Blair Crawford

Former reporter/editor at the Ottawa Citizen 2001-2025. Lover of kayaking. @getbac.bsky.social

[Blair Crawford @GetBAC]

Listen to The Fonz

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Just answer the question sir

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

🚨 do you understand what happened to Stephen Colbert..

24 hours after his final Late Show, Colbert hijacked a tiny public access channel in Monroe, Michigan with Jack White, Eminem, Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi.

Now Paramount - the company that just cancelled his show - is mass-blocking every reupload worldwide via Content ID. And the deeper you dig, the worse it looks:

- The finale pulled 6.74M viewers - a weeknight record over 11 years
- Eminem cameoed as "Marshall, the fire marshal" to greenlight torching the set
- The same day Trump posted an AI video of throwing Colbert into a dumpster, Colbert aired footage of himself burning a real one
- Mayday Network and verified journalist Matthew Keys both got blocked globally - for sharing a community access show

Paramount cancelled his show to silence him. Instead they handed him a Streisand-effect comeback 10x bigger than the show ever was.

[Eric St-Pierre @ESPESP]

Demi-marathon d’Ottawa ✅

Ottawa Half Marathon ✅

@OttawaRaceWknd #ottawa #ottawamarathon #run #parlement #parliament #honoremercier

[Blair Crawford @GetBAC]

Go Peace Tower!

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

This is the most important, most brilliant, and most well written thing you could read today.

If you’re an Albertan, or a Canadian, and read nothing else, fine. Just read this.

Goodness me. Every word. https://t.co/TliiUbwj6H

[Blair Crawford @GetBAC]

Your Passwords Are Probably Screwed https://t.co/gXizygymzL via @NYTOpinion

[Harrison Faulkner @Harry__Faulkner]

In the 1980's, Canadian broadcaster Global found a loophole in Canadian broadcasting legislation.

Instead of broadcasting test patterns on screen and losing out on overnight revenue, they could send a cameraman into the city to walk around and film the streets of Toronto.

Global producers decided to create their own original music to accompany the show instead of losing out on licensing fees.

Because the show was entirely "Canadian Content", this allowed Global to leave key primetime slots open to broadcast American content.

The show was called Night Walk.

Although Night Walk was created to exploit a loophole, the footage that was left behind now looks like a time capsule.

[Mikel Iñaki Landarraga @MigueLandarraga]

Es un hijo de puta hasta en el más mínimo detalle.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

A hilarious April fools video made by the police

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨OMG &THIS GUY HAS THE NUKE CODES‼️

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Holy smokes….incredible finish at LA Marathon today by American Nathan Martin coming from behind to catch and beat Kenyan Michael Kamari at the finish line

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Thing of absolute beauty. Give whoever made this video a big fat raise, Wyze

[Blair Crawford @GetBAC]

@Penguin24 @ATRightMovies Terrific movie

[Aasma Shaukat MD MPH @AasmaShaukatMD]

One of my former research assistants was killed by ICE in Minneapolis today😢

Alex was the kindest, sweetest human and a ICU nurse with a bright future ahead of him
May his soul rest in peace and this senseless carnage stop💔

[Roland Paris @rolandparis]

US trade with China: $582.5B USD
(Representing 10.9% of total US trade)

Canadian trade with China: $86.2B USD
(Representing 7.9% of total Canadian trade)

The US trades more with China - and Trump himself is trying to negotiate a trade deal with China.

Data sources in thread.

[Blair Crawford @GetBAC]

@glen_mcgregor Murderous thugs.

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

Governor Newsom on PM Carney:

[Blair Crawford @GetBAC]

MINUS 9!

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Even Torontonians are laughing at this CNN reporter's encounter with Greenland's "harsh" conditions.

[Nicholas Burns @RNicholasBurns]

On 9/11, Canada was first to suggest NATO invoke Article 5 to defend our country. As U.S. Ambassador that day, I’ll forever be grateful that the Canadians and Europe had our back. How is it now in our interest to drive those same friends away?