Tom Jokinen
Writer and Editor at The Walrus Magazine
Writer for @walrusmagazine, @globeandmail, @reviewcanada @cbcideas. Sound art, working class history, culture, radio docs, cycling.
Articles
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1 month ago |
thewalrus.ca | Tom Jokinen
My first media job was at CBC Radio in Toronto, at the show Morningside with Peter Gzowski. The job was booking interview guests, cold-calling smart people who, as a colleague once put it, “had lives more interesting than our own.” The office on Jarvis Street was shabby-chic and not without charm: manual typewriters, books and reports jammed onto shelves, stacks of audio tape in wire baskets, a hubcap-sized ashtray for the host, and mice.
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2 months ago |
cbc.ca | Tom Jokinen
Ideas53:59How To Build An Empire: The Aeneid Guide for U.S. PoliticsThe new regime in Washington now has a taste for something that's very old: a global empire, the way ancient Rome aspired to have.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
thewalrus.ca | Tom Jokinen
“End the madness. Recall the committee. Defund the CBC.” Credit where it’s due to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives for writing for radio, as I was taught at a CBC skills course many years ago: short and sharp, three beats, implied subject-verb-object. The Tories are mad for this gimmick: axe the tax, build the homes, bring it home, fix the budget, stop the crime.
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Sep 18, 2024 |
cbc.ca | Tom Jokinen
IdeasBureaucracy was supposed to make life simpler but something went wrong.
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May 1, 2024 |
thewalrus.ca | Tom Jokinen
Displaced by fire, a white goose takes flight in search of a new home. Chased off by vultures, it can’t settle anywhere. It crosses oceans, deserts, storms. Then, suddenly, below: snow, holiday lights, a house beside a lake. The lonely bird peers through a window at a family decorating a Christmas tree. It looks up to find a Canada goose welcoming the migrant into its flock—a flock of various feathered types, presumably all forced from their original homes too.
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