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@gmarkham.bsky.social

Retired from years of journalism and teaching and living in Vancouver. Words to live by: “When we play music, immediately everything is nice.” — Evgenios Voulgaris. Current project is a blog featuring a rebetiko song of the day and more: www.tamark.ca/wp

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Funny how JK Rowling finds a way to put her medieval views back in the news every three weeks or so. The thirst for publicity is apparently strong.

11.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A hotel breakfast this morning and they were playing a Musikified instrumental version on 4 Non-blondes’ What’s Up, which should be considered a crime against humanity.

11.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has anyone else read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin and found it more than a tad uncritical?

09.10.2025 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Won’t someone put him on a plane, fly him to Portland and give him a tour of a delightful, mostly serene city?

09.10.2025 11:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The cultural dominance is due to nothing more than a shared set of values, not a political agenda, which is pretty much the opposite of MAGA.

08.10.2025 12:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When will media realize it is supposed to be covering reality and not rating performance?

07.10.2025 21:18 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe it’s not so much a strategy as I is the fact he is a one-trick pony and is incapable of politicking any other way.

07.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Where are the journalists who should be asking for proof of such outlandish claims?

07.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Settling into a Charlottetown, PEI pub in anticipation of a 2 pm trad music drop-in session.

05.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Walked into downtown Charlottetown: this place is buzzing. Tres cool.

04.10.2025 21:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On this question, I keep going back and forth between “the fear is the point” (the real threat is overblown) and “of course they’re making lists.” I’m not going to test the idea at the border any time soon, though.

03.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If there are not a lot of CBS journalists pondering their futures right now, journalism is in more trouble than I imagined it to be.

03.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Waiting for the overwhelming sound of silence from the GOP to Trump declaring war on American citizens.

30.09.2025 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good Lord. What time is the military coup?

30.09.2025 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a first for me in Canada: a shoes-off hotel. (Royal Hotel on Sydney, Nova Scotia.)

29.09.2025 22:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are currently on the other side of the Bay of Fundy. Lovely country.

28.09.2025 22:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The obvious follow-up question is “when was the last time you spent any time in Chicago?”

28.09.2025 21:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have had Peter Pomerantsev’s book This is Not Propaganda in my library for some time now and don’t know why it has taken me so long to get to it. Superb and vital.

26.09.2025 23:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Polimath is a poli-idiot.

26.09.2025 20:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Observations from Montreal An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

“A report by the CBC revealed that Pierre Poilievre hired the team behind Canada Proud to ‘boost his messages online.’ The organization has since been caught running disinformation campaigns targeting Mark Carney. Canadians deserve to know every last detail about Poilievre‘s ties to Canada Proud.”

26.09.2025 02:01 — 👍 479    🔁 249    💬 39    📌 23

Yeh but the “raving lunatic” portion of the speech was all Trump.

25.09.2025 18:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thugs. All of them. Thugs.

24.09.2025 22:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Right. Buy into the nonsensical right-wing economic theories. These folks really are one-trick ponies.

23.09.2025 14:11 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Who knew the descent of America would be accompanied by such widespread tackiness?

21.09.2025 23:44 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Most optimistic flier spotted at the airport this morning is a guy with a guitar in a soft case.

19.09.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No there's someone who didn't do their homework before the job started.

18.09.2025 21:44 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The fact that Poilievre couldn’t even show a modicum of respect or dignity about Freeland leaving shows how unkind, mean-hearted, toxic and punitive this angry little man is. This isn’t PM or parliamentary material; he’s an undiplomatic, self-impressed boor with no principles.

17.09.2025 20:48 — 👍 400    🔁 123    💬 12    📌 13

Great, great album.

18.09.2025 03:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Conservatives are taking about “three strikes” laws, because those worked so well in the US that they increased crime.
Honest to Zeus, you guys… #QP

17.09.2025 18:54 — 👍 55    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 1
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17.09.2025 21:15 — 👍 19981    🔁 6872    💬 635    📌 279

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