Francesca Bouaoun's Starter Pack
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@propublica.org
Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts. Support our work: https://propub.li/4d2mFWJ
@theintercept.com
Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨ Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅 SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@thetyee.ca
Independent BC-based journalism swimming against the current. Paywall-free since 2003. support.thetyee.ca
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
@davidmoscrop.com
Journalist & author of “Too Dumb for Democracy?” Podcast host: the David Moscrop Show. Substacker, radio & TV guest. PhD in political science from UBC, just in case. Work in the Washington Post, Globe and Mail, Jacobin, TVO, the Guardian, etc.
@rspb.bsky.social
Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it. 🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧 Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O Cover photo: @benjyhere.bsky.social 📷
@funeralbeat.bsky.social
Cartoonist and illustrator Editor of Pulping https://jennwoodall.com/
@thenarwhal.ca
Our pod of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else. Sign up for our newsletter: http://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter
@kaittremblay.bsky.social
Writer & narrative designer in video games, horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Writing + Games here: www.thatmonstergames.com Recently: Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games (CRC Press): https://bit.ly/CWVGGD
@gabbydarienzo.com
game developer + artist ✦ current: @DrinkboxStudios.com + SeasonalaCemetery.com ✧ prev: Nobody Saves the World, Super Crush KO, Celeste, A Mortician's Tale Parkitect + more gabbydarienzo.com
@theurbanist.org
Advocacy journalism for better cities.👩🦽👨🦯🚶🚴♀️ 🚎 ⛴️ 🚊 🚆 🏙️ Based in the Seattle metro area. Read our coverage on theurbanist.org. 📰
@thebeaverton.com
North America’s Trusted Source Of News Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebeaverton Merch: https://the-beaverton.myshopify.com/
@maxfawcett.bsky.social
Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer, winner of both a National Newspaper Award (2023) and National Magazine Award (2021) for column writing. Other: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic, and direct descendant of Canada's worst prime minister
@tvotoday.bsky.social
📰 TVO Today: Current affairs, podcasts & documentaries 📺 The Agenda with @spaikin.bsky.social, @namshine.bsky.social & @jeyantvo.bsky.social, weeknights at 8/11pm More: https://my.linkpod.site/tvotoday
@fatimabsyed.bsky.social
Ontario reporter for The Narwhal. Vice-president of the Canadian Association of Journalists. Springsteen, space, sports, sweets
@emmamci.bsky.social
Investigations @thestar.com. Formerly @thenarwhal.ca. Fan of FOI and lake swims. Hosted Paydirt, a podcast miniseries about the Greenbelt scandal. Signal: emmamci.76
@ayoub.bsky.social
Brighton-based researcher and writer | authoritarianism, migration, human rights | PhD in cultural analysis 🎙️@thefirethesetimes.com / @fromtheperiphery.com / @thestartrekpod.bsky.social / ✍🏽 https://hauntologies.net
@lanrickbennett.bsky.social
Working within the active transportation, environmental protection, affordable housing and placemaking sphere. Always advocating #BikeTO #TransformTO #BLM #TweetsAreMineByDefault
@dylanreid.bsky.social
City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
@julieslalonde.bsky.social
6x award-winning feminist buzzkill. Public educator. Franco-ontarienne. 🏳️🌈 Femme. I believe in high heels & high standards. Resilience is futile, babyyy✌🏻 📍Ottawa, Canada YellowManteau.com
@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
Your Queer Spooky Bookstore x Small Press. “A Good Story Will Haunt You” 👻🖤📚 www.littleghostsbooks.com
@btobirds.bsky.social
BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@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!)
@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
Ontario politics and policy for TVO. Writer and Podcast co-host, #onpoli jm_mcgrath.01 on signal
@alexbozikovic.bsky.social
Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, University of Toronto Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
@lloydalter.bsky.social
Author of"The Story of Upfront Carbon," reformed architect and developer, teacher of sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University. https://lloydalter.substack.com
@thenewarab.bsky.social
Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond. Pitch to submissions@newarab.com / investigative leads to thenewarab@tutanota.com https://www.newarab.com/
@danfalk.bsky.social
Hi! I write about #science for Smithsonian, Discover, Quanta, Nautilus, Undark, National Geographic, CBC Radio, & many other outlets. Books include The Science of Shakespeare and In Search of Time. Co-host of BookLab podcast. 🔭🪐⭐️⚛️
@michellecyca.com
it's "see-sa" senior editor @thenarwhal.ca writer @thewalrus.ca adjunct prof @ubcjournalism.bsky.social journalist, nêhiyaw, mom, roller skater she/her ✌️michellecyca.com
@nichecanada.bsky.social
The Network in Canadian History & Environment. NiCHE is a confederation of researchers & educators who work at the intersection of nature & history. niche-canada.org
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Local tosser Books author (New: Stroll!) Toronto Star column writer Spacing Magazine co-founder U of T instructor Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place. Links to books, etc: https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
@terrilltf.bsky.social
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” -Dōgen Zenji
@xtramagazine.com
Queering the conversation. Fierce, proud and independent LGBTQ2S+ journalism, since 1984. 🌈✨ Read more at xtramagazine.com
@anotherglassbox.bsky.social
Building hater/appreciator out of Toronto. He/they. Hates your neighbourhood’s character, yes, specifically yours.
@thelocal.to
In-depth, non-profit journalism from corners of Toronto too often overlooked. Read: https://thelocal.to/ Subscribe: http://thelocal.to/subscribe/ Tips: http://thelocal.to/tips/
@pressprogress.ca
Award-winning Canadian journalism that: 🔎 Holds the rich & powerful accountable 🔎 Exposes unsafe & unfair workplaces 🔎 Shines a light on hate & bigotry Website: PressProgress.ca Newsletter: PressProgress.ca/Newsletter
@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)
@chanface.bsky.social
I make transit construction timelines! 🚧 🚇 | Organizer @tritag.ca | Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 23 | UW Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇭🇰
@arablit.bsky.social
An online magazine & micropublisher. ALQ & Books: http://arablit.org/ * Reader-supported: http://patreon.com/arablit, http://arablit.gumroad.com * PACBI signatory
@rzaichkowski.bsky.social
Accounting Manager at Grafton Apparel, Road Safety Advocate with Community Bikeways & Bike Blogger. Views are my own. #BikeTO #BikeSky #TOpoli #VisionZero Blog = www.twowheeledpolitics.ca Toronto, Canada
@canadarobin.bsky.social
Doing everything I can to help people bike more and drive less. Obsessed with cargo bikes. Organizer, Yonge4All; Leader, KidicalMassTO; Contributor, ebikes-international.com. Proud 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 mom. Still COVIDing 😷💉
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@francescabouaoun.bsky.social
Toronto/Scotland. Art, nature, probably birds. Museums + archives. Travelling Fifer. She/her. Views own.