Liz Renzetti

A Summer Soirée with special guests: bestselling authors Kate Hilton, @lizrenzetti.bsky.social, Bianca Marais, Uzma Jalaluddin, and Amy Stuart at The Bruce Hotel on Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Get your tickets online ticketscene.ca/events/53337...
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I thank the sky deities every day that neither of my kids ever wanted to play hockey.

I despaired reading this nuanced, well-reported piece from Grant Robertson. Hockey culture is fucked and it isn't going to change from the top. The law isn't on women's side, and neither is organized sports

The Hockey Canada sexual-assault trial is over, but conversations about the sport’s culture continue Attitudes toward women and sex still need to be confronted and changed beyond the locker room, advocates say

"Gang sex was 'a focus of the male bonding and initiation process throughout a hockey player’s career in Canadian major junior hockey .... The goal was to encourage women to drink in order for them to become easy targets as sexual conquests.'”
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The way I just barked with laughter

I am firing the freezer for containing not enough ice cream

This is how a crisis can spin out of control. This is dangerous and inflammatory language. A perfect example of why no one American can have the ability to initiate a nuclear war. @scientistsorg.bsky.social

YouTube video by CRITERION Pamela Anderson’s Closet Picks

Today's joy: Pamela Anderson in the Criterion Closet. Romy Schneider! Wanda! Her choices are 🔥 and so is her cardi
youtu.be/tyo_tJuhw8U?...

More Toronto councillors & mayors need to speak in this language. Make the opponents to safe streets for all say they don’t care about a certain number of deaths & life changing injuries. Every time. Ask them what their threshold number is.

Carrie Bradshaw’s novel is objectively horrible.

You're doing amazing work. Happy to pitch in when I can!

thanks so much for sharing, Heather!

Yes, they're still records to me. Or LPs. Or albums. I still remember using hairspray to get the price tags off the shrink rap when you gave a record as a gift

YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic Be Real Black for Me

I've realized most of what I post here falls under the category "rage." It's not healthy! I'm going to try to post more of what brings me joy, beginning with the celestial twinning of Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway. All bangers, this record
youtu.be/ARdo-uPpadc?...

Conor McGregor has lost appeal over civil rape case MMA fighter argued trial judge made errors in his charge to jury in case by Nikita Hand

Conor McGregor has lost appeal over civil rape case - #justicefornikita #speirgorm

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Even with the killing of so many Palestinian journalists, and the blockade of foreign reporting in Gaza, we can't say we didn't know the horror of what's going on

Google AI overview states, erroneously, "Tu Thanh Ha, as a refugee who arrived in Germany at the age of 11 with his family, is eligible to apply for German citizenship after living there for at least five years..."

Hahaha. What AI nonsense. I've never been to Germany, not as a refugee, not even as a tourist.

I was Googling to find an article I once wrote about a man applying for German citizenship years after his father fled Nazi Germany.

how many times is it now?

Prosecutors called one of Trump's Mar-a-Lago employees to testify at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial Both former President Donald Trump and his Florida club have been name-dropped at the former Jeffrey Epstein associate's sex-trafficking trial.

A Maxwell accuser, who testified under the pseudonym ‘Jane,’ said Epstein took her to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump when she was 14. It was around that time that Jane testified Epstein and Maxwell started sexually abusing her.”

Seems important (from 2021)

www.businessinsider.com/mar-a-lago-h...

thank you so much for this!

We won 🚲

www.cycleto.ca/cycle_toront...

The actual ruling:

Thanks to everyone who fought this good fight!

Doug Ford losing his war on Toronto bike lanes, thank God. I think I'll go for a nice long safe ride on Bloor to celebrate

Increasingly, a way I approach my work is "what can I write and report that ChatGPT could not answer or figure out?" It usually involves talking to multiple people, data analysis, drawing together new connections to precedence, adding context, and clearly crediting the sources.

Arms Embargo Now! Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies tha...

Damning.

A new report is exposing hundreds of Canadian arms shipments to Israel.

I’ll be covering this today. The press conference should be starting any minute now.

armsembargonow.ca/report/

Journalists covering the aid air drops say they have been warned by Israel not to film Gaza from the air or the air drops will stop. (Do they not want us to see the scale of the damage?)

“International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”

Witnessing starvation on the streets of Gaza Doctors are receiving dozens of children suffering from malnutrition everyday, but with a lack of medicine and food, many are being sent back home

"It is a real famine.... This is now normal in the streets of Gaza. Pale faces, sunken eyes, and thin bodies searching for something to eat. Many don’t know if they will find food today or not."

The latest from my dear friend and colleague Hasan Jaber, who is living through what he's reporting on.

Epstein accuser Maria Farmer on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’ve never met a more predatory, terrifying human being in my entire life. She’s a very dangerous person. The woman is not a victim, she’s a victimizer.”

via @msnbc.com

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