Mattea Roach

sorry THREE counting Karamilk who is also originally from Halifax?? 🥲 I know that’s right

Two Maritime queens on Canada’s Drag Race… I used to pray for days like these

Back on earth, astronaut Chris Hadfield writes about space | CBC Books Bookends The Canadian author discussed his book, Final Orbit, on Bookends with Mattea Roach.

How to write a novel and choose what to do in life - thanks
@mattearoach.bsky.social and CBC for the interview!
www.cbc.ca/books/booken...

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

Bruce Arthur: These Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame ‘what if’ team. The World Series loss just makes the heartbreak worse This World Series will echo across Canada for decades, because Toronto lost the MLB championship in one of the greatest baseball games ever played.

They say baseball breaks your heart, and the Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame what if team, now. So what does it mean to watch your team lose the World Series in one of the greatest games ever played? It means you got to feel something; you just didn’t get to choose what. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

Unc Thant, or something

I fully had to google who/what John Pork is after seeing said instagram post and I still don’t think I understand. the zeitgeist leaves us all behind and in my world Unc is an honorific

CBC presents This Hour has 22 Innings

Alejandro Kirk is a Scorpio and this is his season let’s GO

but most importantly let’s go blue jays

go off king

YOU READY SHOHEI??????????????

Matt Elliott: Now, Toronto has noisy pickleball games in its crosshairs. Are we becoming the City That Fun Forgot? Tending to the whims of grumblers might make for good politics in election season, but it often makes for lousy governance.

My @thestar.com column this week: after Toronto Council requested reports on potential new rules for activities like raves, jet ski riding and pickleball, I’ve got an important reminder: it is a very good thing that people are having fun in the city.

Fun is good.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Every day is a beautiful day to live in Toronto but TODAY MOST OF ALL!!!!!

Canadian charities complicit in helping fund Israeli settlement movement in West Bank, critics say | CBC News Tax deductible donations made by Canadians to groups that financially support West Bank settlements that are illegal under international law are continuing in the face of escalating attacks on Palesti...

“One day we will be brought to the [International Criminal Court in the Hague], not because of Gaza, because of what happens in the West Bank and we will have no good defence. Because it happens in front of our eyes and no one seems to care.” - former Israeli PM Olmert: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

truth be told I’m not great at following municipal politics outside of the GTA and Nova Scotia (HRM but also some other counties) - will definitely read up on this!!

however in both Toronto and Halifax most regular drivers seem to not really walk or use public transit (let alone cycle) at all… and the empathy/understanding for people who use different modalities does not go both ways!!

Any time I have to drive anywhere to run an errand I start to understand within about ten minutes why so many regular drivers’ views on municipal politics seem to be entirely informed by shit like traffic and parking. I don’t think it’s right but I get it!!

ABC Suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ “Indefinitely” Over Charlie Kirk Comments The network’s decision comes after affiliate group Nexstar said it would pull the late-night show, and the chairman of the FCC suggested he might take action against ABC.

Between the purge of late night comedians, Trump allies buying up TV networks, Hollywood studios and social media platforms, and news organizations getting slapped with multi-billion dollar lawsuits, there is a full-court press to dismantle the information systems propping up American democracy

'We are prepared to help get rid of them,' Ont. government says after 16 speed cameras vandalized | CBC News Sixteen Toronto speed cameras were found damaged on Tuesday morning, only two days after the Parkside Drive speed camera was cut down for the seventh time in less than a year.

Trying to come up with an equivalent to this speed camera story but for transit riders. Imagine if, in wake of hypothetical reports of people getting mad about fines and vandalizing Presto readers, the gov was just like, well, I guess we should stop fare enforcement. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tried to do a good deed by letting my brother borrow my carry-on suitcase to go back to NS bc his is broken… now I have to go to NS as well so guess who’s stuck using the busted suitcase 🙄

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

nothing more humbling/humiliating that straining your calf while running in a completely straight line at a steady speed across even terrain 😔

Last weekend I injured my calf in a manner befitting someone at least twice my age, and now my biggest concern is whether I can hobble to Oasis NEXT weekend without incurring permanent damage… it’s a hard knock life

a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble

a man holds a microphone with an al jazeera logo while wearing a vest with the word press on it

a young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car

a collage shows three young men smiling

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

Good post by Fred DeLorey, pushing back against complaints (from non-Nova Scotians?) about Nova Scotia's fire prevention measures.

freddelorey.substack.com/p/nova-scoti...

A journalist with Canada’s public broadcaster was not allowed on the Canadian plane air dropping aid into Gaza because of Israeli restrictions.

When she made it onto a Jordanian plane, she was not allowed to film what she saw on the ground in Gaza because Israel forbids it from being shown.

Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” (1936)

How many books do you need for a weekend at the cottage - probably five or six, surely? How many pairs of socks? Two should be enough