• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Angelo Gio Mateo Blog

Angelo Gio Mateo Blog

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Posts
  • At The Corner

Blog Posts

I’m tired of staring into the sun.

May 14, 2024

There’s more to life than grades, careers, and prestige.

August 17, 2023

My thoughts on Barbenheimer

July 23, 2023

A rant: Ticketmaster and Live Nation threaten the Live Music Ecosystem and arts and culture everywhere

August 8, 2022

Developing a Canadian Approach to Governing Automated Decision-Making System

May 6, 2022

A reflection about my friend Will and life.

March 24, 2022

Canada’s Digital Foreign Policy Opportunities in a Fragmented Geopolitical World: Advocating for Digital Democracy

March 1, 2022

Supporting Canadian Music Artists in the Era of Spotify

February 21, 2022

Policy, Process, and Product – A case study on OSAP

December 20, 2021

a few thoughts on the year before turning 28

December 8, 2021

Are the 2021-2022 Toronto Raptors better defensively without Pascal Siakam? A late-night experiment.

November 30, 2021

The States v. Google: “Google is pitcher, batter, and umpire, all at the same time”

November 23, 2021

On digital democracy and possibly “simplistic” solutions

November 18, 2021

Digital Constitutionalism and Normative Governance Regimes

November 17, 2021

What we talk about when we talk about “AI”

November 16, 2021

Reports find that the federal government again used surveillance at Pearson airport, this time through facial recognition. This threatens our human rights.

November 15, 2021

Pervasive and Invisible: Online Behavioural Tracking And the Collection and Use of Sensitive Personal Data

November 14, 2021

Who are we in the modern Internet age?

November 12, 2021

Midnight Burnout Rant – I’m falling apart and I don’t know what’s next

November 4, 2021

Sunrise Challenge – Day 1-3

June 2, 2021

I’m waking up early for CAMH

May 28, 2021

Tableau Map connecting Electoral Districts/MPPs/Twitter accounts/and more!

May 3, 2021

Positive.

April 25, 2021

Impermanence and Chasing Ghosts: A Profile of Beams’ Ego Death

March 26, 2021

Angelo Gio Mateo is going to be a Masters student.

March 25, 2021

Walking out into the night

March 24, 2021

Equity, Economic Recovery & COVID-19 Recap

March 17, 2021

“Favourite Food”

February 27, 2021

Live Music as Catharsis – An Essay for 33.3 x Exclaim!

February 26, 2021

Christmas Playlist 2020

December 6, 2020

When I’m Most Brave and Proud (but I never talk about it)

April 15, 2020

Vote for a candidate that will make you proud. Vote for a progressive minority government.

October 18, 2019

An Essay on the 2019 election, the Trudeau brownface/blackface, making difficult decisions, and fighting racism.

October 1, 2019

Ride Don’t Hide 2019

April 2, 2019

Time Will Have Its Fury

September 30, 2018

Be Better

September 23, 2018

We Cannot Compromise on These Rights: The beginnings of the erosion of democratic values in Ontario

September 18, 2018

Letter to MPP Sheref Sabawy (Mississauga-Erin Mills) on Bill 5, Bill 31 and the Notwithstanding Clause

September 13, 2018

First Day

June 12, 2018

We did it!

June 9, 2018

We’ve lost another one to suicide.

June 8, 2018

Ride Don’t Hide 2018

May 11, 2018

Review: Hundred Acres – S. Carey

February 22, 2018

Towers

November 15, 2017

I’m Finally Finished

November 6, 2017

On Asian American Identity

August 9, 2017

Review: Call It Love – Briana Marela

August 1, 2017

Hug of Thunder and my Philosophy of Cynical Idealism

July 10, 2017

Why my name is “Angelo Gio Mateo”

July 1, 2017

An Elegy for NXNE

June 29, 2017

The Raptors don’t have a modern team for today’s NBA

May 5, 2017

Farewell, UNSOC

April 6, 2017

“Indie music is not ‘white music’”

March 18, 2017

The Triumphant Return of Run the Jewels – Concert Review, February 19 2017

February 18, 2017

On… Valentine’s Day.

February 14, 2017

I See You (2017) – The xx Album Review

February 8, 2017

Some thoughts on Trump, Bannon and the Muslim Ban

January 30, 2017

Listening and Learning

January 25, 2017

Favourite Albums of 2016

December 21, 2016

Most Memorable Concerts of 2016

December 20, 2016

Looking Back: Albums from the Past, Inspired by 2016

December 19, 2016

23, humbled and blessed.

December 8, 2016

Congratulations Chance!

December 6, 2016

On… The Rage of 2016.

December 6, 2016

On… how NOT TO respond to mental illness.

November 23, 2016

Here’s the legacy of the 2016 Election Campaign.

November 9, 2016

Here’s my electoral map on the eve of the US Election.

November 7, 2016

A short blurb about “It’s All Gonna Break”

October 29, 2016

Some Early Thoughts about Gord Downie’s Secret Path

October 25, 2016

I feel like that all the time.

October 22, 2016

The Leafs Young Ones

October 15, 2016

“Shoe-store house music”

October 5, 2016

22, A Million is Bon Iver’s personal “Book of Job”

October 3, 2016

Are you ready for your blessings?

September 28, 2016

Does it matter if Minister Monsef wasn’t born where she thought?

September 22, 2016

Recap: Toronto Urban Roots Festival 2016

September 17, 2016

Pasasalamat

September 15, 2016

I’m not going back to Wayhome.

July 26, 2016

Unexpected Beginnings

July 1, 2016

Album Review: “My Favourite Faded Fantasy” by Damien Rice

November 3, 2014

Footer

Subscribe to At The Corner on your favourite podcast platforms!

At The Corner Episodes

Prologue

This is my new podcast: At The Corner. A space where I can record my own thoughts and ideas. This episode is a prologue, a promise of things to come. This is my story and I’m letting myself be vulnerable.

Copyright © 2025 · Angelo Gio Mateo Blog on Genesis Framework
All rights reserved. All images are copyrighted by their respective copyright owners.
Made with love by me.