VassB @vassb.bsky.social policy designer + writer
I run the Canadian Shield Institute (@canadianshieldinstitute.ca), where we make sovereignty make sense.
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Allison Dempster @acdempster.bsky.social Audio producer for CBC. Based in Calgary, Alberta.
Alanna Smith @alannasmith.bsky.social National health reporter with The Globe and Mail. Based in Calgary. Formerly with the Canadian Press, Calgary Herald. DM for Signal/Whatsapp or email alannasmith@globeandmail.com
🔗: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alanna-smith/
Elisha Dacey 🎤🏳️⚧️ @elishadacey.bsky.social Managing Editor, @futureofgood. Lead singer, Whoopsie Dacey. Cats. Dogs. Winnipeg. Blue Bombers. Always the one asking the awkward question. #IndependentMedia
John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social I write about collisions between human ambition and the natural world: The Golden Spruce, The Tiger, The Jaguar's Children,
FIRE WEATHER: @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
10 Best Books: @nytimes.com
https://www.lyceumagency.com/speakers/john-vailla
Boris Proulx @borisproulx.bsky.social Tel que lu @ledevoir.com. Président de la Tribune de la presse parlementaire canadienne. Contact bproulx@ledevoir.com / Signal @BorisProulx.48
Dave Tait @davetait.bsky.social Living in Ottawa, happy and content
Richard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social Senior Writer and occasional feature editor at the Toronto Star.
Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social "I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do."
Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider.
New Haven now; Athens, Ga., always.
Signal: jeaton.04- H Haxim 🇨🇦 (Official) @haxim.ca Alberta Man
albertareferendumb2026.ca guy
Thoughts, bad takes, and occasional accidental wisdom are entirely my own, and not the official position of any employer, client, government, podcast, or poorly supervised group chat.
Matthew Scace @mattscace.bsky.social Reporter with The Globe and Mail's Calgary bureau. Author of Jasper on Fire: Five Days of Hell in a Rocky Mountain Paradise, out now: https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/jasper-on-fire-pre-order/
@jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social 
Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social Award-winning 🇬🇾 🇨🇦 Political Economist. Columnist. Law & Order historian. Reality TV veteran. Talking my shit @badandbitchy.com
Never forget 👉🏾 I will be vindicated.
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social Professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs and Geopolitics of Technology.
no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social posts too much
ecol/biologist in climate change
settler. knitter 🧶. antiracist. chronically ill.
#yeg Edmonton Alberta Treaty 6 Canada
born @ 340ppm CO2
#BiInSci
Wildfire resources: https://bsky.app/profile/alisonborealis.bsky.social/post/3lqep5ttvnt25
Quillipede @quillipede.bsky.social they/them, En/Fr, QC-raised, BC-based
🖱️ Game designer @ Forgotten Empires
🧡 NDP EDA for Vancouver Centre
📚️ Indie SFF author
📸 Nature photographer
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My & my work: https://linktr.ee/quillipede
Lily Polenchuk @lilypolenchuk.bsky.social Honors student studying English and political science at the University of Alberta, Junior Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies. https://substack.com/@lilypolenchuk
@nicbeique.bsky.social @nicbeique.bsky.social 
Anna Murphy, She/Her @theannamurphy.bsky.social Community Builder, Advocate, Leader, Staffer, Volunteer, Calgarian, Nerd.
Matthew Johnson @matthewfjohnson.bsky.social Director of Education for MediaSmarts, Canada's centre for digital media literacy. He/him. Open to correction.
Danny Lavery @dannymlavery.bsky.social Vera said that?
Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters, focusing on social media misinformation, disinformation, & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org.
Greg Colgan @gregcolgan.bsky.social Journalist with CBC Calgary | Former editor Rocky Mountain Outlook | King's University College history Hon BA | Western University journalism MA | Traveller, historian, lover of Germany & sports.
Tyler Harper @tylerharper.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian editor-reporter for the Nelson Star. I believe in journalism.
May Warren @maywarren11.bsky.social Toronto Star Journalist
Calvi Leon @calvileon.bsky.social Reporter at the Toronto Star - mostly crime, courts and breaking news.
cleon@thestar.ca
Nicholas Keung @nicholaskeung.bsky.social Immigration Reporter at the Toronto Star. Can be reached at nkeung@thestar.ca. 
More in Common UK @moreincommonuk.bsky.social https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social U Calgary associate professor. Communications policy and various random thoughts, usually music.
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social I make ice cream and do science and suck at fly fishing. YYC
glaciers - geohazards - climate - geomorphology - geomatics - gelato
He/him
Fellow, @rcgssgrc.bsky.social
Investigative Journalism Bureau @ijbstories.bsky.social Canada's leading non-profit, investigative newsroom. Based at the University of Toronto's (@uoft.bsky.social) Dalla Lana School of Public Health (@uoftdlsph.bsky.social).
