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Graham Isador

@grahamisador.bsky.social
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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.

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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 24/07/2026
Is VO2 max the best predictor of lifespan? The Globe's healthy living reporter @grahamisador.bsky.social took the fitness test to find out.
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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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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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...
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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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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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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Job Details | Dayforce Jobs
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 04/03/2026
📣 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...
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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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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 19/02/2026
woody get ipad
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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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-...
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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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Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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...
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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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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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-...
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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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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 15/01/2026
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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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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I spent some time last week answering reader questions.
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
When 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...
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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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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 07/01/2026
A touching tribute to Mike F
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]
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My book Live to See the Day is out today. I hope you read it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645965...
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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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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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...
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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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Ian MacIntyre @ianmmacintyre.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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!!
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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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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@talonbooks.bsky.social are submissions for new plays all physical or do you take digital copies as well?
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Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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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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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 06/11/2025
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
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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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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Gotta stay positive
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Michael John Lo @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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:
My girlfriend is worried for me

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No clue what to do with my hands at any point during the fifth. When the benches cleared, I started shadowboxing. My girlfriend noted the rest of the time I’ve been “wringing my hands like a wife waiting for her husband to return from sea.”
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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.
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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.
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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The best vintage Blue Jays merch you can buy right now
It’s never been a better time for Toronto baseball merch
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New bedding to cop.
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We 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...
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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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turtle @turtle.labeledrude.online · 27/09/2025
kaleb horton
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This is a comedy with no laughs in it. This is a movie that thinks America is made up of Santa Monica,West Hollywood, and Manhattan. And this is a movie that kills everything good it touches, so its inclusion of Johnny Cash’s “Ghost Riders in the Sky” and the Violent Femmes’ “Add It Up” is abhorrent
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Entourage And The Slow-Burning Death Of The American Dream - Bitter Empire
Entourage is exactly as awful as you think it is, part one.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.
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2025, So Far
I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The Globe and Mail's (@theglobeandmail.com) incredible Opinion team is hiring an editor. Details below, but message me if you have any questions: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...
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NEXT Magazine @nextmagazine.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Queen West’s Velvet Underground is all over at the end of October as their landlord takes back their lease to repurpose the space.
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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Try ag(AI)n, Hollywood Reporter
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
One of my favorite bands called it a day and it made me rethink everything about my work. @murderbydeath forever. Gift article. bsky.app/profile/grah...
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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When you love your job, it shouldn’t take over your life
Many reflect on and question today’s hustle culture as it has them feeling burnt out, unsatisfied and wanting to leave it all behind
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is great from @joshokane.bsky.social.
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Immersive dance show takes audience on an adventure into blindness
Vision loss is built into the narrative and performance of Rainbow on Mars, an Alice in Wonderland-esque production created in partnership with the National Ballet of Canada
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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“The day after I won the Canadian Screen Award, I called the PR reps: ‘What are we doing?’ And it was, ‘I’m sorry to say, nothing.’ No press. If you want to be an actor, the industry tells you, go be a lead. Win an award. Where are the growth opportunities?” www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/televis...
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Allegiance’s Supinder Wraich is a star, if Canada had any star system to speak of
Wraich has all the hallmarks of a successful career, but needs support to help Canada’s screen sector thrive
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I joined @wired.com's culture desk in March. From the eye-opening ways people are using AI, to modern dating conundrums, to MAGA's expanding influence on pop culture and wellness, here are some of my fav recent stories. If you're into it, please consider subscribing! www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
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Unlock a world of benefits, only for WIRED subscribers. | Best-in-class reporting that's too important to ignore - plus gear reviews, podcasts, and more
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Someone should write an explainer on this seasons BlueJays for people who want to jump on the bandwagon
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I liked the one where he said Metalica wanted him to play bass in the band.
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Steve Sladkowski @sladkow.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Folk's...... The Tiny Desk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh9p...
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PUP: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Here’s the oral history of Honey Jam, a beacon for women in Canadian music for the past 30 years. With stories from serious heavy hitters: Jully Black, Nelly Furtado, Haviah Mighty, Michie Mee, Jordan Alexander, Kardinal Offishall, Director X, and many more www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/a...
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The story of Honey Jam, a beacon for women in music for 30 years and counting
As the concert series celebrates a milestone, notable alumna including Jully Black, Nelly Furtado, Haviah Mighty and more share an oral history of its legacy
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms: www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
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The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 13/07/2025
RIP to the steward of one of the coolest, weirdest things I’m gladdest exists in the city www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/a...
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Bill Dilworth, Caretaker of ‘The New York Earth Room,’ Is Dead at 70
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Steve Fisher, BFA, CD (he/him) @gracingthestage.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
There's been overnight break-ins 2 nights in a row @ Alumnae Theatre. Venue & #FringeTO companies performing there have had 1000's of $ worth of equipment stolen. I hear an assistance fund is planned (through @fringe-toronto.bsky.social ?), but in the meantime, buy ALL their merch. #TheaTO #ComedyTO
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Noel Ransome @noelransome.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Modern-day freelance journalism folks
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