Jonathan Goldsbie

William Southam Journalism Fellow at @MasseyCollege (and as such, on leave from my usual job at @Canadaland). On Bluesky these days.

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@mattearoach Turns out it *is* the same guy who bought it to save it in 2007, which raises so many more questions: https://t.co/Ue7wrPEGGi

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@GraphicMatt It's been a few years, but I'm delighted to finally collect: https://t.co/GWscvki3zI

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@omarsachedina @natalieturvey @kathyenglish @GoogleNewsInit @porterairlines @FairmontHotels @MediaProfile @jacobaronleung @langaracollege @EdwardBurtynsky @jwints @mtlgazette @CBCIndigenous @OdetteAuger @ridleysav Joining the 250+ Southam Journalism Fellows for a year of education, reflection & connection are news editor @goldsbie, columnist @ShreeParadkar, N.L. reporter @AshleyFitzNL, broadcast journalist @beesenadju, and multidisciplinary journalist @MostafaAlasar. Congratulations!

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A statement on behalf of the Canadaland Union as well as a number of our non-unionized colleagues:

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@SabrinaMaddeaux @JesseBrown Just to be clear, Sabrina, are you Jewish? (Because if not, I'm pretty sure there's a word for when a non-Jew accuses a group of Jews of being traitors.)

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@NoahIZatzman @JesseBrown @TorontoStar Glad to be told who's a good Jew and who's not. Any further advice on how I should practice my faith?

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(Anyway, follow me there if you're up for more than one post every couple months.)

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The cameras on Toronto Police surveillance vehicles are much more conspicuous than they used to be. Here's one on the west side of Bay, south of Bloor, to monitor the "Jews Say: Postering Indigo is Not Antisemitism" press conference:

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(I actually meant to post this to the other app. Oh well.)

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(Which, come to think of it, is the same logic that took me from NOW Magazine to Canadaland in 2017.)

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It's not that bluesky is superior to Twitter. But it's psychologically preferable to be in a place that will only ever get better, instead of one that's constantly getting worse. https://t.co/LO0TZB06hc

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@biancawylie (It was Philippa Domville.)

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14 years after their legendary turns as Jack and Algernon in The Important of Being Earnest, Ben Carlson and Mike Shara are set to reunite as another duo of classic farce: Waterfront Toronto's Will Fleissig and Sidewalk Labs' Dan Doctoroff. https://t.co/720iyjNj8O

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@biancawylie Because I imagine most of the company members will handle multiple roles, which of the six do you vote to play you?

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I mean, we've *all* heard of Bruce Willis. How many of us have heard of Yellowknife?

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Half of you will know *exactly* what show this is, and the other half would not be able to guess if given 10 tries:

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Which'll be the first outlet to try setting up a mirror site via a U.S.-based shell company?

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Generally speaking, I'm in favour of the Canadian government standing up to Google and Facebook, but I also don't doubt that if this were a *Canadian* oligopoly, they'd be totally cool with it.

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Playing hardball! https://t.co/vCfRwYRYot

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If "local news is a lifeline," Sabrina, would you characterize Google's current stance as pro-drowning?

[sabrina geremia @sabrinageremia]

For more than a century local media have played an essential role in the lives of our communities. And the pandemic proved that local news is a lifeline. We're investing in its future in Canada. Read more:

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@cselley I'm pretttty sure none of these initiatives would've existed in the first place had they not been trying to get the government to back off from regulation: https://t.co/Ld9l4Q2LNH

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I don't like when the weather reminds me of the least satisfying plot point on the third season of Picard.