Eric Wickham
@ericwickham.ca
🔎 Ontario Reporter and Podcast Producer @pressprogress.ca
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Eric Wickham
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the fun thing about working in small market news is I have hundreds of bylines like this and there's nothing I can do about it.
Guy sitting on a pile of gold: "im all for Universal Healthcare, but how do we make it happen? Be realistic."
December 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Guy sitting on a pile of gold: "im all for Universal Healthcare, but how do we make it happen? Be realistic."
Maybe you would get less hate if you sent me one million dollars.
There's no guarantee but I think it's worth a shot Mark.
There's no guarantee but I think it's worth a shot Mark.
No shock. This app has turned my mentions, and others, into mostly hate. But there are a few people worth connecting with
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
December 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Maybe you would get less hate if you sent me one million dollars.
There's no guarantee but I think it's worth a shot Mark.
There's no guarantee but I think it's worth a shot Mark.
How the Grink stole Crinkmas
December 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
How the Grink stole Crinkmas
Die Hard is not a movie
December 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Die Hard is not a movie
For sale:
Christmas gifts,
Bad
Christmas gifts,
Bad
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
For sale:
Christmas gifts,
Bad
Christmas gifts,
Bad
Door to door sarcastic Christmas carols to annoy your neighbours
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Door to door sarcastic Christmas carols to annoy your neighbours
Merry Christmas Eve! If you're out running errands this is a great look at some of the work our talented newsroom published this past year.
'Twas a bad year for scabs, and a good year for separatists.
Listen to the PressProgress Holiday Special:
pressprogress.ca/sources-podc...
Listen to the PressProgress Holiday Special:
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The PressProgress Holiday Special
A bad year for scabs, a good year for separatists
pressprogress.ca
December 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Merry Christmas Eve! If you're out running errands this is a great look at some of the work our talented newsroom published this past year.
Ok so you might have run out of time to buy good gifts, but you still have a whole 24 hours to get *BAD* gifts, make them count.
December 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Ok so you might have run out of time to buy good gifts, but you still have a whole 24 hours to get *BAD* gifts, make them count.
Reposted by Eric Wickham
I’m just five new annual paid subscribers away from my fundraising goal to attend the federal NDP convention in Winnipeg.
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The Orchard | Jeremy Appel | Substack
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December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’m just five new annual paid subscribers away from my fundraising goal to attend the federal NDP convention in Winnipeg.
If you’ve considered giving to the Orchard but haven’t yet, or your membership has lapsed, now’s your time to contribute.
Www.readtheorchard.org
If you’ve considered giving to the Orchard but haven’t yet, or your membership has lapsed, now’s your time to contribute.
Www.readtheorchard.org
I would caution all of gen z about taking advice from very wealthy people. They play the game with a different set of rules than the rest of us.
The Grammy Award–winning artist turned tech entrepreneur advises Gen Zers to forget about work-life balance if they want to emulate his success. trib.al/RGSO9CT
Will.i.am grinds from 5-to-9 after his 9-to-5—because work-life balance is for people 'working on someone else’s dream' and not for visionaries | Fortune
Will.i.am tells Gen Z to ditch work-life balance: ‘Those words don’t compute for the materializers’
trib.al
December 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I would caution all of gen z about taking advice from very wealthy people. They play the game with a different set of rules than the rest of us.
In fairness to those treacherous Canadians, I don't think what is making CBS look silly is limited to Global broadcasting the killed piece.
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
In fairness to those treacherous Canadians, I don't think what is making CBS look silly is limited to Global broadcasting the killed piece.
"What (recently maligned public figure) got right about falling into a table full of pies at the bake sale"- might be my least favourite format for an undercooked thinkpiece
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"What (recently maligned public figure) got right about falling into a table full of pies at the bake sale"- might be my least favourite format for an undercooked thinkpiece
Reposted by Eric Wickham
a little holiday cheer and an overview of the wide array of stories we've covered this year @pressprogress.ca
'Twas a bad year for scabs, and a good year for separatists.
Listen to the PressProgress Holiday Special:
pressprogress.ca/sources-podc...
Listen to the PressProgress Holiday Special:
pressprogress.ca/sources-podc...
