Shannon Proudfoot
@sproudfoot.bsky.social
Feature writer covering federal politics at The Globe and Mail. I love great beer, old art, all cheese, The Golden Girls and Gritty. I have too many cats, which is the correct number.
“There are so many odious characteristics of the second coming of Trump … that it’s easy to overlook the sticky, suffocating, ankle-deep stupidity animating so much of this.” Truth. I remind myself regularly that the President believes stealth aircraft are invisible like Wonder Woman’s plane
Shannon Proudfoot@sproudfoot.bsky.social · 21h agoNew from me: the Trump administration runs infinitely renewable stupidity. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
New from me: the Trump administration runs infinitely renewable stupidity. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
Opinion: Stupidity is an infinitely renewable resource with this U.S. administration
From trade tensions to renaming Lake Ontario, the latest moves add to a pattern of chaos and needless distraction
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Swish! Kinew never misses. #cdnpoli
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d agoWab Kinew reacts to Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario: "You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago? I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency we're at now."
I mean this very, very seriously: It is absolutely an option for us to ignore his idiotic Lake America stunt. We can do that. We can just tune it out like you would block out a child howling at you in the cereal aisle, recognizing that to do anything else would be to give the whiner what they want.
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
The most comforting possibility is that this is more of the endless, stupid "get on board or get left behind!" insistence from the tech industry and only a tiny handful of absolute psychopaths would have any interest in this. The other possibilities are worse.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d agoA consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...
This is a bleak, soulless horror no Black Mirror episode could come close to. The fact that you would brag about this and sign your name to it is absolutely insane.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d agoI got nothing.
I have no way to prove this, but I have a deep and abiding belief that the fact that Canadian leaders speak French as well as English, and every official correspondence we produce is in both languages, functions like a posh accent to send Trump into a white-hot rage of insecurity.
Also his face does a LOT of loud talking. Petition to make it a legal requirement that every Canadian PM from now on have no poker face, because lemme tell you, it is a delight and a goldmine for a feature writer.
Like this, too. It's a quiet little "ding!" you can hear when the words come out of his mouth.
The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 6d agoGood morning. Here's the front page of The Globe and Mail for Monday, August 24, 2026. 📰
One of the things that's interesting about listening to Carney speak is that you can see in real time the quotes that will bounce around global news stories for the next three days. He just said Canada is finding reliable partners around the world, except in the U.S. - and Russia.
It can't be a coincidence that so many Trump stories today - from Canadian and American sources - feature photos so hideous, they might be legally actionable. Un: nationalnewswatch.com/2026/08/24/c... Deux: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... Trois: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol... Etc.
Trump threatens to hike tariffs on Canadian autos, steel to 50% in…
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I’m still in awe of how generous and heroic it was of the Hip to do that last tour. And how utterly perfect it is that CBC happened to be airing the 10th anniversary broadcast last night of all nights. It‘d be better for us if you don’t understand…
The idea that we want to be anyone’s 51st state would be genuinely hilarious if it wasn’t so insulting.
I hated the “do you know how bad you have to be to piss off the CANADIANS?!” memes because that wildly misunderstands us. But this one I know to be true in my bones.
Shannon Proudfoot@sproudfoot.bsky.social · last wk.<taps sign>
"There's no simple explanation. For anything important any of us do. And yeah the human tragedy. Consists of the necessity. Of livin' with the consequences.... Courage, It couldn't come at a worse time"
Not so emotionally confusing now. Wow.
Shannon Proudfoot@sproudfoot.bsky.social · last wk.It’s gonna be an emotionally weird weekend for Canadians if this trade extortion deal gets done and we ate a giant poop sandwich, and then tomorrow we‘re sobbing into our beers watching the anniversary broadcast of the last Hip concert, thinking about how lucky we were to have Gord.
It’s gonna be an emotionally weird weekend for Canadians if this trade extortion deal gets done and we ate a giant poop sandwich, and then tomorrow we‘re sobbing into our beers watching the anniversary broadcast of the last Hip concert, thinking about how lucky we were to have Gord.
It is giving me the vapours that this spectacular tale is structured like news instead of the roaring colour mini-feature it is absolutely begging to be.
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · last wk.Already loved this story of this Philly queen who confronted a Chucky masked man harassing a jogger and kicked him in the chest so much but knowing that we can thank "years of stage combat training at the University of Arts in Philadelphia" makes it even better: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
This interview Paul Wells did with Tim Hodgson is fascinating when he starts riffing on widget-makers as an analogy for Canada. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-q-and-...
The Q&A: “We are looking at several other things that could be of this scale or larger”
Tim Hodgson, the minister of energy and natural resources, on the Churchill Falls mega-deal and what’s next
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I've had a summer of reading, which is not coincidentally related to the fact that I've been working to control my phone use. I've started realizing how truly mindless it is, and how much it's a response to that itchy, low-grade anxiety that settles in when you sit still for a moment and just be.
Everything Everywhere All At Once. Just tedious, and not remotely interesting enough to justify that.
Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco!@ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 2w agoWhats a movie everyone fucking loves that you despise? It doesnt have to be objectively bad, you just objectively DID NOT. Heres one for me since Ive been on a Barbara Loden kick lately-
Some days I think the internet was a mistake. But on the other hand, I can audit a @timothysnyder.bsky.social course and that is a joy and privilege. I'm only partway through the second lecture (dutifully doing the readings first!), but it's just terrific. www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/timothy...
Arts and Science JS Challenge
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You know, there are many, many more useful bits of information my brain could have chosen to retain than "Natalie Harp...is that the one they call the Human Printer?" (Yes.)
