The May issue is live, featuring the adventures of Bill Morneau, a historical whodunit, the lost art of public conversation, the perils of quackery, an architectural who’s who, a dystopian Toronto, and a cover by Jamie Bennett. Pick up a copy today! store.reviewcanada.ca/products/may-2…

I've got to keep Garth Hudson's hype train going. His little smirk every time he plays the clavinet part on "Up On Cripple Creek" brings me immense joy. #TheBand #GarthHudson

One of those great Canadian spring evenings when your beer gets colder as you barbecue

Breaking. I don’t think that word (Breaking) means what you think it means

Robert Gottlieb, publishing giant and longtime editor of biographer Robert Caro, died yesterday. In our Summer issue, Eric Wills writes about a film by Gottlieb’s daughter that portrays Gottlieb, Caro, and the grand old art of editing. theamericanscholar.org/get-me-rewrite…

Anyhow, please read for big questions about Power and Democracy or for a small scene in which Mark Saunders awkwardly attends Bangladesh Festival 2023, thank you. thelocal.to/olivia-chow-to…

The trees are very Blow Up right now

Traffic horrible. TTC hopeless. But by foot or by crook get yourself across Toronto to The Master Plan at Crow’s Theatre. Bravi to the whole company and Bravo Michael Healey 🇨🇦 #TheMasterPlan

Who knew trucks backed up so much?

New record coming Oct 19 on Bandcamp, ‘Bloom.’ Kevin Breit and Don Rooke with David Piltch. dig only

POV: your flatmate is a Scottish news reporter

Just when there has never been a greater need for deep reporting, stylish writing and original journalism, the Banff Centre cancels its renowned Literary Journalism program. A serious loss and an idiotic decision. To say nothing of the loss of Charlotte Gill

That Beatles video is really something

Ever the optimist

begin your weekend here

if art critics talked like football pundits

Brilliant 😂

“I have expanded the protocol of guest preparation to include putting examples of dreadful design away — as away as possible without involving flames.” From the December issue: An essay by David Macfarlane on putting things away, especially bad design. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2023/…

#OTD in 1996, Carl Sagan died: 27 years without Carl «When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me ― it still sometimes happens ― and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an

Split City. Thanks old twitter pals, but this place is just too awful. Ciao.