RIP to Salah Bachir, a titan of Canadian cultural philanthropy, an advocate for HIV research, and the former president of Cineplex Media. After suffering through years of medical complications, Bachir underwent MAID today, at age 71.
josh o'kane
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I write about the people and institutions shaping Canadian arts + culture and also wrote a book called Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy that is mostly explained by its subtitle. Pls send tips to jokane@globeandmail.com
Canada's new "lawful access" bill would force changes that negate "the very purpose of encryption itself," Signal VP says. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Messaging service Signal says minister’s changes to lawful access bill will not persuade it to stay in Canada
Signal and provider of web-browser Firefox say bill still poses threat to their users’ privacy
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[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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New: Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre has named performing-arts leader Gideon Arthurs, most recently at Soulpepper, to lead it after years of financial turmoil and restructuring www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre names arts leader as CEO
Veteran performing-arts administrator Gideon Arthurs’s hiring follows a period of intense restructuring at the cultural centre
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Andrea did crucial work to centre women’s voices in Canadian music journalism + publishing. We last chatted a year ago, while she was in treatment, ahead of the release of Susan Aglukark’s memoir that she co-wrote. She was kind and curious as ever. A profound loss for Canadian music writing
Polaris Music Prize@polarismusicprize.bsky.social · last wk.Polaris recently learned of the passing of former juror Andrea Warner after a lengthy illness. Andrea was the author of multiple influential music books, and served on the 2013 Polaris Grand Jury. Our deepest condolences to Andrea's family, friends and anyone who was touched by her work.
OTTAWA – The website for Library and Archives Canada was one of the targets of a failed hacking attempt by an artificial intelligence agent, says a San Francisco-based lab that monitors AI activity.
AI agent attempted to hack Library and Archives Canada, says U.S. research group
OTTAWA – The website for Library and Archives Canada was one of the targets of a failed hacking attempt by an artificial intelligence agent, says a San Francisco-based lab that monitors AI activity.
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This is the story you gotta read to understand what is going on in Alberta. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By Eric Andrew-Gee
A country with its elbows up faces separation threats on two fronts
In Alberta and Quebec, Canada’s national unity paradox hits home
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BREAKING: A BC Supreme Court judge has sided with Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, who operated an illicit-drug compassion club (Drug User Liberation Front), were convicted of trafficking, and challenged the constitutionality of Canada's drug laws. Trafficking section ruled invalid, convictions stayed.
New: Eva Respini and Sirish Rao named permanent co-CEOs at Vancouver Art Gallery theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...
Eva Respini and Sirish Rao named permanent co-CEOs at Vancouver Art Gallery
Pair have been interim co-CEOs for the past 18 months after Anthony Kiendl’s departure as director and chief executive officer
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Did you wonder just who would be impacted by Trump's 50% tariffs on Canadian fur, bone, horns and other animal products? Many artists from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities have been disproportionately affected.
As tariffs hit art, Indigenous artists face frustrating roadblocks and a sputtering art market
Trade war with U.S. disrupts not just income stream, but hurts cross-border ties central to First Nations, Metis and Inuit creators
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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10 years of LVL UP's Return to Love! LVL UP are guitarists Mike Caridi and Dave Benton, bassist Nick Corbo, and drummer Greg Rutkin. The music itself grows from a shared melodic and experimental sensibility, as well as a nod to influences like Neutral Milk Hotel and Mount Eerie.
Putting aside all the critical arguments On Here about this best TV of the 21st century list, lmao at only qualifying True Detective's first season as worthy (while celebrating the entirety of the similarly anthological White Lotus) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
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Here's a story on the past, present and future of Vancouver's Nettwerk, the powerhouse indie music company that embraced technology – cue the synthesizer – from the jump Nettwerk has adapted to every technological shift since – including the algorithmic age. Now it's worth more than half a billion
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1138! Rick White & Julie Doiron hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️ 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e... 💰: www.patreon.com/kreativekont... ☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_ntXS3Bk vk: vishkhanna.com/2026/09/24/e... 🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna @bluefogrecordings.bsky.social
Ed Sheeran tour defector Aaron Rowe was in Toronto at the Drake Underground and @bradwheelerglobe.bsky.social went to check him out. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Ed Sheeran tour defector Aaron Rowe addresses the pro-Palestine elephant in the room in Toronto
Irish singer-songwriter talks about his decision to leave the Loop Tour after rapper Macklemore was dropped
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Publishers stand by Haitian-Canadian author accused of using AI to write award-winning novel /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Publishers stand by Haitian-Canadian author accused of using AI to write award-winning novel
Origins of Thelyson Orelien’s C’était ça ou mourir have sparked a debate about race, literary merit and originality in the French literary world
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What input did Therme or Live Nation have (if any) crafting the MZO that was eventually issued to bypass approvals for Ontario Place? We’ll never know. And somehow it took the government two years to decide those communications were privileged. #OnPoli
"This goes way beyond Chris Hansen – the concept of public punishment, of the spectacle of punishment": I talked with PRIMETIME's Lance Oppenheim, the director of the moment, about how the road to Hell is paved with memes. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
‘This goes way beyond Chris Hansen’: How Primetime’s Lance Oppenheim turned the tables on trash TV
The film dramatizes the rise and fall of NBC’s controversial To Catch a Predator reality series
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A tech company, you say? Trying to build a city in its image, you say? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w...
Tech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in Uruguay
After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.
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From its inaugural market to its "international" People's Choice Award, there is a clear pattern inside TIFF of introducing a new problem for itself instead of finding a solution to the challenges it already has. My take on an up-and-down #TIFF26: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
TIFF 2026 exposed festival’s stellar cinematic taste, and worst institutional instincts
This year’s festival felt as if it was using a handful of exhilarating moments to paper over many, larger structural fissures and fault lines
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Maybe using AI should require a license that confirms a minimum level of competence, like driving a car. I am not really joking. https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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I loved this interview with Sweeping Promises about moving to Kansas, using their label advance to buy a house & turn it into an affordable studio for DIY bands, how they learn about new music from musickers crashing at their house, love of record stores & more www.patreon.com/CriticalList...
Episode 24: Sweeping Promises | Critical Listening
Welcome back to another episode of Critical Listening, DIY Lifers edition. For our third installment of Listening Habits, our series where w
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The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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I like the sad Beck records partially because i think it heightens the core Beck experience in contrast, which is to say the Beck that feels like he made a bet with the devil that before he dies he will find a word that rhymes with orange buried in a pile of Game Boy sound chips