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Pat Kane @patkanephoto.bsky.social 📸 in Northern Canada / Nat Geo, NYTimes, Globe & Mail, The Walrus / Member of Indigenous Photograph, Boreal Collective / Represented by La Guilde
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com I write novels, games and stories. Coming in 2026: MERCUTIO and THE SWORDMASTER. Writer at CHEO Foundation (my views are my own). Former journalist. From Manitoba, now in Ottawa. She/her. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️🌈
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Cindy Dalglish @cindydalglish.bsky.social Dogs are the best people. I made that 70’ sign out of tarps and red vinyl. 
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social Sometimes sports journo, sometimes comms pro, always a maker. Love Chicago. Probably making a Taskmaster or Murder, She Wrote joke. I won't answer any questions you can Google. I'm here for conversation, not debate. I mute whining about officials.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social Senior culture writer, Salon.com. Formerly Bitch Media. Forever fan of print magazines. Tell your dog I said hello.
priya @ flamecon @lettersofpriya.bsky.social associate production editor at hachette book group & proud member of @hbgworkers.bsky.social 💘 i like comic books and evil vampires. they/them
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, Russian > English translator. Gardener + crafter. Syilx + Secwépemc territory, British Columbia. kattancock.com
Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social Transit polls well. We use that popularity to push for more reliable & abundant transit. Let's make it better than driving.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
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former editor at Launcher and The Washington Post
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Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton
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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social 🍁• #ElbowsUpCanada • Community Engaged Wildlife Research • Professor • University of Saskatchewan • farmkid • dadof2 • Rebel Scum • born@330ppm CO2 now 430 • 7x covid vax • caribou • invasive pigs • wolves • peatlands in the Hudson Bay Lowlands Manitoba
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social Editor. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/
Retired reporter. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/les-perreaux/
Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social I do words. Canadian, so… funny-ish? Victoria, BC. Foodie. Oxford commas. Anti-Nazi. Antifa. Pro-science. Once sold everything to play nomad for 4+ years & 25 countries. Worth it. She/her. Loathe rage-bait. Team FuckYou/MakeMe. Free Palestine. AuDHD.
Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
Johanne Boucher @johanneboucher.bsky.social Tea addict|book lover|writer.
Neurodivergent|Info Specialist (MLIS)
Montréalaise à Ottawa
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Meg Collins @megvera.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Words in The Tyee, This Magazine, the Bay Area Reporter, Arts Help Magazine, ARC Poetry Magazine and more 🏳️🌈
Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mini Painter. Gamer Geek.
As seen in CBC, the Tyee, Reactor Magazine (TOR.com), Polygon, and many other places.
Based in lək̓ʷəŋən territory (Victoria, BC, Canada).
Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social Ottawa bureau chief, Bloomberg News
Laura Dhillon Kane @ldhillonkane.bsky.social Bloomberg senior editor based in Toronto. Ex-Ottawa bureau chief, Vancouverite. Constantly cold. I watch movies sometimes too. Get in touch at ldhillonkane@bloomberg.net
Phillip Iscove @pmiscove.bsky.social Co-Creator/Writer/Producer of FOX's Sleepy Hollow and @podcastlikeits... aka a Neurotic Jewish writer living in LA. I know, shocking.
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Andy Dehnart @andydehnart.com Writer, TV critic, creator of realityblurred.com, TCA president, writing coach, husband, cat dad, improviser, runner, lover of em dashes and roller coasters. More at andydehnart.com! 🏳️🌈 He/him
Lynn Coady @lynncoady.bsky.social Giller Prize winning fictioneer and screenwriter. Irony-poisoned. lynncoady.com
Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social writer / composer | WSJ, Guardian, Telegraph, Amazon, Spotify, BBC
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Alys Brooks @alysbrooks.bsky.social Freelance writer, reporter, and developer. she/her/hers. @transjournalists.org member. @MarquetteU alumna. Words @rewirenewsgroup.com, @AssignedMedia.org, Door County Knock, CapTimes
Ashton @ashtonindc.bsky.social Urban planner and car-free PhD candidate researching the conflict system of vehicular violence, the ideology of car supremacy, and the care of mobility. Read more at http://peaceandplanning.com.
Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social Journalist, writer, author.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social Impossible archaeologist (space/Everest), space hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA)
Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social Freelance producer doing stuff at CBC Sports. Previously at This Hour Has 22 Minutes & CBC News.
Writer, surfer, swimmer. Toronto.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social I contain multitudes. Chief among them: silly things, serious things, maudlin things. Data science, databases, data ethics, R, Python, JavaScript, jokes, UBC and #yvr
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Andrew Walsh @andwalsh.bsky.social I like cats, coffee, cycling, cities, croissants... what's a word for nature that starts with a c?
