Once a Montrealer, always a Montrealer
Montréal, Québec
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Jerome Markson, 1929-2023. The Toronto architect died Saturday. A signficant, underrated talent and a lovely man. May his memory be a blessing. 🧵 – at Toronto, Ontario
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"The future is today."
#BobiWineThePeoplesPresident, about Uganda's inspiring opposition leader, is now streaming on @hulu and @disneyplus
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Aislin Thursday #MontrealGazette cartoon on the passing of #GordonLightfoot and one of my favourite songs ever, #InTheEarlyMorningRain…
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Trudeau's Liberals throw us under the bus with Bill C-13 (Montreal Gazette), May 02, 2023 YEP, @AllisonHanes has it right, Fed gov’t has thrown ESCQ under the bus & to add insult to injury, it’s now reversing bus to run over us again👇🏾
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1) Scandal on top of scandal: A Montreal lawyer says the city has made an "illegal subsidy" in the millions to a private developer for its luxury high-rise complex downtown. Shocking exposé by my @mtlgazette colleague Linda Gyulai, @CityHallReport.
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1) Breaking: ER staff at St. Mary's Hospital fear making medical mistakes amid a chronic shortage of nurses. They've taken to uttering a prayer before each ER shift. Please click on the story below for more details.👇
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Aside from a microblogging platform, Twitter is also a primary feed for credible news; it's replaced RSS readers in that function.
If the owner drives key news sources away because he's angry that they've covered the tech industry accurately, it's no longer a useful platform
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1) When I wrote my series about rising deaths at Lakeshore General Hospital's emergency room, I knew that ER wasn't the only one grappling with this crisis. Today, in what could be a companion volume to that series, I report on rising deaths in other ERs.
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A scene from Ice Storm ‘23: More than 150 people from Town of Mount Royal — hard hit by the blackout since Wednesday — turned up at the town hall on Good Friday for warm coffee and to charge their smart phones.The spirit? One of solidarity.
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What’s the whitest place in America?
I nominate the state that seceded from the Union to form a country until it fought a war over slavery & …
Wait…You think I’m talking about the Confederate States of America?
Nah. You gotta hear about the FIRST White Wakanda!
A thread:
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I am looking to speak to people in NDG who are still out of power, for a piece in the Gazette. If you want to talk, please send me a private message. Thanks! If I don't follow you, follow me and then I'll follow you so we can DM.
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1) Hi everyone: After a four-month investigation and weeks of writing and re-writing, The Gazette tomorrow will publish the first part in a series that has kept me up many a night. Although I cannot reveal details yet, I can say the subject is a matter of great public interest.
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Freelancers, keep pitching me!
ryan(dot)reed(at)spin(dot)com
Essays, profiles, lists, oral histories — whatever. Music and/or culture. Angle just needs to be fresh and/or the subject matter unique. Quirky is good, but it's obvious when people are forcing it. (1/3)
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Announcing the 20th EXPOS FEST (details on 1st poster). I've created an additional poster of cartoons of some of the players in attendance who will be signing them. Here I am with event organizer Perry Giannias who has raised $1 million for our Children's Hospital. Bravo, Perry!
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I take requests. I know, a dangerous thing for a DJ to say. But there it is. Within reason. Like don't ask for U2. Or Arcade Fire. You can even write here and let me know what you'd like to hear Friday when I spin the tunes at the Wheel Club in NDG with the band the Tina Trons.
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Folks in journalism who are out of a job right now—we assign lots of freelance work on my team. Topics include home, garden and parenting. We define those pretty broadly. Happy to hear from anyone with ideas to pitch: Jennifer dot Rogers at washpost dot com
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7 yrs ago today, I tried to commit suicide.
Today, I’m sober and have introduced Bill, #S254.
Alcohol contributed to 98% of my problems. Quitting #alcohol contributed to 100% of my solutions.
Don’t take life for granted. 🙏🏼🪶🙏🏼🪶#mentalhealth #suicideprevention #FirstNations
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I found out this morning that my friend and colleague @cbcjanjohnston was seriously ill, and I was writing this letter to her when I learned she’d passed.
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bit more substance and clarity to this colonial acknowledgement at the museo de antioquia in medellín than your average canadian one
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Billy breathed an electrifying new life into the story. He took it to a place that I could have never imagined when I was writing it. Listening to the Moon of the Crusted Snow audiobook is a transcendent experience thanks to him.
#SnowDreams "Cree actor Billy Merasty lends an authentic voice to Anishinaabe writer @waub's apocalyptic novel set on a reserve in northern Ontario”suddenly cut off from the power grid @ecwpress bit.ly/2Nn5lBx