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Solarina Ho

@solarina.ca

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Freelance writer. ✍️The Walrus, WebMD/Medscape, Globe and Mail, others.🎙️ NuVoices.com, 🖋️ NuoraGlobal.com. Ex-Reuters, -CTVNews.ca. She/Her. Follow≠Endorse | solarina.ca

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 11/02/2026

Reading this after reading the @nytimes.com piece on Trump Allies nearing "total victory" in wiping out U.S. climate regulation.... (Also, I must've been under a rock, but I thought WaPo killed their "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan last year? When did they bring it back?) wapo.st/4abXa5w

A screen grab of a graphic from a Feb 11, 2026 Washington Post climate article that shows rising global temperatures and a steep curve in recent years. Image also shows The Washington Post masthead and slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness" underneath.

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 04/01/2026

Despite everything, I do still want to wish everyone a happy and very healthy new year. May you find some much needed joy and self-care in your private corner of the world each day, and, as I have been telling loved ones, may 2026 be a kinder year for all.

Photo of a snowy scene after a fresh snowfall.

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 27/11/2025

Just finished listening to Sarah Wynn-Williams' fascinating memoir and damning exposé, Careless People, on Facebook and the monstrous people who run it. It's so so much worse than you could imagine. Essential reading and glimpse into our potentially dystopian tech future. (Audiobook read by author.)

Book cover: #1 New York Times Bestseller, Careless People: A cautionary tale of power greed, and lost idealism. A memoir. Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Cover illustration shows a blue square with rounded corners, and a shark fin near the top left corner.

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 30/10/2025

Waiting for the @bluejays.com to start posting over here as well...please and thank you!

Photo shows two World Series cups being held up against the baseball field backdrop at Rogers Centre during Game 1 of the 2025 World Series.

End of game 1 of the World Series and the "win" flag is being waved on the field by the Blue Jays mascot, Ace.

Photo shows Blue Jays fans at Rogers Centre during the Game 4 World Series watch party.

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 25/10/2025

Bases loaded, Zero outs! Let's go Blue Jays!

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 19/09/2025

wapo.st/424jPfr They tested nine AI search tools with 30 tricky questions to see which gave the best answers without making stuff up. The overall low accuracy is concerning given the reliance on AI by regular people who don't verify and given how many use the ones that have the lowest accuracy.

Chart showing which AI gives the best answers. Google AI Mode: 60.2 out of 100. ChatGPT 5: 55.1. Perplexity: 51.3. Bing Copilot: 49.4. ChatGPT 4-turbo: 48.8. Google AI Overview: 46.4. Claude Sonnet 4: 43.9. Grok 3: 40.1. Meta AI: 33.7. (Grok 4 was not available to free users during the testing period.)

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 13/07/2025

I never did give an update: Stray Kids were great, venue was...🧐🤨🤔. But we found exiting really not that bad all things considered. Friend who went to Stray Kids and Coldplay thought exiting Coldplay was worse. Also, PSA: lots of seats still for Blackpink and HUGE price drop. 😳 Sea of blue are $318!

Screengrab of a Ticketmaster seat map showing many available seats near the stage for Blackpink concert.

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 29/06/2025

In much lighter news: looking forward to the Stray Kids concert tomorrow!! They will be the inaugural performers at the new Rogers Stadium venue, so that will be interesting. 😬🫣

Photo shows ginormous billboards downtown Toronto at Sankofa (Dundas) Square promoting the Stray Kids dominATE tour.

Giant billboards downtown Toronto at Sankofa (Dundas) Square promoting the Stray Kids dominATE tour.

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 24/06/2025

Confounding disbelief, my evergreen reaction to US news.

Screengrab of the National Archives Home Page, with the following notice at the top of the page:

Restricted-Access Federal Facility, Effective July 7, 2025
Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public. Security officers will enforce these restrictions, and your cooperation is appreciated.

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 29/04/2025

Seems like this could have gone very differently. NDP supporters probably thought Liberals would vote strategically in a solid NDP riding, but Liberals probably thought NDP would vote strategically for Lash.

Screengrab from Toronto Star riding results:
North Island-Powell River
Conservative won against NDP incumbent.
309 of 320 polls reporting.
Aaron Gunn (CON) won with 30,551 votes (38.7%)
Tanille Johnston (NDP) with 25,838 votes (32.8%)
Jennifer Lash (LIB) with 20,468 votes (26%)

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 02/02/2025

Screenshot from the other site....

Screenshot from x.com. Journalist Katie Couric quote tweets: "Wow. This is how news becomes propaganda. It's begun. Pay attention."

She is reposting a tweet from Haley Britzky, which says, "The Pentagon has informed its resident press corps that NBC, NYT, NPR, and Politico will “rotate out of the building” to give space to New York Post, Breitbart, OANN, and HuffPost. NBC, who has an entire booth w/ cameras etc." The post is accompanied by images of the letter from the Pentagon.

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 02/02/2025

I've used so much CDC data for my reporting over the last few years that it feels surreal to see everything taken down. I would not be surprised to see COVID-19 information be especially questionable and unreliable going forward.

A screenshot taken around 2:35am ET Feb 2, 2025 of a CDC page on COVID-19 data. The page now says, "The page you're looking for was not found."

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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 29/01/2025

Goodbye🐉! Happy Lunar New Year! 🎋 May this Year of the Snake 🐍 grace us with much needed kindness, courage, fortitude, resilience, and hope. 🧧🎏

2025 Lunar New Year image: A snake in the background and Chinese New Years wishes in gold in the foreground.

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