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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 30m

Classic gangster (and terror) tactics. When the object of your ire is impervious, attack their friends and family.

(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It takes no imagination to guess what the Canadian part of the Trumposphere is saying. But Turner has heard it all before, I do not doubt. Hope she has a great season.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In 1969 Loblaws ran newspaper ads featuring the wives of Argos players. They are interesting in several ways relevant to Women's History Month. And I'm guessing that Alda Harrington was a bit of a trailblazer for women of colour featuring in newspaper advertising in Toronto.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's hard to believe that it's taken this long to start canvassing National Football League quarterbacks on their views about the Apollo program. Finally, after 57 years, some real answers.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is not a real person! There are THIRTY TWO books here that 'Andrew V. Smith' has shat out in the last year alone, all of which have AI-generated covers and most borrow or straight up rip off titles from other more popular (and more importantly: human) works like my own

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kent wasn't the team's most skilled player, but he was their most important leader in this period of club history.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's an article-length rebuttal. But the header catches the, uh, essence.

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also in the Department of UW Warriors Band Nostalgia Department of Nostalgia, here is a letter The Queen sent the band 47 years ago this week.

A letter on Buckingham Palace stationery, which reads: “Dear Mr. Hayman - I am commanded by The Queen to thank you for your letter of 20th September er and for your kind message of loyal greetings which you have sent on behalf of the University of Waterloo Warriors Band. Her Majesty also appreciated your invitation to visit the Warriors Band the next time she is in the Waterloo area in Ontario.”

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did you know that Canada's first tackle football league for women was founded in New Brunswick -- yes, New Brunswick -- in 2004 and is still going strong, more than 20 seasons later, as the Maritime Women's Football League? Canadian football is SO much more than the CFL. maritimewomensfootball.com

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the 1 Aug 1938 issue of Maclean's, noted Montreal sportswriter Elmer Ferguson asserted, in a piece called "I Don't Like Amazon Athletes", that participating in "face-straining, body-racking" sports harmed women's "looks" and "dignity". Roxy Atkins' reply, in the 15 Sept issue, had this header.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you in Guelph Ben? We will keep an eye out in our travels, if so.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A rather timely reminder of how things used to be. In 1969, Rogers was in the business of pirating CBC and CTV sports broadcasts, networks paying through the nose for the rights, and keeping their own customers' money. It was "ridiculous", Ted Rogers said, to suggest this was harming the NHL or CFL.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At the time, Toronto teens could watch NFL games on television and it was generally agreed that NFL players were "better" players. Access and attitudes to the NFL do not, in themselves, provide any explanation as to why the Argos are no longer this popular. They are factors in something bigger.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Last evening I went through the websites of the Guelph mayoral, council and school trustee election candidates with my 12-year-old daughter. I dunno what it may do for her; I think it helps me.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nowadays you'd have to pass a medical to sign, I believe.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No perhaps about it, in this neighbourhood.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Quite a typical head-injury scenario in Canadian football from the mid-twentieth century: * player is concussed but "ready to go" (wants to play) * team (and media) say he's unhurt but he stays out (primary concern performance not health?) * player plays the next game * minimal medical involvement

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We associate the odious Alan Eagleson with the NHLPA and the 1972 "Summit Series", but he was also deeply involved in CFL matters as a player agent and legal adviser. Here he is in 1969, watching Bill Symons sign the 3-year contract extension making Sy the highest-paid player in Double Blue history.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To be fair, one of them, Dwayne Hendrix, has since come back!

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Very nice they are too. I have bought three over the years, and each time, the player has left. 🫤

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Haven't had a QB good at it since James Franklin. You have 3 QBs on the sidelines. The likelihood that a QB will be needed for a 1-yard gain is basically 100%. The likelihood that No. 3 will be needed for anything else is tiny. Thus, No. 3 should, first and foremost, be good at 1-yard gains.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wow sorry to hear the news about David. What a lovely man.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Argos haven't been able to score on third-and-goal since the pandemic. It *might* have helped if the coach knew what down it was. Decent game for watching though.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally, a candidate for those Torontonians who believe that slashing their income and hiking their spending sounds like a sound plan. Also those happy to take a bribe.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rozelle's "commitment" continued to be cited in Canadian sports reporting and general CFL discussions well into the 1990s.

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tradition meets innovation. And gets scrapped. Again. "In lieu of a traditional awards ceremony, the CFL will introduce a fresh new approach to recognizing award winners."

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Surely the "Say No to Palantir" movement should be called "Pippin"?

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I do find it fascinating, and somewhat astonishing, that in the present circumstances, hundreds of thousands of Canadians who are striving to "buy Canadian" in other respects insist on continuing to be deeply invested personally in American sports leagues overflowing with stars, stripes and MAGA.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You may have noticed that the Canadian Football League is the only major sports league in North America giving league-wide recognition to truth and reconciliation. That's what having a big league of our own means. Among other things.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Many survivors have described sport as their main or only positive memory at these schools, and some continued to promote and cultivate these sports in their own communities, making them their own or seeing them as useful vehicles for interacting positively with Euro-Canadians.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is great potential for historians of Canadian sport to make meaningful contributions to Truth and Reconciliation. Sport was deeply embedded in the routines of many residential schools, where it exerted assimilative power and yet also provided a channel for children to express a group identity.

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, we remember the parents, children, siblings and elders tragically lost to the horrendous acts of cultural genocide committed in government-sanctioned residential schools. May we all walk the path to reconciliation together with a commitment to respect and healing.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hope people record this because it will be erased soon.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lynch is my favourite golf media figure by miles, but I completely disagree here. The US winning every time is an incredibly blunt instrument of assessment. There are always compelling elements and dramas along the way. The fabric of international sport is woven from more than outcomes.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I hope this kind of thing is winning over waves of new fans. Personally I deeply dislike it (for ordinary league games against ordinary opponents).

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Just cuz." ~ Stewart Johnston "But it's NOT more American, and the numpties who say so hate the CFL and want it to die." ~ Stewart Johnston and all his TSN buddies

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The haters will never be forgiven for Yanking our rules.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Virtually never. And nobody will field it, when it does.

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CFLLandry @cfllandry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just heartsick about losing this kind of beautiful football thing next year. It ain’t right.

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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's a distinctive, magnificent, part of our game that we should be proud of, not Yanking for the sake of change itself.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Chad Kelly's 2 touchdown passes this evening in Winnipeg gave him 68 in his Argonaut career and moved him past Tobin Rote into sixth place in club history. It's possible, but unlikely, that he will catch Damon Allen before the season ends. (At which point he presumably heads to Ottawa.)

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Funny the places that Toronto Argonauts history takes you ...

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