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Mattea Roach
@mattearoach.bsky.social
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host of Bookends on CBC Radio/podcast platforms everywhere, former 23x Jeopardy champion, slowly also writing // everything that happens will happen today
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Media often appended it with “Hamas-run” as a way to subtly discredit its numbers. Many experts credibly argue those figures are in fact far lower than the real number today.
January 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Just updated my four favourites as well so why not share it all… with the cold snap it’s never been a better time to stay home and watch some absolute cinema
January 24, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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Nothing worse than going to karaoke and seeing someone absolutely butcher a song that you know you could body
January 18, 2026 at 6:50 AM
mattearoach.bsky.social
Yet another BANGER from Vass Bednar on competition
jamespmcleod.ca James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 16d
"Everything costs more because the algorithm says so"

@vassb.bsky.social is really on one about personalized pricing. And she's right. It's predatory, and it makes it more difficult for us all to navigate the world.

It should be illegal.

thewalrus.ca/everything-c...
Everything Costs More Because the Algorithm Says So | The Walrus
Tariffs and inflation dominate headlines, but personalized pricing is the real affordability crisis
thewalrus.ca
January 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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rpanchasi.bsky.social
i’ve never felt this patriotic in my life
January 14, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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namshine.bsky.social
“Serious voices in this country are sounding alarm, warning that this volatile start to 2026 means that Canadians need to stare down the reality that we no longer have the luxury of pretending it’s business as usual.”

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Susan Delacourt: Is it time to get alarmed about how Trump is kicking off 2026?
Serious voices are warning that Canadians need to stare down the reality that we no longer have the luxury of pretending it’s business as usual.
www.thestar.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Beautiful, beautiful piece - what a love letter to local journalism and gorgeous meditation on the passage of time
January 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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nikostratis.com
CBC Books thinks I wrote one of the books to make you feel hopeful for the year to come and who am I to argue? www.cbc.ca/books/13-boo...
13 books to make you feel hopeful as the new year gets underway | CBC Books
This time of year is usually full of promise and good intentions. But when global unrest of various kinds starts to seem like the new normal, it can be hard to feel hopeful about the year ahead. Here ...
www.cbc.ca
January 7, 2026 at 5:14 PM
mattearoach.bsky.social
Had the duty/honour of explaining who Sidney Crosby is to an American who’d never heard of him the other… wish I’d had this article in my back pocket at the time, legendary stuff. Our special Nova Scotian boy
alexanderquon.bsky.social Alexander Quon @alexanderquon.bsky.social · 26d
The legendary Chris Jones with a long-form story on Sidney Crosby and Crosby's relationship with his hometown of Cole Harbour Nova Scotia.
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The Kid and Cole Harbour
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January 5, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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sabrinafernandes.com
Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.

This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
new quarter century
more art
more good
david lynch meme okay, let's try that again, but this time good.
January 1, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Alex Shephard from the New Republic what did I ever do to piss you off 😔
alexshephard.bsky.social Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · Dec 30
they shouldn’t let people from canada on jeopardy
December 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Covered Bridge in Winter
Maud Lewis
c. 1967
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Excited for the cottage episode of Heated Rivalry bc in my experience going to the cottage with your gay love is all about getting too stoned at the beach and then crying to Adrienne Lenker but hey… what do I know
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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404media.co
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Two Maritime queens on Canada’s Drag Race… I used to pray for days like these
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social
How to write a novel and choose what to do in life - thanks
@mattearoach.bsky.social and CBC for the interview!
www.cbc.ca/books/booken...
Back on earth, astronaut Chris Hadfield writes about space | CBC Books Bookends
The Canadian author discussed his book, Final Orbit, on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
www.cbc.ca
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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jeetheer.bsky.social
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
They say baseball breaks your heart, and the Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame what if team, now. So what does it mean to watch your team lose the World Series in one of the greatest games ever played? It means you got to feel something; you just didn’t get to choose what. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...
Bruce Arthur: These Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame ‘what if’ team. The World Series loss just makes the heartbreak worse
This World Series will echo across Canada for decades, because Toronto lost the MLB championship in one of the greatest baseball games ever played.
www.thestar.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
CBC presents This Hour has 22 Innings
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Alejandro Kirk is a Scorpio and this is his season let’s GO
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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evystadium.bsky.social
YOU READY SHOHEI??????????????
October 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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graphicmatt.com
My @thestar.com column this week: after Toronto Council requested reports on potential new rules for activities like raves, jet ski riding and pickleball, I’ve got an important reminder: it is a very good thing that people are having fun in the city.

Fun is good.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Matt Elliott: Now, Toronto has noisy pickleball games in its crosshairs. Are we becoming the City That Fun Forgot?
Tending to the whims of grumblers might make for good politics in election season, but it often makes for lousy governance.
www.thestar.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM