HB @howardbryantbooks.bsky.social Journalist. Author of RICKEY: The Life and Legend of an American Original, FULL DISSIDENCE: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field, Shut Out, among others. Some say I’m negative, but they’re not positive.
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Kat Eschner @keschner.bsky.social I am a journalist and hobby film photographer who works on @therundowntvo.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Emma McIntosh @emmamci.bsky.social Investigations @thestar.com. Formerly @thenarwhal.ca. Fan of FOI and lake swims. Hosted Paydirt, a podcast miniseries about the Greenbelt scandal. Signal: emmamci.76
Jennifer Gable @jennifergable.bsky.social 🌎🏟️🎪🎫Touring Headliner Viral🦠Comedian, Lol0nKillTony,
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In Her Place @inherplace.bsky.social Helping create transport, places and spaces which work better for women and girls in the UK and beyond. https://www.inherplace.co.uk
Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social Poetry editor at Coach House Books. Science writer at U of T.
Rahul Kalvapalle @rahul87.bsky.social 
Zack Hawes @zackhawes.bsky.social assistant professor @ OISE/University of Toronto / cognitive development / mathematical cognition / spatial thinking / mathematics education
https://www.mathematicalthinkinglab.com
Priyansh @privaricate.bsky.social Doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, writer, journalist. Co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social
FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social Equality, Socialism, Science, Environment, Animals, Trains! Colonial Settler. He/him. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Flouting Thomas @postbrechtian.bsky.social Playwright, organizer, seminarian, study group enthusiast, weird angel creature, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ AuDHD
El camino caminando
Vita regularis sine regula
Left politics, spirituality, music, theatre.
Estoy aprendiendo español
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Nicholas Keung @nicholaskeung.bsky.social Immigration Reporter at the Toronto Star. Can be reached at nkeung@thestar.ca. 
serene tan @serenet.bsky.social Read books, ride bikes, pat cats, climb rocks.
Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author: Kicking (Duke UP, 2026); Red Card (OR Books, 2026); What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016) www.julesboykoff.org
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social Journalist, crosspatch, editor at the Toronto Star.
Nadha Hassen, PhD MPH @nadhahassen.bsky.social Public health & environment scholar exploring equity, intersectionality, space/place with community. Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto.
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nadhahassen.com
www.linkedin.com/in/nadhahassen/
https://linktr.ee/nadha.h
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca Investigative journalist
llebrun[at]thewatchdog[dot]ca | @thewatchdog.ca
A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
Beyhan Farhadi, PhD @bbfarhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof. OISE/UofT | EdTech policy in public schools: surveillance, democracy & justice | queer anti-capitalist anti-racist feminist killjoy | she/her | beyhanfarhadi.com
Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social Transportation data scientist at the University of Toronto, physicist at heart.
I post about bikes and safe streets, local politics, and sometimes science. She/her.
Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social Exploring the history of Toronto/Canada. Author: The Toronto Book of the Dead & Toronto Book of Love. Host of Canadiana. Prof at George Brown. Creator: Toronto Time Traveller newsletter, The Festival of Bizarre Toronto History & The Toronto Dreams Project
Tanis Fowler @tanisfowler.bsky.social "There's only one rule that I know of, babies. God damn it, you've got to be kind." Toronto-based writer, editor and journalist. Currently CBC. Opinions my own. she/her
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social 🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca Investigations on the Alberta-led drug war revival: www.drugdatadecoded.ca
✍️ APTN, Alberta Views, The Breach, The Tyee
PhD Microbiology
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nam kiwanuka @namshine.bsky.social 
Sahar Fatima @sfatima.bsky.social News editor @prismreports.org
hclark @hclark.bsky.social Producer for TVO Today Live, and formerly for The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Cassie Barker @cassiebarker.bsky.social Environmentalist in Toronto
Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social Husband. Dad. History prof at MSU (F25). Author of I Fight for a Living, We Will Win the Day, and The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback.
profloumoore.com
Adrian Harewood @caradrianh.bsky.social Prof. @JSchool_CU. Member: @CABJMedia
@CAJ, @NABJ, @jhrnews, @writerstrust, @uottawapress, @ thenarwhalca, ex-Anchor @CBCOttawa @6
Email: adrianharewood70@gmail.com
Courtney Szto, PhD @courtneyszto.bsky.social Associate Professor. Author of “Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the voices of South Asian Canadians” 🏒🥅. Executive Producer of Revolutions 🚴🏻♀️. Co-host of Just Eats podcast 🍲🫔.
