Scott Stinson

It was worth the Patriots making the super bowl for this.

Good luck to all those working in Milan-Cortina over the next two weeks. I was sad about missing this one. Less so once the norovirus news hit.

An Olympic story The world's biggest sporting event has its flaws, but it always delivers the moments

My latest newsletter post is an Olympic story, plus links to various Olympic-related things I have published in recent days.

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Opinion: It’s clear Carney is now dealing with the world ‘as it is’ There are no good guys among the superpowers seeking to carve up the globe like so many pieces of pie

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...

Good people of Bluesky: The Star's Richard Warnica rode along the streets of Minneapolis with @whstancil.bsky.social in his Honda Fit. What he saw along the way left him worried that things are only going to get worse.

cleaning out the garage? I have one for you, you'll love it

The hills are alive A trip into the Bavarian Alps ends up being a lesson in one man's devotion to art

My year-end newsletter post is about Oktoberfest, King Ludwig II, fancy castles and the importance of art.

you know, the usual stuff.

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America's year of finding out It was a given that a second Trump presidency would be historically awful. It has still somehow been much worse than expected

My latest newsletter post, on the year of Trump. Somehow, it was even worse than imagined.

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Yeah, the issue wasn’t that he missed the fake bomb but that he caused all the commuter chaos for no good reason. Bad job, River.

I *think* the idea is that he was supposed to catch the fake bomber, but screwed up (because he was set up) and the evacuation and all that was part of the mistake. Like, all that wasn’t supposed to happen.

First season? He was supposed to be looking for a guy in blue shirt/white sweater but was told white shirt/blue sweater so he stopped the wrong suspect. Or something like that.

The MNF game is hopped up on goofballs.

Really didn't expect Wayne to whiff on the pronunciation of Jordan.

North Mackedonia

wait, maybe we don't have one?

suddenly frightened to discover who Canada's ambassador is.

*whispers* please just start drawing the teams

This thing makes the Academy Awards feel like a tight eight minutes.

gonna be great when Trump says it's better than the Nobel.

well, at least the FIFA Peace Prize is appropriately garish

FIFA is really going to give a peace prize to the guy launching illegal military strikes on boats that are thousands of miles from the U.S. border

It remains incredible that FIFA managed to replace Sepp Blatter with someone even more shamelessly unlikeable.

credit to Kevin Hart for not demanding a shorter supermodel for his co-host at the World Cup draw

Scotland the Brave The final round of the European qualifiers for the World Cup had some serious bangers

Robert the Bruce, William Wallace ... Kieran Tierney?

On Scottish heroes and the magic of World Cup qualifying:

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Scott Stinson: The NDP was wise not to trigger an election. Now the party can focus on staying alive Having not hurled themselves toward certain doom this week, there remains the question of what the New Democrats should do next.

For @thestar.com, I wrote about the federal NDP, who wisely did not throw themselves into the sea

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There is just no quit in this sinkhole

Note: This was written *before* Haiti and Curacao clinched WC berths late on Tuesday, both of which are wilder outcomes than what happened with Ireland and Scotland.

*jazz hands* Sports!

Scotland the Brave The final round of the European qualifiers for the World Cup had some serious bangers

My latest newsletter post is about some incredible scenes at World Cup qualifying in Europe.

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Scott Stinson: Poilievre's in trouble ... but no one is gasping out loud quite yet Let me tell you when they DID gasp, though ...

I wrote about floor-crossing, and one in particular that is a core newsroom memory.

For @thelineca.bsky.social

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