Michael Healey

26-27 Season — GCTC | Great Canadian Theatre Company

Get ready #Ottawa: GCTC is presenting ROGERS v ROGERS in October. If you have feelings about government, competition policy, cell phones, entrepreneurship, or laughter, this is for you. Plan ahead.

www.gctc.ca/2627-season

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Cancer + a heart issue has slowed one of our greats. Help if you can

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@gmbutts.bsky.social follow back for a question pls and thank you

1/3rd of Canada daydrunk and sad at noon on a Sunday.

Simplest to order from the publisher:

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Pub day for this beauty. Thanks Playwrights Canada Press. Cover design by Michel Vrana

Grassroots group in Etobicoke under fire for setting up outside Toronto seniors housing building Every Friday, a group of volunteers feeds and distributed warm clothing to vulnerable people in south Etobicoke’s New Toronto neighbourhood.

This city.

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Thanks Shona!

Mr Jost’s comment at the end of this article is… not great

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Do you live in Toronto ? Need something off of which you might eat? Teak fan?

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New books argue that far-off goals and humor can help shift daily routines : NPR's Book of the Day January is the month for people to take stock of their habits and routines – and two new books offer unconventional approaches to shaking up our lives. First, Mark Medley’s Live to See the Day is abou...

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I’ve never seen more Americans quoting a Canadian prime minister than today (I think).

today's random theater photos:

Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle (1869)

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

That would be Michel Vrana!

I think “fork tender” is the most satisfying phrase to say with a Boston accent.

Only slightly less erotic

I just realized Michael @healey.bsky.social's play Rogers v Rogers could be dubbed Healey Rivalry

Claire Brosseau Wants to Die. Will Canada Let Her?

Compassion has to guide this conversation

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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Bednar and Hearn call it corporate kayfabe

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You have made us proud, Nardwuar.

Thanks! Stolen from a speech delivered by the actual Matthew Boswell.

This is astute, and a great opportunity to announce my next play: a revisit of I Love You, Baby Blue starring my ancient butt.

Thanks! And I agree about Tom and Terry.

My takeaway from Frum’s piece is that land acknowledgments are doing their job, the conversation about true reconciliation is under way. Keep it up.

Carbon capture and storage remains deep in the fiction section of the climate solutions bookstore.

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Harper 2.0?

Trying to convince the theatre to blow it up 3 metres tall and paste it to the building

Terence Corcoran: The new Rogers v. Rogers play gets a BS rating The new Rogers v. Rogers play gets a BS rating, including the glorification of Canada’s competition chief. Read more.

This is the greatest review of my career

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