Canadian Media / Canadians in Media
I said I would do it so I did it. Here's a list of people who work in media (journalism, podcasting, etc) that I have personally enjoyed following (either here or on other social media platforms). THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS PLEASE DON'T YELL AT ME.
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@ericwickham.ca
@leahbortskuperman.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering environment and agriculture in Northern Ontario, Canada. Bylines @TheNarwhal.ca @TheWalrus.ca @NationalObserver.com and others. Get in touch📩: leahbortskuperman@gmail.com
@desmondcole.bsky.social
Senior writer @breachmedia.ca Website: yeseverything.ca Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole/9780385686 Bookings: Scott Sellers ssellers@penguinrandomhouse.com
@desaima.bsky.social
Indie media forever. ❤️🔥 Editor for @thegrindto.bsky.social, editorial collective of @btlbooks.com, former editor of @briarpatchmag.bsky.social.
@smohyeddin.bsky.social
Broadcaster | Journalist | Producer Samira@onthelinemedia.org
@cherisealice.bsky.social
@csaulnier.bsky.social
CCPA-NS Director; mom of 3; PhD poli sci; Acadian; justice-seeker; equity promoter. Cupe 3912 member. Opinions are mine. https://policyalternatives.ca/offices/nova-scotia
@ershaker.bsky.social
Director, CCPA National Office https://bsky.app/profile/policyalternatives.bsky.social
@hadrianmk.bsky.social
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) 🇨🇦 • Senior Researcher @policyalternatives.bsky.social • Climate/labour/industrial policy 🌎✊⚙️
@trishhennessy.ca
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: policyalternatives.ca. Editor, Monitor magazine. Income inequality, health equity, workers' rights, public services, inclusive economy, fair taxation.
@ricardotranjan.bsky.social
Political economist @policyalternatives.bsky.social. PhD. Research & writing on housing and social policy. Speaks EN, FR, PT, ES. Author of The Tenant Class, btlbooks.com/book/the-tenant-class
@andremarrgoulet.bsky.social
Director at harbingermedianetwork.com, community director at unrigged.ca, audio producer at spacing.ca, breachmedia.ca, pivot.quebec, host at The Korea File + Harbinger Showcase podcasts.
@camoflage.bsky.social
@laura-babcock.bsky.social
Passion for people, politics and progress. Proud Mom, advocate for social justice, PR communications expert @ powergroup.ca, Current Affairs Pundit, former CBC Journalist, Host of The OShow Canada's Current Affairs Show. Subscribe on YouTube and Spotify 🇨🇦
@manishakrishnan.bsky.social
Emmy-winning journalist and senior culture editor @wired.com | VICE News alum (RIP) | secret Canadian | tips: manisha_krishnan@wired.com or mkrishnan.79 on Signal
@cheriseseucharan.bsky.social
Investigative Journalist ~ Podcasts on stuff about gov't + institutions that would probably make you mad ~ Deputy Editor, TorontoToday.ca
@chriselkholy.bsky.social
online editor @ new lines magazine journalist & aspiring street cat photographer toronto by way of cairo [@chrysographer on the platform formerly known as twitter]
@xavierrichervis.bsky.social
Investigative data journalist | editor @ Canadian Business | ex @theijf.org @theglobeandmail | words @wired.com @macleans @tvo | xrichervis.github.io
@jodyshowdy.bsky.social
He/They. Socialist. I review music. The Showdy will return at some unspecified time in the future. Free Palestine.
