Shannon Proudfoot
Feature writer covering federal politics at The Globe and Mail. Deep love for great beer, old art, all cheese, The Golden Girls and Gritty.
- Reposted by Shannon ProudfootThis should be standard for every transit system. And they should have to do it twice a year, in July & January because the January trip will show the flaws in stark detail.
- If I were Mayor of Ottawa, I would drive the @octranspo.com management team to Westboro, dump them on a random side street and give them 1 hour to get back to City Hall using only a Presto card Whoever makes it back in time gets to keep their job
- The who's who of who's that, as T. Swift would say.
- I spent the weekend watching Christopher Guest movies because that's my favourite Catherine O'Hara. What's so beautiful and brilliant about those movies is that they tell stories of ridiculous people with insane aspirations, but it's all treated seriously and with kindness.
- This American Life this week is chilling. The quotidian horror of ICE marauding through American cities, told in real time through 911 calls. "But you're not currently being kidnapped, correct?" "No, but I could." "Okay, I hear you." www.thisamericanlife.org/880/what-is-...
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- Reposted by Shannon ProudfootCatherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
- Reposted by Shannon Proudfootwhat a whirlwind of a performer. RIP, Catherine O'Hara
- “When in doubt, play insane.” We were so lucky to have Catherine O’Hara among us. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
- Same. She was an absolute treasure. 💔
- The decency, resourcefulness and bravery of regular people in this story made me tear up. Such a quietly spectacular story about the resistance in Minneapolis. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Good news, big guy, the cool musicians are finally writing songs for you!
- This story on the sad sagging of the U.S. military is such a fantastic read. Perfect combination of crackling writing skill and deep knowledge of the topic from Seth Harp. The sponsorship bit was my favourite - understated, devastating comedy. harpers.org/archive/2025...
- I know this is one of those things that can be deployed as a glib, knowing chirp, but is anyone going to do a serious story about the President's health, physical and cognitive? Sure seems relevant right now.
- Reposted by Shannon ProudfootAn overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
- “Together, they fire six more shots at Mr. Pretti while he lies motionless on the ground.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- I went through a phase of binge-watching Criminal Minds years ago because it was exciting but mindless. There would always be a point in the episode where the suspect would accelerate or spin off into chaos as he lost control, and they would say “He’s devolving.” Anyway, he’s devolving.
- Yesterday @perreaux.bsky.social informed me that Bonhomme SPEAKS, news that has changed my life in disturbing and difficult to articulate ways. I have avoided looking up video with his voice because everything I’m imagining is inevitably better/worse/insaner than the reality.
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- I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."
- Reposted by Shannon ProudfootAttn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
- If someone turned to you in a coffee shop and started talking to you like this, you would nod politely with a weak smile so you didn't hurt his feelings or spark his aggression, and then you would drain your cup, gather your things and walk out.
- Serious question: does Trump have a time limit at Davos? After yesterday’s extended and utterly nonsensical tour of the inside of his melting brain cavern in the briefing room, someone might want to have a trapdoor ready.
- My FB memories just coughed this up from five years ago: One Day More of Donald Trump. *nervous laughter fades to soundless screaming* www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4aT...
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- A single line from Mark Carney’s Beijing press conference stopped me in my tracks, so I wrote my column around it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
- Reposted by Shannon ProudfootStunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
- "I gotta work in the goddamn morning just like everybody else. I'm just here trying to stand up for community, dude. We're all human beings here...this is wrong."
- Someone reminded me of this 2017 story yesterday, which I based on a tweet that went unexpectedly viral, and I was crying laughing by the end re-reading it. Presenting: the incredibly stupid things we all figured out way too late in life. macleans.ca/society/life...
- Reposted by Shannon ProudfootFor non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
- Reposted by Shannon ProudfootI think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
- Reposted by Shannon Proudfootthis is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
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- It's time to be honest about something we are all collectively lying to ourselves and each other about: overnight oats are revolting. Don't tell me about your amazing toppings, you and I both know it's still shards of wet cardboard in school glue.
- This is just incredibly lovely and heartwarming, in a moment when we could all use more of those things. A Christmas Eve wedding 40 years in the making: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/s...
- Has anyone had success buying an after-market key fob for a car and programming it yourself, or some solution cheaper than the bonkers dealer price? Asking for a me, and for my stupid fob that leaps off the key ring if you look at it funny. I have a Hyundai, if it matters.
- The United States is at this point a maximum of six months away from requiring Brawndo in every baby bottle under penalty of law. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
- Bracing clarity from Andrew Coyne here. Say hello to Occam's kazoo, in which the stupidest explanation is the most likely one. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
- This Stephen Miller interview is worth watching. I'm tempted to mock the wretchedly jumped-up energy of a guy you spend the rest of the party avoiding, but the implications of this given current reality are deeply disturbing. www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/p...
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- ”My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.” A Christmas Story is a perfect movie and that’s all there is to it.
- Boxing Day means you should ignore the ads blaring mediocre sales, and instead stay at home in your jammies reading and eating vast quantities of cheese while lightly day drinking. My annual rant (from the Sault, where by bylaw all the stores are closed): www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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- Home. Happy holidays. ❤️🌲🌊
- Rankings like this are made to start arguments, but Drop Dead Gorgeous is not on the list and The Big Lebowski is at no. 73 and therefore this whole enterprise can eff absolutely off.
- When you thought you were leopards gnawing people’s faces off together, but then the leopard licks his chops in your direction.
- Every hour of every day, we get closer to Idiocracy being a documentary.
- New from me: on purring Liberals acting like they woke up one morning to find a stray Tory on the front porch and Matt Jeneroux’s less-than-convincing insistence that no coercion was involved.
- WHY IS BASEBALL LIKE THIS?!
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- New from me. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little tired of Canada being treated like a toy at a spoiled rich kid’s birthday party, so I wrote about Pete Hoekstra’s public meltdown in Ottawa this week.
- Someone should be arrested for how small Halloween chocolate bars have gotten.
- For some reason, after that Jays game, I am thinking of what Ilya Bryzgalov said about another team of Canadians in 2010: “They came like gorillas coming out of a cage.”
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- To me, Donald Trump's reaction to the Reagan ad looks like genuine fury, not negotiation posturing, so I took a stab at explaining why that 60 seconds is so threatening to him. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
