@cburst

Toronto Photojournalist. aspiring aesthete - instagram: @cburston

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Joined October 2008
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He Went Out on an Epic Wilderness Adventure. Only His Dogs Came Back. nytimes.com/interactive/2026… via @NYTimes

He Went Out on an Epic Wilderness Adventure. Only His Dogs Came Back.

For three years and 750 miles, Steffen Skjottelvik lived a life of adventure. Until the adventure took his life.

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Ontario township of Centre Wellington grapples with controversial AI data centre proposal /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Ontario township of Centre Wellington grapples with controversial AI data centre proposal

Policy-makers wrestle with technological challenges as AI data-centre proposals collide with resident concerns

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Vjosa Isai@LaVjosaOct 7
The surgical field, what doctors call the area of a body under operation, is among the latest frontiers for artificial intelligence in Canada. @cburst and I observed a gall bladder surgery at UHN in Toronto to see it in action. Gift link below: nytimes.com/2026/10/07/world…

Can Artificial Intelligence Learn the Art of Surgery? (Gift Article)

Canada wants to leverage A.I. to improve its health care system. At a Toronto hospital, surgeons are training a machine to distinguish a safe incision from a catastrophic one.

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Thanks to @LaVjosa and @cburst for bringing @nytimes readers for an inside and up-close look at the use of AI-guided surgery at @UHN Toronto General Hospital.
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Canada helped pioneer AI. Now, UHN researchers are exploring how it can improve patient care. @nytimes goes inside Toronto General Hospital to see how surgeons are using AI technology to support safer, more precise surgery. nytimes.com/2026/10/07/world…

Can Artificial Intelligence Learn the Art of Surgery?

Canada wants to leverage A.I. to improve its health care system. At a Toronto hospital, surgeons are training a machine to distinguish a safe incision from a catastrophic one.

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“self portrait” by saul steinberg (1949)
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AI agents repurposed a University of Toronto link-sharing tool to communicate with each other /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business…

AI agents repurposed a University of Toronto link-sharing tool to communicate with each other

No data was compromised, and U of T’s digital properties were not affected, the university says

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quinn@qvinnhSep 16
dont talk to me if ur not an associate european
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Carlos Osorio@carlososorioAug 25
What the Canada-US border looks like reuters.com/pictures/what-ca…

What the Canada-US border looks like

Scenes from along the Canada-US border, the longest international border in the world.

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Damn I wonder if @TennisCanada regrets giving contracts to American photographers to cover tournaments here. 🎾. What with the trade war and what not.
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H@hellohalimaAug 21
The Bell owned company advertising that Bell offered a deal to Marina 😂 (Love Canada where 3 people own everything)
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Marina Mabrey has received a trade offer from @Bell. 😂
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Clipse & The Neptunes on Rap City August 20, 2002
U⬩P⬩N⬩T@evboogieAug 20
Lord Willin' was released on this day in 2002.
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Anatomy of Toronto's new guns-for-hire network. @LaVjosa spent weeks reporting on the hiring of Toronto youth to shoot at places like the US consulate & synagogues, and wrote this troubling story from the apartment block that became the epicentre nytimes.com/2026/08/16/world…

A Consulate Shooting, a Toronto Street and a Network of Guns for Hire (Gift Article)

A shooting at a U.S. Consulate has thrust a neighborhood with a troubled past into the center of an emerging criminal phenomenon: young guns for hire as gig workers in the underworld economy.

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Odysseus: Where is my crew? Circe:
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Searing, detailed account of the risks and heartbreak of evacuees in Northwestern Ontario by our @LaVjosa who deployed to Thunder Bay and the broader region late last week. Powerful piece with photos by @cburst Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/07/20/world…

Evacuees of Ontario’s Wildfires Wait and Worry (Gift Article)

Flames crept, and then sprinted, toward unsuspecting residents who fled remote parts of northwestern Ontario. Now they want to know why officials weren’t prepared.

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Check out this photo gallery: cnn.com/2026/07/02/world/gal…

The week in 37 photos | CNN

Take a look at 37 photos of the week from June 25 to July 2.

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Canada's Showbiz Steps Outside Hollywood's Shadow Spend some time with our behind-the-scenes from the Canadian Screen Awards that captures a new, US-rupture-induced, Heated-Rivalry-propelled assertiveness in Canadian showbiz Brilliant photos by @cburst nytimes.com/2026/06/13/world…

Canada’s Showbiz Steps Out of Hollywood’s Shadow (Gift Article)

No longer content with being just “Hollywood North,” the Canadian screen industry is asserting itself and telling its own stories.

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Fullcourtpass
@FullcourtpassJun 5
Victor Wembanyama’s agent says Wemby has turned down millions of dollars and will never endorse soda companies "They all want him, but Victor will never sell soda. Because he doesn’t want to kill the kids." (Via @JaredWeissNBA, h/t @TheNBABase)
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Katie Rogers@katierogersMay 15
"Reporters and editors who get their ideas from their social-media feeds — which is most of them, most of the time — can mistake a paid simulation of public interest for the real thing and then make it real by covering it. " vulture.com/article/social-m…

The Feed Is Fake

That “viral” song, movie, influencer, and celebrity drama you scrolled by recently was likely the result of a stealth marketing campaign.

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@JaiIpose23 Oct 2024
Tell her Bron still doin it lol
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My aunt woke up from a 13 year coma !!!!!
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