@mdimera.bsky.social
Founder of theresolve.ca | journalist | theatre aficionado | they/he | Boards: Press Forward, Constellation Media | formerly EIC at rabble and Managing Editor at Xtra
@yaraelsoueidi.bsky.social
Writer. Music Journalist. Montrealer. Millennial. Your favourite It-Girl. Always depressed, never bland. www.yaraelsoueidi.com
@drugdatadecoded.ca
Drug Prohibition Politics: www.drugdatadecoded.ca Stories at APTN, The Breach, Alberta Views PhD Microbio UofA Brutalized by CPS @ UofC 🍉 Banner: FOIP request to UCP government for emails on my name, fully redacted. Icon: Eye Guy villain of Power Rangers
@skepticalleftist.bsky.social
Trying to combine good evidence-based critical thinking and left anarchist politics. I host The Skeptical Leftist podcast, check it out on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1ye9lJfPq7SZkXdOVrEtB9?si=wNQsMjAhRgK0sUCUnT7Y7Q
@nicktsergas.ca
Editor @CanadaHealthwatch.ca ▪️"Obviously not a very good journalist." Work in Toronto Star, Canadian Affairs, Calgary Herald & Important Context Signal 💬 @nicktsergas.01 Portfolio 📁 https://muckrack.com/nicktsergas
@nicemangos.bsky.social
Pakistani-🇨🇦 grew up in Saudi. Illustrator, host of Polite Conversations Pod. IDW ridiculer. Covering types of extremism that masquerade as Rational/Intellectual https://open.spotify.com/show/25FhI3g0wZMjWT19aIxcOn?si=x6hs5ldDQAWYmlHFLcgTJw
@brianfauteux.bsky.social
Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board. Music in Orbit coming soon: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
@jack-farrell.bsky.social
Alberta legislature/general assignment reporter for the @CdnPress.bsky.social in amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton | He/Him
@clareblackwood.bsky.social
Actor/comedian/writer. Words in The Beaverton, CBC Comedy, McSweeney’s, etc. Pierre Poilievre's personal assistant Mandy. she/her clareblackwood@gmail.com https://buymeacoffee.com/clareblackwood
@michaeljohnlo.bsky.social
Skeetin' from Victoria, Canada. Reporter with the Times Colonist newspaper, prev. words in the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Capital Daily & more. He/him. Allergic to eggplant, shrimp, lobster.
@vsmw.bsky.social
Associate Editor at the Georgia Straight they/them | 🇬🇧 in 🇨🇦 perpetually exhausted immigrant on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ lands
@daveberta.bsky.social
🤠 🇨🇦 Writing about Alberta politics, elections and history at https://Daveberta.Substack.com
@wickdchiq.bsky.social
Award-winning 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Political Columnist 📰. Economist 📈. @badandbitchy.com I will be vindicated
@theasherroth.bsky.social
Evening Traffic Reporter (and other things) at 680 NewsRadio. Certified narcissist. SCTV superfan. Serial Impressionist (sorry). Views are my own.
@justinchandler.work
CBC #HamOnt reporter: https://cbc.ca/1.5256053 | CMG / @cwacanada1.bsky.social union organizer | Comic-book enthusiast | Ex: @tvotoday.bsky.social, CBC Radio, CBC Music, Radio Free Krypton | Message me on Signal: mrloislane_cbc.87 | 🥾🎮🏒📚🏃🏻♂️📻
@jenstden.bsky.social
Vancouver journalist covering politics and housing for TheTyee.ca Instagram and TikTok: @jenstdenis Email: jstdenis at thetyee dot ca
@jimstr.bsky.social
edmonton-based poster, video game and hamburger enthusiast, and depending on your standards, journalist. writing about alberta politics at theprogressreport.ca. if we are partisans of liberty, it is our duty to escape
@unrigged.bsky.social
The latest news headlines from 20+ independent news publishers across Canada ⚓ unrigged.ca
@steveboots.bsky.social
YouTuber, Twitch Streamer, Sarcastic Socialist. Cat pics. https://linktr.ee/steveboots
@waub.bsky.social
Latest novel MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES is available via Random House in Canada and William Morrow in the USA
@melwoods.me
Senior Editor, Audience Engagement at xtramagazine.com 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (they/them) from the prairies, now in Vancouver I also play Magic: The Gathering a lot Subscribe to my newsletter, Ranch Baby: https://ranch-baby.ghost.io/ Work with me: melwoods.me
@brishti.bsky.social
Journalist and editor (she/her) brishtireports@gmail.com ✍🏽 BC/Canada reporting on health, social inequities, and intersectional stories about systemic injustices 👀 Find my work in The Tyee, CBC, Capital Daily, VICE, and more
@chrisberube.bsky.social
Affable podcast guy! Today: Senior Producer at 99% Invisible. Previously: Slate, The Dropout, 30 for 30, CBC ChrisBerube.com
@lapmir.bsky.social
Web dev; candidat au PhD en admin; cofondateur de @pivot.quebec
@podthenorth.bsky.social
Newsletter: podthenorth.com 🍁 🎙| Podcasts: Canardian | Curious Tourism Podcast Producer & Specialist Dr. Pepper Enthusiast Podcasts for social good 💪
@whosestreets.bsky.social
Montrealer. Social movements, journalism, unions, abolition. We have world to win. Writer and editor at @policyalternatives.ca Got a story idea? DM me. en/ fr/ es/ aprendendo pr
@steho.bsky.social
The truth about stories, is that that’s all we are. -Thomas King Organizing & Storytelling with Green Majority, Stories We Don't Tell, Harbinger Media Network, Toronto Climate Action Network
@kimsiever.bsky.social
Radical left queer Mormon. Labour journalist. Disabled. ADHD. Lemon lover. He/they. albertaworker.ca
@brodieconley.bsky.social
love to learn✌🏻music (industries) person and researcher // 🎵: fine form // board: debaser.ca + @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social // https://www.brodieconley.com/
@justinbrake.bsky.social
He/him. Journalist. Settler. Future ancestor. Born 338 ppm. EIC @independentnl.bsky.social 🫐 Host of The Indy Broadcast.
@royinori.bsky.social
Toronto journalist, editor at @thelocal.to, reach me at inori@thelocal.to. she/her
@dreabells.bsky.social
Freelance producer currently at Democracy 2025 (documentary film). Formerly CBC News, CBC Radio. Writer, surfer, swimmer.
@jaycockburn.bsky.social
I write and make podcasts about cities and the people in them. Producer: Lately & City Space at the Globe and Mail Write for The Green Line, The Local, Toronto Star, The Breach. Former BBC News. He/him.
@karynpugliese.bsky.social
Personal account. Thoughts & opinions are mine and do not reflect my employer(s). Journalist & #DifficultIndigenousWoman Pikwàkanagàn; @niemanfdn 2020 @caj @cjfe @aptnnews #cdnpoli #Indigenous #cdnmedia
@rosasaba.bsky.social
Journalist at The Canadian Press covering grocery, markets, labour and more. Running low on thoughts and opinions but if I come up with any they're mine, not my employer's. Rosa.saba@thecanadianpress.com
@annajunker.bsky.social
pronounced “y-own-ker”. a penchant for black. former journalist by way of Calgary and Edmonton. she/her.
@radioanis.bsky.social
Business journalist, Star Trek nerd, maker of Marge-Simpson-Hrm-Noises… فضول.
@armanbazz.bsky.social
Journalist | Associate Producer at CBC's The Current | ایرانی | Brasileiro | RTs are a collective psychosis
@taylornoakes.com
Independent journalist Public historian Born to raise hell taylornoakes.com canaduh.substack.com Send tips securely to taylornoakes@protonmail.com
@sharper.bsky.social
Journaliste pour https://pivot.quebec | Journalist at Pivot Infosec dilettante | OSINT amateur Cofondateur | co-founder https://cybercitoyen.org
@sabaeitizaz.bsky.social
Host/Producer @Toronto Star podcasts. Digital journo. Ex #CBC #BBC. CJFE’s Tara Singh Hayer Memorial Award recipient. Finalist PEN Canada Ken Filkow Prize for advancing freedom of expression. Got a story? Tell me: seitizaz@thestar.ca
@rumneeek.bsky.social
Associate Editor @pressprogress ✍️ Send tips: rjohal@pressprogress.ca 📩 I also post about reality TV, pop culture & discourses I hated rumneekjohal.ca
@emmaarkell.bsky.social
🔎 Labour Reporter @pressprogress.ca // words and photos in Chatelaine, Jacobin, The Tyee, Xtra etc. // UFCW 1006A 🤝
@romygarrido.ca
These days, trying to do fewer things 🌻 // Currently Publisher @pressprogress.ca 📍Canada
@drewfoundland.bsky.social
writer. therapist-in-training. recovering journalist. ex academic. prodigal poster. i'se the bi.
