josh o'kane

Just talked about Joey Shithead to my students a few weeks ago on our Queer Toronto walk (DOA played Davids, a gay club just off Yonge St - queer and punks scenes mixed)

Swell piece, Josh. The Globe and Mail -- unwilling to cite Joey Shithead's stage name for 40 years (to the day)!

The punks keep winning....municipally, anyway: The councillors who won the most votes in both Vancouver and Burnaby this month have both fronted hardcore bands. Spoke with DOA's Joe Keithley and Sean Orr of NEEDS about punk and politics www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Plains Cree musician says routine traffic stop with RCMP turned into violent encounter www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Applications are now open for the 2027 Wilderness Writing Residency! www.portrenfrewwritersretreat.com

“I went through pregnancy really kind of scared.” Mothers and babies in the Mississippi Delta face some of the highest death rates in the U.S. because of a lack of maternal health care. Our story from Mississippi: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

City by Night, Edmonton George Weber 1988

Antoni Cimolino’s 39-year love affair with @stratfest.bsky.social is coming to an end. He has great plans ahead – travel, reading, maybe even a Heated Rivalry marathon – but the outgoing AD will forever feel a pull to the place he called home for so long. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...

Garrett Koehler doesn't speak for journalists. The UCP established the one question, one follow-up rule to stop journalists from pursuing a natural line of questioning. Generally, reporters are happy to let a colleague ask a series of questions that pin down a fact. This is how it's done everywhere.

I'm told that the victim in this hit-and-run is related to someone in the Canadian book/library community, and they're still looking for the driver weeks later: ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

Publisher cuts ties with Quebec author Thélyson Orélien over alleged AI use /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #AI #books #writers

BREAKING: Feds to spend $254 million to expand Saint John port It’s a project that includes upgraded port warehouses, a new CBSA container examination facility, dredging, the upgrade of 103 kms of rail, and a Simms Corner overhaul DETAILS: tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

Nathan Fielder’s newest documentary, You Can See Everything, is one of the buzziest films of the season, drawing critical acclaim and selling out theatres. Last year, Globe reporter Tom Cardoso set out to find one of Fielder’s long-lost films: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/ar...

Canadian news publishers sue Anthropic for copyright infringement /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #AI #copyright #news #media

Had fun exploring the rabbit holes and mirrored hallways of YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING to offer Coles Notes syllabus of Fielder & Oppenheim's intentional and accidental influences — including Allan King, Charlie Kaufman, Errol Morris and, hear me out, Michael Mann www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

I talked to Mayday exec producer Alex Bystram about how a fan of the Canadian air crash investigation show helped avert disaster on FlyDubai - and the show's inspiration of Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal S2. (He co-signs concerns about cockpit communications.) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

A WEEK OF GARFIELD MARS CORP 1989 FAMICOM

This is NOT normal. I cannot think of anything like it in the 40 years I reported. (Including 30 covering NS politics). No Nova Scotia should be ok with this.

Rebecca's profile of Munsch's Guelph is just great: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Star Investigation: The government agency responsible for online gambling in Ontario secretly shelved a research study intended to track rates of problem gambling. New from @bkstar.bsky.social:

For three decades, the Grace Hopper Celebration was a marquee event for women in tech. Now it’s been canceled — the latest sign of how the retreat from diversity initiatives is reshaping the industry.

Here's an obituary for Salah Bachir, the longtime Cineplex / film-sector executive whose approach to philanthropy helped reshape countless artistic, LGBTQ+ and healthcare organizations. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

"The report includes an ad for free games on a CBC News website as an example." The CBC gets $1.4 billion from us, Canadians, to be public media and then makes its services awful and potentially harmful to to access to cover a mere 14% of its budget. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Well, look at this. Jean Chretien's political instincts recently made a fateful under-the-radar return to Canadian politics

for the first time in all my years in Toronto, i witnessed Regg Hart putting up his posters

Pretty thrilled to say that @therumpus.net asked if I wanted to write about music for them, and also let me write about Pavement therumpus.net/2026/10/14/t...

I talked with Carly Rae Jepsen about her new album Day and Night, and about sustaining a creative life as a new parent (relatable) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

I really liked this piece by Raju Mudhar on the gap between perception and reality when it comes to crime in the city. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

RIP to Salah Bachir, a titan of Canadian cultural philanthropy, an advocate for HIV research, and the former president of Cineplex Media. After suffering through years of medical complications, Bachir underwent MAID today, at age 71.

Canada's new "lawful access" bill would force changes that negate "the very purpose of encryption itself," Signal VP says. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Re-upping this terrific profile of Quebec's brand-new premier by @mauraforrest.bsky.social.

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

New: Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre has named performing-arts leader Gideon Arthurs, most recently at Soulpepper, to lead it after years of financial turmoil and restructuring www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Andrea did crucial work to centre women’s voices in Canadian music journalism + publishing. We last chatted a year ago, while she was in treatment, ahead of the release of Susan Aglukark’s memoir that she co-wrote. She was kind and curious as ever. A profound loss for Canadian music writing

OTTAWA – The website for Library and Archives Canada was one of the targets of a failed hacking attempt by an artificial intelligence agent, says a San Francisco-based lab that monitors AI activity.

This is the story you gotta read to understand what is going on in Alberta. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By Eric Andrew-Gee

BREAKING: A BC Supreme Court judge has sided with Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, who operated an illicit-drug compassion club (Drug User Liberation Front), were convicted of trafficking, and challenged the constitutionality of Canada's drug laws. Trafficking section ruled invalid, convictions stayed.

New: Eva Respini and Sirish Rao named permanent co-CEOs at Vancouver Art Gallery theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Did you wonder just who would be impacted by Trump's 50% tariffs on Canadian fur, bone, horns and other animal products? Many artists from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities have been disproportionately affected.

Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

10 years of LVL UP's Return to Love! LVL UP are guitarists Mike Caridi and Dave Benton, bassist Nick Corbo, and drummer Greg Rutkin. The music itself grows from a shared melodic and experimental sensibility, as well as a nod to influences like Neutral Milk Hotel and Mount Eerie.

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Putting aside all the critical arguments On Here about this best TV of the 21st century list, lmao at only qualifying True Detective's first season as worthy (while celebrating the entirety of the similarly anthological White Lotus) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here's a story on the past, present and future of Vancouver's Nettwerk, the powerhouse indie music company that embraced technology – cue the synthesizer – from the jump Nettwerk has adapted to every technological shift since – including the algorithmic age. Now it's worth more than half a billion