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social Poet
Latest: Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024)
Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) #GGBooks2022
Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, five from hem, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos
annickmacaskill.com
Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
Kelly Catlin Writer @kellycatlin.bsky.social Writer. Mediocre Guitarist. Cropped Pants Enthusiast. No spam DMs
Author of KURT COBAIN: FOREVER IN BLOOM (Skyhorse Publishing, 2026, all my profits go to charity). Trolls will be blocked, not entertained.
www.kellycatlinauthor.com
Molly Thomas @mollythomastv.bsky.social My bosses call me a flight risk 🇨🇦 Host of NEW show Big [IfTrue] | Correspondent | Speaker | @Zumba Inst 💃🏽 Born 306-based 6ix-daughter of 🌎
Jason Paris @jasonparis.bsky.social Fuelled by architecture, design, liminal spaces, media, transit, Toronto, and an unhealthy number of podcasts. Also here for cats, coffee, music, and queer stuff. *Opinions are unfortunately my own*
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Bandamlak @bandamlakyimenu.bsky.social Ethiopian Film writer, Columbo posts, footballer
https://open.substack.com/pub/bandamlak/p/la-chimera?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2kb7fe
Ornella Nzindukiyimana @orarunswild.bsky.social Nzee-ndoo-kee-yee-mah-nah, PhD -- Historian of Black sportspeople -- Assoc. Prof. StFX U -- Co-President of BCSA -- Editor, Sport History Review -- She/Her/Elle -- ✊🏾 🇷🇼 🇨🇦
Martha Rivers Porado @marthaporado.bsky.social Editor of the independent, go-to news source for Canada’s doctors and pharmacists: CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca, online home of the Medical Post and Pharmacy Practice + Business magazines #MedSky
I've seen more movies than you.
J-Source @jsource.bsky.social News, research and commentary about journalism in Canada.
https://j-source.ca/
Canada Press Freedom Project: http://canadapressfreedom.ca
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A. Harmony @aharmonymusic.blacksky.app •Current: artist & label relations at some DSP, somewhere
•Former: radio host, Marvin’s Room with A. Harmony
•Forever: culture critic, music journalist, lots of bylines, beautiful gowns ✌🏾
Jordan Cornish @notquitecorn.bsky.social Journalist. Podcast producer. The Hatchet.
Support us at hatchetmedia.substack.com
Chris Kemp @cbkemp.bsky.social An IT/infosec guy who mostly posts about sustainable, safe, and scalable infrastructure, bicycles, Toronto, tech, gaming, and cinema.
Rachel Barney @rachelxb.bsky.social Complaints about fascism and the Toronto subway. Wondering where it all went wrong. Elbows up!
Graeme @graeme-wa.bsky.social Métis living in Toronto who works with trains, rides bikes and likes to run.
Dan Burn stan account ⚫️⚪️ #HWTL
¡No Pasarán! 🏴
Sarah B. Hood @sarahbhood.bsky.social Author of Jam, Jelly & Marmalade, A Global History. Apt to chat about social history (food & fashion), sustainability, urban culture, craft, flora & fauna, various rabbit holes.
Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). My new Collection, UNRAVEL, was a National Book Critics Circle finalist.
Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
Kwame Eff @kwame-eff.bsky.social Enfant terrible of Canadian publishing. Rabble rousing at the intersection of Canadian politics, economics, and culture.
Sofi P. @sofip.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Tired.
