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publisher @westendphoenix newspaper. plays in rheostatics. author of 13 books. hockey nomad. married 2 a randwich. views my own. subscribe 2
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Kind of defines how I feel about this life. Everyone: keep going.
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Having Kawhi and having him potentially leave the city is like that beautiful girl or boy you met on your European travelling summer when you were 20, 21, 22. They left, you left, but it was the greatest summer of your life and it changed you forever.
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Imagine you're a young girl who plays hockey. You watch the Leafs and there, in the executive box, is Hayley Wickenheiser looking down with the others. Man, it's just huge. It Really is.
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you stopped basic income. you froze minimum wage. you put health and sex education back 20 years. you allowed expropriation of land w/out any due process. then you went and hid, refusing to speak to press. u accomplished nothing and put canada in reverse.
In 2018, we accomplished so much for Ontarians. It was a big year for our province, and we're going keep working to make 2019 even better.
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In 1986, we were busking outside the Bamboo when Borje Salming walked out. We stopped him, played ‘BOWendelC’ for him. He stood, listened and when we were done he took out a roll of bills from pocket. Looking at our empty case, then at us, he asked: ‘How much do u need?’ RIP King
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in the history of bullshit lines, this is the bullshittiest. garbage logic.
Ontario Education Minister Lisa Thompson says larger high school class sizes will benefit students by increasing their resiliency and coping skills.
#onpoli
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I can't think of anything less important in my city life than not being able to buy beer in corner stores. Of all the fucks I give, this is fuckless.
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St Clair Ave filled with trucks and farm vehicles. WHY WOULD THEY TAKE ST CLAIR? Stupid hosers.
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1. I'll do a quick thread on our friend, Neil, although in tribute to him it should probably last 17 minutes and have relentless time shifts. We’ll see. I think he’d like the joke.
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13. What a life, what a human, what a musician, what a mensch. He left music and he left the world on his own terms. He braved indifference and an indignant industry. He cut his own path, carved it. The next thunder roll you hear: that'll be him.
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Very sad to hear about John Mann. He was a beautiful, mischievous dude with a deep gift as a performer. His eyes held a long tunnel of light, and he shared it generously with all who came in his orbit. Canada is lesser and Venice has sunk.
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Gord was subscriber number 79 to
@westendphoenix
I sincerely believe that if he were around, he’s be delivering the paper. He fiercely encouraged me in whatever I did. I owe him so much. So much. I love him and miss him. Be wild in his memory. Dont let yourself stop yourself
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Still wrapping my head around the existentialism of a team employee administering the most humiliating loss in history on the Leafs. It’s like the hockey Gods discovered a whole new room in their lair of dark magic
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Just in from a walk. Honestly, it disgusts me how some people are flouting social distancing. Also on Bloor near Ossington, cafes + shops are busy, allowing take-out yet still letting people inside. Cue the Emergency Act. Can’t see how it won’t happen any other way.
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another take: after the fucking awful trauma of last week, that DoFug brought this shitstorm forth in a grieving city is the most tone deaf political act in maybe the history of Toronto. he is a blinkered bull with lead for feet
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one last story about our friend
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Very few words for the passing of Dallas Good. Visionary musician and our Jesus of cool. Soft touches all around. Wax maniac. Shimmering in the snowy light. Never forgotten.
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No matter what happens tonight, there is no arguing one thing: Canada is the bomb. I love this fucking place.
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Our dad passed away 2day at 88. He was a great guy, and we'll miss him dearly. It was his idea 2 put a roof on Bayview Village back in 70s and his group was one of 1st to build strip malls in Toronto, so the likes of u would have a place to hang out. Here's proof. Love to all.
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Bobby Orr (like Gretzky) is one of the most generous superstars Ive ever met. Those experiences don’t change. But helping a fascist potentially take down the country— and a world— he, ostensibly, loves, will leave blood on those same hands that changed hockey forever.
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1. According to Vin Scully during the first time the Blue Jays ever appeared on Monday Night Baseball-- an important benchmark for the team-- Tony Fernandez's glove was like 'a bowl of silk.'
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Some personal news. I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be Toronto Public Library's first ever Musician-In-Residence starting Oct 15th. Let's all write a bunch of weird songs.
