David Berry
@pleasuremotors.bsky.social
Writing for nothing/thinks for free
Writer/Editor
thedavidberry.com
Buy books! https://chbooks.com/Authors/B/Berry-David
Writer/Editor
thedavidberry.com
Buy books! https://chbooks.com/Authors/B/Berry-David
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Hey, did you guys know my DMs are open? Truth.
I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically.
Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically.
Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey, did you guys know my DMs are open? Truth.
I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically.
Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
I am also on Signal, WhatsApp and not opposed to communicating telephonically.
Come say hi! #ableg #abpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Now this is a deep dive! Excellent investigative journalism by @carrietait.bsky.social and company. #ableg
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Now this is a deep dive! Excellent investigative journalism by @carrietait.bsky.social and company. #ableg
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“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
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The details of the Northern Gateway debate may have faded from our memories. (They certainly did from mine, I realized, while working on this article!)
So here's a little refresher on what the country went through the last time an MOU was signed on a pipeline from Alberta's oilsands to BC's coast:
So here's a little refresher on what the country went through the last time an MOU was signed on a pipeline from Alberta's oilsands to BC's coast:
ANALYSIS | Spills, spies and Tim Hortons boycotts: A look back at the 'fight for Canada's soul' over Northern Gateway | CBC News
The details of the decade-long, fractious debate over the Northern Gateway pipeline may have faded in memory, but that fight takes on a renewed relevance today, as Ottawa and Alberta come together wit...
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The details of the Northern Gateway debate may have faded from our memories. (They certainly did from mine, I realized, while working on this article!)
So here's a little refresher on what the country went through the last time an MOU was signed on a pipeline from Alberta's oilsands to BC's coast:
So here's a little refresher on what the country went through the last time an MOU was signed on a pipeline from Alberta's oilsands to BC's coast:
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Here's the Carney-Smith pipeline MOU: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...
Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding
PREFACE At this pivotal global moment, Canada and Alberta, working closely with Indigenous Peoples and industry, must work together cooperatively, and within their respective jurisdictions, to foster ...
www.pm.gc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Here's the Carney-Smith pipeline MOU: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...
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One thing I'd always like to point out when NIMBYs say some application isn't producing enough green space: we have the room for lots of green space. We just spend it on parking.
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
One thing I'd always like to point out when NIMBYs say some application isn't producing enough green space: we have the room for lots of green space. We just spend it on parking.
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"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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For the Star, I make the case for the condo/apartment as aspirational -- that the Canadian dream can also be an apartment in a dense neighbourhood and not, as is so often the case in this country, be taken to only ever mean a detached house. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Navneet Alang: Condos get a bad rap. Here’s why they should be part of the Canadian dream
My parents bought their first home for 11,000 pounds (approximately $20,000) in 1974. It was an ordinary small row house on a dour street in East London. Now, more than
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
For the Star, I make the case for the condo/apartment as aspirational -- that the Canadian dream can also be an apartment in a dense neighbourhood and not, as is so often the case in this country, be taken to only ever mean a detached house. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Fantastic book review that really cuts down the persistently out of touch "we don't produce culture anymore" argument a certain subset of people have been making for about two decades now www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fantastic book review that really cuts down the persistently out of touch "we don't produce culture anymore" argument a certain subset of people have been making for about two decades now www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
Tonight in Toronto. Art, money, artists, money, Sarah, Type Books, me, money, great hair and money. And art.
See you there.
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
See you there.
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tonight in Toronto. Art, money, artists, money, Sarah, Type Books, me, money, great hair and money. And art.
See you there.
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
See you there.
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
Montreal! Tonight! Libraire Pulp! 7pm! Forget the snow, come make some money*
*Or at least learn about how other people have made money and/or prevented themselves from losing money due to chicanery
*Or at least learn about how other people have made money and/or prevented themselves from losing money due to chicanery
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Montreal! Tonight! Libraire Pulp! 7pm! Forget the snow, come make some money*
*Or at least learn about how other people have made money and/or prevented themselves from losing money due to chicanery
*Or at least learn about how other people have made money and/or prevented themselves from losing money due to chicanery
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“I had thought that the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication was to make it more profitable… That is not the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication (or any business). The point is to make the private equity firm more profitable.”
