Alison Smiley
@gwynskid.bsky.social
Actress represented by Noble Caplan Abrams ncatalent.ca. One of Gwyneth's kids. Involved in long-term love-hate relationship with Toronto.
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
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Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.
Lets face it, this is a good day for oil companies, businesses, and those in the oil sector. Its a bad day for the environment and for reconciliation with Indigenous nations whose lands this thing will go over. As Blanchet stated, this is the official end of Canada's climate commitments.
Ottawa-Alberta agreement clears federal hurdles for west coast pipeline, suspends clean energy regulations
Federal government won’t implement its oil and gas emissions cap, and both sides will consult with B.C. on project, MOU says
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.
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Trump is forcing Hollywood to make a new Rush Hour. Now it’s time for Mark Carney to demand The Sweet Hereafter II.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Trump is forcing Hollywood to make a new Rush Hour. Now it’s time for Mark Carney to demand The Sweet Hereafter II.
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Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
Really sad that I missed the @ronsexsmith.bsky.social show in Toronto on Friday. Watching this terrific video of him and the kids from Doane Music School makes for a good consolation prize.
Check out this sweet video
from Melanie Doane featuring me performing "Sunny"
with the talented students from the Doane School Of Music! RS
youtu.be/ljPz0Z7M7BU
from Melanie Doane featuring me performing "Sunny"
with the talented students from the Doane School Of Music! RS
youtu.be/ljPz0Z7M7BU
"Sunny" featuring Ron Sexsmith with Melanie Doane and the students of Doane Music School
YouTube video by Doane Music School
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November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Really sad that I missed the @ronsexsmith.bsky.social show in Toronto on Friday. Watching this terrific video of him and the kids from Doane Music School makes for a good consolation prize.
Three guys across the street from me have been running leaf blowers for over an hour. The job would've taken about 20 mins if they'd just used rakes.
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Three guys across the street from me have been running leaf blowers for over an hour. The job would've taken about 20 mins if they'd just used rakes.
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‘Primary care should be unhurried &personal.That vision doesn’t require $4k membership fees’ Dr Danyaal Raza of St Michael’s Hospital
Canadians 🇨🇦have never wavered on their support of this vision,our vision, our right.
&the facts have never wavered either
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canadians 🇨🇦have never wavered on their support of this vision,our vision, our right.
&the facts have never wavered either
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
I was recruited to join a private health centre as a doctor. Here is why I said no
Years ago, I received an unsolicited recruitment letter inviting me to join a “private health centre” in another province. I was struck by how enticing it sounded. The recruiter promised
www.thestar.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
‘Primary care should be unhurried &personal.That vision doesn’t require $4k membership fees’ Dr Danyaal Raza of St Michael’s Hospital
Canadians 🇨🇦have never wavered on their support of this vision,our vision, our right.
&the facts have never wavered either
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canadians 🇨🇦have never wavered on their support of this vision,our vision, our right.
&the facts have never wavered either
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel
Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel
BERLIN—Just weeks after announcing his split with fiancée Katy Perry, English actor Orlando Bloom was photographed Friday dining with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Angela kept Orlando laugh...
theonion.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel
This column is well worth your time. (And if you need a gift link, you can find one in @justinling.ca's feed.)
This, but just about every definition, is fascism. The only question now is whether everyone lets it continue. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: We need to stop being so naive about what America is becoming. Trump and his secretary of war just showed us why
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright observed some years ago that fascism is quite hard to define. It is not an ideology, she said. “I think it is a method,
www.thestar.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This column is well worth your time. (And if you need a gift link, you can find one in @justinling.ca's feed.)
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an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously
when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint
the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny
when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint
the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny
October 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously
when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint
the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny
when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint
the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny
Sometimes you see good news here. It's rare, but it DOES happen. Congratulations @mychal3ts.bsky.social!
EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
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Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor
The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.
reactormag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Sometimes you see good news here. It's rare, but it DOES happen. Congratulations @mychal3ts.bsky.social!
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Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists.
I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.
Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.
Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
September 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists.
I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.
Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.
Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
This is why public broadcasting is crucially important to the health of a democracy.
This is...something
Nexstar, one of largest owners of TV stations in the country, is pre-empting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE "for the foreseeable future":
"Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming."
Nexstar, one of largest owners of TV stations in the country, is pre-empting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE "for the foreseeable future":
"Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming."
September 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is why public broadcasting is crucially important to the health of a democracy.
This made me so happy.
“Thank you Bridget Everett. You changed my life.” Jeff Hiller wins for the #Emmy Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in “Somebody Somewhere.”
Follow along for live updates from the 2025 Emmy Awards: nymag.visitlink.me/vPi_E0.
Follow along for live updates from the 2025 Emmy Awards: nymag.visitlink.me/vPi_E0.
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This made me so happy.
You need to watch this. You'll thank me later.
THE LADYKILLERS (1955) — 8:00 pm ET — 1h 37m
(Star of the Month: Peter Sellers | 100th Birthday)
Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom; directed by Alexander Mackendrick
An eccentric bandit gang moves into a little old lady's boardinghouse to plot a major heist.
#TCM #TCMParty
(Star of the Month: Peter Sellers | 100th Birthday)
Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom; directed by Alexander Mackendrick
An eccentric bandit gang moves into a little old lady's boardinghouse to plot a major heist.
#TCM #TCMParty
Star of the Month: Peter Sellers
Mondays in September | 19 Movies
www.tcm.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
You need to watch this. You'll thank me later.
Damn.
RIP maestro
From the Vatican Rag to Hanukkah in Santa Monica, from Poisoning Pigeons in the Park to Pollution, Who’s Next? and National Brotherhood week, nobody wrote funnier brilliant songs better or better brilliant songs funnier
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
From the Vatican Rag to Hanukkah in Santa Monica, from Poisoning Pigeons in the Park to Pollution, Who’s Next? and National Brotherhood week, nobody wrote funnier brilliant songs better or better brilliant songs funnier
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Damn.
An extraordinarily gifted actor. What a loss.
It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of actor Michael Blake, our dear friend and much valued colleague.
Michael was one of the most gifted actors of his generation. He played an extraordinary variety of parts and did so with an ability and ease that was rare.
Michael was one of the most gifted actors of his generation. He played an extraordinary variety of parts and did so with an ability and ease that was rare.
July 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
An extraordinarily gifted actor. What a loss.
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They hate it when you make fun of them.
July 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They hate it when you make fun of them.
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There’s a lesson here for Canada, if the good people at the CBC want to learn it.
Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."
The rescission bill has passed the Senate. Once it passes the House, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when TV stations still broadcast in black and white.
July 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
There’s a lesson here for Canada, if the good people at the CBC want to learn it.
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Great thread
It takes nothing away from the brilliance of this show to acknowledge that this character was often humiliated and harassed in ways we would now recognize as totally gross, and it was Swit’s job to be plausibly so above it and so hyper-competent that she wasn’t pitiable or hateable.
May 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Great thread
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'Sorry our business model doesn't work if we don't steal your property'.
Ok then go ahead sorry to trouble you.
Ok then go ahead sorry to trouble you.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
'Sorry our business model doesn't work if we don't steal your property'.
Ok then go ahead sorry to trouble you.
Ok then go ahead sorry to trouble you.
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READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
May 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
READ. THE. SUBHEAD.