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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We're not buying American produce or American products.

Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think of Ujjal Dosanjh's failed BC NDP premiership the same way I think of Mark Messier's failed Vancouver Canucks captaincy. Factually true, but brief and best forgotten. #bcpoli

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Canada's national anthem is "O Canada," not "Oh Canada." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Howdy! Alberta separatists + American Republicans. Read all about it. --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By Nathan VanderKlippe, Grant Robertson, and friend.

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The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This. ⬇️ A people too incurious and unserious to be worthy of superpower status.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Advice from a former premier who had the worst outcome in a campaign in the history of the CCF and NDP.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Such an insightful column. And more journos should follow @rwarnica.bsky.social's example by asking a wide range of people such neutral, open-ended questions as, "How do you think Chow has done?" and "What do you think of Bradford?"

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I already know entirely too much about David Fucking Brooks.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People who did this kind of thing in Germany from 1933 to 1945 are today revered as heroes.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A morally depraved nation. A pox on the planet.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A morally depraved nation. A pox on the planet.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026

tracing Japanese managers challenging an ump’s call, I’ve watched this 500x

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anti-woke weirdo religious fanatic has already lost a war to a different bunch of anti-woke weirdo religious fanatics.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Canadian public is largely rejecting MAGA-style politics and the Canadian conservative movement with it, at least at the national level. But I am not sure the health of the Canadian conservative movement has been worse in my lifetime.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Both papers have been op-ed sewers for years: Sue-Ann Levy lying about refugee hotels before someone tried to set fire to one, Joe Warmington toying with anti-vaxx stuff, Brian Lilley supporting MAGA, Tristin Hopper and Terry Newman getting really, really weird. But this feels like escalation

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So this month the Toronto Sun published a piece about the Allison Inquiry that called vaccines "a crime against humanity at worst" and demanded arrests, and the National Post published a piece deeming Avi Lewis not just an enemy but a danger to Jewish people, with a thinly coded appeal to violence.

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Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#OnThisDay in 1962, Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett spoke at Ole Miss’ game. He whipped up white crowd, which some compared to a Nazi rally in Nuremberg. The next day, an insurrection took place on the Ole Miss campus after the admission of the first Black student. mississippitoday.org/2024/09/29/1...

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I miss the days when people understood they live in a society with, you know, other people.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I gasped! The Mighty Sparrow has left us. One of the most important and popular Calypsonians to ever do it! Songs filled political fire, irreverence, humor, naughty (very, very naughty) banter, and beats that make you wind your waist! Rest in Power, Sparrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...

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The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91

He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The same year Kara was driving for DoorDash, earning $6.50 an hour after gas, the company generated $2.9 billion in revenue and $1.4 billion in gross profit.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After five months delivering for DoorDash, Kara received an automated email telling her she had been deactivated for being late too many times. She begged them not to take away her only income. The response came back: "You have reached an email that is not in use."

Book page describing DoorDash deactivating Kara after five months for "extreme lateness" and her desperate reply asking them not to take away her only income.

Book page showing Kara's plea to DoorDash, followed by the automated response: "You have reached an email that is not in use."

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good friend, you're looking at Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie. This is like stumbling across the Chrysler Building and saying, "I am not a fan of art deco, but this tower in Manhattan is absolutely something to behold."

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is very good, but I disagree about Jesse Brown being a "veteran journalist." He's always been a no-talent hack with an outsized ego.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Like a sturgeon" was right there, says this Weird Al fan.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most thrilling escape scene since Indiana Jones fled a round boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#OnThisDay in 1961, Herbert Lee became the first local person killed because of his fight for voting rights with SNCC. Only one Black Mississippian had been registered to vote in Amite County before Lee stood up. Days later, a state lawmaker killed Lee. mississippitoday.org/2023/09/25/1...

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1961: White man murders Herbert Lee - Mississippi Today

On this day in 1961, Herbert Lee became the first local person with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee killed.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Aging boomers (I'm 66) are a pox on improving urban life. They want nothing built but expect 20-somethings to commute from distant suburbs to serve them coffee and restaurant meals.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So insular a nation that the same announcers and politicians pronounce premier as though it was a movie opening.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's your stupid president's constant threats to our sovereignty and attacks on our country that did this, not our decision to respond to them. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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Canada's boycott forces the sale of a California winery

As California's wine industry struggles, a family-owned vineyard spanning 3,500 acres is for sale after its exports to Canada dropped 35% in a year.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The always-interesting @thismagazine.bsky.social gave me my first magazine cover story when I was 21 back in 1981. I've since written for 40+ magazines. Young writers should try to make the most of this opportunity.

Cover of ThisMagazine dated December 1981-January 1992. Reddish cover illustration shows a man in a leather jacket holding a glue brush and posting a broadside reading "Post No Bills." The image is reproduced on the broadside he is posting. The cover line reads: Tom Hawthorn, Free Speech in Vancouver." A headline for a secondary story reads: "Myrna Kostash, The Rape Issue in Crisis. The cover price is $1.50.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ford Theatre and the Kennedy Centre need another name like a hole in the head. (Too soon?)

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hate to be the "actually" guy, but the issuing of writs for a general election means the current standings are: BC NDP: 0 BC Cons: 0 CentreBC: 0 Indep.: 0 BC Greens: 0 OneBC: 0

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One reason why the National Book Awards didn’t have a lot of nonwhite nominees in the mid century was because immigration law kept out most nonwhite people until 1965, and Black people were under segregation. What we see now is at least partly the result of greater competition.

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Stanandthat @stanandthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(chef's kiss)

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There have been so many people laid off in and out of media the last several years, injustices across the country, and devastating climate disasters, and then Bret Stephens publishes a hate-read about the National Book Award nominees. I am going to buy a copy of Omar El Akkad's book out of spite.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For a moment, I thought we had to add sentient French pastries to the list of modern horrors.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yep. Canada first, followed by any EU or Commonwealth nation or Japan or South Korea or Ukraine, then any other democratic nation, then countries most people can't find on a map, then China, then Russia and then the United States.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For some historical background on B.C.'s motherlode of political scandals and incompetence (including DUI, prostitutes, bags o' cash, stealing from orphans), I recommend my series written with the late (and much missed) Tom Barrett for The Tyee, "Some Honourable Members:" thetyee.ca/Series/2013/...

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Some Honourable Members | The Tyee

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just a friendly reminder that when Free French forces with Canadian support liberated St. Pierre and Miquelon from pro-Nazi Vichy France control, the United States opposed the liberation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture...

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Capture of Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Wikipedia

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"There is No Place for Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social is an incredible work of journalism. You cannot understand America without reading it. Highly recommended

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