Bruce Arthur

Bruce Arthur

@brucearthur.bsky.social

Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.

38,621 Followers 1,101 Following 5,701 Posts Joined Jun 2023
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When you’re stupid enough, all kinds of things can happen

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12 hours ago

Best coverage of the absurd Kobe-themed coverage of Bam’s 83.

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13 hours ago

“Russia is the big winner of this conflict.”

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12 hours ago

Based on everything I know about Kaille Humphries, this isn't a surprise at all

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14 hours ago

This is Super Mario's origin story

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14 hours ago

Yeah, man, it’s an absolute mystery why so many people are going all in on AI refusal. Maybe they absolutely do understand the ways in which AI is “useful” to the people hawking AI in the words of those very people.

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17 hours ago

this is the story of so many technologies and certainly almost every technology that centers itself around knowledge work. that's because the technology isn't built/marketed/implemented with the workers in mind, it is for the bosses, who implement it in order to extract more out of people

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14 hours ago

Utterly enraging

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19 hours ago
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Bruce Arthur: Travis Dhanraj aimed to reveal ‘editorial imbalance’ at the CBC. What the former TV host told MPs was more about him Dhanraj’s “editorial imbalance” complaint, aired Tuesday at the federal heritage committee, appears to be that the CBC hired him to host a news show, but he wanted to do more politics. So there was fr...

The testimony of Travis Dhanraj was absurd: he misrepresented his time at CBC in multiple ways, and a huge swathe of Canadian conservatives saw what they wanted to believe. In a way, it was a very instructive example of how Canada’s conservative sausage is made. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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15 hours ago

thinking of the west bloomfield, michigan jewish community and hoping everyone stays safe.

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17 hours ago

Predictably, conservatives on the other site are SO SURE that Travis's story, as spun by conservative voices, is true. This is how the sausage is made

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19 hours ago

Oh, this will become an article of the faith in some conservative circles. The CBC blacklist! CBC bias! It is literally nothing of the sort

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Bruce Arthur: Travis Dhanraj aimed to reveal ‘editorial imbalance’ at the CBC. What the former TV host told MPs was more about him Dhanraj’s “editorial imbalance” complaint, aired Tuesday at the federal heritage committee, appears to be that the CBC hired him to host a news show, but he wanted to do more politics. So there was fr...

The testimony of Travis Dhanraj was absurd: he misrepresented his time at CBC in multiple ways, and a huge swathe of Canadian conservatives saw what they wanted to believe. In a way, it was a very instructive example of how Canada’s conservative sausage is made. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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1 day ago
Aaron Gunn: If the federal government truly believes in the private property rights of Canadians, they should probably stop opening every public meeting by proclaiming the gathering on the “unceded territory” of this or that First Nation.
Doing so reinforces the radical and dangerous legal concept that most Canadians live on “stolen land”. This is Canada. One country. For all Canadians. 𝗠𝗣 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙪𝙣𝙣: “𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙭, 𝙗𝙪𝙙.” 
March 11, 2026
Chiefs from four First Nations communities are urging the public to please approach Aaron Gunn with no caution whatsoever. He is completely harmless, though momentarily unsettled by the alarming possibility that someone might acknowledge the land before a meeting.
Yesterday on social media, the MP appeared to crash out and demand to speak to the manager of land acknowledgements, a position that observers confirm does not exist.
Chiefs whose territories make up the riding had two words for the MP - Chillax, Bud. 
Land acknowledgements have never seized private property, cancelled a mortgage, repossessed a pickup truck, or altered a single title deed anywhere in Canada.
They are simply people recognizing the history of the place where they are standing.
No one is going anywhere. Canada will survive the brief moment of honesty.
Until then, Chiefs across the region continue to reassure the public that land acknowledgements have not, to date, resulted in any land back.
Hegus John Hackett, Tla’amin Nation
Chief Darren Blaney, Homalco Nation
Chief Nicole Rempel, K'ómoks Nation
Chief Kevin Peacey, Klahoose Nation

Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli

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1 day ago

Watch this BBC interview if you want to understand how badly Trump screwed up and why Iran still holds a lot of cards.

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1 day ago
Two Live Nation Entertainment Inc.
executives bragged about the high fees the company charges fans at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is
"robbing them blind" and that "these people are so stupid" that "I almost feel bad taking advantage of them."
In a series of chats from 2022, Ben Baker and Jeff Weinhold, two regional directors of ticketing for Live Nation amphitheaters, boasted about their ability to raise so-called "ancillary fees" - like parking, lawn chair rentals and VIP access - and still get concertgoers to pay for them. In one exchange, Weinhold gloated about raising VIP parking costs at a Virginia concert venue to $250.
"These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them," Baker wrote, adding later, "I gouge them on ancil prices."

Oh.

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1 day ago
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Yeah, We're Going to Have to Tax the Middle Class YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

Why is @jamellebouie.net so good at this? He's a frustratingly competent political analyst. Just extraordinary.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXZv...

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1 day ago

I could mayyyyyybe have guessed six, maybe seven, since I have seen ads for High Potential

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I may make a list on here, it would go on a long time, but they will largely be linked in my column as well

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Multiple US and state law enforcement and intel officials told @cbsnews.com there is no credible intelligence underpinning the bulletin distributed on the unverified possibility that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast. "This is not actionable," one said.

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1 day ago

It's still happening, amazing stuff

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And this is a huge issue for the whole world because this is TRUMP’S ONLY TACTIC. He can’t solve anything, can’t understand anything, can’t out-negotiate anyone. He has no capacity to end a war. He will just keep making increasingly delusional pronouncements in an attempt to manifest reality.

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Trump’s power and by extension his entire movement are built around the idea that by asserting something you manifest it in reality. Even if it’s not true many people will behave as if is so you can get away with it.

It is alarmingly effective in law, domestic politics. It cannot unblock a strait.

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how

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By the way: if you want to know whether someone is a Canadian conservative who can't see the CBC clearly, check and see if they tweeted about this yesterday. It's not 100%, but it's a remarkably high hit rate

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ah

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I think eating ice cream should make me strong and handsome

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Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

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You really need to watch this whole clip. It's amazing.

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