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Ashley Spencer @ashleyspencer.bsky.social Culture journalist + author of DISNEY HIGH. Words in The New York Times, The Washington Post, L.A. Times, etc. https://linktr.ee/amspen
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social Science journalist, humor writer and aspiring cephalopod. Boston-adjacent. Author of THE CREATURES' GUIDE TO CARING, out now!
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social Fiona and Rowan's dad, basically. Spider guy, Lefty Dem, pragmatic progressive. Win elections with the majority you have, not the majority you wish you had.
Scott Harrison @scottharrisonqb.bsky.social Small town councillor, affordable housing advocate, kidney donor, and reader of way too many insufferably pretentious books.
World Press Freedom Canada - Liberté de la presse Canada @wpfc-lpc.bsky.social We are a non-profit whose mission is to champion press freedom in Canada and abroad. / Nous sommes une organisation avec la mission est de défendre la liberté de la presse au Canada et à l'étranger.
https://worldpressfreedomcanada.ca/
Danielle @as-per-danielle.bsky.social chaotic good. clever. colourful. corgis. Gastronaut. Naps, sloths. HBO. politics. opinions my own. Vancouver-ish.
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com @nbcnews.com Senior Justice reporter, ebike guy.
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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. senatorpaulasimons.ca
Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social Settler on Treaty 7 Land
Trying to build a future that's worth living. 🌿
https://phillipmeintzer.medium.com/
Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.
Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada) […]
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Dwell Time Transit Podcast @dwelltime.ca Join Denis @denisagar.bsky.social & Rodney @chanface.bsky.social in their discussions around transit and advocacy in Canada
Available on Spotify, Apple, and RSS on our website: https://dwelltime.ca
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
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Capt'n Amy, the Girl with the Sun in her Eyes @captnamy.bsky.social ⚧
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Mum to Bowie
🚀engineer, console engineer,
lousy musician, student. she/hers
Opinions my own.
Ex-pat Floridian. Newly minted Chicagoan.
Yes, I launched Artemis 1. And Artemis II
Well, helped launch it.
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com You'll Cry and Do Nothing
Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social Storyteller. 
Luke @lawbecke.bsky.social 
@planetmoon.bsky.social @planetmoon.bsky.social 🇨🇦 lover of nature. #YYJ
Ally. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️☮️ uninvited settler
Horrified what’s happening south of the border and frightened what could happen here but feeling stronger as of late. Older and crankier by the minute. ❤️
Michael Schwandt @michaelschwandt.bsky.social Public health physician in Vancouver. Antiracist ecoanxious xennial numtot. Healthy environments, equity, climate. Once posted a viral tw!tter thread on COVID prevention. Clinical faculty @UBC. Views mine. He/him.
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social Space archaeologist | Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/ | Blog https://zoharesque.blogspot.com/
Smash MAGA! @smashmagagame.bsky.social #SmashMAGA! Trump Zombie Apocalypse! RW extremists threaten the free world, only one force can stop them- ANTIFA! PLAY NOW! Steam, MAC, PC, Android - smashmaga.com
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt (elle • she/her)
Québécoise /// 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 rights defender
Law nerd (LL.B., J.D.). Féministe. Antifasciste. I document anti-trans policy and legislation in Canada (and beyond). Empathy is a human value. Views are my own.
web: celeste.lgbt
Kris @krisrf.bsky.social Indie horror game developer (writer/programmer)
I follow fellow Vancouverites ☔️
She/her :)
Michael @snowrunner.bsky.social Books, bikes and beers
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social personal account of an ex-cdc policy guy and 10x jeopardy applicant. ask me about my cats! shares/likes ≠ endorsements. he/his. abide no hatred.
Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com Miss604.com est. 2004
📚 New book FREECOUVER is in stores now!
🏆 2025 City of Vancouver Award of Excellence
📰 Columnist & Photographer
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social Anti-imperialist prairie fish science. Artist. Writer. Proud citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation.
Fish are the future.
The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018-present).
https://freshwaterfishfutures.ca/
https://fishphilosophy.org/
MZS.Press @mzspress.bsky.social The official account of MZS.press, online store and publishing imprint. Created by author, critic, journalist and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz. Business + account are run by Judith St. Germain. We're biblio-cinephiles who ❤️ the arts & artists.
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
Miriam B @miriamkb.bsky.social Journalist. Writer. Reader.
Currently located in Yellowknife NT.
Want to tell your story? DM me
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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social Accountant, Road Safety Advocate, Bike Blogger & Campaign Lead of Open Streets Toronto. Bilingual EN/FR. #BikeTO #BikeSky #TOpoli #VisionZero 🚲
Blog = www.twowheeledpolitics.ca
Open Streets Petition = tinyurl.com/OpenStreetsPetitionTO
Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social Geographer, public transit and active transportation advocate, Torontonian. He/him.
seanmarshall.ca
GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social Big fits start here.