Graham Isador
@grahamisador.bsky.social
Healthy Living Reporter at The Globe and Mail. Wellness, travel, and disability. Host of Short Sighted for CBC Podcasts. Writer for Sight Unseen on CW. Words: GQ, VICE, Hard Times, The Beaverton, etc.
Is VO2 max the best predictor of lifespan? The Globe's healthy living reporter @grahamisador.bsky.social took the fitness test to find out.
Is VO2 max the best predictor of lifespan? I took the fitness test to find out
I look like a super villain. I feel like a lab rat. This is a VO2 max test
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At ten years old Joe Fornasier suddenly went blind. Doctors told him he'd never play hockey again. Today he is one of the most recognizable names in accessible sports. This is how Fornasier became the face of Blind Hockey. Word for @theglobeandmail.com. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8945558...
Joe Fornasier is a hockey wunderkind. He also happens to be blind
At 22, the Canadian athlete is being compared with prodigy Connor Bedard
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We’ve got a twelve-month contract for a great position open: Online culture reporter. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...
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The Globe is hiring an online culture reporter for a 12 month contract. If that’s something you’re interested in happy to chat about what it’s like working at the newspaper.
📣 Announcing The Local Fellowship 2026—paid positions designed to provide opportunities to early-career journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. This year's Fellows will join us during the fall municipal election campaigns. Applications are open. thelocal.to/local-fellow...
The Local Fellowship 2026 | The Local
Our fellowship program provides training and mentorship to emerging journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. Applications are now open.
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NEW: The push to prevent the Art Gallery of Ontario from acquiring a Nan Goldin work last year – which led to four resignations + an internal review – was prompted by AGO trustee + significant donor Judy Schulich, according to newly reviewed documentation www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...
AGO trustee, major donor Judy Schulich led internal push to prevent Nan Goldin acquisition
Some gallery committee members alleged Jewish-American artist’s views on Israel were ‘antisemitic’
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Launching our "Cost of Care" issue @thelocal.to today, about the places where money and medicine collide. Here's @alisonmotluk.bsky.social writing the best, clearest thing I've seen on what a routine surgery says about the possible future of care. thelocal.to/cataract-sur...
How Privatized Cataract Surgery Helped Ontario’s Wealthiest—and Left Others Behind | The Local
Why a routine surgery offers a window into the possible future of care in this province.
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Scoop: The AGO is reckoning with the resignations of a senior curator & two members of a collections committee after the group narrowly voted to not acquire a work by Nan Goldin over accusations that the Jewish-American photographer’s views are antisemitic www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...
AGO rocked by resignations after failed Nan Goldin acquisition
Senior curator and two volunteers stepped down over gallery’s vote to not acquire work
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I spent some time last week answering reader questions.
The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 9mo agoWhen I started losing my vision in my teens, sports was one of the first things to go. They felt inaccessible. It’s a position that stuck as an adult. But shadowing a boxing class designed specifically for the Blind made me reconsider that stance. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8945558...
What I learned boxing with the blind
The session was a reminder that providing accessibility doesn’t necessarily mean rebuilding from the ground up
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My book Live to See the Day is out today. I hope you read it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645965...
Live to See the Day by Mark Medley: 9780771062261 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An imaginative study of human nature, Live to See the Day is a globe-trotting exploration of what drives certain people to pursue a dream beyond all logic, reason, or reward. Why do...
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I interviewed Wolf Parade’s @spencerkrug.bsky.social about I’ll Believe in Anything going viral 20 years after its release, thanks to Heated Rivalry We talked about Montreal lofts, old synthesizers, aging, and Not Being Hockey Guys www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...
Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug on his music’s viral moment, courtesy of Heated Rivalry
The song plays a big role in episode five of the hit show about a pair of star-crossed hockey players
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A while back I got to speak to @grahamisador.bsky.social at the Globe & Mail about that time a @thebeaverton.com article got accidentally quoted by Time. Here's that!!
The Beaverton’s Ian MacIntyre reflects on his satire being taken seriously by Time magazine
On a juiced-up Hoekstra quote being seen as believable: ‘I do think it’s hilarious and also scary’
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@talonbooks.bsky.social are submissions for new plays all physical or do you take digital copies as well?
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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The first episode of my YouTube series out now. But there will be more! Please help me tell the YouTube Algorithm Gods that more people should see it. You can do that by subscribing to my channel: www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Soft Power with Justin Ling
Soft Power is a show all about how diplomacy, security, aid, trade, spying, and how realpolitik shapes the world. Each episode, we zoom in on one story to break down how these forces work, and how we ...
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Been hugely enjoying the live coverage put out by the Globe and Mail team for the Jays games this weeked. This update from @grahamisador.bsky.social made me laugh:
If I were running Crave, I'd bring back Are You Afraid of the Dark as a horror anthology where each episode is written and directed by an upcoming Canadian director in their own style.
Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · 11mo agoscariest thing ever is the are you afraid of the dark episode where a canadian kid gets cursed by a canadian mall store owner and gets stuck in a canadian pinball machine
I spoke with @sladkow.bsky.social @clareblackwood.bsky.social and @blakemurphy.bsky.social about the basics new fans should know if they want to support the @torontobluejays.bsky.social in the World Series.
The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 11mo agoWe have a whole Elbows Up arts package in tomorrow's paper, online today. I talked to film, TV and theatre producers about seeking out new international partnerships vs continuing to engage with Americans and their under-attack cultural institutions. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Canada’s entertainment industry grapples with keeping elbows up as Hollywood remains a superpower
Film and theatre producers are ramping up connections with countries aside from the U.S.
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![Classic Mike F tweet:
Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g62tajye723r3fa4gqw7l7ql/bafkreiacssf7vnpkyqovhna4mfme3qexnhqifch625ta46ibfzgpswz6ue)
