More Bill C-18 fall out. Now Google plans to cut off Canada news as well, which will dramatically change Canadian media overnight. nationalpost.com/news/politics/…

What is a String Quartet? A good violinist, a bad violinist, an ex-violinist, and someone who hates violinists who get together to complain about composers.

More bad news for newsrooms that refuse to take government media funding. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

This sounds like such a terrible idea. cbc.ca/news/business/…

You don't win today's games with yesterday's home runs. A media company is like a sports team - and sometime you have to trade in new players to win today's game.

Finally, my dreams have come true. concertcougher.vercel.app/#

Hot off the press video segment of our acquisition party with media visionary Moses Znaimer and our new friends at The Peak, blogTO, Daily Hive Canada, The New Classical 96.3 FM, EverythingZoomer, + more youtube.com/watch?v=AKb8cX…

Don't miss the 2023 Bet on Canada Summit Tour! This year, we're taking Bet on Canada on the road, cruising through Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. Only 50 Early Bird tickets, priced at $50 a ticket, are available per city. Get em’ while they’re hot. 🔥 betoncanadasummit.com

Someone made a website that tells you what people think about each neighbourhood in Toronto. Bang on. hoodmaps.com/toronto-neighb…

Someone needs to make an opera about this. surreynowleader.com/news/chilliwac…

When people do the whole "classical music is more complex than rap music" shtick, there's two main fallacies: - That statement is only true if you value certain parameters (harmony, melody) and not others (rhyme, production) - Complexity is not an inherent measure of quality

Looking forward to this. youtu.be/zU6GbM5c9aE

Have the business practices of one of the world's biggest liquor monopolies damaged wine writing? And, is the environment created by this vacuum in the world of journalism being abused by some high profile writers? buff.ly/45UEBy4

The Online Streaming Act is just an attempt to turn the Internet into CableTV. This gov’t needs to get out of the media business.

“Would rather entertain and hope people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” - Walt Disney

In a world of AI as the work-horse “Articulation” becomes the key skill COMBINED with differentiated reference material Time to read a lot more fiction Watch a lot more runway shows Look at set design Listen to absolutely everything Etc etc etc etc

If you take a shot at the king, you best not miss. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

This is pure gold 🤯 $12,880 worth of Storytelling Degree in just 5 minutes. Just watch this video. Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard. [Bookmark]

The beginning of the social media era coincided w/ a nearly $40,000,000,000 collapse in newspaper advertising revenue. In 2006, American newspapers collected $49,275,402,572 in advertising revenue. In 2022, that number was only $9,760,830,024.

Honoured to be a Polaris Prize Jury member this year. So many amazing releases this year and we’re digging deep!