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Perry King

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✍🏾⚡️ author, collaborator, urbanist REBOUND (Coach House Books, 2021); A baseball book (Dundurn, TBD) Check out "Home Game," a Museum of Toronto exhibit: https://museumoftoronto.com/collection/home-game-exhibition/ More of me: https://linktr.ee/perryking

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Perry King @kngprry.bsky.social · Aug 15

🧵 By co-curating HOME GAME, our work continues to connect the dots.

Read on, I have a public talk to invite you to:

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Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds

Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

www.thetrillium.ca

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

"We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context."

Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border.

From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

www.motherjones.com

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 7d

401 Richmond alone reports 24,000 people came by thru bldn last night during nuit Blanche. What a validation of the desire for public life in this city. Toronto seemed so lit last evening. Every year there’s grumps curmudgeons & naysayers but people come out for NB, esp this year. A renewal.

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 7d

It’s an excellent time to check out my Torontonian and GTHA folk starter pack to find many people crowing about the triumph of the Blue Jays ⚾️ … go.bsky.app/NHeRuz5

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 7d

Go Jays!

(book property of @jbcurio.bsky.social )

Book:

From Worst
The Toronto Blue Jays in 1985
By Buck Martinez

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 9d

Two Indigenous women MLAs in Winnipeg have had their offices firebombed in the past six weeks. And yet, it hasn't been national news. Hear about this and more on today's 7-minute Daily News podcast.

sandyandnora.com/daily-news-o...

Daily News – Oct. 3, 2025

Story 1 – Someone is firebombing the offices of two Indigenous women MLAs in Winnipeg Story 2 – New Auditor General report in Ontario strongly suggests corruption in Ford’s government Story 3 -A new s...

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 12d

Further to the point I'm partly trying to make in this article, I recommend one TRC thing you can do today, which is watch my friend Leena's film (the reason I use the term Good Canadian in this article) - *showing* what Canada is still doing now: gem.cbc.ca/the-good-can...

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 12d

It was very special to work with six brilliant, thoughtful Indigenous writers — Michelle Good, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Eva Jewell, Janelle Lapointe, Anna McKenzie and Riley Yesno — on this series about truth and reconciliation, in print & online for @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

The Truth of Reconciliation | The Walrus

The TRC report, released in 2015, laid out ninety-four clear Calls to Action. Ten years later, Indigenous writers reflect on what has and hasn’t been achieved

thewalrus.ca

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Perry King @kngprry.bsky.social · 13d

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Ted Rutland @tedrutland.bsky.social · 13d

Somehow this is normal. A reckless, racist cop harasses and threatens Nooran and his friends for months before finally killing him – and leaving a community in grief and terror. When the community calls a march for Nooran, the police show up to terrorize them again.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

www.whatimreading.net

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Perry King @kngprry.bsky.social · 17d

Congrats, Laura! www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

#cbc #nonfiction #canlit

Laura MacGregor wrote about her experience of extreme caregiving and won the CBC Nonfiction Prize | CBC Books

The Waterloo, Ont.-based writer will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and her work has been published on CBC Bo...

www.cbc.ca

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OISEUofT @oiseuoft.bsky.social · 18d

📚 NEW: Associate Professor Cassie J. Brownell (brownellcassie.bsky.social) has been named winner of the 2025 Media Literacy Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)! Congrats, Professor! #OISECelebrates

Learn more: ncte.org/awards/ncte-...

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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 19d

John Coltrane was born on this day September 23, 1926. The legendary saxophonist's sole album as a leader for Blue Note was his 1st great masterpiece—"Blue Train"—a locomotive set of hard bop fueled by the bluesy title track. Listen or get the Tone Poet Vinyl Edition: bluenote.lnk.to/JohnColtrane...

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 19d

An important counter narrative to the recent headlines — actual journalism about the daily lives of asylum seekers in the UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Behind the doors of asylum hotels - what I found when I went inside

A BBC reporter goes into four hotels and speaks to asylum seekers and staff about what daily life is like.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 23d

Yet another for those who think the media aren't covering Ford.

A large part of Ontario just doesn't care what Ford is doing.

My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 23d

"Ontario opposition parties are criticizing the Ford government for giving millions of dollars in grants from the Skills Development Fund to private companies run by “friends” of the Progressive Conservatives," writes @jessiecatherine.bsky.social.

#OnPoli

TheTrillium.ca @thetrillium.bsky.social · 23d

Critics blast millions in Skills Development Fund grants given to PC-friendly companies

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 24d

NEW: Ontario’s police chiefs are pushing back against Premier Doug Ford’s plan to scrap automated speed cameras, telling the government they’ve been proven to reduce dangerous speeding in towns and cities. #ONpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1143499...

Automated speed cameras make roads safer, Ontario police chiefs say | Globalnews.ca

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is trying to axe automated speed cameras in towns and cities, calling them a 'tax grab' and suggesting they don't make streets safer.

globalnews.ca

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Perry King @kngprry.bsky.social · 26d

Wait until she gets to the last four episodes. She’ll never watch another show!

Perry King @kngprry.bsky.social · 26d

That’s the hope. There’s a quote I come back to often, and it might serve you well:

“Hope is a discipline… we have to practice it every day.” from Mariame Kaba

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Perry King @kngprry.bsky.social · 26d

I'm really happy to see this happen. Nam! You're doing an incredible service! 🙏

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 27d

Tony Gilroy's interview with @thebulwark.com about the making of Andor is just an absolute gift. An education.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaqn...

Tony Gilroy: Andor Explains America's Dark Moment

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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The Onion @theonion.com · 27d

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 29d

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · Sep 11

We had an amazing time last Thursday celebrating 60 years of Coach House Books with you all at our annual Wayzgoose outside the coach house.

We'll continue to offer free Canadian shipping on book orders from our site, and we have special limited edition anniversary merch: chbooks.com/Merchandise

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · Sep 10

Trying to come up with an equivalent to this speed camera story but for transit riders. Imagine if, in wake of hypothetical reports of people getting mad about fines and vandalizing Presto readers, the gov was just like, well, I guess we should stop fare enforcement. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'We are prepared to help get rid of them,' Ont. government says after 16 speed cameras vandalized | CBC News

Sixteen Toronto speed cameras were found damaged on Tuesday morning, only two days after the Parkside Drive speed camera was cut down for the seventh time in less than a year.

www.cbc.ca

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Adrian Harewood @caradrianh.bsky.social · Sep 10

I had a wide ranging talk w/ @nisrinelamin.bsky.social about #Sudan’s counterrevolutionary war of elites against the people & the prospects for change in perilous times. It’ll be on my podcast @ricochetmedia.bsky.social“In Bed with the Elephant” on Thurs. Sept. 11. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

In Bed with the Elephant

Politics Podcast · What does it mean to share a bed with power, whether it’s a corporation or an empire, when every move it makes shakes your world? If that question keeps you up at night, In Bed wit...

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