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Loren McGinnis @lorenmcginnis.bsky.social Host of The Calgary Eyeopener on CBC Radio One. Dad. Slow runner. Jokes.
Terry O’Reilly @terryoinfluence.bsky.social Host of Under The Influence radio show on CBC, SiriusXM, WBEZ Chicago, KRPS Kansas. Host of the Beatlology Interviews podcast. Co-founder Apostrophe Podcast Network.
Aleksandra Sagan @aleksagan.bsky.social 👩💻 Reporter at The Logic: thelogic.co
🛍️ Retail, e-commerce and tech
💬 Reach me securely on Signal @aleksagan.12
📍Vancouver, B.C.
Jordan Timm @jordantimm.bsky.social Managing Editor, The Logic
Bandwagon since Run TMC
Charlie Gillis @chasgillis.bsky.social Deputy managing editor at The Logic, Canada's business and tech newsroom. President of the Juha Lind fan club.
Sal Farooqui @salfarooqui.bsky.social Globe and Mail reporter covering personal finance, mortgages and rent. Snowboarder, climber, cyclist
Mary McGuire 🇨🇦 @mmcguire.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Former j-prof and journalist in Canada. Still a news junkie. Interested in journalism, journalism education, Canada’s North and fellow cancer haters.
Big [If True] @bigiftruetvo.bsky.social Exposing misinfo, disinfo & conspiracies.
📺 Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on TVO
⬇️ Anytime online 📲
https://www.youtube.com/@BigIfTrueTVO
my.linkpod.site/bigiftruetvo
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Chris Tenove @cjten.bsky.social Researcher and writer, media and politics. Acting director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia. 
Canadian Science Policy Centre @sciencepolicy.ca www.sciencepolicy.ca | An inclusive hub for convening, connecting, capacity building & catalyzing research in support of an effective science & innovation policy community in Canada
Frédérik Plante @fxplante.bsky.social Investigative Reporter for @thestar.com. Got a tip? fplante@thestar.ca or fx_plante.01 on Signal.
English/Français/Español.
Brett McKay @brettmckay.bsky.social Reporter for the Investigative Journalism Foundation
Email: brett.mckay@theijf.org
Signal: brettmckay.23
Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social Candidate for Congress, Author of DOPESICK and PAPER GIRL, thrifting champ, compulsive note-taker, and miner of stories about outsiders & underdogs.
To volunteer and/or donate to my campaign: http://www.bethmacyforcongress.com.
Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com Independent journalist
Public historian
Born to raise hell
taylornoakes.com
canaduh.substack.com
Send tips securely to taylornoakes@protonmail.com
jerrymacgp @jerrymacgp.bsky.social Retired Registered Nurse & union activist in northwestern Alberta 🇨🇦. Politics: Alberta NDP. Settler in Treaty 8 territory. Married, dad of 3 & granddad of 4. Vaxxed. Interests: #abpoli & #cdnpoli, heavy metal, Star Trek. No crypto! He/him/his.
Inessa De Angelis @inessadeangelis.bsky.social Researching political communication, online harassment & gender-based violence in Canadian politics at the University of Toronto
inessadeangelis.ca
Nathaniel Schmidt Ward 8 City Councillor @natefor8.bsky.social Calgary City Council
Ward 8 Councillor
Future Focused | Independent
Let’s build a better Calgary, together!
Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social PhD Student at UMass Lowell | Criminology/Terrorism Studies | Specialist in far-right and military extremism | NATO Shill | U.S. Army Veteran 🇺🇸
American Fault Lines Substack: https://lukebaumgartner1.substack.com/about
Carmine Starnino @cstarnino.bsky.social I edit for http://thewalrus.ca. Most recent book is Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016 http://bit.ly/3hZXOED
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social The Least Important Man (poems), Army of the Brave and Accidental (a novel), Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life.
https://boydwords.wordpress.com
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca Award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, national ideas-focused events, and podcasts. Stay connected: http://thewalrus.ca/newsletters
Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social Cartoonist & art educator in Lethbridge, AB. More work on http://patreon.com/ericdyck & http://ericdyck.com he/him
Bonnie Critchley @bonniecritchley.bsky.social A retired 22+yr veteran who's joined the next progressive conservative party, the Progressive Tory Party of Alberta. Together we'll stand up for the Camrose Constituency!
www.BonnieCritchleyIndependent.com
Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes @cca-reports.ca A trusted voice at the intersection of research, society and public policy, convening expertise and assessing knowledge to advance evidence-informed decision-making in Canada and internationally
📬 https://bit.ly/cca-advance
💻 https://www.cca-reports.ca
Mike Hager @mikehager.bsky.social Journalist at @theglobeandmail.com covering the political, economic and social issues that affect us all.
