Tom Blackwell

@tomblackwellNP

Freelance reporter with penchant for random rants. Ex-National Post and others, repeat National Newspaper Awards finalist etc. [email protected]

Toronto

Joined September 2010

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 13

A new sense of economic ambition sets sail, at lasth theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor…

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 4

It still boggles my mind that America is having these conversations. RFK Jr is shaping up to be a true disaster for his country. ‘Never Want to See a Case of Polio, but I’m Very Fearful I Will’ nytimes.com/2025/07/04/opi… via @NYTOpinion

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 3

Trump Is Playing a Cynical Game With Ukraine nytimes.com/2025/07/02/opi… via @NYTOpinion

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. Despite everything, it is still possible to achieve a just end to the war in Ukraine.

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 1

This Israeli Government Is a Danger to Jews Everywhere nytimes.com/2025/06/10/opi… via @NYTOpinion

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. The price will be high if people don’t resist Netanyahu’s ugly, nihilistic Gaza policy.

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 1

At least we’ll go down fighting before becoming the 51st state - and maybe after! Would you die for Canada? Polling suggests Canadians are more willing to fight for their country theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

tomblackwellNP's tweet image. At least we’ll go down fighting before becoming the 51st state - and maybe after!

Would you die for Canada? Polling suggests Canadians are more willing to fight for their country theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 21

Very disturbing. Someone is stalking a reporter doing her job, all seemingly in aid of the government. Has Canada imported Trump’s assault on the media? Globe and Mail reporter targeted by online campaign, photographed surreptitiously in public settings theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

tomblackwellNP's tweet image. Very disturbing. Someone is stalking a reporter doing her job, all seemingly in aid of the government. Has Canada imported Trump’s assault on the media?

Globe and Mail reporter targeted by online campaign, photographed surreptitiously in public settings theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 18

My longish feature on how Iranian Canadians feel the heavy hand of the Iranian regime in what they assumed would be a safe haven. nationalpost.com/feature/canada…

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. 'Canada is the most infiltrated country': Iranian Canadians fear the regime's borderless terror

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 13

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tomblackwellNP's tweet card. 'It feels like there's no hope': Many homeless don't want a home. What now?

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 11

Maybe they rejected her because she’s barely literate!… eg. “I was gonna pay with cash, like I wanted this apartment bad.” And she is “influencing” people? Lord help us. Livvy Dunne Wanted Babe Ruth’s Old Apartment. The Co-op Board Said No. nytimes.com/2025/07/10/rea… via @NYTimes

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jul 3

“Tennis players are the truest competitors because if they lose, they go without. If an NHL player loses, he (knows) he absolutely does not got to be better next time. His deal is guaranteed.” Tennis’s greatest strength is its moderately rich players theglobeandmail.com/sports/article…

tomblackwellNP's tweet image. “Tennis players are the truest competitors because if they lose, they go without. If an NHL player loses, he (knows) he absolutely does not got to be better next time. His deal is guaranteed.”

Tennis’s greatest strength is its moderately rich players theglobeandmail.com/sports/article…

Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jun 28

“People are being stopped and having their cars, phones and computers searched.” Sounds like US Customs at work! As soon as the bombing stopped, Iran began waging a new campaign—this time against its own people wsj.com/world/middle-e…

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. Security forces emerge from hiding to set up checkpoints, hunt for moles and tell residents to watch their neighbors for spies.

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jun 28

Canada is #1 choice for highly educated foreigners (per the Economist). So why are we instead importing droves of students to attend shady private colleges, and work as food delivery people? Which countries would benefit most from an American brain drain economist.com/graphic-detail…

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. Our footloose index ranks the most attractive countries for graduates

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jun 27

Canadian firefighter says he was denied entry to U.S.: 'Good enough to fight their wars but not good enough to cross their borders' nationalpost.com/news/canada/ca… via @nationalpost

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. B.C. firefighter says he was denied entry to U.S.: 'Good enough to fight their wars but not good...

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jun 26

Ottawa silent on Jimmy Lai as EU pressures China to release jailed Hong Kong publisher theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

tomblackwellNP's tweet image. Ottawa silent on Jimmy Lai as EU pressures China to release jailed Hong Kong publisher theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jun 20

How is this any different than China denying visas to foreigners who are critical of the CCP? Deeply disturbing. French Lawmaker Says He Was Denied Entry Into the United States nytimes.com/2025/06/19/wor… via @NYTimes

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. Pouria Amirshahi, a leftist member of Parliament, said that he hoped that the decision would be reversed. On Friday, Mr. Amirshahi said he had received his visa.

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jun 20

Trump and his admirers have out-done the Chinese Communist Party. It erased memory of the Tiananmen massacre. MAGA is excising centuries of slavery from US history! Juneteenth Goes Uncelebrated at White House as Trump Complains About ‘Too Many’ Holidays nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/…

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. President Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, other than saying there were too many like it. Lesser occasions routinely garner...

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jun 18

As an ex-health reporter, I was stunned when Trump offered to make an anti-vax fanatic his health secretary during the US campaign. It’s turned out even scarier than expected Why a Vaccine Expert Left the C.D.C.: ‘Americans Are Going to Die’ nytimes.com/2025/06/18/hea…

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jun 17

When the smoke clears and history is written about the West’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Americans will feel deep, deep shame, I predict. Trump Renews Embrace of Putin Amid Rift With Allies nytimes.com/2025/06/16/wor… via @NYTimes

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. President Trump opened his remarks at the Group of 7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel Russia from the bloc after Moscow’s 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.

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Harrison Lowman@harrisonlowman · Jun 7

Today my colleagues and I came across a woman lying in a pool of her own blood at the front door of a clothing shop on Toronto’s Queen Street. As we assisted and I wished I had remembered more of the first aid class I’d taken years ago, her colleague told me she had tried to…

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Tom Blackwell@tomblackwellNP · Jun 6

Notably, after Ukraine hit clearly military targets inside Russia (bombers parked at airfields) Putin retaliates by attacking cities and the civilians that live there. bbc.com/news/articles/…

tomblackwellNP's tweet card. Five people are killed in a drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, officials say.