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Editor Alison Uncles 💛 at the helm.

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Such a great piece @cwarzel.bsky.social.

“There is something disorienting, horrible, and somehow fitting in the timing of all of this. That one man with the means to do it would threaten destruction of a part of our planet at the same moment its beauty and fragility are on full display.”

Awe. Raymond. What a lovely post. Thank you. And thank you for the work you do.

Watchdog finds little oversight over multi-billion-dollar Indigenous procurement program - National | Globalnews.ca Procurement watchdog’s probe says Canada can’t 'credibly demonstrate' that Indigenous businesses are benefitting from multi-billion dollar procurement program.

Canada's procurement watchdog says he's never seen anything as bad as the federal government's management of Indigenous procurement. His report has some shocking details: globalnews.ca/news/1174619...

Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis: Payne, Scott, Shephard, Michelle: 9781668032909: Books - Amazon.ca

And .. for more about the undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the U.S group: www.amazon.ca/Code-Name-Un...

White Hot Hate Episode 5- Transcript | CBC Radio White Hot Hate Episode 5, Transcript

For more on its alleged leader, Rinaldo Nazzaro, we had a wide-ranging interview with him, for our CBC podcast series, White Hot Hate. Episode 5 is about him: www.cbc.ca/radio/podcas...

Looks like The Base is not dismantled as once believed.. Good @nytimes.com story here from @lizziedearden.bsky.social & Adam Goldman ...

“The Cruelty Right Now Is Horrific”: A Veteran Reporter Recalls Her Most Challenging Assignments | The Walrus Michelle Shephard has written from Guantánamo, Somalia, and Sudan. How does she cope with the violence she uncovers?

An excerpt from the episode of my podcast in which I speak to @michelleshephard.bsky.social about Trump, reporting from difficult places, feeling rage in a Starbucks, and more, has been published as a Q&A by @thewalrus.ca.

Following weeks of frequent blackouts, Cuba’s electricity grid suffered a “complete disconnection” on Monday, according to the energy ministry. Here is a closer look at the ripple effects of the energy crisis. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

U.S. Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at Guantánamo

Latest: The new Southcom commander just punted a question on the Pentagon's cost of the ICE operation at Guantanamo Bay. Gen. Francis Donovan told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines) pay the military's share. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

Reflection: What's at stake in Canadian transparency tussles - Investigative Journalism Bureau One of the best ways to lose friends at a party is to bring up freedom-of-information legislation.  Try it the next time you want to escape an awkward social interaction. “Oh, that is so interesting. ...

Across Canada, politicians are betting you don't care about restricting access to information.

Prove them wrong.

ijb.utoronto.ca/news/reflect...

Joe Kent, a Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official, Resigns Over the Iran War

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran … Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...

Canada’s Oscars triumph means nothing if we don’t keep supporting our filmmakers Homegrown artists triumphed in nearly every category in which they were nominated, for a total of four Oscar wins

Canada’s #Oscars triumph means nothing if we don’t keep supporting our filmmakers. And right now, Mark Carney's social-media-easy support feels hollow. (And don't even start, Pierre Poilievre.) My morning-after Academy Awards take for @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Katharine Lake Berz: A tyrant is dead and a region is in flames. One Iranian Canadian says celebration is in order — another says not so fast Shermineh Esmati-Novak, CEO and founder of NOVASHER Ventures, helped organize a Toronto rally celebrating the strikes. She says the attack represents an overdue reckoning. Samira Mohyeddin, journalist...

Canadian-Iranians sharply dis­agree on whether the U.S./Israeli strikes were jus­ti­fied, whether they will help ordin­ary Ira­ni­ans and what Canada’s response should be. #IranWar‌ www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @thestar.com @smohyeddin.bsky.social

A little late posting this, but: February was another great month for episodes of the WHAT HAPPENED NEXT podcast, where I talk to authors who are between books about being between books.
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History | The Walrus There was satellite imagery, survivor testimony, and mass graves. Still, the world looked away from Sudan

The genocide in Sudan hasn’t been ignored or overlooked, it has been willfully ignored. My dispatch from the region …

@thewalrus.ca @msf.ca @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social

“A Transportation Department spokesman did not respond to inquiries about whether a party balloon had been fired upon this week.”

Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser

“C.B.P. officials thought they were firing on a cartel drone, the people said, but it turned out to be a party balloon. Defense Department officials were present during the incident, one person said.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

And … now ban is lifted?

Not since 9/11 … ???

Michelle Shephard Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · 02/09/2026 · 30m

"I thought, 'Oh, my God. How am I going to write like this guy?' We are opposite in every way. I'm this lefty Canadian agnostic. I don't even like cops."

Author and journalist @michelleshephard.bsky.social on her initial reaction to being chosen to co-write a book with former FBI agent Scott Payne.

How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News Today, the name represents a story of profit and power unlike any other. But tracing the genealogy of Murdoch sleaze requires a long memory.

Rupert Murdoch is now 94 and worth $23 billion. His empire continues to gaslight the world—but he’ll leave even his own kingdom darker than he found it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

We’ve had three cats .. Woody, Bernie and DT (Woodward, Bernstein and uh, Deep Throat.) THAT’S the @washingtonpost.com legacy when you’re a journalism couple.

But now, it’s this. (To @leloveluck.bsky.social & Lizzie Johnson ++ 💔 )

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Ohio Church Swells With Support for Haitians Amid Deportation Fears

It was an amazing show of support in Springfield, Ohio, for the Haitian residents who make up so much of that town.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

The U.S. Assistant Secretary Dept. of Homeland Security .. responds ..

Nearly every sentence of U.S. District Court Judge Ana C. Reyes' 83-page ruling is an indictment of the Trump administration's attempt to end a visa program for 350,000+ Haitians legally living in the U.S.

But these last paragraphs ...

Your Leaders Were Lying. Now The People Are Driving The depravity of ICE, the enthusiasm of Republicans and the cowardice of Democrats is breaking through hypernormalization

The political/governing systems in Minnesota have failed so profoundly that ordinary people are strengthening their own communities against a predatory official force. Perhaps it's time to think beyond the political compact known as the "United States of America." New at FOREVER WARS:

When Liuzzo acquired this knowledge, when she got Woke, she was transfigured into a traitor to her race and a menace to The Homeland. For being a menace, for being Woke, she was killed—as was Renee Good. (As was Alex Pretti.) But revelations have their blessings, too. In this case, a life, however brief, that is clean, and does not depend on the oppression and debasement of others. The revelation of deep human ties, a belief that we are all equally chosen, doomed Liuzzo, Good, and Pretti, as revelation so often does. But it also immortalized them.

Ta-Nehisi on Minnesota, and Culture War as war www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

White House Warns CBS: Air Trump Interview in Full, or ‘We’ll Sue’ In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” the news outlet if it did not air an interview unedited.

The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News on Tuesday that President Trump would sue the news outlet if it did not air an interview with him in full.