@jonkay

@quillette editor/writer/podcaster. Author. Advisor @fairforall_org & @FSU_Canada Ex-tax-lawyer -engineer -coder. Disc golf, 3D-printing, boardgames, baseball

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You "shared some tears" because they're holding a Harry Potter event for kids in a park ? You "disavowed" @jk_rowling ? Are you in a cult ?
Tom Digby 狄弼@ThomasDigby18 Oct 2025
Last night, @ParkBoard did the right thing. Apologized to TGD2S community after emotional discussion. Shared some tears. Disavowed JKR. Will undertake concrete actions to rebuild trust. xitter.cf/vangreens/status/19760…
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Behold the screenshot that CTV posted with the story, demonstrating the shocking thing that the councillor tweeted
CTV News Vancouver
@CTVVancouverOct 21
Petition urges Victoria councillor-elect to resign over social media posts ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vancouv…

Petition urges Victoria councillor-elect to resign over social media posts

One of Victoria’s incoming councillors is being pressed to relinquish her new job before it even starts.

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In Jan, 2024, we broke the story of Ted Vizzutti, the Powell River paramedic forced out of his job for opposing changing the City's name. On Oct 17, 2026, Vizzutti was elected to Powell River City Council. All the pro name-change incumbents are gone. newwesttimes.com/news/unreco…

Unreconciled: Veteran Powell River Paramedic Forced Out of His Job for Opposing City Name Change

It was supposed to be all about reconciliation with First Nations. But that’s not how it turned out for Powell River born and raised paramedic Ted Vizzutti, forced out of

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now do tetherball and Uzbeks
CTV Montreal
@CTVMontrealOct 19
Black surfer wants to bring more diversity to Montreal scene ctvnews.ca/montreal/sports/a…

Black surfer wants to bring more diversity to Montreal scene

Montreal’s surfing community is growing, but not everyone sees themselves reflected in the sport. One Black woman hopes to bring more diversity to the waves.

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Uh oh looks likes someone has a faulty “rizz” detector
Rachel Gilmore@atRachelGilmoreOct 19
He has the highest approval rating ever because he is a Conservative, so he has their support, and the Liberal partisans aren't willing to accept that he's a Conservative, so he still has their support too. Carney has absolutely fucked our political landscape.
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I don't think I met a single person who wanted Alberta to separate. otoh, I met a *lot* of Toronto progressives who never leave the 416, yet were somehow certain that the very fact a referendum was being held meant that every Canadian conservative is treasonous and unpatriotic
Jen Gerson
@jengersonOct 20
"The results ought to demonstrate Albertans for what they truly are — a mostly sensible and pragmatic people, if occasionally very slightly insane. God bless." readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson-…

Jen Gerson: Can we put separatist madness to bed, now?

The ‘Leave’ crowd suffered a humiliating loss. We shall see if there will be consequences

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great @bradcran summary of monday's action in the Galloway defamation trial "A.B." falsely claimed Galloway raped her at his office during the 5/5/2011 Canucks playoff game Turns out she spent the night texting her husband about hockey He saved the texts truthandconsequences.substac…
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brad modestly saved this part for last. he was the one who discovered that all of these exculpatory text messages had been preserved!
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culture warriors are going to see this headline and go nuts. But the message is quite valid (and even welcome)…. Shakespeare & other great writers from the past should be read and enjoyed, precisely because their universal themes can inspire everyone theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘Shakespeare was a Black woman’: the playwright’s under-recognized connection to Black culture

A new Washington DC exhibition examines how Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and more used the Bard’s work to help tell their own stories