News tips, please: mhager@globeandmail.com
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/mike-hager/
Gander Social @gandersocial.ca The social media you want. Built for Canada.
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your data taking an unexpected trip south. Built on AT Proto.
https://gandersocial.ca
Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social I do advocacy for public good, communications, problem solving, and sometimes I get people elected. She/her.
📍Treaty 7 Territory (Calgary, Canada)
(Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not reflect the views or opinions of my employer.)
Hannah Covington @hannahcov.bsky.social All things media literacy @newslit.org
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social Director, Research & Innovation, Actua.
Co-Director, Shift Insights.
Senior Fellow, Munk School.
Recovering political philosopher.
MIT PhD. Innovation. Science policy. Ethics. Skills. Space. JAWS. Running. Chronic napping. 🇨🇦
www.shiftinsights.ca
Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social Mother, writer and settler on Wet'suwet'en territory. Northern B.C. reporter for The Tyee. she/her
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social Researcher in conspiracy theories, religion, gender, extremism, end times, and hate. Lecturer at the University of Waterloo.
Carmencelestini.com
https://drcarmencelestini.substack.com/?r=19nlu2&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist
My Book GodsAngryMen.com
Catherine Griwkowsky @cgriwkowsky.bsky.social Reporter with allAlberta covering provincial politics from the legislature.
#ABpoli #ABleg
Reach out to catherine (at) allAlberta dot com for news releases/news tips.
I don't post anymore.
Matt Simmons @writermjs.bsky.social Journalist and photographer based on the unceded territory of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. Signal: writermjs.08
News Literacy Project @newslit.org We advance the development and teaching of news literacy in K-12 education. #NewsLiteracy https://newslit.org/
@oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social 
Island lifer @islandlifevanisle.bsky.social
Bike commuter
Toronto➡️Vancouver ➡️Victoria
Kulusevski's Patella Spurs 🤦♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social Usenet refugee
Lawyer (the government kind), Ottawa guy, Saskatchewan expat, pronoun libertarian, Tottenham Hotspur bore. Personal account. Non-partisan at work. Views are not those of my employer, obviously.
Hans Island
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Joy SpearChief-Morris @joyscm.bsky.social Journalist, Former Athlete. Bylines in The Globe and Mail, CBC, Toronto Star, The Narwhal, The Walrus and Sportsnet.
andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.
My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social Gardener. From flack to florist. From PR to peonies. Still fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #LFC
Alberta Views Magazine @albertaviews.bsky.social Citizens for the Common Good.
Read the most recent issue for free: https://albertaviews.ca/current-issue/
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Nathan Fung @fungnathan.bsky.social Reporter at CBC Ottawa. Prev: CBC Hamilton, the Globe and Mail, Taproot Edmonton, Global News parliamentary bureau.
He/him.
Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social I am an independent Senator, representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada. I live on Treaty Six Territory. Host of the podcast Alberta Unbound. She/her/elle Vive le Canada. Forever a Canadian. No to the Nine. senatorpaulasimons.ca
Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social Winnipegger, Calgarian, Maritimer, Quebecois. Canadian. Territory of Treaty 1 Nations & Homeland of the Red River Métis. Cis. he/him/lui/il 319.48ppm
https://brianpincott.substack.com
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social Academic & writer. 🇨🇦Applied Public Health Chair. I study health information practices & interventions, often pertaining to vaccination and/or gender. I also bicycle & drink coffee a lot, and write fiction a little. Recovering classical bassist.
Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social Writer at large (but mostly Vancouver).
Environment, culture, politics...
All too earnest.
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
[This account includes a tweet archive]
Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social Journalist, writer, author.
Ajuinata.
Ollie Williams @ollienwt.bsky.social Editor, Cabin Radio. Northwest Territories news.
Ellen Bees @ellenbees.bsky.social Teacher, learner, parent, bookworm.
Living in Winnipeg on Treaty One Territory.
She/her.
https://teacherbees.ca/
sarah radziminski @sarahradz.bsky.social 🇨🇦 I must decline for secret reasons
Supriya Dwivedi @supriya.bsky.social 
Deb WR @debbins.bsky.social Retired educator, voracious reader, knitter, art lover, science believer, Canadian, family, travel, progressive politics and green issues.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social Legendary newsman and beer league hockey player.*
Erin Blondeau ✷ writer & researcher @erinblondeau.bsky.social 📍quwutsun
✷ writer
✷ masters student, sociology & artificial intelligence
✷ www.erinkellyblondeau.com
⛓️💥 nothing to lose but our chains
Philip Mai @philipmai.com Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
@sumosoul.bsky.social @sumosoul.bsky.social The thousand year old sport is alive and kicking in Japan.
No spoilers in bout posts - all post bout spoilers clearly marked.
Amy Dempsey Raven @amydempseyraven.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Toronto Star (@thestar.com)
Journalism instructor, Carleton University