Mark Medley

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She tried to book an Ontario Parks campsite at 7 a.m. and got nothing. Here is why campers say the system is 'broken' With construction, a new campground delayed and demand rising, Ontarians are frustrated by a system they call unfair — and trying workarounds.

I’ve been waiting years for a fix. www.thestar.com/news/gta/fin...

Eight lives lost in British Columbia: Their names and stories Community of Tumbler Ridge mourning five children and an educator killed in school shooting and deaths of shooter’s mother and stepbrother

We're all mourning these kids. Thinking of the young brothers and sisters in particular trying to understand what's happened. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Toronto-born musician Nathan Micay is making his mark on HBO’s Industry Micay’s compositions translate financial power and personal pressures into music that moves beneath the dialogue

industry hive assemble for @noelransome.bsky.social's great profile of the man behind the music

A union job covering climate disasters:

What Kyle Tucker's Dodgers contract means for MLB labor peace MLB fans are angry -- and players and owners are, too. What did this offseason mean for baseball's coming labor strife?

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The Literary Ecosystem Is Dying In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation.

"Certain critics, such as John Leonard and Elizabeth Hardwick, were usually better stylists than the writers they were reviewing."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — FAA says it has lifted temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, and all flights to resume.

FAA Closes Airspace at El Paso for ‘Special Security Reasons’ The US Federal Aviation Administration closed the airspace around the border city of El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, in an unusual move that authorities put down to unspecified “special security reasons....

here is our el paso airspace closure coverage and yes, we are as confused as you are (free link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

RCMP providing update on mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. | CBC

Absolutely heartbreaking news out of British Columbia.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

For every one of these Kafkaesque stories of inhumane cruelty i am guessing you can multiply by twenty the number of similar cases we don't hear about because the victim is not white, or fluent in English, or doesn't have advocates able and willing to go public

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone - Toronto Life The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. How an unremarkable...

For @torontolifemag.bsky.social, I wrote about the city’s vicious tow-truck wars—a world of violence, arson, shifting allegiances, and paranoia. torontolife.com/deep-dives/t...

Not only is snow not cleared nearly two weeks after the storm, the city’s plough map is lying to residents. Contractors are claiming to have done work that isn’t happening Either the mayor and councillors know this and don’t care or they’re ignorant of what is actually going on

In a move destined to infuriate copy editors (among other accomplishments), Warner Bros. is insisting that critics use quotations marks when citing the title of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.” This is not a joke.

Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C

We need to find a way to tell the youths about alt-weeklies so they restart them

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Shutting down (the stellar) books coverage at WaPo is a real telling move when your owner is literally Jeff Bezos

No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost.com is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society

Everything about the Washington Post news is depressing, but to lose what was once one of the best book sections in the English-language world is a gut punch.

Mark Medley: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1842 In this 1842nd episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike pays chats with The Globe and Mail's Mark Medley about his career in journalism and his imaginative study of human nature, Live to See the Day, a globe-t...

Here's my chat this afternoon with @markmedley.bsky.social, Deputy Editor of the Globe's Opinion section and author of the new book Live to See the Day.

www.torontomike.com/2026/02/mark...

Tomorrow @theglobeandmail.com's @markmedley.bsky.social makes his Toronto Mike'd debut

Opinion: Canada’s passenger rail lines are getting revived after decades of vanishing service Across North America, there is a grassroots clamouring for the return of railway lines that once provided a reliable and affordable alternative to cars and planes

Something incredible is happening.

Passenger rail, the most sustainable form of long-distance travel, is coming back to #Canada.

We have 49,000 kms of tracks. But many of the 6.6M Canadians living in remote, rural settings have few transport options.

More in my @theglobeandmail.com feature:

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his…

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Rachel Reid’s wild Heated Rivalry ride Everyone from your mom to Gary Bettman (maybe) is caught up in ‘hockey smut,’ thanks to her hit novels. Now, the author speaks to the Globe about her Parkinson’s diagnosis, the pressure of new fame an...

A great profile of Rachel Reid: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

This week on Chatter on Books, @markmedley.bsky.social joins us to talk Live to See the Day, a wide ranging, deeply human look at what keeps people going against impossible odds. Thoughtful, hopeful, and a great conversation. 📚💙 Link in bio or ▶️ www.chatteronbooks.com

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."