Annalise Klingbeil @annaliseak.bsky.social Comms + politics + podcasts + community + going outside.
Co-founder & principal @ ChampionCommunications.ca. Former journalist. I ask questions on BalanceOfPowerPod.ca. Occasional outdoorsy goodness @ GoOutside.ca
James Cowan @jamescowan.bsky.social Investing and Personal Finance Editor, Globe and Mail
Lauren Boothby @laurby.bsky.social Video journalist for CityNews Edmonton in gloriously 🐀-free Alberta now on the police & crime beat. Former Edmonton Journal & NEWS 1130 reporter trained up by B.C. community newspapers. From Southwestern Ontario. Tips: lauren.boothby@rci.rogers.com
Carlos Osorio @a1please.bsky.social
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/
James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole."
Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social Was @stateofthecity on Twitter. Veteran of a B-Grade, Film Noir genre of politics known as "local government." Current gig: second tour of duty in the Winnipeg Mayor's Office. Hometowns: Victoria, Winnipeg, Toronto. Working on 'Debt City' (see debt.city)
Stephanie Levitz @stephanielevitz.bsky.social Senior reporter in the Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau. One part Anne Shirley, one part Harriet the Spy.
Adrian Morrow @adrianmorrow.bsky.social U.S. Correspondent at The Globe and Mail
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.
Sean Silcoff @seansilcoff.bsky.social Storyteller. Newshound. Co-wrote Losing the Signal, about BlackBerry. I cover Canadian tech/biotech/innovation for Globe & Mail
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
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Melissa Tait @meltait.bsky.social photojournalist and video journalist for @theglobeandmail.com | 📸🎥🗞️🇨🇦
brand new to Bluesky | always fidgeting
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/melissa-tait/
Susan Krashinsky Robertson @susinsky.bsky.social Business reporter at The Globe and Mail, covering the retail industry
Signal: 416-585-5438
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.
josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social I write about the people and institutions shaping Canadian arts + culture and also wrote a book called Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy that is mostly explained by its subtitle. Pls send tips to jokane@globeandmail.com
Pippa Norman @pippanorman.bsky.social Innovation reporter for The Globe and Mail
Clare Malone @claremalone.bsky.social Writer at The New Yorker. (Currently on leave working on a book about MAHA.)
Host of Still Counting. 🎧Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
https://www.youtube.com/@StillCountingPodcast
Patrick Brethour @patrickbrethour.bsky.social Editorials editor at The Globe and Mail in Canada, Globeandmail.com
Anne Marie Aikins @femwriter.bsky.social Former chief spox, journalist, and a variety of other careers. Had some books published & love to write. Now my own boss at AMA Communications. Toronto is home. Friends call me AMA
Iman Janmohamed @imanjanmohamed.bsky.social Reporter. Previously @ CBC News @theglobeandmail.com. @ubyssey.ca forever. She/her.
Katrina Clarke @katrinaclarke.bsky.social Investigative reporter | @IJFMedia | Reporting on government procurement. Katrina.clarke@ijfmedia.org
Nadine Yousif @nadineyousif.bsky.social Senior Canada reporter for the BBC, based in Toronto. I share my work and other interesting things out there. Thoughts are strictly my own. Get in touch: nadine.yousif@bbc.co.uk or DM for Signal
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Richard Zussman @richardzussman.bsky.social Victoria, BC, Canada. Legislative Reporter at Global BC. Host of Focus BC. C division curler. Rookie minors baseball coach. He/him.
Patti Sonntag @pattisonntag.bsky.social Parliament Hill reporter for Investigative Journalism Foundation
Founder, Institute for Investigative Journalism, former NYT
Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Author. Nigellavangelist. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars/Trek. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
Alex Ballingall @aballinga.bsky.social Deputy Ottawa Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star. Government/political people, please tell me everything: aballingall@thestar.ca
https://www.thestar.com/
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
The Tyee @thetyee.ca Independent BC-based journalism swimming against the current. Paywall-free since 2003. support.thetyee.ca
Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social BBC’s International Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/@sommervilletv
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Paresh Dave @peard33.bsky.social Senior writer at @WIRED.com, covering tech. Signal: peard33.24
WhatsApp: +1-415-565-1302
pareshdave.com
https://www.wired.com/author/paresh-dave/
Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social WIRED Senior Correspondent covering Silicon Valley and its impact beyond. Send tips to Signal handle ChaoticGoode.12. (No PR pitches please)
Angela Watercutter @waterslicer.bsky.social Senior Editor, Special Projects @ WIRED
Signal: AngelaWatercutter.95
Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Hamdi Issawi @hamdiissawi.bsky.social Former reporter. Back in Edmonton. Don’t follow. Fact-check instead. #yeg
Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social Reporter at The New York Times writing about the intersection of health and politics, especially in marginalized communities. NYT Guild steward. No, not one of those Astors.
Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social Devoted too many years of my life to platforms that were ultimately refashioned into reactionary organs. Now I'm here.
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com North America’s Trusted Source Of News
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebeaverton
Merch: https://the-beaverton.myshopify.com/
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social fire guy, weather guy, researcher, professor and research chair.
Thompson Rivers University
Canadian 5-10 day fire weather outlook at
https://www.tru.ca/wildfire/research/canada-fire-weather-outlook.html
davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social Global News Ottawa Bureau Chief. My bio and disclosure statement is at www.davidakin.com. I'm usually in Ottawa 🇨🇦 but I work wherever.
Kim Bolan @kimbolan.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian journalist at the Vancouver Sun/Postmedia covering organized crime. Canucks fan since 1970 (sigh) kbolan@postmedia.com 604-219-5740 WhatsApp/Signal
Olamide Olaniyan @olapalooza.bsky.social editing @thetyee.ca, he/him, email: oolaniyan@thetyee.ca
Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social Emmy-winning journalist and
senior culture editor @wired.com | VICE News final girl (RIP) | tips: manisha_krishnan@wired.com or mkrishnan.79 on Signal
Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social Legislative reporter for CBC News BC.
LSE alum, Travers Fellowship recipient, Amnesty International Canada media award recipient.
Loves to travel (even with two toddlers apparently).
Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca Canadian news reporter/producer based in Prince George, British Columbia — Dakelh territory. I live north of most of you.
akurjata.ca | Nechako x Lhtakoh | he/him
Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social Online culture reporter at the Globe and Mail
John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social Writer and journalist: The Duel, Stephen Harper, The Landing. With Darrell Bricker: Breaking Point (this Oct.), Empty Planet, The Big Shift.
Kristy Kirkup @kkirkup.bsky.social National health journalist for The Globe and Mail, 🇨🇦’s national newspaper.
Based in Ottawa.
Contact: kkirkup@globeandmail.com.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/kristy-kirkup/
Tai Huynh @taimhuynh.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, The Local @thelocal.to
Riley Sparks @sparksriley.bsky.social Journalist. Reporting on Gaza, migration/borders, human rights & aid @newhumanitarian.bsky.social. Researcher @ Canada Press Freedom Project.
Signal: sparksriley.01
sparksriley@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/sparksriley
Stephen Jeffery @stephenej.bsky.social Australian-Canadian. Producer at The Australian Financial Review. Formerly of The Hill Times and The Canberra Times. He/him
Andrew Parkin @parkinac.bsky.social Come for the public opinion research, stay for the bird photos. Executive Director of the Environics Institute for Survey Research.
More to discover at https://www.environicsinstitute.org/ and https://substack.com/@cdnsurveystuf
Jeremy Klaszus @klaszus.bsky.social Founder and editor of @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social. Publishing slow news for curious Calgarians. I also roll a pop-up printing press around town. sprawlcalgary.com
Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social Author of INVISIBLE BOY, winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, BITTERSWEET (spring 2027) and I JUST HAVE TO RACE ALL THESE GHOSTS (summer 2027). Host of @TheTyee podcast. East Vancouver.
Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social nba stats, raptors | not all fun facts are fun, some are red flags | email: uthayakumar.keerthika@gmail.com
William Lou @williamlou.bsky.social Hello and Welcome merchant
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer.
Also: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)
مریم @maryamshah.bsky.social newsletter editor at the Toronto Star. really smart muslim woman, according to multiple media reports.
previously: globe and mail, global news, postmedia.
the time i studied canada as a middle power in grad school feels v relevant now.
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
Jeff Yates @jeffyates.bsky.social Journaliste à Radio-Canada, Décrypteurs. Je gosse les gens avec les fausses nouvelles depuis 2014. Parfois barbu. Peut-être un lézard.
Toutes les choses ici:
https://linktr.ee/jeff__yates
David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com Editor, McClelland & Stewart. Author. Writer. General purpose factotum. Lego enthusiast. PhD in political science, just in case.
