2025 CAJ Awards Finalists Janice Johnston Award for Crime and Investigative Reporting Tavia Grant Avery Haines, Joseph Loiero, Angelo Altomare, Jerry Vienneau, Zak Vescera Brendan Kennedy Anna Mehler Paperny Jen St. Denis
Thrilled, honoured, tickled to be nominated alongside these rockstars. Huge congrats to @bkstar.bsky.social, Tavia, @jenstden.bsky.social, the CTV team.
Just wait ‘til they crack open Genesis (and Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy…).
Screenshot of email from ChatGPT offering “Easy self-care you can start today”
Step 1: Delete ChatGPT.
Modeling admirable transparency there.
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
So good!
On the left: an image of a hand holding up a smartphone with a collage of abstract images and social media symbols behind it on a beige background. On the right: text that reads “The war against misinformation is over. The lies won. New research suggests people know images and headlines are false but share them anyway”
After years of covering misinformation, investigative journalist Justin Ling has reached a stark conclusion: “There is no amount of fact checking, media literacy, or platform moderation to solve the extent of this problem.” What comes after defeat? https://ow.ly/x0K650YC4LL
true but it would have been bananas, bonkers, historic. sigh.
I want a universal extension for my phone and computer that gets rid of all these garbage idiot AI "tools" I did not ask for and want no part of. No, I do not need you to summarize a four-page PDF for me, eff off! God help us all if we can't process such things with our own mushy, wet human brains.
If Mark Carney wants to ever utter the words "cultural sovereignty" again (and who knows, maybe he doesn't), then the Liberals cannot allow Hollywood to steamroll over the Online Streaming Act/Bill C-11. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE)
www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
The Ontario government seems scared of transparency. It doesn’t want its citizens to know about the lobbyists, policy advisors, experts or wing-nuts it talks to when it makes its decisions.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.
US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, requests an apology from The Globe and Mail for a column by Cathal Kelly about the US men’s Olympic hockey team at the State of the Union.
www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...
"Bulk of the misinformation about the conflict with Iran ... came from monetized Verified accounts" on X, which get paid by views regardless of accuracy.
Media need to boycott X, it's beyond irresponsible at this point to provide it any sheen of legitimacy: www.garbageday.email/p/sorry-babe...
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...
Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3
It will not surprise you to hear we lived up to at least one national cliche: 8 out of 10 of the most-watched moments were of hockey games.
CBC announces 8.7-million Canadians watched the winning OT goal for the men’s gold medal hockey game yesterday. But in a change from longstanding practice, it doesn’t release average-minute-audience figures for the Milan Cortina broadcasts - only snapshots for the 10 “most-watched moments.”
Wow. And when National Observer declares this filmmaker antisemitic, they link to a video where dude literally blames Jews for societal decay and begins listing wealth Canadian Jewish men.
A doctor friend says they should make a special beta blocker for national moments like this. They could call it Canadolol.
My mother was a nine year old refugee when she came to this country. She and her sister spoke no English. There were no ESL classes then. But good teachers in the small town of Barrhead where they lived taught them, and taught them well. They all became voracious readers with beautiful diction.
Walking through the snowy park with the dog, watching the game on my phone and cheering to the open air because no one else is here. I’m like a goddamn ad for. CBC Gem.
Great column, as always from Cathal. (I genuinely don’t know how he turns around something like this in no time.)
You’ve got to read to the end to fully appreciate the point he’s making.
Great ad for the PWHL, though.
If it’s not already, all Canadian government investment in digital sovereignty should count toward our defence spending.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...
The @thestar.com editorial board on the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