@TPLBLGladstone
@TPLParkdale
Full schedule coming soon
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Just spend 20 minutes arguing and shouting with anti-maskers at Bloor/Bathurst. Just so you know, it's not worth your time.
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This is, in fact, better than winning the Juno that I never won
🇨🇦 author, musician and Juno award winner–
@hockeyesque
outlines the importance of this land, its history and the hockey culture here in our landing spot for the 20th edition of
@scotiahockey
#HockeyDay
in Canada from Yellowknife.
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He would have been as happy as anyone that Leafs got out of the 1st round. What a wild and curious life. And one of the world’s great voices and songwriters. Cheated death more times than was normal. Rheos loved playing his music. Denim warrior. Sensitive, tough, loyal. Rest now
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Has fucking CBC digital news lost its fucking mind? Whoever wrote this should be fired
Brazil's new president elect, Jair Bolsonaro, is a right-winger who leans towards more open markets. This could mean fresh opportunities for Canadian companies looking to invest in the resource-rich country.
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so typical of so much sports media in Toronto to profile this post season as a 'collapse' and unfulfilled promise. This young team also fought off elimination twice, pushed the best team in the East to Game 7, and set point records in season. Nothing endemic about what happened.
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Professional news: Along w
@nickdepencier
@BaichwalABC7
+ Robert MacAskill I'll be co-directing a 4 hour, 4 part documentary on the 1972 Canada-Russia series, due Sept/22, on 50th anniversary 4
@cbc
We have 100 hrs of unseen colour footage. The Get Back of hockey! Psyched!
#72
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Timeline cleanse. Happy birthday Gordfather. We love you.
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I have runs of days where all I dream about is Gord. 3rd in a row last night, walking through the endless wings of a theatre somewhere. We joked-- 'Why are we always walking through theatres but never finding the stage?' Then he told me he'd written a new song about Bobby Orr.
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IT’S ALREADY FREE AND PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE
Did you know our plan for the West Island will create:
🌳 12- acre public park
⛱️ A new beach
🧺 Gathering spaces
🌊 Bigger shoreline
All of this will be free and publicly accessible—so people can enjoy the water year-round.
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Anthony Bourdain went into the world to know the world-- not suspicious yet embracing of others-- which is a lesson we should all receive from him lest his legacy endure in vain. RIP to a great curious mind.
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Here’s the opening for those who missed. I’m so grateful to this game and the people in it
#northernwish
Number 7.
It holds a special place in the hearts of hockey fans across the country. 🇨🇦
@hockeyesque
explains its significance for him as he opens
#HockeyNight
in Canada.
@scotiahockey
|
#HockeyDay
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be more like this, hockey.
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Hey. We're releasing the first new
#Rheostatics
track in 16 years today. Sometime around 1 pm I think. It has 3 parts and hoping it terrifies and makes you weep, not in an entirely bad way. Take 4 minutes out of your day, if you can spare it. "Here Come the Wolves."
@SixShooterR
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@MacLeodLisa
Lisa, why would u tweet this? The flooding has been terrible in the west end. Wanna come up for coffee w
@westendphoenix
We'll show you.
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2. I first talked to Neil in 1991 (i think) on the phone. He was at Chateau Frontenac and he called in for an interview. After I asked him what he bands he was listening to he said, ‘Rheostatics, have you heard of them?’ I said, ‘Um, I’m in them.’
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Got a visit from cousin Covid. Scientists and doctors are the best. Thank God for vaccines eh. I think I got it playing shinny but not sure. Love to all.
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We gave an overwhelming majority to a politician without a platform, free to do whatever he wants to do. Swallow that, voters
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This is the first listen to our new record, out in September. We are thrilled
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I've never had a best seller until now: Midnight Light debuts at number 10, according to my very excited publisher. Thanks to Sharon Klein for all the hard work. I may have a beer tonight because our daughter is speaking at her highschool convocation too. Good times.
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Today we delivered the 1st new city newspaper in any North American city in years. We did it in Toronto's West End.
@westendphoenix
thank u
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Without the CBC, I wouldn't be the artist (or person) that I am today, not by a long shot. I have something important to post tomorrow for
@westendphoenix
then I am pausing here for a week in solidarity. Get me on Insta
@davebidini
or dave
@westendphoenix
.com
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the first time I met Dave Bookman, he was wearing dress pants drinking brown cows playing at the Isabella Hotel w Tim Mech as The Bookmen. This was, maybe, 1984.
