Michael Healey

New books argue that far-off goals and humor can help shift daily routines : NPR's Book of the Day January is the month for people to take stock of their habits and routines – and two new books offer unconventional approaches to shaking up our lives. First, Mark Medley’s Live to See the Day is abou...

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I’ve never seen more Americans quoting a Canadian prime minister than today (I think).

today's random theater photos:

Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle (1869)

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

That would be Michel Vrana!

I think “fork tender” is the most satisfying phrase to say with a Boston accent.

Only slightly less erotic

I just realized Michael @healey.bsky.social's play Rogers v Rogers could be dubbed Healey Rivalry

Claire Brosseau Wants to Die. Will Canada Let Her?

Compassion has to guide this conversation

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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Bednar and Hearn call it corporate kayfabe

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You have made us proud, Nardwuar.

Thanks! Stolen from a speech delivered by the actual Matthew Boswell.

This is astute, and a great opportunity to announce my next play: a revisit of I Love You, Baby Blue starring my ancient butt.

Thanks! And I agree about Tom and Terry.

My takeaway from Frum’s piece is that land acknowledgments are doing their job, the conversation about true reconciliation is under way. Keep it up.

Carbon capture and storage remains deep in the fiction section of the climate solutions bookstore.

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Harper 2.0?

Trying to convince the theatre to blow it up 3 metres tall and paste it to the building

Terence Corcoran: The new Rogers v. Rogers play gets a BS rating The new Rogers v. Rogers play gets a BS rating, including the glorification of Canada’s competition chief. Read more.

This is the greatest review of my career

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Bitch makes it work

Thanks Shona! See you Wednesday.

Thanks for coming!

I’m on here but rarely here. I can’t quit twitter, unfortunately. Hopefully we can bring the show west in the future. But first we have to finish it!

Rogers vs. Rogers Podcast Episode · CANADALAND · 2025-10-06 · 35m

I talked to Jesse Brown about the upcoming play

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Hey thanks!

can sleep. I care deeply and passionately about this place and you must address yourselves to your consciences and your hearts.”

he shouted at Robert Hicks, then president of the board of directors. “We have spent our lives in this theatre, we have given of our time and we care about art. You talk to us about money all the time. You have no morals. I don’t know how you

British director John Dexter. At the annual general meeting in December, with the board sitting on the stage of the Festival Theatre, Mr Monette jumped up from his seat in the theatre, outraged by behaviour he considered conniving and unethical. “You pig!”

“…Monette made headlines of a different sort when he blasted Stratford’s board of governors in the chaos after Phillips’ 1980 resignation as AD, the subsequent summary firing of a [Canadian] four-person directorate slated to replace him, and the appointment of