Deborah Dundas
@debdundas.bsky.social
Toronto Star Opinion Editor, former Books Editor; author "On Class"; Book #2 "Adoption Stories" in the works. Interests: books, social justice, class, politics. Make me laugh! Pitch me ddundas@thestar.ca.
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For the Toronto Star, I spoke with JOHN IRVING about being an outsider, finding the plot, his friendship with @stephenking.bsky.social & much more.
His 16th novel, QUEEN ESTHER, is out now. #books #booksky #writers #writinglife
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His 16th novel, QUEEN ESTHER, is out now. #books #booksky #writers #writinglife
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John Irving on returning to the world of ‘The Cider House Rules’ with his new book and writing with wrecked hands
The author's 16th novel, 'Queen Esther,' tells the story of a Vienna-born Jewish orphan coming of age in New England.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For the Toronto Star, I spoke with JOHN IRVING about being an outsider, finding the plot, his friendship with @stephenking.bsky.social & much more.
His 16th novel, QUEEN ESTHER, is out now. #books #booksky #writers #writinglife
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His 16th novel, QUEEN ESTHER, is out now. #books #booksky #writers #writinglife
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Thank you Blue Jays! You united us with your positivity and your resilience just when we needed it most. Thank you! We'll be there for you next year! ⚾️⚾️⚾️
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Thank you Blue Jays! You united us with your positivity and your resilience just when we needed it most. Thank you! We'll be there for you next year! ⚾️⚾️⚾️
Oh, please please please Kirk! ⚾️⚾️⚾️
November 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Oh, please please please Kirk! ⚾️⚾️⚾️
I AM NOT BUILT FOR THIS! ⚾️⚾️⚾️ GO JAYS!
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I AM NOT BUILT FOR THIS! ⚾️⚾️⚾️ GO JAYS!
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I wrote about loving the post office and how we are losing our personhood. Thanks to my son Cúán who rapped this topic out with me And calls me a loom breaker. And is extremely funny. And @debdundas.bsky.social my editor
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I’m a proper postal romantic. If I had my way, stamps would go down in price, and we’d return to long form letter writing and mail delivery twice a day!
The demise of the post office in any form makes me terribly melancholic because I nurture romantic and literary notions about the post office, the way others do about dogs
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November 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I wrote about loving the post office and how we are losing our personhood. Thanks to my son Cúán who rapped this topic out with me And calls me a loom breaker. And is extremely funny. And @debdundas.bsky.social my editor
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Thanks to @stephenmarche.bsky.social for this one: "Why poke the bear? If you’re dealing with a ranting meth-addled lunatic on the subway, the correct plan is to engage as little as possible." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Stephen Marche: The right tactics when dealing with Trump? Ignore the impossible and look for the light within
The response mechanisms of the United States are so unpredictable that the consequences of any given action are fundamentally unknowable
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October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thanks to @stephenmarche.bsky.social for this one: "Why poke the bear? If you’re dealing with a ranting meth-addled lunatic on the subway, the correct plan is to engage as little as possible." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Well, my exclusive interview with the head of the Louvre was timely and untimely at the same moment. Here's a gift link: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Well, my exclusive interview with the head of the Louvre was timely and untimely at the same moment. Here's a gift link: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
BLUE JAYS TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
BLUE JAYS TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!
Oh God. I don't know if I can watch the top of the 9th.
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Oh God. I don't know if I can watch the top of the 9th.
Holy crap. Springer!!
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Holy crap. Springer!!
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To end up on a joyful note. These kids are fine musicians. The dog is at least part ham.
October 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
To end up on a joyful note. These kids are fine musicians. The dog is at least part ham.
John Irving wrote a piece for us: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
John Irving: I won’t go to the U.S. to promote my new novel. Here’s why
In protest of the Trump administration, the American/Canadian author is choosing to forego his home country
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October 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
John Irving wrote a piece for us: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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for the @thestar.com, I tackle the toughest issue facing our trembling planet: the escalation of rudeness and crudeness in sports. LET’S GO BLUE JAYS www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
John Semley: Jays vs. Mariners tensions: political, or just spirited competition
Politics have made sports fans thin-skinned. Let’s take friendly rivalry like the champs we are
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October 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
for the @thestar.com, I tackle the toughest issue facing our trembling planet: the escalation of rudeness and crudeness in sports. LET’S GO BLUE JAYS www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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I also added @toughcitywriter.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social to my Canadian #Authors & Writers starter pack.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I also added @toughcitywriter.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social to my Canadian #Authors & Writers starter pack.