Alyshah Hasham @alyshah.bsky.social City Hall reporter at the Toronto Star
Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social Senior reporter, provincial affairs. CBC Calgary. Formerly: Toronto Star investigations. Interested in: Misinformation, politics, culture.
Signal: alexboyd.56
alex.boyd@cbc.ca
Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social Earned media account director at Burson/H&K. Audio, digital, print journalist. Media specialist. Host of Cancon, former host of The Big Story/The Gravy Train.
Jessica Smith Cross @jessiecatherine.bsky.social Editor of The Trillium. "Real mom vibe."
Dylan Robertson @withfilesfrom.bsky.social Parliament Hill reporter covering Canada’s diplomacy, aid and trade for The Canadian Press newswire. Volleyball klutz.
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.
Alex Boutilier @alexboutilier.bsky.social Reporter, Global News | Late of Nova Scotia
Michael John Lo @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social Skeetin' from Victoria, Canada. Reporter with the Times Colonist newspaper, prev. words in the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Capital Daily & more. He/him. Allergic to eggplant, shrimp, lobster.
Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social *On maternity leave*
Co-founder at De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca
📧 brishtireports@gmail.com
✉️ brishtibasu@protonmail.com
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com Environment and climate journalist | Editor in Chief at @nationalobserver.com | Work in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, The Guardian | www.jameswsthomson.com
Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social I write and yak for CBC in Calgary. DMs open, Signal, WhatsApp, and such
jason.markusoff@cbc.ca
Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social Researcher, UCalgary
PhD, Political Science
Dr. Cronk, Historian of Complaints. I've written a book, The Press Gallery (release TBD).
Headline of the Year! Lots going on.
Mark Ramzy @markramzy.bsky.social I cover federal politics for the Toronto Star in Ottawa. Here to share my/colleagues' stories and other interesting things I come across. Egy/Can. Send tips: mramzy@thestar.ca.
Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin.bsky.social I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit
Rosa Saba @rosasaba.bsky.social Journalist at The Canadian Press covering grocery, markets, labour and more.
Running low on thoughts and opinions but if I come up with any they're mine, not my employer's.
Rosa.saba@thecanadianpress.com
Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social Yukon-based author, writer, editor
Western Canada Editor, Canadian Geographic
Contributing editor, High Country News
My books are NERVE and NO SLEEP 'TIL FAIRBANKS
Romance reader, slow but enthusiastic cyclist, wife guy
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer
in film, vulture, etc
mostly on ig
Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social Writer and cartoonist based in Montreal. My first book is out May 20 :)
Gabrielledrolet.com
genna @genna.bsky.social Creator of Pages Past, a podcast where your favourite people revisit their old favourite books. Editor, college instructor, Torontonian. Bluesky's Bake Off correspondent.
Listen: https://pod.link/1753505445
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PagesPast
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Murad Hemmadi @muradhem.bsky.social I cover artificial intelligence and other deep technologies for The Logic | Macleans and Canadian Business before | murad.hemmadi@thelogic.co
Madeline Smith @meksmith.bsky.social Justice reporter at CBC Edmonton, on maternity leave until Feb 2027. Past life in newspapers (Journal, Herald, StarMetro). Fighting for my life on uncomfortable courthouse gallery benches. she/her
madeline.smith@cbc.ca
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!)
Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com Editor on the Opinion team @ Toronto Star. Pitch me at nalang@thestar.ca.
Writer, columnist, bylines all over. PhD. Anglo-Indo-Canadian, each in equal measure. https://navneetalang.com/
David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social Logic reporter, Ottawa Citizen and Canadian Press alum. I cover Ottawa, cybersecurity and defence, telecom, space, health, infrastructure and whatever else needs doing. Signal: @davidreevely.68
Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
Kat Eschner @keschner.bsky.social I am a journalist and hobby film photographer who works on @therundowntvo.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
kateschner.com
Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine, Toronto Star and more, author of three books, and the River-Daughter. 🇨🇦
Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social Reporting on tech and conflict for NBC News.
Previously WSJ, Harvard Shorenstein Center, BuzzFeed News.
Email: jane.lytvynenko@nbcuni.com
Signal: janelytv.74
Currently based in New York.
jenna moon @jennamoon.bsky.social Torontonian-turned-Londoner and cat lady. (and a digital live news person at the BBC. tips and pitches: jenna.moon@bbc.co.uk)
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