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these daily @bruce_arthur social media train wrecks are arguably the most entertaining content produced by any @TorontoStar journalist.
Ben Smith
@atBenSmithOct 19
AI? Dude, we had a boom operator.
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a year ago Vancouver Parks Commissioner @ThomasDigby1 endured a hysterical struggle session bcuz he’d approved a (wildly successful!) Harry Potter Halloween event (see below). But his teary apologies werent enuf for the ed board at UBC's student newspaper ubyssey.ca/opinion/editorial…
Jonathan Kay
@jonkay9 Oct 2025
You "shared some tears" because they're holding a Harry Potter event for kids in a park ? You "disavowed" @jk_rowling ? Are you in a cult ?
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and her campaign is exactly what you expect
Ms Terfy Teacher
@TerfSchoolOct 19
Replying to @jonkay @Quillette @preta_6
I'm just going through the names and reading apologies on gallowayapologies.com/ and came across Marcelle Kosman who is a big believer in "fairness and transparency" and is running for Edmonton school trustee.
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great trial update from @bradcran. One reason UBC's creative writing dept believed the false accusations against Steven Galloway is that the accuser claimed CBC lawyers had already seen her claims, & believed them. It was a complete lie. She never even spoke to a CBC lawyer.
Brad Cran
@bradcranOct 19
Steven Galloway trial: A.B. claimed CBC's lawyers found her evidence "damning." Today, the CBC journalist who worked on the story was asked under oath if it ever went to the legal team. "No." #UBCAccountable #CanLit truthandconsequences.substac…
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Replying to @jonkay @SFU @MargaretAtwood
Someone sent me her instagram page and it's 100% exactly what you would imagine director of publishing at Simon Fraser University in BC
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I don't usually do long monologues for the @Quillette podcast. But when I did my intro for this weel's interview with @preta_6 about the Steve Galloway trial, I ended up talking for 10 minutes. Turns out I had a lot to say
Quillette
@QuilletteOct 19
Steven Galloway went from CanLit royalty to pariah on allegations a retired judge later found unsubstantiated. Now his accusers are in court. @jonkay on one of the founding epics of Canadian cancel culture.
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bathurst street
Rahim Mohamed🌴@rmohamed_yowOct 18
What’s the border/dividing line between eastern and western Canada?
4%London, Ont.
46%Thunder Bay, Ont.
45%Winnipeg, MB
5%Other (say which city)
1,400 votes • Final results
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Darwinian selection at work on BC’s roads
Amy Eileen Hamm
@preta_6Oct 18
The New West subreddit is in meltdown mode over the election results. People are calling the (Métis, centre right) mayor and his supporters racists. Cyclists are losing it over the idea that our empty bike lanes might be converted back to car lanes.
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Jonathan Kay retweeted
Susan Swan@swanscribeOct 17
To go through this smear campaign made you feel like Obama being accused by Trump of not being born in the US.
DouglasTodd
@DouglasToddOct 9
Steven Galloway's accuser sought more than $3 million from UBC. Via @MiaHamm. Explains a lot "(Galloway) also discussed the viral hashtag, #UBCaccountable, which referred to a 2016 letter calling for due process for Galloway. "The letter was signed by many well-known writers, incl. @MargaretAtwood (and B.C.'s Carmen Aguirre, John Vaillant, Terry Glavin, etc.). "However, as Galloway testified, many of the signatories faced online abuse and even lost friendships or jobs. Galloway told the court he 'felt incredibly guilty' about the abuse faced by those who signed the letter." nationalpost.com/opinion/amy… via @nationalpost

Amy Hamm: Steven Galloway's accuser sought more than $3 million from UBC

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to understand how utterly unhinged some academics & writers got at the height of the anti-Galloway witch hunt, here are excerpts from a 2019 podcast by @SFU prof Hannah McGregor She calls @MargaretAtwood a "shitty white woman" bcuz Atwood said Galloway had a right to due process
Margaret E Atwood
@MargaretAtwoodOct 17
National Post nationalpost.com/news/margar… via @nationalpost

Margaret Atwood tells journalists to 'search deep within your hearts' over Steven Galloway coverage

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here's another gem—this one from 2018. Author Zoe Whittall going nuts because everyone was talking about "due process" instead of just, yknow, assuming Galloway is a rapist.
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remind me again what country Milwaukee is in
The Globe and Mail
@globeandmailOct 16
Opinion: The collapse of the Dodgers dynasty is a reflection of America as a whole, Cathal Kelly writes theglobeandmail.com/sports/b…

The collapse of the Dodgers dynasty is a reflection of America as a whole

Los Angeles’s stunning post-season exit is rooted in player apathy

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