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/radium-girl?fbclid=IwY2xjawHiwnxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXygvf1GdC9XqrKQH8rOKqVfgiOcUaR66kk5FwRFULvR9lhGs8HOjNiXjQ_aem_mLm1_goqGeZiFk125HZGNw
Cherise Seucharan @cheriseseucharan.bsky.social Investigative Journalist ~ Podcasts on stuff about gov't + institutions that would probably make you mad ~ Deputy Editor, TorontoToday.ca
Katie Heindl @wtevs.bsky.social basketballfeelings.com
NBA TV, The Association
Writer: NYT Magazine, SLAM, Rolling Stone, Ringer, The Believer, Yahoo Sports, SB, NBA dot com, Dime, VICE, few more.
Mark McAllister @markmcallister.bsky.social Sr. Journalist for @CityNews Toronto, Husband, Dad, NBA Fan ... Contact: mark.mcallister@citynews.rogers.com
Renée Sylvestre-Williams @reneesw.bsky.social Journalist. Book author - The Singles Tax, coming January 2026. Newsletter writer. Trinidadian Canadian. Traveler.
My journalism: https://muckrack.com/renee-sylvestre-williams/articles
Jay Pitter @jaypitter.bsky.social Award-Winning Placemaker (25+ North American Cities). Author. Speaker. Urban Planning Adjunct Professor. Subdivided Co-Editor. Two Book Deal w/ Penguin Random House Canada. Hip Hop & a lil Punk Rock. Hopeful.
Eric Squair @ericsquair.bsky.social 
Messy Urbanisms @messyurbanisms.bsky.social Images and articles relating to messy urbanism. Posts by @dylanreid
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
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Farzana Doctor @farzanadoctor.bsky.social Author of 7 books: fiction, poetry, self-help
Activist and Reg Social Worker/Psychotherapist
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Rosemary Westwood @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social Award-winning journalist. Fellow @nytimes.com Formerly @wwno.org @NPR.org @KFFhealthnews.org
Morgan Campbell is The Author of Your Next Fav Book @morganpcampbell.bsky.social Author, My Fighting Family: Borders & Bloodlines & The Battles That Made Us
You might have read me at CBC, NYT, Toronto Star, Globe & Mail and elsewhere
Maybe you saw me talking boxing on ESPN+ or DAZN
Javier Dávila (he/they) 🇵🇸 @xjusticexpeace.bsky.social queer latine award-winning educator/researcher | ex-JW | CREATING RADICALLY LOVING ALTERNATIVES — in exile | abolition + transformative justice + disability justice | SV/GBV prevention | SUPPORT Legal Fund - pinned ⬇️
Arshy Mann @arshy.bsky.social Journalist, displaced Vancouverite. Co-founder of The Hatchet, a podcast & newsletter dedicating to exposing power and money in Canada. Subscribe at hatchetmedia.substack.com.
Sarah Sweet @sarahsweet.bsky.social Journalist at TVO. Responsible cat owner. This article is a stub. 
Tom Cardoso @tomcardoso.bsky.social Investigative reporter at @theglobeandmail.com. Lover of freedom of information requests, anonymous emails and manila envelopes. Get in touch: tcardoso@globeandmail.com
Chantal Braganza @chantalbraganza.bsky.social STORY OF YOUR MOTHER, 2025
H.G. Watson @hgwatsonwrites.bsky.social Writer. Sometimes teacher, sometimes audience development. Writing a book about the teen mags of the 1990s and 2000s. 👩💻💖
V.S. McGrath/Vicki Essex @vsmcgrath.bsky.social Author of THE DEVIL'S REVOLVER series and more. Also writes as Vicki Essex. Rep'd by @millercallihan.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/vsmcgrath
Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto (RaBIT) @torontorabit.bsky.social Sign our petition to make a small, simple change to Toronto's electoral system that will make our politics more fair, diverse, inclusive, and friendly: rabit.ca
tanja-tiziana @tanjatiziana.bsky.social time traveler via light and sound.
Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social Executive editor @thenarwhal.ca. Still hate gum. The lakes, they are Great.
(Illo by Andrea Bell, from The Leak, a kid's graphic novel about a girl that does environmental journalism!)
Bob Georgiou @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social Torontophile, writer, historian. Toronto history. Writings in York Pioneer & Spacing Magazine. Loves libraries&archives, parks & cultural heritage. (he/him/his)
www.scenesto.com
Mick Sweetman @micksweetman.bsky.social Photographer in Nanaimo, British Columbia / Snuneymuxw Treaty territory.
