Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

I wrote about Windsor and the never-ending Gordie Howe business for the @thestar.com thanks for having me do this @debdundas.bsky.social

At the Gordie Howe bridge, silver-white cables glisten in the industrial sky. Beautiful as it is, the American saga is tarnishing its lustre

The saga over the opening of the massive project continues - I’ll believe it’s open when I pull up at the toll booth

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In case you missed it: I hailed football goalies yesterday in my column in the Toronto Star www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

The World Cup is a few days away and we've seen players, referees, team officials, media and fans who have been denied access to the United States over visa issues. Almost every nation is sensitive to how the world views them. The US seems to be a malevolent exception www.thestar.com/sports/socce...

Bruce Arthur: World Cup visa issues are mounting with likely more to come

It is almost a universal rule that no matter how despotic or corrupt or devilish a regime, hosting a World Cup or Olympics creates a sensitivity to the reputational damage

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Come one, come all and help me open the Library of Brothel in Vancouver on June 13th at 3pm

John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton@opus59films.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Anakana Schofield has already written 3 of the best books ever and I have no reason not to believe that she's now written 4. Looking forward to this.

This is a wild story, and everyone in Toronto should read it. A major American bank is behind the push to expand Billy Bishop airport. It has nothing to do with what people in the city want. This should be a HUGE election issue

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 3mo ago

Who’s behind the massive lobbying campaign to expand the island airport? Toronto Star opinion writer @rwarnica.bsky.social dug into lobbying records and found one company that stands to gain "significantly" if the federal and provincial governments go forward with an airport expansion plan.

Confessions of an accidental half-assed birder It was nice to write something fun for a change! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Elizabeth Renzetti: How I became an accidental half-assed bird watcher

One of the great things about midlife is that you no longer care if you’re a cliché.

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Good morning Toronto - see you all tonight at 7pm TPL Reference Library in that beautiful room. Thanks to @michelledean.bsky.social for coming all this way to interview me and TPL for inviting us both.

It’s publication day for Library of Brothel in Canada (US/UK will be Jan 12, 2027 by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) This novel is REALLY going to need your support. If you “tip it off a cliff“ in literature not everyone will be willing to go with you. So come out for the proletariat and buy a copy.

❤️ “Schofield’s latest requires hard work, but it remunerates at time-and-a-half.” In fairness, these days in this economy and housing crisis and 4 x an hour global lunacy …my novels are a vacation 😂

Theresa Kishkan@fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3mo ago

thebcreview.ca/2026/05/22/2... @anakanaschofield.bsky.social @buriedinprint.bsky.social

Behind the latest circus at 10 Downing Street, there's a darker reality: the British far-right's alliance with tech and crypto billionaires. A warning for all of us, which I wrote about in @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Elizabeth Renzetti: What does the U.K.‘s political turmoil have to do with us? Just follow the money

Far right parties have gained momentum and are endorsed by some of the richest people in the world

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Over at the @thestar.com I wrote about the shortage of the 37.5 microgram estrogen patch. Solidarity to all in search of it and who are hot as bedamned. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Anakana Schofield: My pharmacy ran out of the estrogen patch. Then things really got heated

It is a melancholy object to behold a perimenopausal woman currently in search of a 37.5 microgram estrogen patch when she discovers there is a global shortage.

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🥚She searches for herself in the "Today's Child" column on children for adoption: "I realized that some of the language sounded familiar because it was used during the 18th and 19th centuries in both slave auction ads and fugitive slave ads to describe Black people who were enslaved in Canada."

Deborah Dundas@debdundas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Darcy Ballantyne discovered her father was Austin Clark. Here her powerful adoption story. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

I wrote quite a ranty column about living in a carsick city after your child gets hit by a car www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Bonheur d'occasion (Secondhand Happiness), known as The Tin Flute in its English version, was one of the most important Canadian books of the 20th century. It helped lay the foundation of The Quiet Revolution and remains an important work to this day. This is the story. 🧵 1/8

Darcy Ballantyne discovered her father was Austin Clark. Here her powerful adoption story. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Darcy Ballantyne: I spent last summer trying to find myself in the classified ads

The piece ran in the Star every week from the 1960s to 1980s.

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The ongoing blame and shame in the Stronach trial demonstrates why complainants need independent legal representation, Angela Marinos writes www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

It’s hard to watch the testimony at sexual assault trials. Especially since our system is still failing to get complainants the representation they deserve

A system that gives victims and survivors of sexual violence the right to independent legal representation would be instrumental change

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@davebidini.bsky.social had some thoughts on the Team USA hockey. He's impassioned - and he's right. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Hockey-loving kids just witnessed their heroes acting like cowards

If 12-year-olds knew something was wrong with the extravagant endorsement of the Trump administration, how did, say, Auston Matthews, the captain of the Maple Leafs not know this?

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From @theathletic.com: "The U.S. men’s hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time since the 'Miracle on Ice' 46 years ago, and for a time, the joy belonged to everyone," our columnist writes. "By the next day, it didn’t." nyti.ms/4s1Csv8

I went all out for romantic love and the need to hear great love stories that endure …this week in the Toronto Star. Many thanks to my editor @debdundas.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Lansdowne and Dundas right now. Two out of service vehicles stopped and blocking traffic. What gives @ttcriders.bsky.social

@bsky.app Deep respect to @lusianalukman.bsky.social Lukman for sharing her story - shining light on abusers helps to save lives: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Lusiana Lukman: Boris Berlin sexually abused me during my piano lessons when I was 15

I was 14 when I came to Canada to study and barely spoke English. I didn’t see myself as vulnerable at the time

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Winter is good. My opinion column this weekend in the Toronto Star, Canada’s most powerful newspaper. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Shawn Micallef: Toronto has been mocked for its reluctance to embrace winter. This snowstorm may have buried that cliche

It’s almost as if the pandemic, which forced us outdoors, has given us permission to final enjoy winter.

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I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Introducing the $25K #NancyFlight Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Editing. The award celebrates editorial excellence & highlights the vital role editors play in shaping a manuscript. The inaugural winner will be named at the #WTAwards in November 2026. writerstrust.com/NancyFlight

@karenho.bsky.social Karen - would you drop me a line I would like to speak with you. Thanks!

Quebec sovereignty is rooted in identity. Alberta separatism is rooted in grievance. Different stories. Same constraint. In both provinces, the median voter is not asking if independence is justified, but if it is safe. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/davidco...