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Writes about music, books and politics. https://linktr.ee/richieassaly

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Steve Paikin: David Frum on Trump’s Iran attack and why Carney’s Canada must be more ‘cold-blooded’ than ever before Trump's great weakness as a politician is he can never believe that he's an employee hired to do a job. He thinks he's a master, empowered to give orders.

The Star did find space for an interview with War-Mongerer-in-Chief David Frum, though.

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

05.03.2026 03:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The killing of 165+ students at a girls' school in Iran has also been largely ignored in Canadian media.

As far as I can tell, neither the Toronto Star nor the Globe and Mail has run a standalone story on Saturday's attack.

05.03.2026 01:26 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Terrible news this week but I’m heartened by this image of J Mascis on a ski trip

03.03.2026 16:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Carney defends Israel’s “right to defend itself” after a “preemptive strike” by American/Israeli forces killed at least 50 students at a girl’s elementary in southern Iran

28.02.2026 13:03 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You got this 🫡💪🏼

27.02.2026 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

NEIGHBORS on HBO is just wild. The “self-defence” scene in epsiode 2 had me laughing harder than anything else on tv this year

27.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Evil in the West Bank | David Shulman As long as the daily horrors in the occupied territories continue and the extreme right remains in power, democracy in Israel will be sick at the core.

“If you’d like to witness human evil at its worst, come with me any day to the West Bank,” Israeli scholar and Hebrew U professor writes in @nybooks.com

27.02.2026 01:02 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

More than a dozen Israeli soldiers in the West Bank stood by and watched as 14-year-old Jad Jadallah bled out from a close-range gunshot wound.

The soldiers blocked Palestinian ambulances and Jad’s mother from reaching him.

The IDF says Jad threw a rock.

26.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

More than a dozen Israeli soldiers in the West Bank stood by and watched as 14-year-old Jad Jadallah bled out from a close-range gunshot wound.

The soldiers blocked Palestinian ambulances and Jad’s mother from reaching him.

The IDF says Jad threw a rock.

26.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve experienced two Stanley Cup losses and a World Series heartbreak in less than 20 months.

Nothing can hurt me now

22.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Double minor

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Credo quia absurdum

22.02.2026 14:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Tkachuk Brothers make me sick

22.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2

Superhuman

22.02.2026 13:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

www.noarmsinthearts.com/scotiabank-d...

Campaign statement on the divestment here:

17.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 42    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

Over the past couple years, a common refrain among Canadian authors who didn't support the Giller Prize boycott was that the campaign had a point, but was unlikely to 'make a difference.'

Scotiabank had a $368-million (US) stake in Elbit at the end of 2022. Now it's $0.

17.02.2026 04:10 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1

I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry

The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”

12.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 383    🔁 235    💬 17    📌 7
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Danny L Harle Is Blue Da Ba Dee on 'Cerulean' │ Exclaim! Your daily dose of the best music, film and comedy news, reviews, streams, concert listings, interviews and other exclusives on Exclaim!

Reviewed the star-studded new Danny L Harle record for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social

No paywall:

12.02.2026 18:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland find another miracle? The singer-songwriter saw his career resurge in his 70s. Now, he and his wife need one more miracle: to survive and make music in spite of his dementia

Here's a profile of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, the synth pioneer who was handed the miracle of a career resurgence a decade ago, and who has a new album out today.

Now Glenn needs another miracle: to keep making music through dementia – and to find a home www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

06.02.2026 16:12 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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This photo of Chief Demkiw looks exactly like the Mr. Krabs meme

06.02.2026 22:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t see a problem here

05.02.2026 22:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Caribou returns to Toronto riding a wave of optimism with three shows at Danforth Music Hall The Star caught up with Dan Snaith, the Dundas, Ontario native ahead of Caribou’s three-night stint at the Danforth Musical Hall in Toronto.

you can also check out my interview with Dan Snaith from 2021 here

www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

05.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Butterfly' Balances the Pulse of Daphni and the Heart of Caribou │ Exclaim! Your daily dose of the best music, film and comedy news, reviews, streams, concert listings, interviews and other exclusives on Exclaim!

Had a great time digging into the new Daphni record for Exclaim.

It's the closest Snaith has come to balancing the pulse of Daphni with the heart of Caribou.

My 8/10 review:

@exclaimdotca.bsky.social

05.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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An Engineer Was Fired After Speaking Out for Palestine. Now He’s Suing His Former Employer Palestinian-Canadian Amjad Ramadan is seeking nearly $400,000 in damages after he was abruptly terminated by NTN Canada, the manufacturing company he’d worked at for 15 years. He was fired soon after…

NEW: Palestinian-Canadian engineer Amjad Ramadan is suing his former employer, NTN Canada. He was fired soon after a video clip circulated of him protesting outside an Indigo bookstore in the GTA. By @rdassaly.bsky.social.

04.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 15    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Public Servant Surprised by Voicemail from Doug Ford Suggesting They ‘Get Another Job’ The worker had messaged Ford's number to express concern about the Ontario government's return-to-office mandate

Public Servant Surprised by Voicemail from Doug Ford Suggesting They ‘Get Another Job’

04.02.2026 23:06 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Ramadan was fired just weeks after Caryma S'ad shared video showing him protesting outside of an Indigo store.

An anonymous social media account tagged Ramadan and shared his personal/work information. Weeks later he was abruptly terminated.

04.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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An Engineer Was Fired After Speaking Out for Palestine. Now He’s Suing His Former Employer Palestinian-Canadian Amjad Ramadan is seeking nearly $400,000 in damages after he was abruptly terminated by NTN Canada, the manufacturing company he’d worked at for 15 years. He was fired soon after…

New story in The Grind.

Amjad Ramadan, a 52-year-old Palestinian-Canadian, is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was abruptly terminated for speaking out for Palestine.

"There is a campaign to silence us," he told me.

@thegrindto.bsky.social

04.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 61    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0

The Joe Thornton of downhill skiing

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