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Liz Renzetti

@lizrenzetti.bsky.social
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Author, journalist. New book: What She Said: Conversations About Equality. Quill & Packet mysteries with Kate Hilton. Bury the Lead (2024); Widows and Orphans (2025) Linktree: linktr.ee/lizrenzetti

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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Speed cameras and bike lanes gone, instead we get Temu Science Centre. If there's a malaise in Toronto maybe look to Doug Ford www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
Belleville Police just played a new video at a press conference showing the gunman screamed "you are going to die for the Jews" before shooting a police officer outside a synagogue It's been reported the gunman was suing the military over its vaccine mandate and blamed Jews for COVID-19
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 24/09/2026
Belleville police said a fatal shootout that took place at the Sons of Jacob Synagogue on Sunday night during Yom Kippur was a “hate-motivated crime,” Police Chief Murray Rodd told reporters at a news conference Thursday. Read more:
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Belleville police to provide update on synagogue shooting this afternoon
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The violent contents of Van Rootselaar’s two ChatGPT accounts, detailed here for the first time, are far more extensive and disturbing than previously known." "It advised her to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation"
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Mika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Radar image of Tuesday's mass crane migration. A 100 km long line of migrating cranes was clearly visible on weather radar. It is estimated that around 10,000 (?) cranes were involved in that formation. The highest count observed was 26,000 migrating cranes on that day in Kangasala (near Tampere).
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The man who died following a Sunday shootout with police outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., alluded to killing Jewish people using a slur and railed against immigrants in interactions with a friend in the weeks leading up to the fatal attack” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Synagogue shooting suspect's online username alluded to killing Jews weeks before attack, friend says | CBC News
Sean Ward, the man who died after a shootout with police outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., was a former Armed Forces member who attempted to use an antisemitic handle to play an online video ga...
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a beautiful idea. It's bound to get slammed as elitist but the barriers to arts-going are not just financial, they're cultural. If people feel opera is "not for them" they won't go.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Once our BA flight was delayed and we had to deplane into an empty Heathrow in the middle of the night with no instructions and we all followed the cabin crew like lost sheep until one of them turned around and screamed, "Stop following us!"
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/09/2026
I think it's ill-advised and anti-democratic to introduce an omnibus bill, cite a crisis, and rush major changes to labour and environmental law. It's going to provoke aggressive resistance and risks, ironically, slowing down the projects the government is so keen on. It's going to be a huge mess.
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Janice Braden, Associate Member of EU @janicebraden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Years of slowly building a body of laws to protect the environment and Indigenous rights cannot be allowed to be wiped out for expediency. Remembering my time as an intergovt fed when provincial enviro officials in Alberta quietly asked if 🇨🇦 could assert jurisdiction because they needed help.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My lovely writing partner @katehiltonauthor.bsky.social are up for auction as part of PEN Canada's benefit for the Joan Leishman fund, supporting writers in exile in Canada. So many fabulous authors in the auction! Bid if you want to talk about fictional murder! can.givergy.com/power-of-wor...
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Book club: **Kate Hilton** and **Elizabeth Renzetti** | Powered by Givergy
Murder, friendship and a little literary mischief. Bid on a private book-club evening with **Kate Hilton** and **Elizabeth Renzetti**, authors of the
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Canadians would do well to look under the hood of Carney government legislation. Lucky for us @althiaraj.bsky.social does: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Althia Raj: Whatever good is in Mark Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act is poisoned by the toxic rest
The Mark Carney government frames this law as part of its “Canada Strong” plan — and frankly, some parts are good — but toxic with good is still bad.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Christian Bale has spent twenty years creating a village in California for foster families where siblings in care can stay together instead of being separated ♥️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/r...
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Christian Bale Built a Foster Care Village in the California Desert (Gift Article)
The actor has been working for almost two decades to build a foster care nonprofit outside Los Angeles.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22/09/2026
The “looksmaxxing” personality known as Clavicular has been charged with rape in Massachusetts, online court records show.
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‘Looksmaxxing’ influencer Clavicular charged with rape in Massachusetts
Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, is an online influencer part of an extreme trend where young men try to maximize their physical attractiveness.
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Sophie Nadeau 🇨🇦 @sophienadeau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Love to see it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bans CNN
The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The "tampons in men's rooms" culture-war rage bait is so fascinating. I know how terrified men are of women's unruly bodies. But just on a practical level, do you know how much tampons cost? Men, fill your pockets! Bring them home to your partners like a bouquet of roses! You'll be heroes
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/09/2026
Climate policy expert @leahstokes.bsky.social wrote Talking Climate this week. She says, talking about climate change doesn't lose elections - it wins them. And, check out her Carbon Wave Calculator. As Leah says, a footprint is what one person leaves behind. A wave is what we make together 💚
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Climate action comes in waves | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Leah Stokes on voting for climate, where policy failed, and the Carbon Wave Calculator This week I’m excited to be handing this newsletter o
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Monty welcomes his new feline brother with open arms. And legs
Saucy tuxedo cat sprawling on a red couch with no dignity
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨Get your tickets to my Vancouver Writers Fest event with @markmedley.bsky.social where we will talk all things Library of Brothel and language of labour, love and life! Thanks for sharing this and your support. writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
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66. Anakana Schofield: Library of Brothel | Vancouver Writers Fest
Embark on a literary journey like nothing before in Anakana Schofield’s Library of Brothel. In a class with Beckett, Joyce, and O’Brien (The Guardian), Schofield’s absurdist creation is a cri de coeur...
