“Be truthful not neutral.” I heard a talk by @camanpour in which she invoked those words to describe her coverage of Bosnia among other stories. “When you mistakenly believe objectivity is neutrality, that means you start to try to make a false factual and moral equivalence.”

Sorry to leave Global News in this recent round of layoffs. I'm proud of the award-winning work I've produced and am now looking for a new home for many more exclusives. If you are a news editor or producer in need of scoops, especially re: gov't contracting, hit me up.

Soooooooooooooooo, how are things going at Tenet these days?

Tucker Carlson's video in a Russian grocery store was apparently deemed not subtle enough for a Russian influence operation.

I spoke to a couple Canadian authors about the Giller Prize's decision to drop "Scotiabank" from its name, without divesting from Elbit Systems. “This whole prize is structured around art-washing the genocide in Gaza,” Avik Jain Chatlani said. thestar.com/entertainment/…

Anyway congrats Silicon Valley on disrupting the business model for legacy media so comprehensively , it has been replaced by that most innovative start up idea, the overseas dictatorship

Latest from me: 13 years on, the potential opening date for the Eglinton Crosstown is still a mystery toronto.ctvnews.ca/video/c2988262…

Yesterday was wild. Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin — HUGE pro-Trump influencers — outed as unwitting, well paid, commentators for a Russian propaganda op. As Bret Schafer from German Marshall Fund put it: “the most influential” get ever for Russia. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

From the Star’s editorial board: Doug Ford’s government needs to stop strip searching kids. thestar.com/opinion/editor…

The villainous ex boyfriend in this crime novel is a newspaper feature writer.

Star’s editorial board on strip searching youth in detention: “…the correct policy answer is already clear. Doug Ford’s government needs to stop strip searching children, now.” thestar.com/opinion/editor…

Schrodinger's LRT. One mass transit line that exists forever in two simultaneous states of being: finished but not open, there but not there, built by the rules of general relativity, where time is elastic, unfit for a people still living by old fashioned quantum mechanics.

I am mostly resigned to the fact, after 20 years of writing about it, that most readers just don't care about prisoners in Canada. Even still, I'm surprised there isn't more public outrage about Jennifer Pagliaro reporting on strip searches in Ontario's youth jails. thestar.com/opinion/editor…