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Jonathan Goldsbie
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Mastodon didn't feel right, and hanging out on Twitter felt like trying to enjoy a beach vacation in a country with an increasingly spotty rights record.
It's not *not* Islamophobia, but there's arguably a more complex and equally troubling phenomenon at play. As the sociologist Paul Gilroy observed in a 2000 essay on the oddity of "Black Fascism":
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If I had the time and resources to go anywhere and do anything, I too would hang out at U.S. Supreme Court hearings:
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
(This was *my* baseball: bursts of ecstatic wonder fitfully sprinkled amidst stretches of… considerably less wonder.)
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
At a press conference this afternoon, Attorney General Doug Downey said they want to move away from requiring "evergreen leases, that just go on with no end in sight":
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
In particular, they want leases to no longer necessarily remain in effect indefinitely, so that landlords have more options for creating tenant turnover.

Current situation in left-hand column, proposal on the right:
October 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Like the end of Roger Ebert's review of Last Night:
October 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The lower third reads as though written by an innumerate Mario:
September 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I would describe the divergence from the previous guidance as: subtle.
September 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In light of Canada's recognition, The Canadian Press has revised its guidance on the use of "Palestine":
September 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Look, it was a wild thing for a (non-tenured) professor to tweet, regardless of the context. But context does matter!

Like, this headline is almost certainly just wrong:
September 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"Wasps Everywhere"
September 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
To commemorate a legendary comedian who died of a heart attack, a burger with deep-fried bacon: www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
September 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
As an efficient alternative to Yondr pouches, I'll take it:
September 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
For too long have Chinatown's late-night options been dominated by independent Chinese restaurants.
August 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
(They also tweaked this passage, which did contain a rather unfortunate error.)
August 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Today's Globe includes a Q&A with a Palestinian cookbook author who's been calling "atten­tion to the dev­ast­a­tion in Gaza, par­tic­u­larly the forced star­va­tion."

Online, the mention of "forced starvation" has been removed and a correction issued: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-an...
August 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
An actual movie forthcoming from the co-director of Uncut Gems:
August 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Possibly because they're shooting a TIFF ad in the lobby, the video screens at the Scotiabank are cycling through posters for nonexistent films, at least a couple of which are from Seinfeld:
July 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
It was already funny that the Lightbox was charging $38 a ticket to see Guillermo del Toro introduce screenings of Canadian horror films, but it's even funnier now that he's no longer showing up to any in person:
July 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Because this isn't how the Ontario Provincial Police usually frames its bulletins, I'm gonna assume the reference was deliberate:
July 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Everything about this is perfect:
June 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Across the street, nine police officers keep watch. Or more half-watch, the way I might let a Jimmy Kimmel monologue run in the background while I play the NYT Spelling Bee.
June 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Outside Toronto's Israeli consulate, a group of journalists launches Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine.
June 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
June 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Suffice to say that Toronto does not transcend Canadian stereotypes as much as we'd like to think.
June 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM