LOL the google reviews on New Ho King

I can't believe I've never considered the possibility of living inside an abandoned Radio Shack. sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…

Seems like a good time to say that investigative work that moves the needle takes resources. Please consider subscribing to a news organization, whether it’s your local paper or the The Globe and Mail: theglobeandmail.com

Notre enquête sur Robert Miller en lice pour le Prix Michener, quel honneur incroyable! So proud to be nominated, what an incredible honour!

this interview with a New Zealand government arts spokesperson is absolutely incredible newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/29/act…

Veteran CBC News reporter Jean Laroche took the photo below (a lone reporter, michael gorman, interviewing a cabinet minister, surrounded by comms staff). That image prompted him to produce this piece & excellent video on what's changed in #cdnpoli >> cbc.ca/news/canada/no…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot Docs loses two board members, Scotiabank’s chief marketing officer Laura Curtis Ferrera and filmmaker Barry Avrich, as #HotDocs24 marks opening weekend under clouds of uncertainty and high political tensions. theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/arti…

Congratulations to all my Globe and industry colleagues for their success at the National Newspaper Awards, rightfully overshadowing my own victory last night (beating Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth)

A powerful piece on Toronto cultural criticism and its decline by Carl Wilson, one of the best arts critics the city has ever had thelocal.to/arts-criticism…

💀 ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-…

📢Highly recommend all journalists covering the Columbia protests — especially those doing it remotely — to follow this great account by Columbia Journalism students who are live fact-checking various social media posts and stories about what’s really happening on their campus.

'At some point, Justice apparently traded their cigarettes for vapes, and something of that transition feels palpable in the toned-down sound of Hyperdrama: the discreet tug instead of the defiant drag, the blue LED in place of the burning ember.' pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Striking Art Gallery of Ontario workers reach tentative deal with museum theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

The latest outlet to jump on the Cindy Lee hype is........

Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

$5B for 1,000 new jobs. For some perspective, the Live Performing Arts industries directly employ 21,441 people in Ontario (StatsCan), for a fraction of the investment. #Honda #ONArts #ONPoli #cdnpoli #ONArts Council

Of all the great things about the Cindy Lee album, my favorite is the return of cartoon characters smoking on album covers.

Blistering soraya roberts piece in The Local Magazine on rich execs, flailing cultural institutions, and what happens when a country doesn't take art seriously. thelocal.to/hot-docs-canad…

Honda Accord

NEW: The Honda accord is worth a cool $15B. Queen's Park and Ottawa each ponying up $2.5B to attract the investment.
#onpoli
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New: 96.5% of Writers Guild of Canada (Writers Guild of Canada) members have voted to authorize a strike against Canadian producers (@The_CMPA) over comp, minimum staffing + AI protections

No immediate strike; for now they plan to use this result as a bargaining tool theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-w…