@hiltz.bsky.social
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
Toronto magazine writer and editor, trying this out. Executive editor @thelocal.to. Here for smart longform articles and dumb basketball posts.
@dylanreid.bsky.social
City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
@dreahouston.bsky.social
Managing editor of Ricochet.Media | Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University School of Journalism, teaching #QueerMedia | National Newspaper Awards, Press Forward | Pitch me & send tips to editor@ricochet.media Newsletter: https://shorturl.at/Pz3ez
@godfrey.bsky.social
it's not delivery; it's digiornalist freelance writer/editor/researcher words in The Guardian, G&M, The Tyee, Filter awards n stuff co-founder: @debriefcomms.bsky.social justice, drugs, housing, health they / them / thembo unceded Coast Salish territories
@lefthandstu.bsky.social
Reporter http://HillTimes.com; Canadian Press Pedant; He/Him; “wannabe Jake Gyllenhaal cosplayer” | Send me your tips: sbenson@hilltimes.com
@hassum.bsky.social
Executive Director @broadbent.bsky.social Former publisher @pressprogress.ca Fait du bien jour après jour. she/elle 🍞🌹
@sarahcrgr.bsky.social
I write stuff 📝🤑 Newsletter: wsim.co/tldr 🎙️TLDR podcast (business/finance) 🎙️Expats & Allies podcast (history) linktr.ee/sarahcrgr | Bylines: CBC, HuffPost, Macleans, Weather Network Based in Alberta, Canada | She/Her | 🌈
@glynbowerman.bsky.social
Toronto-based journalist, podcaster, and editor. Cities, Raptors, Leeds United, and two black cats named Hall & Oates. I make an urban affairs podcast called Spacing Radio: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spacing-radio/id1124077274
@titocurtis.bsky.social
Journalist and co-founder of TheRover.ca Trying to be a good neighbour and dad. And maybe take the team to state 🏈🏟️
@daniparadis.bsky.social
Journalist and assistant professor. DeSmog contributor. Métis. Former high school goth. Podcast: The Place that Thaws
@graphicmatt.com
City columnist, contributing to the Toronto Star & writing the award-winning City Hall Watcher newsletter. A lot about Toronto Politics and then some nerd stuff. Humber College prof. (he/him)
@alexcosh.bsky.social
News editor, The Maple. Long suffering Fulham FC fan. https://www.readthemaple.com
@rjjago.bsky.social
Journalist. Entrepreneur. Kwantlen FN, Nooksack Tribe. rjago.substack.com
@laurby.bsky.social
Journalist in 🐀-free Alberta reporting on municipal politics at Edmonton city hall for the Edmonton Journal & Edmonton Sun.
@rahrahraina.bsky.social
host & writer of world cafe, heard nationally daily from npr & produced at wxpn // voice on pretty dim wonder & pixar's sodas// formerly cbc // instagram: rahrahraina // friend to all
@vancolour.bsky.social
📺TV: “This is VANCOLOUR” on CHEK + 📻Radio: CBC’s On The Coast - "Soapbox Social" The most bleeped political commentator in B.C. https://chekplus.ca/m/xPrh1pKc/this-is-vancolour
@arshy.bsky.social
Journalist, displaced Vancouverite. Co-founder of The Hatchet, a podcast & newsletter dedicating to exposing power and money in Canada. Subscribe at hatchetmedia.substack.com.
@ximenaka.bsky.social
Independent journalist. Based in Calgary. Recovering architect. http://ximena-gonzalez.com
@robsonfletcher.com
Data journalist with CBC Calgary. Views my own and subject to change, especially in light of new evidence. 📧 robson.fletcher@cbc.ca
@balkissoon.bsky.social
Executive editor @thenarwhal.ca. Still hate gum. The lakes, they are Great. (Illo by Andrea Bell, from The Leak, a kid's graphic novel about a girl that does environmental journalism!)