Public opinion plays an important role in public sector labour disputes, but support can be difficult to maintain.
Check out the latest on the #CanadaPostStrike by @rosasaba.bsky.social with commentary from me and Adam King.
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#canlab #cdnpoli
I think we as an industry need to issue a moratorium on the phrase "calling out" in headlines and ledes until we can agree on what it actually means
ARTISTS AGAINST ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATION IN CANADA AN OPEN LETTER Tegan and Sara Foundation
glad tegan and sara are organizing against anti-trans laws. more people need to understand transphobia is spreading in canada too. read their open letter: teganandsarafoundation.org/open-letter
"Israel orders Palestinians to evacuate al-Shifa Hospital, threatening to blow up the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip if they do not."
New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians.
At what point does media (movies, TV, for example) start getting labeled as AI-free, the way some food products are labeled GMO-free? Asking this as I watch a rather realistic AI-generated video posted on X by OpenAI
"... once her mugshot and information is in the police system, she becomes effectively criminalized – a double insult, given that Brandi is an Indigenous woman who was arrested just for doing her job, by police who also disproportionately criminalize us."
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A crowd gathers at TMU and a speaker at a microphone gestures to a table with flowers and candles. Its a vigil.
Tonight, I attended the Journalists for Journalists vigil at TMU. It was a powerful event. The organizers were fully aware that attendees could face repercussions for attending, which was the most damning thing I've ever heard said of our industry. Still, a big turnout paid tribute to the fallen.
Today and every day, I'm grieving for the journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas war. For them and for their families, for their colleagues and for the stories they were killed telling. #JournalistsForJournalists
(There was a moment of silence, lasting one second for each journalist killed. It went on for nearly a minute and a half.)
A cluster of white flowers and electric candles layered across a stretch of pavement. There's a photo that's presumably of someone who died. Behind, two people hold up a banner displaying dozens of names.
I did not anticipate how dystopian it would feel to attend a memorial for journalists killed in Gaza/Lebanon/Israel and to be conscious that doing so could be seen as subversive.
north american journos are the same folks who put the ukrainian flag in their bio in 2022 but rn they do not give a shit about palestinian journalists being killed. CPJ and some other groups highlight it but cdnmedia is especially silent. make it make sense.
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B.C. journo crowd, please help Shalu Mehta after the loss of her partner to the toxic drug supply. www.gofundme.com/f/jake-reid-...
Poem by Refaat Alareer
Refaat Alareer, who wrote this poem, was killed today in an Israeli airstrike.
Journalists’ rights group counts 94 media workers killed this year, most of them in Gaza. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Israeli tank fire killed journalist at Lebanon border, Reuters investigation finds. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
All intensive care patients at al-Shifa Hospital have died, according to the facility’s director: ‘We are left with nothing, no power, no food, no water. With every passing minute, we are losing a life. Overnight we lost 22 persons.’
Edmonton’s policy requiring journalists to ask the city for permission to report on Edmonton Transit Service property is “unconstitutional” and should be revoked, a Canadian legal group says.
City could face legal action. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
My heart is broken over the death of Vivian Silver, Someone who always managed to bridge the empathy gap between Israel and Gaza and see all humans as deserving of life. May her memory be for a blessing.
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I hope to raise my kids to be ambitious—not to think about war, missiles, rockets. Every day, I see a fear in their eyes that I can’t do much about. It’s very painful. If you have kids, you know how horrible it is not to be able to comfort them, to ensure they are alright, to make them hope for anything beyond living one more day. We want to live freely like other people—to grow scientifically and economically, to walk in the street without fearing bombardments, to make plans. We want to be able to learn, think, grow, travel, dream—to feel like we are really human. Not to think only about meeting our basic needs. This is what life has always been about for us, and now—I want the world to know—we are being eradicated en masse. This is not what life should look like.
Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...
Important story from the Globe and Mail's Secret Canada Team this morning: Canada's archives are nearly impossible to access, a huge barrier to studying our history. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
I think many people aren't ready for /comfortable with an actually spirited discussion 😬
New: X/Twitter just removed the gold 'verified' badge from @nytimes.com with no explanation. Musk constantly gripes about NYT; other news orgs' badges are untouched. Comes amid a flood of false info related to Israel-Gaza war, some of which Musk has endorsed www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
BBC Verify has been analysing video footage, still imagery, eyewitness accounts, and views from experts to establish what caused the deadly blast at Gaza's Al-Ahli hospital.
This is what we've found so far.
I have no idea why bird poop is good luck, but I'm trying to see it as a good sign! As for a wish, I'm just hoping the poop comes out of my shirt..