Michael Hollett @northbymichael.bsky.social Editor/publisher NEXT Magazine. President/CEO NXNE. Editor-in-Chief SPIN Canada. Founder of NXNE and NEXT Magazine, co-founder NOW Magazine nextmag.ca. NXNE 2027 June 16-20
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
David McPherson @davidmcphersonca.bsky.social Author. 101 FASCINATING CANADIAN MUSIC FACTS; MASSEY HALL; THE LEGENDARY HORSESHOE TAVERN: A COMPLETE HISTORY. Journalist. Cyclist. Voracious reader. Sober. Music is the Elixir of Life.
JoannaLavoie @joannalavoie.bsky.social Bilingual Multimedia Journalist
CP24.com + bylines CTV News Toronto, CTV News
Prev: Toronto.com, Toronto Star
@JournalismTMU alum
#socialjustice #breakingnews
Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
http://www.noraloreto.ca
Andrew Louis @hyfen.net Building a memex.
Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime.
A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada)
Website: www.deanjobb.com
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
toronTO @chrisbateman.bsky.social Toronto writer with bylines @citylab, @globeandmail, @spacing, @tvo, and others. Writer of historical plaques for @heritagetoronto. Opinions: own
Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social Healthy Living Reporter at The Globe and Mail. Wellness, travel, and disability. Host of Short Sighted for CBC Podcasts. Writer for Sight Unseen on CW. Words: GQ, VICE, Hard Times, The Beaverton, etc.
Gelek Buckets @gelek.bsky.social 
Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁 @cathycrowe.bsky.social Longtime 🇨🇦 street nurse|✍️Dying for a Home & Knapsack Full of Dreams|✍️on urban issues.
Fighting for a national🏡 program.
www.cathycrowe.ca
Jody Vance @jodyvance.bsky.social 30 years in local and national media. 1st woman in 🇨🇦 TV to host her own sports show in primetime. Now: TV/radio news/current affairs. Emcee. Moderator. Media training & consultant. 🚫 DM
Kaja Jasińska 🇨🇦 @kajajasinska.bsky.social Developmental cognitive neuroscientist researching child development and learning in #global contexts at the University of Toronto; PI @bold-lab.bsky.social 🧠👩🏼🔬🐕 Cyclist who takes the lane 🚴🏼♀️
Josh Rubin @starbeer.bsky.social Business reporter, ex-sports guy at the Toronto Star; beer writer/beer and whisky judge. I post mostly about sports, beer, business and some politics.
Heather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
John Lorinc @johnlorinc.bsky.social Toronto journalist & editor. Contributor to Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Corporate Knights, Walrus, Spacing. Co-editor: Messy Cities (Coach House, 2025). Author: No Jews Live Here, A Memoir. https://chbooks.com/Books/N/No-Jews-Live-Here.
Pacinthe @pacinthe.bsky.social Journalist | www.pacinthe.com
Brent van Staalduinen | Writer, Resister, Human. @brentvans.com Canadian. Award-winning novelist. Husband. Dad. Son. Resister of GenAI and fascism. Deconstructed/Reconstructing Christian. Forge FC supporter. Human. He/Him.
Natasha Smith @totash.bsky.social Cloud and cycling enthusiast. Music nerd. Lifelong average but avid dancer.
Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social Tweetdecker formerly known as @cityslikr or Former Tweetdecker known as @cityslikr
Creator of, curator and writer for All Fried Up in the Big Smoke afuitbs.com
Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social Toronto/Scotland.
Art, nature, city walks, probably birds.
In the archives. Travelling Fifer.
She/her. Views own.
Matthew Blackett @matthewblackett.bsky.social • Co-Founder, Publisher & Creative Director of Spacing spacing.bsky.social / Spacing Store spacingstore.bsky.social / Spacing Radio spacingradio.bsky.social
• Author-editor-photog of 13 books
• drew 'm@b' comic
• @MatthewBlackett on Insta, Threads, X