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Dave Bidini
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Recent work
- Dave Bidini launched a local newspaper in 2016. Here’s what those 10 years taught him about communityOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 10, 2026
- On Canada Day, our soccer team reflects something everyone can cheer for: Players from everywhere, together on the same stageOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 1, 2026
- Hockey Night in Canada was our weekly appointment with each other. Rogers ends it at their perilOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 18, 2026
- Dave Bidini: I spent my youth deploring the game of my Italian grandparents. And then I scoredOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 7, 2026
- Hockey-loving kids just witnessed their heroes acting like cowardsOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 26, 2026
- Why the U.S. Olympic hockey victory is a win for CanadaOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 24, 2026
- Fandom is two dogs: sometimes beatific, sometimes snarling. Here’s when I need a good commentator to leash my emotionsOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 28, 2025
- Dave Bidini: This is a team that spoke of love — and we’re loving those Blue Jays right backOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 21, 2025
- Dave Bidini: This is a team that spoke of love - and we’re loving those Blue Jays right backOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 20, 2025
- Bette Midler kissed me at TIFF in 1980, and my life changed forever. Whose lives will change this year?Opinion · Toronto Star · Sep 3, 2025
- Baseball fans know too well how quickly things can change in SeptemberOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 31, 2025
- Forget Yonge. This east-west thoroughfare is a cultural icon, and that makes it Toronto’s most Toronto streetOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 23, 2025
- When Toronto loses a public event like Taste of the Danforth, it loses more than just a street festivalOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 16, 2025
- Panthers’ beer-soaked post-Cup partying a reminder of what’s wrong with hockey cultureOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 27, 2025
- Dave Bidini: The Leafs were once the people’s team. What happened?Opinion · Toronto Star · May 21, 2025
- The Leafs have a legacy of losing, but I will follow them to the endOpinion · Toronto Star · May 19, 2025
- Dave Bidini: The Leafs, like Toronto, so often break our hearts. Occasionally, though, we taste perfectionOpinion · Toronto Star · May 2, 2025
- Dave Bidini: We’re a city that often bruises at the thought of change, but will always cheer for the LeafsOpinion · Toronto Star · May 1, 2025
- Dave Bidini: At the Four Nations games we stood up for ourselves, united and defiantOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 21, 2025
- Opinion: Why did I – and so many hockey fans – defend Don Cherry for so long?Opinion · The Globe and Mail · Nov 10, 2019
- Roberto Osuna, and why sport fails its fansOpinion · The Globe and Mail · May 8, 2018
- Hockey and Humboldt: What holds us together, and what keeps us movingOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Apr 11, 2018
- Our local newspapers didn’t have to dieOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Nov 28, 2017
- Our local newspapers didn’t have to dieOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Nov 28, 2017
- Our local newspapers didn’t have to dieOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Nov 28, 2017
- Our local newspapers didn’t have to dieOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Nov 28, 2017
- Our local newspapers didn’t have to dieOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Nov 28, 2017
- Our local newspapers didn’t have to dieOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Nov 27, 2017
- Baseball, Blue Jays and the long journey into darknessOpinion · The Globe and Mail · May 2, 2017
- Baseball, Blue Jays and the long journey into darknessOpinion · The Globe and Mail · May 2, 2017
- Baseball, Blue Jays and the long journey into darknessOpinion · The Globe and Mail · May 2, 2017
- Baseball is back. Will America’s game reclaim its political power?Opinion · The Globe and Mail · Apr 1, 2017
- Baseball is back. Will America’s game reclaim its political power?Opinion · The Globe and Mail · Apr 1, 2017
- Baseball is back. Will America’s game reclaim its political power?Opinion · The Globe and Mail · Apr 1, 2017
- Some hope for the world: The Leafs are actually goodOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Feb 2, 2017
- Some hope for the world: The Leafs are actually goodOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Feb 2, 2017
- Dylan is great – but he’s no literary Nobel winnerOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Oct 12, 2016
- Dylan is great – but he’s no literary Nobel winnerOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Oct 12, 2016
- Fully, completely: The Hip unites us allOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Aug 18, 2016
- Fully, completely: The Hip unites us allOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Aug 18, 2016
- Fully, completely: The Hip unites us allOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Aug 18, 2016
- Fully, completely: The Hip unites us allOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Aug 18, 2016
- After Odor’s ugly punch, remember: Baseball must not become hockeyOpinion · The Globe and Mail · May 15, 2016
- Hockey and homophobia: We are all complicitOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Apr 20, 2016
- Balmy in February: When puddles replace rinks, we all loseOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Feb 2, 2016
- Thank you David Bowie, champion of the strangeOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jan 10, 2016
- No matter what, I'm thankful for the endless summer of Blue Jays baseballOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Oct 22, 2015