Richard Warnica
@rwarnica.bsky.social
Senior Writer and occasional feature editor at the Toronto Star.
If nothing else, this whole thing did at least drive me to put Ezra Pound's Cantos on hold at the library
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If nothing else, this whole thing did at least drive me to put Ezra Pound's Cantos on hold at the library
From the Star's Moira Welsh: the Ford government gave Postmedia more than $1 million to train employees on AI as part of its under-fire job training fund www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
From the Star's Moira Welsh: the Ford government gave Postmedia more than $1 million to train employees on AI as part of its under-fire job training fund www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
If you read this story yesterday, it's very possible you did not read the actual ending, which was excised accidentally online. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you read this story yesterday, it's very possible you did not read the actual ending, which was excised accidentally online. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
The piece will be in print Saturday, with what I think is my favourite ever piece of Star art: an oil painting based on a NOAA Satellite image of a Marfa Line storm done by one of Canada's best emerging painters, Zoe Koke.
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The piece will be in print Saturday, with what I think is my favourite ever piece of Star art: an oil painting based on a NOAA Satellite image of a Marfa Line storm done by one of Canada's best emerging painters, Zoe Koke.
The rapid unravelling of American institutions, the cruelty of mass detention and deportation, the deliberate kneecapping of anything and anyone reporting (in the broadest sense of the word) stories Trump doesn't like, is all very real. It isn't being exaggerated. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The rapid unravelling of American institutions, the cruelty of mass detention and deportation, the deliberate kneecapping of anything and anyone reporting (in the broadest sense of the word) stories Trump doesn't like, is all very real. It isn't being exaggerated. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
What I found was both worse than I imagined and somehow, weirdly, better than I hoped. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What I found was both worse than I imagined and somehow, weirdly, better than I hoped. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
I spent some in Texas recently, looking at Trump's America a year(ish) after his election last year.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I spent some in Texas recently, looking at Trump's America a year(ish) after his election last year.
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Five years ago, the Trudeau government said the average wait time was 24 months.
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Five years ago, the Trudeau government said the average wait time was 24 months.
Max Scherzer in the Dan Flashes shirt.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Max Scherzer in the Dan Flashes shirt.
I have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about Trump and aesthetics over the past eight years. And for all Stephen Miller's deranged ravings about degenerate modern art I don't think Trump himself has a particular fascist aesthetic. (Something I wrote about this fall for @thewalrus.ca).
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about Trump and aesthetics over the past eight years. And for all Stephen Miller's deranged ravings about degenerate modern art I don't think Trump himself has a particular fascist aesthetic. (Something I wrote about this fall for @thewalrus.ca).
I suspect his White House ballroom will be more of the same. If there's one golden rule Trump has followed as a developer its that the more money that goes into a building the less of it ends up in his pocket. www.thestar.com/news/analysi...
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I suspect his White House ballroom will be more of the same. If there's one golden rule Trump has followed as a developer its that the more money that goes into a building the less of it ends up in his pocket. www.thestar.com/news/analysi...
Almost everything Trump built in New York looks dated, cheap or both. www.thestar.com/news/analysi...
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Almost everything Trump built in New York looks dated, cheap or both. www.thestar.com/news/analysi...
October 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I knew I’d seen Cal Raleigh somewhere before
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I knew I’d seen Cal Raleigh somewhere before
really settling into whatever age it is that makes this extremely my shit
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
really settling into whatever age it is that makes this extremely my shit
In case you were wondering, talking to @tricialockwood.bsky.social is exactly as delightful as you'd imagine it would be.
October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In case you were wondering, talking to @tricialockwood.bsky.social is exactly as delightful as you'd imagine it would be.
I wrote about art, activism and Trumpian aesthetics for @thewalrus.ca. tinyurl.com/4num7yxk
October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I wrote about art, activism and Trumpian aesthetics for @thewalrus.ca. tinyurl.com/4num7yxk
Please enjoy Ethan Hawke screaming “Longform!” while getting thrashed by Tulsa thugs.
September 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Please enjoy Ethan Hawke screaming “Longform!” while getting thrashed by Tulsa thugs.
I made a joke earlier about surviving the worst 20 years in newspaper history but I think that might be literally correct. Newspaper revenues in the U.S. peaked in 2005. I graduated j-school in 2006. They went down that year and have basically been going down ever since.
September 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I made a joke earlier about surviving the worst 20 years in newspaper history but I think that might be literally correct. Newspaper revenues in the U.S. peaked in 2005. I graduated j-school in 2006. They went down that year and have basically been going down ever since.
Trumpism never delivers for its followers, so the longer it goes on, the more it has to explicitly rely on the idea that the good things and the good times have been stolen. We had everything until *they* took it away.
September 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trumpism never delivers for its followers, so the longer it goes on, the more it has to explicitly rely on the idea that the good things and the good times have been stolen. We had everything until *they* took it away.
Charlie Kirk's murder has accelerated something I started thinking about in New Hampshire last year, over lunch with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social .
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September 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Charlie Kirk's murder has accelerated something I started thinking about in New Hampshire last year, over lunch with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social .
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Women's rugby is dominated by the richest unions (England, France) and the most powerful rugby countries (New Zealand) and also, improbably, Canada.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Women's rugby is dominated by the richest unions (England, France) and the most powerful rugby countries (New Zealand) and also, improbably, Canada.
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Incredible
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September 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Incredible
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Whit Stillman directed three critically acclaimed movies in the 90s and also one episode of Homicide: Life on the street
September 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Whit Stillman directed three critically acclaimed movies in the 90s and also one episode of Homicide: Life on the street