The genocide in Sudan hasn’t been ignored or overlooked, it has been willfully ignored. My dispatch from the region …
@thewalrus.ca @msf.ca @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." Muhammad Ali.
February 25th of #BlackHistoryMonth
Who is Morgan Campbell?
Morgan Campbell is an award-winning sports writer, and the author the acclaimed memoir of My Fighting Family: Borders And Bloodlines And The Battles That Made Us.
writersunion.ca/member/morga....
Toronto police will soon be collecting racial data as a way to identify bias The Toronto Police Services Board approved a new “historic” policy around the mandated collection of race-based data. Sept. 19, 2019 Notisha Massaquoi, co-chair of the board’s anti-racism advisory panel, said a lot of “debate, deliberation and compromises” went into crafting the new police policy.
Feb 19th of #BHM
“For me personally, as a member of the Black community in Toronto, I wanted to also honour the legacy of people who’ve been advocating for this for over 30 years,”
Dr. Notisha Massaquoi
via Wendy Gillis and
@jleerankin.bsky.social
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
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The “Heated Rivalry” actor Hudson Williams, who pays Shane Hollander, gifted Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada a fictional Olympic Team fleece jacket that his character wore in the show. The home crowd went wild. nyti.ms/4t8OHHr
Yesterday, I posted profiles of Canadian soldiers who died in Afghanistan.
I hope you will have the time to read each of them. However short and fragmentary, each bears witness to the families, from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, or Alberta, whose sons and daughters deployed to Kandahar.
“The man Toronto police won’t stop stopping.”
@jleerankin.bsky.social on a proposed class-action lawsuit over historic and racially skewed police practice of “carding” in @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/news/gta/why...
Journalism jobs alert!
The Jays near miss in the World Series is only the 4th biggest Beaverton story of 2025. Should it be higher? Ian, Luke, and @clareblackwood.bsky.social open up old wounds.
The US is pushing mothers out of the workforce--we shouldn't let it happen here. I'm in @thestar.com today www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
We’ve got an all-star fan panel for you on today’s new episode of Deep Left Field!!!
@bitterasiandude.bsky.social @clareblackwood.bsky.social and Nick Dika of The Arkells join me to discuss #Bluejays run to the World Series.
The Fall Classic starts tomorrow!
Why misinformation and disinformation are bad for your health. Q+A w/ @picardonhealth.bsky.social by Adam Hunter on CBC Regina www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... via @cbcnews.ca
We've extended the deadline for our mentorship program - apply by Oct. 14! Get one-on-one mentoring from some of Canada's top journalists.
Apply now: https://caj.ca/programs/mentorship/
Hey Toronto and area media types, tickets for Newzapalooza 2025 live band karaoke edition with The Approximators now on sale. Show is November 22 at legendary The Duke on Queen St. E. As always, it's a benefit for the Children's Aid Foundation of Canada, and is Media Event of the Year!
Jane Goodall, primate expert and conservationist, dies aged 91.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Here’s a piece I wrote about her in 2014: Youth give Jane Goodall reason to hope
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nationa... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Unifor’s Media Action Plan launched its hard-hitting Fact Checked campaign today with social media, TV and newspaper spots to bring attention to the fight against misinformation.
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This campaign is now live. Check it out! www.factcheckhere.ca
"Toronto is so comfortable that when he received an invitation to appear on The Tonight Show last Thursday - 'Me, a guy from Sheppard and Pharmacy!' - he ran right out and bought a new suit at Harry Rosen."
With TIFF on in Toronto, here's a snap of Mike Myers from 35 years ago, for @thestar.com story in which Myers expressed his comfort with being a Toronto guy:
Female pilots may be more consistent and accurate when flying in high-pressure scenarios, according to a small study out of the University of Waterloo.
ICYMI, great story!
In June 2023, the Canadian government passed Bill C-18, the Online News Act, mandating that big tech pay media organizations fees to distribute content. Google complied, but Meta refused to pay up. Mostafa Al A’sar examines the fallout: thewalrus.ca/if-you-think-we-...
Really grateful to Phil Rickaby for having me on @stageworthy.ca, where we had a wide-ranging conversation about slime tutorials, my strange journey from theatre school to my job at The Globe and, of course, Taylor Swift.
open.spotify.com/episode/3FPj...
I still feel intense emotion when faced with my assault & survival. I'm thankful for that, it reminds me of the preciousness of life & what I've learned. Incredibly grateful to @jleerankin.bsky.social @thestar.com for sharing some insight into this journey: www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...
Really touched by this story of the fallout from a violent dispute on a sidewalk on a rainy night in Toronto so many years ago. In the U.S. it might have ended in gunfire. Here, it's insight. Good for Shellnutt. @jleerankin.bsky.social
Another Toronto high school is being accused of suppressing student voices after all Grade 12 quotes were removed from its yearbook over student submissions related to Palestine and Tibet.
Amazing!
Bar chart showing traffic counts on Bloor Street West in Toronto during the afternoon rush on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. For each hour from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., the number of bikes and motor vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles) was recorded. At 4–5 p.m., there were 643 bikes and 849 motor vehicles. At 5–6 p.m., 930 bikes and 832 motor vehicles. At 6–7 p.m., 919 bikes and 909 motor vehicles. At 7–8 p.m., 726 bikes and 935 motor vehicles. Bike counts exceeded car counts from 5 to 7 p.m. The chart was created by Matt Elliott for City Hall Watcher using data from the Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition.
Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars.
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...
A description of Buzz's support for advocacy on homelessness.
Several people sitting at a table outdoors, holding microphones.
RIP #BuzzHargrove @unifor.org
