@tomhawthorn.bsky.social
Mean and nasty Canadian. Author of "Play Ball!," a lavishly illustrated, coffee-table book about pro baseball in Vancouver, B.C., now available for sale at Nat Bailey Stadium and the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
Italia! Incredible.
It is apt that two other World Baseball Classic teams populated by American citizens — Italy and Puerto Rico — are both more likeable than Team USA.
Sports gambling has a long history of being on the up-and-up. What went wrong this time?
Wrote about Thaddeus Mosley, the self-taught sculptor who worked nights at a post office, carving wood by day, before finding international fame at 92.
“Mr. Mosley holds up an example that’s so critical for artists of all generations — to keep going.”
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Also the best baseball player.
Ahead of Saturday's 108th skating of the Varsity Match between Oxford and Cambridge, a look back at the best hockey player to have stickhandled his way to Canada's PMO.
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Same
How to remove the dignity from a dignified transfer of remains…
What baseball does better than anything else.
The daughter of the man who wrote the song, Snowbird. Exquisite.
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America is welcome to have the Canadians who defect to the U.S.: Kaillie Humphries, Ted Cruz, Jordan Peterson, Kevin O'Leary…
We're not sending our best.
A priest who got killed after refusing Israeli orders to leave his town in #Lebanon : My piece
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Canada's best sports columnist is also an astute political columnist.
"The Straits are trying to kill me." — White Lotus IV, set in Atlantis The Royal, Dubai
She: "Stubby Clapp? That's an unfortunate nickname."
Me: [Looks up given name.]
Me: "Better than Dick Clapp."
From Nanaimo to Prince George, nurses find a new life in B.C. after escaping 'chaos' of United States www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Thirteen months into a travel boycott of the U.S., the number of Canadian visitors slid by double digits again in February—marking what is already the most successful tourism boycott in memory.
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Another big shout out to @thetyee.ca editors who supported me to spend so much time on this story.
You can find all 20 articles on the inquiry here:
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He was born before the Russian Revolution.
Was it such a slow news day today that @globalnews.ca assigned a reporter to write a story about a Florida man drowning in a Florida river? What the hell is going on in Canadian newsrooms?
Wrote about Eri Yoshida when she pitched a game in Victoria, B.C.:
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Hahahahahaha!!!
Go get ’em, Frances!
This might be one of the greatest shots that I have ever seen.
"Yet another idiotic war we started? OK. That's it. I'm out." — Country Joe McDonald (probably)
C'mon, Vees, just take the W. Did you really have to run up the score?
