somehow the crassness of this seems like a new low. The White House shitposting like an especially mean and stupid 14-year-old.
In case the world at large makes this useful today, here is an emotional support bat.
February 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
In case the world at large makes this useful today, here is an emotional support bat.
New fentanyl czar.
February 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
New fentanyl czar.
Ramona the Pest: “Oh, you were *reading* that newspaper? I had no idea, my bad!”
/Passes out on the spot for sixth nap of the day/
/Passes out on the spot for sixth nap of the day/
February 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Ramona the Pest: “Oh, you were *reading* that newspaper? I had no idea, my bad!”
/Passes out on the spot for sixth nap of the day/
/Passes out on the spot for sixth nap of the day/
In a TV panel on Tuesday, and I joked that Canada's promised "24/7 eyes on the border" should be some hockey sticks with googly eyes jammed in a snowbank.
Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.
Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.
February 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In a TV panel on Tuesday, and I joked that Canada's promised "24/7 eyes on the border" should be some hockey sticks with googly eyes jammed in a snowbank.
Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.
Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.
We have two as well, mother and daughter. They’re like a hilarious magic trick because we can’t tell them apart so you never know which one is in the room you just walked into. Can I see yours?
February 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We have two as well, mother and daughter. They’re like a hilarious magic trick because we can’t tell them apart so you never know which one is in the room you just walked into. Can I see yours?
When you are definitely, for sure being super helpful in putting away the Christmas decorations.
February 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
When you are definitely, for sure being super helpful in putting away the Christmas decorations.
Something about the air currents around our building means it often snows upwards, which I love. It’s like working inside a snow globe. A snow Globe. Ha ha, I’ll show myself out…💃
January 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Something about the air currents around our building means it often snows upwards, which I love. It’s like working inside a snow globe. A snow Globe. Ha ha, I’ll show myself out…💃
I always assumed I would eventually get BBC Dadded by my kids. But no, it was Ramona and Gus the cats who decided to bounce into the frame on Power & Politics last night.
January 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I always assumed I would eventually get BBC Dadded by my kids. But no, it was Ramona and Gus the cats who decided to bounce into the frame on Power & Politics last night.
I involuntarily sighed out loud at the end of this episode of The Decibel with @michalstein.bsky.social.
It's like a cup of warm cocoa for your brain, but also a deep, real, human portrait of Almonte, the pretty town where so many Christmas movies are set. www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...
It's like a cup of warm cocoa for your brain, but also a deep, real, human portrait of Almonte, the pretty town where so many Christmas movies are set. www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...
December 20, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I involuntarily sighed out loud at the end of this episode of The Decibel with @michalstein.bsky.social.
It's like a cup of warm cocoa for your brain, but also a deep, real, human portrait of Almonte, the pretty town where so many Christmas movies are set. www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...
It's like a cup of warm cocoa for your brain, but also a deep, real, human portrait of Almonte, the pretty town where so many Christmas movies are set. www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...
This tick-tock on Trump and Trudeau’s dinner party at Mar-a-Lago by @stevenchase.bsky.social is so damn good. Spoiler: the DJ routine is just a thing Trump does now. #cdnpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
December 3, 2024 at 3:50 PM
This tick-tock on Trump and Trudeau’s dinner party at Mar-a-Lago by @stevenchase.bsky.social is so damn good. Spoiler: the DJ routine is just a thing Trump does now. #cdnpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
They’re so good! And dead easy. I sprinkle them with candy cane dust as soon as they come out of the oven. Just don’t overcook!
December 2, 2024 at 2:52 AM
They’re so good! And dead easy. I sprinkle them with candy cane dust as soon as they come out of the oven. Just don’t overcook!