This Alberta Book Day, read about the eclipsed history of Black cowboys on the Alberta prairies and discover a font created from cattle brands. #ABBookDay #ABBooks www.aupress.ca/books/120348...
Matt Cahill
@mattcahill.bsky.social
Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience) / short fiction / essays. Agent: Kelvin Kong, K2 Literary Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice Haunting the margins
📻🇨🇦 This week marks the 90th anniversary of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, founded Nov. 2, 1936, and online since the early web era. Time travel through 30 years of CBC web history ⤵️ web.archive.org/web/19960715...
Stoked to see these guys at the Monarch tonight--great band, great venue. Not sure if this is their first time in TO but it's rare to see them in these parts.
Accent, by Sweeping Promises
from the album You Say I Romanticize
sweepingpromises.bandcamp.com
Seeing an unusually large number of "needle in Halloween candy" stories from Canadian police and media this year. So here's your periodic reminder that these historically turn out to be hoaxes, stunts or misunderstandings and NOT "psycho tries to injure kids en masse" situations:
Why the urban legend of contaminated Halloween candy won't disappear | WNYC
There is no evidence of any deaths or injuries from contaminated Halloween candy. Why are people still afraid of it?
wnyc.org
This is the proudest tradition of English actors. Acting is an art form but it's also a job and you do that job with the same commitment and personal pride your dad, who absolutely thinks you are gay, brought to mining coal
brandybeans@brandybeansh.bsky.social · 5d agoDeeply respect Patrick Stewart who held theater in the highest regard, brought pathos and authority to our televisions and then also did any old bull shit movie that would write him a check. Exactly the right way to exist in the industry.
I don't know how to say this other than: if there was one fictional character whose approval I most would have craved, it was Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard. (Tom Baker as the Doctor probably woud have been second).
Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86
He’s forever known for playing Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, whom he “admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion.”
hollywoodreporter.com
Jean-Luc Picard was an early role model of mine, but I think what's most striking about the life of Patrick Stewart is that an early role model of mine could just as easily have been Patrick Stewart himself and I would have come out okay.
Good argument (as someone who went to both La Boulangerie and BeBop Joe's) on putting caps on commercial lease increases.
TorontoToday@torontotoday.ca · 5d agoOne Saturday afternoon (summer 1999?) I was walking south on Yonge Street from College with a friend. It was when we crossed at Gerrard when i noticed Patrick Stewart was behind us.
"Hey Mr. Collins: Remember when I told you I was going to kill you last? I lied."
The Independent@the-independent.com · 5d agoNetflix’s Pride and Prejudice hands Jane Austen’s iconic line to one of its characters for the first time
Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS
The ones that were "racy" (am I listening to an older relative in the fucking 1980s?) happened to be "temporarily unpublished."
Mediagazer@mediagazer.com · 6d agoAnalysis: Jezebel has removed 100+ articles with racy or abortion-related headlines; Paste, which bought Jezebel in 2023, says they were temporarily unpublished (Scott Nover/Washington Post) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
People in TO deserve to feel relieved post-election. For me it's all the new, ostensibly progressive (we'll see), faces on council. That said, nobody should be happy with the mayor's campaign, and of all the morning-after takes i think @graphicmatt.com expresses it best:
Matt Elliott: Olivia Chow wins — but with serious warning signs for Toronto’s progressive movement
A tighter-than-expected re-election leaves the mayor facing questions about passive leadership, thin plans and an unclear second-term agenda.
thestar.com
In my latest “Therapeutic Window” piece for the @nytimes.com, I discuss our current scientific understanding of how antidepressants work (Gift link but NYT requires an email sign up to read for free) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/s...
Antidepressants Don’t Correct A Chemical Imbalance. How, Then, Do They Work? (Gift Article)
Here’s how psychiatrists like me think about the most promising hypotheses.
nytimes.com
Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.
Big news: Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat in Serbia’s snap parliamentary election, saying the student-backed Student List had won.
First guitar jam session in many months and my fingertips feel like I placed them on a belt sander.
avi lewis (and of course naomi klein) did a documentary about this back in 2004 www.pcgamer.com/games/mass-e... (link via @sharonk.bsky.social)
Canadian politician calls on government to help BioWare employees buy the studio and run it themselves
Avi Lewis, leader of one of Canada's top opposition parties, is not a fan of private equity.
pcgamer.com
‘The US’s largest retirement fund for government workers, repositioned its portfolio in the first half of 2026, reducing the combined number of shares it directly held in the Magnificent 7 stocks — Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta and Tesla — by 26%.’ www.ft.com/content/e842...
US pension giant Calpers retreats from Big Tech as AI rally falters
California’s retirement fund slashed Magnificent 7 holdings as doubts grow about lofty valuations and soaring spending
ft.com
I thought it was going to down filling for winter jackets - pleasantly surprised at the final product!
Hey #biketo bike shop Pedaal on Harbord was broken in to. 2 bikes & a trailer taken. - Black Iron horse cargo - Brompton electric - fleximodal trailer with pink dots & Pedaal sticker. keep an eye out, very unique stuff
This is very, very bad: “Information from more than 1.5 million other tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers programs over the last 25 years — was exposed in a massive data breach, an exclusive CBC investigation has found”
More than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips leaked, CBC exclusive finds | CBC News
An exclusive CBC investigation has found more than 1.5 million tips sent to Canadian Crime Stoppers chapters were captured in a massive hack announced last March. A CBC analysis identified that at lea...
cbc.ca