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Freelance copyeditor/proofreader of many Canadian best-sellers & award winners, and 5 (count ’em!) NYT best-sellers. Member of SABR & SIHR. WWOZ Guardian of the Groove. I’ve got a lot of patience, baby, and that’s a lot of patience to lose.
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Two golden retrievers, not a thought in the world
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau make their relationship Instagram official
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau make their relationship Instagram official
The singer posted a photo of the pair smiling cheek to cheek and a video of them eating sushi together while in Japan
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau have launched their relationship on Instagram, after the singer posted a photo of the pair smiling cheek to cheek and a video of them eating sushi together while in Japan.
Perry’s post appeared to confirm the pair are in a relationship, after months of speculation about a possible romance between her and the former Canadian prime minister. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Two golden retrievers, not a thought in the world
Stuff like that happens when Metrostinx builds so slowly.
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Stuff like that happens when Metrostinx builds so slowly.
As someone who just had to proofread soft-headed doorstops by Jonathan Turkey and Warren Kinsella in rapid succession, I feel seen.
Q. What do you do if you're the copy editor hired to deal with Olivia Nuzzi's...thing?
A. 👇🏻
A. 👇🏻
Check the spelling, regularize or at least tidy up the punctuation and grammar, query bits of text that are not simply gauche but undecipherable, maybe call out the occasional repetition, and otherwise just get it done so you can say you did your job.
🤷🏻♂️
🤷🏻♂️
December 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
As someone who just had to proofread soft-headed doorstops by Jonathan Turkey and Warren Kinsella in rapid succession, I feel seen.
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No thank you, I’m still literally having nightmares about Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Attention MLB fans — especially BlueJays and Dodgers fans.
Bob Costas and Tom Verducci will have a two-hour special on MLB Network breaking down all the key moments of the 2025 World Series Game 7.
The show debuts on Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. ET on MLB Network. Should be good.
Bob Costas and Tom Verducci will have a two-hour special on MLB Network breaking down all the key moments of the 2025 World Series Game 7.
The show debuts on Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. ET on MLB Network. Should be good.
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
No thank you, I’m still literally having nightmares about Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
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Worse than Harper.
"Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years."
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
"Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years."
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers
Sneaking a change of this magnitude into a 600-page bill that will not get parliamentary scrutiny raises a red flag, Althia Raj writes.
www.thestar.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Worse than Harper.
"Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years."
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
"Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years."
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
You just know that’s the thought running through the mind of the white-haired guy in the jacket and tie. “Wait a minute… I know you!”
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You just know that’s the thought running through the mind of the white-haired guy in the jacket and tie. “Wait a minute… I know you!”
We’re hiring a thousand more bastards who don’t know their ass end from a hole in the ground. A thousand more Sergeant Renfrews, verging in Sergeant Schultzes.
Canadians deserve to be safe in your communities.
That’s why we’re hiring 1,000 more RCMP personnel and strengthening the Criminal Code — to help keep violent and repeat offenders off your streets.
That’s why we’re hiring 1,000 more RCMP personnel and strengthening the Criminal Code — to help keep violent and repeat offenders off your streets.
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We’re hiring a thousand more bastards who don’t know their ass end from a hole in the ground. A thousand more Sergeant Renfrews, verging in Sergeant Schultzes.
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
December 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
This is me.
December 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is me.
If Perruzza wants to see transit construction hell, he should look to Eglinton West. Or for that matter, Riverdale, where I’m pretty certain the King streetcar has been replaced by buses (or, for a while, nothing) more often than it has actually been in service in this decade.
After ‘construction hell,’ first rides on Finch West LRT should be free, councillor says www.thestar.com/news/gta/aft...
After ‘construction hell,’ first rides on Finch West LRT should be free, councillor says
Coun. Anthony Perruzza is asking Premier Doug Ford to let residents take their first trip on the Finch LRT this Sunday free of charge.
www.thestar.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If Perruzza wants to see transit construction hell, he should look to Eglinton West. Or for that matter, Riverdale, where I’m pretty certain the King streetcar has been replaced by buses (or, for a while, nothing) more often than it has actually been in service in this decade.
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Um, should have maybe done that before? He is so bad at this.
Carney vows to meet Coastal First Nations after chiefs vote against pipeline to B.C. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/02/c...
Carney vows to meet Coastal First Nations after chiefs vote against…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Um, should have maybe done that before? He is so bad at this.
I’d say he’s operating on the premise that it’s easier to apologize than ask permission, but he never seems to apologize, either.
Imagine if the PM had just taken time to meet with Coastal chiefs *before* signing the MOU with Smith…
Carney vows to meet Coastal First Nations after chiefs vote against pipeline to B.C. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/02/c...
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I’d say he’s operating on the premise that it’s easier to apologize than ask permission, but he never seems to apologize, either.
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RIGHT?
oh, cool. anyone want to discuss the "giant flaw and weak sauce" in Pulp Fiction?
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
RIGHT?
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
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Imagine being in-house counsel for Kids Can Press and receiving the call that requires you to vet a press release where you call out the fuckin' US Secretary of Defense for being an absolute tool.
