Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social Host of Question Everything from KCRW and Placement Theory: lnk.to/khCBOC
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @risingaction.bsky.social Sports guy. Some yelling about other things too.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Steph Chambers @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social News researcher with The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. She/her.
Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
Richard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social Senior Writer and occasional feature editor at the Toronto Star.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social Author, journalist. New book: What She Said: Conversations About Equality. Quill & Packet mysteries with Kate Hilton. Bury the Lead (2024); Widows and Orphans (2025) Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lizrenzetti
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Ed Tubb @edtubb.bsky.social Editor at the Toronto Star, with a focus on courts, justice and occasional greyhound content.
Journalism is a discipline of verification.
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Matt Galloway @mattgalloway.bsky.social I ask questions on the radio for a living. Also like running.
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Kaleigh Rogers @kaleighrogers.bsky.social Reporter focused on elections, polls, and dabbling in science stories. Past @nytimes @fivethirtyeight et al.
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Dave Kaufman @davekaufman.bsky.social Montreal.
Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social I write and yak for CBC in Calgary. DMs open, Signal, WhatsApp, and such
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davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social Global News Chief Political Correspondent. My bio and disclosure statement is at www.davidakin.com. I'm usually in Ottawa 🇨🇦 but I work wherever.
Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social Mother, writer and settler on Wet'suwet'en territory. Northern B.C. reporter for The Tyee. she/her
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Pabàmàdiz @karynpugliese.bsky.social Personal account. Thoughts & opinions are mine and do not reflect my employer(s). Journalist & #DifficultIndigenousWoman Pikwàkanagàn; @niemanfdn 2020 @caj @cjfe @aptnnews #cdnpoli #Indigenous #cdnmedia
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star.
Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through.
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize + Peabody award-winning journalist http://instagram.com/_connie_walker Nehiyaw from Okanese
Arash Madani @arashmadani.bsky.social Living the dream.
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Likely on a plane or at a stadium.
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Emma Waverman @emmawaverman.bsky.social CBC Radio Producer
Judith Pereira @heypereira.bsky.social Arts/Books editor at The Globe and Mail. I love books, dogs, gardening, birding, cappuccinos, crosswords, puzzles.
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social 6x award-winning feminist buzzkill.
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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
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Ian Hanomansing @ianhanomansing.bsky.social Canadian journalist based in Vancouver.
Carol Off @caroloff.bsky.social Author of At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage --"an instant #1 bestseller."
It's the story of how political words have been weaponized and who weaponized them.
caroloff.ca
Substack.com/@caroloff
Melissa Tait @meltait.bsky.social photojournalist and video journalist for @theglobeandmail.com | 📸🎥🗞️🇨🇦
brand new to Bluesky | always fidgeting
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Kirstine Stewart @kirstine.bsky.social Former Twitter OG looking for a patch of Bluesky
@davecrosbie.bsky.social @davecrosbie.bsky.social Audio editor at The Globe and Mail
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social Media nerd. CNN chief media analyst. INSIDE THE HIVE podcast host. Author of "Network of Lies," "Hoax," and "Top of the Morning." Former Shorenstein fellow, NYT reporter and blogger.
Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social Global health reporter, The New York Times. Former correspondent in South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the MidEast. Author, 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa; Promised the Moon. Baker. Canoe tripper. Disease nerd. Lover of a fat novel and Earl Grey tea.
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. 🇨🇦
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.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.
Steve Faguy @fagstein.bsky.social Blogger, media analyst, copy editor at the Montreal Gazette. https://blog.fagstein.com
aisling murphy @aislingmurph.bsky.social "ash-ling" | theatre reporter + critic @ the globe and mail | aislingmurphy@globeandmail.com
shamas.bsky.social @shamas.bsky.social Writer, performer, and farm dwelling land lover.
When asked if I'm a comedian I say, 'Only if they laugh.'
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Signa Butler @signabutler.bsky.social CBC Sports host and play-by-play commentator. Yes, I call that sport.
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Hamutal Dotan @hamutal.bsky.social editing (magazines, books) and teaching (UofT, TMU); mostly posting journalism longreads; hopefully outside | she/her
Canada Soccer @canadasocceren.bsky.social Home of Canada Soccer 🍁 | @canwnt.bsky.social Olympic 🥇'20 🥉'12,'16 | @canmntofficial.bsky.social Concacaf Champs '85, '00 | Couverture en Français: @canadasoccerfr.bsky.social
CANMNT @canmntofficial.bsky.social Official Account of the Canadian Men's National Team 🇨🇦 | Compte officiel de l’Équipe nationale masculine du Canada 🇨🇦
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Olympic Champions🥇'20 &🥉'12, '16
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
Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social Reporter with the Investigative Journalism Bureau;
Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person;
Nosy questions, mostly.
anna.mehler.paperny@gmail.com / amehlerpaperny@ijbureau.org
Bookstagramming/dogstagrammimg @mehlerpaperny
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Toronto Star @thestar.com Canada's biggest daily newspaper thestar.com
Lucy Rowland @bootupanalytics.com Womens football, data analytics, Survivor hot takes 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to In-depth, non-profit journalism from corners of Toronto too often overlooked.
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Adrian Humphreys @adrianhumphreys.bsky.social Author, journalist, underworld observer ▪ Reporter @nationalpost.bsky.social
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Michael Healey @healey.bsky.social Playwright, etc
@cacurtis.bsky.social @cacurtis.bsky.social
Glynnis MacNicol @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social I’M MOSTLY HERE TO ENJOY MYSELF (Penguin, 2024)
WILDER: A Reckoning w Laura Ingalls Wilder (@Tribeca 2023 Selection)
NO ONE TELLS YOU THIS (S&S, 2018)
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.
Lauren Pelley @laurenpelley.bsky.social Senior Health & Medical Reporter at CBC News. Currently on maternity leave.
📍Toronto
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social Journalist. Entrepreneur. Kwantlen FN, Nooksack Tribe. rjago.substack.com / knowledgekeepr.ca
Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social Happy writing fun ball. Born and raised on Treaty One territory. Living back in Winnipeg, for now, but left my heart in Kyiv.
Kady O'Malley @kadyo.bsky.social Chronicler of parliamentary antics, procedural shenanigans and associated other critical elements of Canadian democracy. Writer at iPolitics.ca, political musings on CBC and elsewhere.
Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin.bsky.social I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit
Rachel Sklar @rachelsklar.bsky.social Writer / entrepreneur / single mom
Podcast: Hi, Smart Friend!
Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social Journalist at CBC News interested in the justice system, national security and stories with a heartbeat.📍Toronto
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The Canadian Jewish News @thecjn.bsky.social Est. 1960: Daily breaking news, cultural commentary, in-depth podcasts and a new quarterly magazine. Support independent Jewish media: thecjn.ca
Upstream Timeout @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
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U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
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Sarah Sweet @sarahsweet.bsky.social Journalist at TVO. Responsible cat owner. This article is a stub.
Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social Toronto magazine writer and executive editor @thelocal.to. Here for smart long-form articles and dumb basketball posts. Email nick@thelocal.to
Tai Huynh @taimhuynh.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, The Local @thelocal.to
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!)
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Brad Wheeler @bradwheelerglobe.bsky.social Music writer at The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”