The PressProgress Holiday Special
A bad year for scabs, a good year for separatists
pressprogress.ca
December 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
a little holiday cheer and an overview of the wide array of stories we've covered this year @pressprogress.ca
Reposted by Eric Wickham
'Twas a bad year for scabs, and a good year for separatists.
Listen to the PressProgress Holiday Special:
pressprogress.ca/sources-podc...
Listen to the PressProgress Holiday Special:
pressprogress.ca/sources-podc...
The PressProgress Holiday Special
A bad year for scabs, a good year for separatists
pressprogress.ca
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
'Twas a bad year for scabs, and a good year for separatists.
Listen to the PressProgress Holiday Special:
pressprogress.ca/sources-podc...
Listen to the PressProgress Holiday Special:
pressprogress.ca/sources-podc...
My last piece of work for 2025 - The PressProgress Holiday Special!
The PressProgress Holiday Special
A bad year for scabs, a good year for separatists
pressprogress.ca
December 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My last piece of work for 2025 - The PressProgress Holiday Special!
One of my favourite things i worked on this year came from an access to information request that gave me correspondence between grocery executives and ISED.
Read this piece in ricochet!
Read this piece in ricochet!
This year we also did a couple deep dives into escalating food prices at the Big Grocers in Canada. @ericwickham.ca, now at @pressprogress.ca, did this fantastic investigative feature for us:
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#Ricochet2025
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#Ricochet2025
The Canadian government wanted grocers to keep it up to date on efforts to stabilize food prices. Sobeys and Metro refused
As U.S. president Donald Trump's tariffs take effect, experts warn grocery prices in Canada could once again spike
ricochet.media
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One of my favourite things i worked on this year came from an access to information request that gave me correspondence between grocery executives and ISED.
Read this piece in ricochet!
Read this piece in ricochet!
Brio please send me money I am a micro newsfluencer and potential brio spokesperson
I completely understand "the IPA of coke" now. I'm not sure it's for me but it's certainly interesting
December 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Brio please send me money I am a micro newsfluencer and potential brio spokesperson
I would argue that the innovation journalism really needs is publishers dedicated to producing high quality journalism instead of wacky tech products.
Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI 'from passive tool to active partner in journalism'.
Al Jazeera launches new integrative AI model, ‘The Core'
Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI 'from passive tool to active partner in journalism'.
www.aljazeera.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I would argue that the innovation journalism really needs is publishers dedicated to producing high quality journalism instead of wacky tech products.
Hot take, they should put way too much reverb on Gary Galley's mic during the third period every game.
December 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Hot take, they should put way too much reverb on Gary Galley's mic during the third period every game.
Please fund my startup that ycombinator is calling "uber for sportsbetting"
December 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Please fund my startup that ycombinator is calling "uber for sportsbetting"
Watching Hockey Night in Canada and wondering if there's a way I can gamble on Ozempic.
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Watching Hockey Night in Canada and wondering if there's a way I can gamble on Ozempic.
I know this has been news for years, but the idea that a group of wealthy and powerful people went to an island to act like monsters, without any consequence, should never stop horrifying any of us.
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I know this has been news for years, but the idea that a group of wealthy and powerful people went to an island to act like monsters, without any consequence, should never stop horrifying any of us.
Many people are saying this
Read this piece from Ximena!
Read this piece from Ximena!
Alberta renters have it bad. Part of the reason is the dismal amount of non-market housing options available in this province.
In my latest story for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social i write about the limitations of Build Canada Homes’ approach to non-market housing.
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
In my latest story for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social i write about the limitations of Build Canada Homes’ approach to non-market housing.
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
Alberta renters don’t need more ‘supply’ — they need non-market housing options
Governments keep chasing the market while community housing providers quietly deliver stable, affordable homes that won’t disappear when profits rise
ricochet.media
December 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Many people are saying this
Read this piece from Ximena!
Read this piece from Ximena!
It took the better part of two decades but I am sorry to announce the Toronto Maple Leafs have finally killed @stevedangle20.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It took the better part of two decades but I am sorry to announce the Toronto Maple Leafs have finally killed @stevedangle20.bsky.social
Sometimes I forget that underneath all the gentrification and bike lane panic, Etobicoke has still got it.
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Sometimes I forget that underneath all the gentrification and bike lane panic, Etobicoke has still got it.