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Imagine being in-house counsel for Kids Can Press and receiving the call that requires you to vet a press release where you call out the fuckin' US Secretary of Defense for being an absolute tool.
As a KCP alum, I support this message.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
As a KCP alum, I support this message.
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No one could have foreseen this.
UNLOCKED | Women hold powerful roles in Carney’s cabinet and PMO, but none are in prime minister’s inner circle, say some Liberals
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
No one could have foreseen this.
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College students who can’t handle their strictest instructors need to grow up, which is part of what they’re there for. TPUSA and OU are ironically doing the triggered snowflake participation trophy shtick and harming everyone’s ability to grow up in the process
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
College students who can’t handle their strictest instructors need to grow up, which is part of what they’re there for. TPUSA and OU are ironically doing the triggered snowflake participation trophy shtick and harming everyone’s ability to grow up in the process
And come to think of it, if Hegseth ever cracked open a Franklin storybook, he’d shit his pants. Turtles and bears and rabbits and foxes living together in a community—if that ain’t an advertisement for DEI, I don’t know what is.
Franklin is so Canadian that Bruce friggin Cockburn sang the theme to his cartoon series, so Hegseth is barking up the wrong hollow tree.
He’s also named for Hawkeye Pierce, a character who refused to carry a sidearm and once crashed the peace talks in Panmunjom.
He’s also named for Hawkeye Pierce, a character who refused to carry a sidearm and once crashed the peace talks in Panmunjom.
Life is now a Paul Verhoeven movie.
With less subtlety.
With less subtlety.
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
And come to think of it, if Hegseth ever cracked open a Franklin storybook, he’d shit his pants. Turtles and bears and rabbits and foxes living together in a community—if that ain’t an advertisement for DEI, I don’t know what is.
Franklin is so Canadian that Bruce friggin Cockburn sang the theme to his cartoon series, so Hegseth is barking up the wrong hollow tree.
He’s also named for Hawkeye Pierce, a character who refused to carry a sidearm and once crashed the peace talks in Panmunjom.
He’s also named for Hawkeye Pierce, a character who refused to carry a sidearm and once crashed the peace talks in Panmunjom.
Life is now a Paul Verhoeven movie.
With less subtlety.
With less subtlety.
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Franklin is so Canadian that Bruce friggin Cockburn sang the theme to his cartoon series, so Hegseth is barking up the wrong hollow tree.
He’s also named for Hawkeye Pierce, a character who refused to carry a sidearm and once crashed the peace talks in Panmunjom.
He’s also named for Hawkeye Pierce, a character who refused to carry a sidearm and once crashed the peace talks in Panmunjom.
At what is now Toronto Metropolitan University, the grade was an X, or “redeemable failure.” And in 1985 I got one on my very first writing assignment for not knowing how to spell @ianausten.bsky.social’s surname.
I became a copyeditor of books, not a reporter, and you can bet I check EVERY name!
I became a copyeditor of books, not a reporter, and you can bet I check EVERY name!
Also known as the “Auto E” or the “Medill F.”
I received them as a student. I gave them as an instructor. We are all better for the (awful) experience.
I received them as a student. I gave them as an instructor. We are all better for the (awful) experience.
One of my first journalism professors would give you a zero if you had even one error of fact. It happened to me. Sucked so much. He was one of the best professors I ever had, I took three more classes from him, and we’re still in touch
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
At what is now Toronto Metropolitan University, the grade was an X, or “redeemable failure.” And in 1985 I got one on my very first writing assignment for not knowing how to spell @ianausten.bsky.social’s surname.
I became a copyeditor of books, not a reporter, and you can bet I check EVERY name!
I became a copyeditor of books, not a reporter, and you can bet I check EVERY name!
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From Haaretz daily newsletter (this is not a headline from a functioning liberal democracy):
"The state of Israel: Netanyahu formally asks for pardon from criminal trial as settlers rampage across West Bank."
"The state of Israel: Netanyahu formally asks for pardon from criminal trial as settlers rampage across West Bank."
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
From Haaretz daily newsletter (this is not a headline from a functioning liberal democracy):
"The state of Israel: Netanyahu formally asks for pardon from criminal trial as settlers rampage across West Bank."
"The state of Israel: Netanyahu formally asks for pardon from criminal trial as settlers rampage across West Bank."
Bananas republic
Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began.
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Bananas republic
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‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.
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There's no scenario in which Carney comes out looking good. If he doesn't want a pipeline he's being dishonest with Alberta and throwing Indigenous folks under the bus. If he does want a pipeline he loses any credibility he still has on climate. You don't win by playing games like this.
If you expect Mark Carney won't take pipeline blame whether it's built or not, I have bad news for you: opposition parties aren't going to be charitable in their framing and voters aren't always charitable, or consistent, themselves.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
There's no scenario in which Carney comes out looking good. If he doesn't want a pipeline he's being dishonest with Alberta and throwing Indigenous folks under the bus. If he does want a pipeline he loses any credibility he still has on climate. You don't win by playing games like this.