I write about people and institutions shaping Canadian arts+culture and also wrote a book called Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy. [email protected]
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Joined February 2009
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Here's a profile of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, the synth pioneer who was handed the miracle of a career resurgence a decade ago, and who has a new album out today.
Now Glenn needs another miracle: to keep making music through dementia – and to find a home theglobeandmail.com/culture/…
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New for me: I’ve joined @globeandmail, where I’m continuing to cover AI.
That means companies developing this economy-, and society-changing technology; funds financing it; the research advancing it; infrastructure built for it; and policy governments are developing for it.
The punks keep winning....municipally, anyway: The councillors who won the most votes in both Vancouver and Burnaby this month have both fronted hardcore bands.
Spoke with DOA's @DOAJoe and @seanorr of NEEDS about punk and politics theglobeandmail.com/culture/…
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My second book will be LOSING MY EDGE (AND LOVING IT), a series of essays about middle age, parenthood, and navigating the washed life, viewed through the lens of formerly hip indie bands that have become dad rock. Look for it in 2028.
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Checked like four times that this was real
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We are beyond thrilled to share the books chosen from the 2026 open call for proposals to join the 33 1/3 series!
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I went down to New Orleans to profile Twisted Teens
Come for the answers to those pervasive questions (How do you write three addicting albums in one year? Who even are they and where did they come from?) stay for their stories as lifelong vagabonds
pitchfork.com/story/twisted-…
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BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Seventeen years ago, long before the TV shows, before the awards and certainly before any critical acclaim, Nathan Fielder made a movie.
The synopsis for Love and Cameras in America, the Canadian comedian’s feature debut, sounds perfectly Fielderian: “What happens when a man with virtually no experience making movies and no interest in politics is sent to make a documentary about the 2008 United States presidential election?”
The answer is a mystery. It’s not on Netflix, Disney+ or any other streaming service. There are no used DVDs on eBay, no screenings at local independent theatres. In a testament to its obscurity, the documentary doesn’t even register on Fielder’s Wikipedia page.
The film, in other words, is lost.
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In this week’s @NewYorker, I profile James Daunt—founder of Daunt Books, now transformative chief executive of both Barnes & Noble and Waterstones—and look closely at both the art of the ideal bookstore and the future of reading. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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New from me: Almost 2 years after I filed an FOI, I finally got bureaucrats’ communications from Aug. to Nov. 2024 as Premier Ford prepared and launched his war on bike lanes
Internal records show provincial bureaucrats refuted Doug Ford’s arguments before he ordered Toronto bike lanes removed. thestar.com/news/gta/doug-fo…
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For @NYTmag I wrote about how influencers have co-opted the man-on-the-street interview for content that fetishizes wealth and promotes the idea that billionaires know something the rest of us don't. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/magaz…
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The National Film Board of Canada was founded in 1939 by John Grierson who invented the term "documentary" The first Canadian fiction films in the 60s, Le Chat dans le sac and Nobody Waved Goodbye, pretended to be docs to trick the NFB for funding. We have a long history of this.
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all of the answers i was hoping i would get about YCSE from that nathan interview are actually in this (fantastic) profile of lance oppenheim: he explains how [redacted] got involved, holmes' relationship dynamics IRL, and whether nathan was being real vulture.com/article/lance-op…
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I spent a year working the apps for DoorDash, Uber, Amazon and more; saw disturbing things; brought people single cookies; probably delivered drugs; smashed up my nose; met people who made insane journeys to get you pad thai; wondered what we’re doing here simonandschuster.com/books/D…