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some professional news: Rheostatics (including the birthday boy) are starting a new musical project this week. Very excited to have the big band arrayed (plus a really special collaborator) to work on stuff that we hope you can hear in 2024/25.
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Some personal news. I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be Toronto Public Library's first ever Musician-In-Residence starting Oct 15th. Let's all write a bunch of weird songs.
@TPLBLGladstone
@TPLParkdale
Full schedule coming soon
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Congrats, Habs. Great win for a great city and their fans. Much deserved.
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An ocean of love to the beautiful guys in
@rushtheband
and to Neil, a devoted craftsman, brilliant thinker, relentless spirit and ragged soul. He showed me that cats can talk to kings and that your heroes can be good and generous people, too.
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Another reason you don’t want Covid: it attacks your anxiety. Why aren’t I getting better faster? Why did I get a harsher dose than my neighbour? Will I ever not feel like this? Emotions are thin, body unco-operative. Think of this when you think of sick friends.
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I dont have a picture, but i got vaxxed and local pharm. It was easy and everyone was nice.
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let's take a moment to thank
@jkwan_md
and all of her relentlessly hard work here
AUG 9:
#COVID19
in
#Ontario
325 cases, 0 deaths🙏🏻, 192 resolved*,
15805 tests/day, 4719 pending, 2.3% pos
113 in ICU (70 on ventilator)🏥
+29,949 vaccinations💉
81.0% of age 12+ ≥1 dose💉
(71.7% = 2 doses)
See thread for more graphs📉⤵️
#onhealth
#COVID19ontario
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I can say first hand that
@rwesthead
is a pretty average hockey player w a meh wristshot. But man what an exceptional reporter. Hoping the industry remembers this when it comes time to recognize excellence.
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he's going to invoke
#notwithstandingclause
because bullies and racists have been empowered and now they are fearless. but we will push them back into their dank pathetic holes with our voices and resolve and strength of spirit WON'T WE?
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Bob you were the best. The best. A sweet man. Your voice will live in our imagination forever.
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3. He told me he couldn’t get our songs from Melville out of his head to the point that he was screwing up takes because the chorus to ‘Horses’ kept going through his mind. It was the single most validating moment of my career: this legend telling me OUR music was in HIS head.
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on behalf of fellow Etobicoke people, let me apologize for this misguided narcissist
BREAKING: Owner Adam Skelly of the Etobicoke barbecue business has been arrested.
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Music is the greatest drug
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Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyou
I'm disturbed & saddened by what we are seeing today in Ottawa. This situation was created by the PM & his desire to divide Canadians. It’s time for MPs to return to the House tomorrow to stop the overreach by this government & restore unity, wholeness & hope back to our nation.
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RIP Chief George. He only ever had smiles and jokes for me at Leaf events. He still spent summers off the grid up north, even in his 80s. A great guy w a great attitude. Let’s honour his sprit by treating each other w kindness, and let’s honour our Indigenous friends by listening
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So many perspectives on the ChowFord news today but it remains: the public must send a message to
@fordnation
that his redevelopment of Ontario Place won’t stand. Join
@westendphoenix
@sarah_harmer
members of
@barenakedladies
Charlotte Cornfield Shuffle Demons and more to fight
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I have celebrated Canada Day every year, and played lots of shows, made art, connected with Canadians everywhere. But this year, I'll let it pass and think of all that this country can do better, and what we need to do to atone for the horrors of the past.
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Some professional news: we’re thrilled to announce that next week’s
@NewYorker
will run a story on the West End Phoenix, written by Ben McGrath. Excited to be profiled in such a great publication, and recognized abroad for everyone’s hard work at the paper. Go local
#journalism
!
Thrilled to say that we were interviewed for the one and only
@NewYorker
(yes, THAT New Yorker) ! A local paper with worldwide appeal, West End Phoenix does it all!
thanks to Ben McGrath for the write up, read all about it in the Nov 8th issue when it drops next week!
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This is very heavy and good. As a publisher, I am grateful for a leader who understands the value of what we’re trying to do and how important it is for people to support.
PMJT just went off on Bell, saying it was a “garbage decision from a corperation that should know better" to layoff journalists and other workers.