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the other day I walked past Independence Hall--where America was basically invented. it's closed now. I wrote about the thudding symbolic heft of tourists milling about a shuttered landmark, for the @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
John Semley: The Liberty Bell is locked up. What does that say about America right now?
I prefer an imperfect union to no union whatsoever and I worry that latter is what America is currently previewing with this government closure.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
the other day I walked past Independence Hall--where America was basically invented. it's closed now. I wrote about the thudding symbolic heft of tourists milling about a shuttered landmark, for the @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Holy hell these Blue Jays are making me so happy today. The joy of doing something great together and BELIEVING. Go Jays!
a man wearing a blue jays jersey stands on the field
ALT: a man wearing a blue jays jersey stands on the field
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October 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Holy hell these Blue Jays are making me so happy today. The joy of doing something great together and BELIEVING. Go Jays!
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America has all-dressed potato chips now. for the @thestar.com I dared to ask: can the Yankee mind comprehend the "tout-garnie" lifestyle? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
John Semley: Can Canadian potato chips lead to American acceptance of ‘tout garnie’?
There is no Canadian culinary confection quite like the all-dressed chip. As schoolchildren we’re taught to believe that Canada is a land of cultural and ethnic diversity. It’s the kind
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October 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
America has all-dressed potato chips now. for the @thestar.com I dared to ask: can the Yankee mind comprehend the "tout-garnie" lifestyle? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
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Jane Goodall’s 5 reasons why we should be hopeful in the face of ecological disaster | @thestar.com file from 2023 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Jane Goodall’s 5 reasons why we should be hopeful in the face of ecological disaster
The scientist and conservationist best know for her work on chimpanzees takes her message for humans to Ontario.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Jane Goodall’s 5 reasons why we should be hopeful in the face of ecological disaster | @thestar.com file from 2023 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
When "pathological" becomes an excuse: thanks, @johnsemley3000.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
John Semley: Is Donald Trump a pathological liar? No. It’s worse than that.
There’s a foundational myth in America, which holds that, when he was still a tender boy of six years old, George Washington hacked into his father’s prize cherry tree with
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September 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
When "pathological" becomes an excuse: thanks, @johnsemley3000.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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So impressed with what @mrdavebyrne.bsky.social is doing at Royal Court Theatre centring writers, creating community and the new initiative for playwriting in schools. Do any UK based teachers follow me? Would love to share info on the schools initiative. 🚨❤️
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So impressed with what @mrdavebyrne.bsky.social is doing at Royal Court Theatre centring writers, creating community and the new initiative for playwriting in schools. Do any UK based teachers follow me? Would love to share info on the schools initiative. 🚨❤️
Having a great Saturday breakfast at Smitty's in Peterborough. Bunch of hockey kids playing 'guess the player.' One kid says "he was born in the nineteen hundreds". I feel so old.
September 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Having a great Saturday breakfast at Smitty's in Peterborough. Bunch of hockey kids playing 'guess the player.' One kid says "he was born in the nineteen hundreds". I feel so old.
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Yukon Commissioner Adeline Webber just announced that Ione Christensen, Yukon legend, has died. The post doesn't mention her age, but if she wasn't 100 yet, she was close to it.
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It is with a heavy heart I hear of the passing of former Commissioner Ione Christensen.
She was a true Yukoner and a trail blazer for women. Ione achieved so much in her life time that benefited...
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September 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yukon Commissioner Adeline Webber just announced that Ione Christensen, Yukon legend, has died. The post doesn't mention her age, but if she wasn't 100 yet, she was close to it.
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My latest opinion piece in the Toronto Star www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Way too many of us have lost all sense of manners
You may be the main character in your own life, but the rest of us don’t need to hear about it
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September 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My latest opinion piece in the Toronto Star www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...