Mark Medley
@markmedley.bsky.social
Deputy Opinion Editor, @theglobeandmail.com. Former Globe and Mail/National Post Books Editor. Retired culture reporter. My book Live to See the Day is out in January.
Welcome to the Family is out today. This is NOS in book form. Congrats to @hertzbarry.bsky.social for publishing the book he was born to write.
a dodge charger is driving down a street next to another car and the words `` race is on '' are visible .
ALT: a dodge charger is driving down a street next to another car and the words `` race is on '' are visible .
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November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Welcome to the Family is out today. This is NOS in book form. Congrats to @hertzbarry.bsky.social for publishing the book he was born to write.
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GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
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Truly you do.
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Truly you do.
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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For the @theglobeandmail.com, I wrote about the persistent myths and misconceptions surrounding spousal rape, and a novel legal theory that might reframe the way lawyers and judges (and society) counters them.
Opinion: Spousal rape remains all too misunderstood
More than 40 years after Canada made sexually assaulting one’s spouse a crime, myths remain pervasive within the legal system
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
For the @theglobeandmail.com, I wrote about the persistent myths and misconceptions surrounding spousal rape, and a novel legal theory that might reframe the way lawyers and judges (and society) counters them.
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
My book Live to See the Day is off to the printer and available for preorder. I’d love it if you bought a copy or spread the word. It took me around the world — and took seven years to write! Which is fitting for a book about things that might never happen. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/645965...
Live to See the Day by Mark Medley | Penguin Random House Canada
An imaginative study of human nature, Live to See the Day is a globe-trotting exploration of what drives certain people to pursue a dream beyond all logic, reason, or reward.
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My book Live to See the Day is off to the printer and available for preorder. I’d love it if you bought a copy or spread the word. It took me around the world — and took seven years to write! Which is fitting for a book about things that might never happen. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/645965...
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Punching back: After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, I’m literally in the fight of my life. Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological disease in the world, affecting 110,000 Canadians, by Marni Jackson www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, I’m literally in the fight of my life
Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological disease in the world. More than 110,000 Canadians have the disorder and every day 38 more are diagnosed
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Punching back: After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, I’m literally in the fight of my life. Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological disease in the world, affecting 110,000 Canadians, by Marni Jackson www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
The Globe and Mail's (@theglobeandmail.com) incredible Opinion team is hiring an editor. Details below, but message me if you have any questions: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Globe and Mail's (@theglobeandmail.com) incredible Opinion team is hiring an editor. Details below, but message me if you have any questions: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...
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Fix it don’t snuff it. In the Toronto Star today I write a defence of Ridgeway Plaza. People want this kind of downtown experience but we’ve built so much of Canada for cars & hostile to people. Ridgeway is a canary in our civic coal mine, a symptom of a bigger disease: cars.
Shawn Micallef: Ridgeway Plaza is a problem other cities can only dream of having. Here’s how to stop it from becoming a nightmare
What’s happening at the popular Mississauga plaza is quite special and should be fixed, not scrapped.
www.thestar.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Fix it don’t snuff it. In the Toronto Star today I write a defence of Ridgeway Plaza. People want this kind of downtown experience but we’ve built so much of Canada for cars & hostile to people. Ridgeway is a canary in our civic coal mine, a symptom of a bigger disease: cars.
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Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
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School started in #Montreal this week, and our school-street / rue-école is back!
The street outside our children’s elementary school is closed to cars—but open to people.
I have an essay in @theglobeandmail.com telling the story of how we made it happen:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
The street outside our children’s elementary school is closed to cars—but open to people.
I have an essay in @theglobeandmail.com telling the story of how we made it happen:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: To make school safe for children, close down streets
Under a variety of names, from ‘school exclusion zones’ to piazze aperte, versions of the ‘school street’ have spread across Europe. But Canadian versions of the concept have been timid affairs
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
School started in #Montreal this week, and our school-street / rue-école is back!
The street outside our children’s elementary school is closed to cars—but open to people.
I have an essay in @theglobeandmail.com telling the story of how we made it happen:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
The street outside our children’s elementary school is closed to cars—but open to people.
I have an essay in @theglobeandmail.com telling the story of how we made it happen:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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I wrote about Noel Gallagher, the chief: defector.com/the-oasis-re...
The Oasis Reunion Tour Has Shaken Up My Gallagher Brother Power Rankings | Defector
The Gallagher brothers stepped onto the stage in their hometown of Manchester, knowing all 80,000 of us wanted the same thing. It had been 16 years since Oasis had performed together—even longer since...
defector.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I wrote about Noel Gallagher, the chief: defector.com/the-oasis-re...
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Avid readers have probably already seen their favorite authors--many of whom rely on these grants to buy time to finish their books--posting in shock about the form rejections they've received from the NEA. Well, here is the obituary.
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
NEA cancels decades-long creative writing fellowship
For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names – Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no ...
www.npr.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Avid readers have probably already seen their favorite authors--many of whom rely on these grants to buy time to finish their books--posting in shock about the form rejections they've received from the NEA. Well, here is the obituary.
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
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August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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For those curious, this is the description of the session being led by an AI at Eden Mills (it's also the first event of the festival in the program after the launch party). the "fellow co-weaver" is the ED of the foundation that provided funding to create the chatGPT powered AI that wrote the "book
August 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
For those curious, this is the description of the session being led by an AI at Eden Mills (it's also the first event of the festival in the program after the launch party). the "fellow co-weaver" is the ED of the foundation that provided funding to create the chatGPT powered AI that wrote the "book
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Four young Afghan siblings were hiding in Pakistan, desperate to avoid deportation, when @dougsaunders.bsky.social met them. This is their epic, harrowing story (I'm biased but I'm extremely proud of Doug for his role in helping bring the Hamidis to Canada.) www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: A young Afghan and her family were about to be deported back to the Taliban. One text changed everything
Wazhma Hamidi was hiding in Pakistan with her three siblings, unable to join her family in Canada, when the military rounded them up. A community of Canadians fought to free them
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Four young Afghan siblings were hiding in Pakistan, desperate to avoid deportation, when @dougsaunders.bsky.social met them. This is their epic, harrowing story (I'm biased but I'm extremely proud of Doug for his role in helping bring the Hamidis to Canada.) www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
“We need your help, Doug, they identified us in the apartment.” This is a movie:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: A young Afghan and her family were about to be deported back to the Taliban. One text changed everything
Wazhma Hamidi was hiding in Pakistan with her three siblings, unable to join her family in Canada, when the military rounded them up. A community of Canadians fought to free them
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“We need your help, Doug, they identified us in the apartment.” This is a movie:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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“What does due process look like for a toddler?” Incredible reporting by @saramojtehedz.bsky.social, Kathryn Blaze Baum, @mahima-singh.bsky.social, @janicedickson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Ottawa has duty to ensure welfare of Canadians in ICE custody, advocates say
Nearly 150 Canadians have been held at some point since Trump returned to office in January, U.S. enforcement data show
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“What does due process look like for a toddler?” Incredible reporting by @saramojtehedz.bsky.social, Kathryn Blaze Baum, @mahima-singh.bsky.social, @janicedickson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...