“I’m pretty pissed off about what's just happened”
#cdnpoli
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Reimer has been brainwashed. There’s nothing in the second (new) testament about homosexuality. And in the orig Leviticus, it permitted gay sex, which was common in ancient world. Some scholar added the hateful bit. Jesus was about love. Who’s your Messiah now, James?
James Reimer, Logan Couture and David Quinn all spoke with the media. Here is Reimer's official statement about declining to wear a Pride jersey tonight ...
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My 13th book is out today. It's called 'Midnight Light' I hope you like it. It's funny and sad and suspenseful because the North is funny and sad and suspenseful. Anyhow, you can buy it in stores today. It took me 5 years to write. Love to all.
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People who defend Trumpians like Orr and say, "It's a democracy, everyone's entitled to free speech" forget that their leader has done everything possible to wrench democracy away, and to mute and vilify anyone-- especially journalists-- who contradict him.
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Repost.
@fordnation
@ThermeCanada
proceeds without an environment assessment or public consultation in the devastation of land
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Why in God’s name, in our cutback and villified world of
@fordnation
and others is
@checkupcbc
doing a show about shortcomings of educators and those who ‘don’t make the grade’? Why is their storytelling dwelling on teachers who don’t meet challenges rather than so many who do?
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11. I thought I knew Canada, and then I saw it. Happy Canada Day everyone. I love you.
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We salute the military at every Leaf game. We have an armed forces night. We have an outdoor game that salutes the Navy. Hockey should be about recognizing the value of all of us, not simply those who serve, and especially those who work selflessly for peace
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Some creative news: Im writing/voicing the opening for this Saturday's
@hockeynight
7 pm Habs/Leafs game set 2 this Rheostatics northern anthem. It'll be nice 2 be part of another Hockey Day in Canada. Thanks
@JWD99
and everyone
@Sportsnet
@Rheostaticslive
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Let's resist being glib ever. This proves we're as fucking moronic and negligent as anywhere else in the world. We suck. I expected way more out of Ontarians. But we totally fucking suck
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Time to give a voice to people who believe in the potential for hockey’s beautiful inclusivity and warmth and love. I’ve seen it around the world and in my neighbourhood. Let the game shine for all. Let it turn this page.
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West End Toronto smells like Europe at this hour: everyone at home cooking. Curry Tomato sauce BBQ garlic and things I don’t know but am in love with
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The Spa can and will be defeated
@ThermeGroup
BREAKING: Ontario Place For All's court challenge that could impact the Ford government's & Therme's Ontario Place redevelopment lives.
A judge ruled on Wednesday that a three-judge panel will take over the case, which the government argued to have thrown out.
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Chris Walla from
@deathcabforcuti
beautifully mixed about 6 tunes from the new Rheostatics album. He told me that he drove across Canada, instead of flew, from Seattle to produce Gord Downie's album after reading On A Cold Road. It was meant 2 be that he'd eventually work with us
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2 countries, 3 cities, 3 ballparks in one year. They missed the WC by a game. Lots to be proud of with this baseball team. Charlie Montoyo is the Manager of the Year.
#jays
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please read. the world is watching
@ThermeCanada
@ThermeGroup
WMF is dismayed at a proposal to demolish the urban forest of Canada’s Ontario Place. In 2020, we named this Toronto landmark to the World Monuments Watch out of a belief that it was a modernist icon deserving of protection. Read our statement:
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he was never ready for this job. he also seems, like many of us, on the verge of a breakdown. my sympathies, but please pass on to someone better capable of dealing with our world.
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Totally Montgomery Burns
Atheists, if JESUS is not real, then please explain this?
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I am listening to a dude trying to convince someone to write for their online publication for free, and that he can guarantee digital 'performance' tracking by promoting it and advancing their profile. It's sad. Find the money to pay the writer. Find it.
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Gord.
LISTEN: Rheostatics (
@hockeyesque
) cover The Tragically Hip's "Bobcaygeon" in front of the House
#HappyBirthdayGord
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Jackie Shane was years ahead of her time, and we were decades behind. a reminder of what toronto can be if we look outside the margins for heart and soul and courage in art. RIP.
Record label confirms Jackie Shane, legend of Toronto's soul music scene, is dead at 78. Shane gave a rare interview to CBC's Elaine Banks earlier this month.
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