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sex toys flying from the stands at WNBA games. Jokes about slapping women. Women's sports is gaining ground, and that means the backlash is right behind, I wrote for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The constable was sitting inside his Jeep Wrangler with a co-worker from Toronto police’s 12 Division. He passed Const. Saurabjit Bedi a “chunk” of cocaine, for which the fellow officer e-transferred him $100, police allege."
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not a soul on the mayoral election campaign tail is breathing a word of this. No member of the establishment. No board of trade serious person. Fantasyland.
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Explosive corruption allegations within the Toronto Police Service detailed in newly unsealed court records
A thwarted assassination attempt of a jail official helped break open one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the city’s history.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The deadly longterm consequences of war: Five children among the dead in Gaza as building bombed by Israel collapses www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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At least 20 killed after Israeli-hit building in Gaza City collapses
Rescue workers say search for dozens of people hampered by lack of heavy machinery
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wrote from Riyadh about the total collapse of the Saudi vision — an already-failed pivot away from resources has been bombed out of the realm of future possibility, and now even the resources are bereft of a sure future under dual Trump and Houthi assault www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The end of the Saudi mirage
Vision 2030 was meant to transform Saudi Arabia. But the war in Iran, and a constellation of other question marks, has forced the kingdom to dramatically rethink its future
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't want to hex this but Brendan Cellucci is bringing the🔥 in his debut #bluejays
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t believe the U.S. taxpayer should continue to arm Netanyahu’s government with deadly military equipment. I believe Netanyahu is a war criminal and that his government has committed genocide in Gaza. This doesn't make me antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Carney and Trump singing from the same AI songsheet is disturbing to say the least. "The tone of Canadians is: let’s get on with it, let’s build, let’s control our future, let’s be positive, let’s come together,” Carney said. Is that really the tone of Canadians though🤔
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A damning assessment of Liberals abandoning climate goals, from @althiaraj.bsky.social: "Carney has scrapped the oil and gas cap, eliminated the electric vehicle mandate, and shown himself willing to override B.C.‘s long-standing oil tanker ban." www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 I'm getting serious personal threats as a result of this defamatory antivaxx BS. Shame on Conservative MP Dean Allison for platforming and legitimizing this science-free nonsense. Can government respond? @heathermcpherson.bsky.social @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Needless to say, Ed Sheeran is a little piss boy
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Must-read investigation from @ejdickson.bsky.social about a network of men who monetize the sexual humiliation of college girls, sharing nonconsensual videos of them in an attempt to ruin their lives. Harrowing and very dark: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More and more it seems to me that Pete Seeger asked the most vital question: Which side are you on?
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He gave us Thrift Shop AND crystal-clear moral guidance.
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Ed Tubb @edtubb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Ontario Review Board has ordered Waypoint Centre for Mental Health to take a series of actions to address the harms caused by locking Andrew Azevedo up in psych. isolation for five years. Andrew is one of the men at the centre of Jacques Gallant’s remarkable ongoing investigation for the Star.
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The Star profiled Andrew Azevedo’s five years in isolation. Now his Ontario hospital has been ordered to take action
The Ontario Review Board has ordered Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care to implement measures "recognizing the harm done by seclusion."
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Me this week noting the gender balance of these crowds It’s always odd to me that so many men spend their professional lives in spaces that are 90% male and it feels normal and un-noteworthy to them
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This was a beautiful thing to see
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The second phase of Biidaasige Park is open and it's unbelievably beautiful. A bit of paradise where the Don River meets Lake Ontario
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I thoroughly enjoyed talking to @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social about what it feels like to be between books (spoiler alert: like Wile E. Coyote speeding off a cliff with nothing but air below). Check out the new episode of What Happened Next!
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is a brave, human thing.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The “new normal” of the post-9/11 security paradigm was a tragic miscalculation that led us to ignore, and in many cases to precipitate, the real international threats we now face www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The post-9/11 New Normal now looks like a terrible mistake
After the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, the West shifted its security focus to ‘non-state actors’ such as terrorists. The rise of authoritarianism today is among the consequences of that decision
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Heartbreaking. Enraging. There was a speed camera on this Toronto street until Doug Ford's government took it away. A boy was struck by a car and suffered devastating injuries. Now the family is suing the province.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Hugging Face hacking incident, and how Canadian politicians are misreading public sentiment around AI. Maybe that's changing this week? www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Macklemore has addressed the backlash he’s faced for his pro-Palestine speech. Posting a video of his speech to his Instagram, Macklemore seemingly addressed the backlash by captioning the post ‘wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.’ 📷 IG: macklemore
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think I noted during the recent Belfast riots that a certain kind of man is not really interested in protecting women & girls; he's interested in protecting the exclusive right of his kind of man to abuse and control women and girls.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: Romanian prosecutors indict social media influencer Andrew Tate on charges of trafficking minors, sex with a minor, and money laundering. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate on trafficking minors and money laundering
The agency said on Friday that Tate and his brother coerced a victim by pretending to be in a loving relationship and then forcing her to produce pornographic material for an online webcam business.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Holy end of days hail storm in Toronto
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Glad to see the teaser for HBO's documentary about life in 2026 youtu.be/MOidgOFdz7E?...
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The Gilded Age Season 4 | Official Teaser | HBO Max
YouTube video by HBO Max
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A decade ago a car hit me and sped off. I have an osteoarthritic knee now. Biking these lanes not knowing whether it'll be the last time and knowing these removals make another hit-and-run more likely has been...hard. www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...
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