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“I had thought that the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication was to make it more profitable… That is not the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication (or any business). The point is to make the private equity firm more profitable.”
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Catch David Berry at two events this week, talking all things art and money. On Weds., Nov. 12, he’ll be at Pulp Books in Verdun in conversation with Raymond Biesinger (who designed the cover of HAMM&HMMA), and on Thurs., Nov. 13, please join us for the Toronto Book Launch at TYPE Books!
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Catch David Berry at two events this week, talking all things art and money. On Weds., Nov. 12, he’ll be at Pulp Books in Verdun in conversation with Raymond Biesinger (who designed the cover of HAMM&HMMA), and on Thurs., Nov. 13, please join us for the Toronto Book Launch at TYPE Books!
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This weekend in @theglobeandmail.com, @joshokane.bsky.social spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists!
Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This weekend in @theglobeandmail.com, @joshokane.bsky.social spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists!
Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
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"It simply happens that Berry both carries the thoroughness of a journalist in his work and considers that work to be artistic. He treats his arguments with refreshing grace."
Thanks to @joshokane.bsky.social for talking through the new book with me
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Thanks to @joshokane.bsky.social for talking through the new book with me
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry
In his new book, the cultural critic looks at how the dynamics play out in everything from music to painting
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"It simply happens that Berry both carries the thoroughness of a journalist in his work and considers that work to be artistic. He treats his arguments with refreshing grace."
Thanks to @joshokane.bsky.social for talking through the new book with me
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Thanks to @joshokane.bsky.social for talking through the new book with me
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry
In his new book, the cultural critic looks at how the dynamics play out in everything from music to painting
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about his new book, the endlessly quotable How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), lopsided markets for creativity, the scourge of "innovation," and Yakety Yak:
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry
In his new book, the cultural critic looks at how the dynamics play out in everything from music to painting
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about his new book, the endlessly quotable How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), lopsided markets for creativity, the scourge of "innovation," and Yakety Yak:
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Calgary if you're looking for a pleasant way to spend the evening @shelflifebooks.bsky.social has got you covered
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Calgary if you're looking for a pleasant way to spend the evening @shelflifebooks.bsky.social has got you covered
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on an emerging movement in the discourse: "platform temperance" maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
on an emerging movement in the discourse: "platform temperance" maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...
If you're in Edmonton and not planning any civil disobedience or anything like that maybe you'd like to come out to a book launch tonight?
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If you're in Edmonton and not planning any civil disobedience or anything like that maybe you'd like to come out to a book launch tonight?
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In less than one day, over 8,000 Albertans have signed this petition and sent letters to Alberta's Premier, local MLAs, and the Opposition Leader.
If we don’t act, we teach every future government that rights are temporary.
Join the fight here: savethecharter.ca
If we don’t act, we teach every future government that rights are temporary.
Join the fight here: savethecharter.ca
URGENT – Stop Alberta's government from overriding the Charter of Rights
Alberta Premier Smith plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts.
savethecharter.ca
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
In less than one day, over 8,000 Albertans have signed this petition and sent letters to Alberta's Premier, local MLAs, and the Opposition Leader.
If we don’t act, we teach every future government that rights are temporary.
Join the fight here: savethecharter.ca
If we don’t act, we teach every future government that rights are temporary.
Join the fight here: savethecharter.ca
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Being a butcher, I was at stores where I would be the main cutter. I’d get home and my hands would be in so much pain, I couldn’t draw shit. Even the mental energy needed to write was exhausted. I honestly feel part of being a cartoonist is finding a day job where you can 1/2 ass, 1/4 ass infact!
I've always wondered how other artists work day jobs then draw.
When do chores get done? When do you work out? When do you sleep? When do you relax?
Having a partner who does chores too makes a world of difference for me.
When do chores get done? When do you work out? When do you sleep? When do you relax?
Having a partner who does chores too makes a world of difference for me.
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Being a butcher, I was at stores where I would be the main cutter. I’d get home and my hands would be in so much pain, I couldn’t draw shit. Even the mental energy needed to write was exhausted. I honestly feel part of being a cartoonist is finding a day job where you can 1/2 ass, 1/4 ass infact!
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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.