An excerpt from the part of our book where we mustered all of our self-control and … took the category of “woke mind virus“ seriously.

Turns out it’s kind of revealing about how Musk and his brethren in the Silicon Valley leadership class see politics.

This hearing is about to start in Ontario, Colin will have an update soon.

"... Experts speculate that Canada appears to be trying to keep hidden the ways in which its intelligence agencies, such as CSIS, spied on Indian consulates and the High Commission. That information, they say, would have been used by the RCMP with the understanding that it could never be revealed.."

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Worth noting that after years of meeting eight times a year (including during the 2022 election year), the Vancouver Police Board moved it down to seven last year, and this election year will only meet four times

You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...

I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about.

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Tweet from @RyanDeto of Axios: BREAKING: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being sold to The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the same nonprofit that owns the Baltimore Banner, sources inside a Post-Gazette meeting tell me. The P-G was set to close May 3 but appears now to be preserved. More details tk

Here’s some good journalism news (for once).

200+ people are gathered at Victoria legislature today to mark a dark anniversary: 10 years of the toxic drug crisis as a public health emergency this year.

18,000+ deaths. Lots of frustration w/ provincial government.

Article to come for @pressprogress.ca. #bcnews #toxicdrugcrisis

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"Very Vancouver" will be out in August. It's a non-fiction storybook by me, a kaleidoscopic odyssey through backyard gardens, alley bottle hoards, SROs, Duffin's at midnight, and east-side family life — tales that take you beyond our pretty skylines.

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Renewing Democracy: Do Citizens Actually Matter? In 2026, people seem more disenchanted with politics than ever. Cynicism is rising, trust is eroding, and engaging in politics feels uninspiring – or worse, threatening. Social media platforms divide ...

An event I'll be participating in this Wednesday - we'll be talking about renewing democracy in a POSITIVE and LIFE AFFIRMING way.

You can sign up here for this FREE VPL event here:
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Minister Joseph Schow was referencing this story, about Justice Minister Mickey Amery and Sam Mraiche --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Several Republican politicians, including Texas Governor Greg Abbott, shared an AI-generated image depicting the rescue of the US airman whose fighter jet was shot down over Iran. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

I knew the #Twitter search functionality was already pooched but now just searching the URL of your news story pulls up different stories from other outlets and even an official Russian government link to a Telegram post?

Son of Ukrainian SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka fighting University of Alberta's termination of research endowment Family of a Ukrainian SS veteran are in an Edmonton courtroom fighting the University of Alberta's termination of an endowment in his name.

New from me: the son of Yaroslav Hunka, the Ukrainian SS veteran whose recognition in Canada's House of Commons caused an international scandal, is in an Edmonton court this week fighting the University of Alberta's decision to terminate an endowment in his name. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Someone just caught Artemis from their flight. Cool view of little piece of history!

Journalist Sues FAA Over Drone No Fly Zone Designed to Prevent Filming ICE A Minnesota journalist is challenging a 3,000 foot restriction on flying near DHS assets on First Amendment grounds.

Minnesota photojournalist Rob Levine is suing the FAA over a a drone no fly zone which is designed to stop people filming ICE.
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Glut of new build homes starts to unhinge the Alberta market Record number of completions creates backlog of unsold, new-build inventory that is out of reach for first-time buyers

New from me!

Townhomes have become a desirable option for many young families in Calgary. An influx of investor buyers, however, caused home prices to rise beyond the reach of first-time buyers, creating a glut of unsold inventory as investor demand dwindles.

A graph titled “the public health success of the measles vaccine” that shows the number of measles cases in the United States plummeting after the vaccine was introduced in 1963

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

B.C. care home construction cost hits $1.8M per bed The provincial government is defending its decision to pause construction on seven long-term care home projects in B.C., revealing the costs had ballooned to a whopping $1.8 million per bed, CTV News ...

These numbers are eye-popping

Even with top of the line everything, I’m flabbergasted
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Health care is Canada’s prime job creator – and not only because of an aging population For both Canada and the U.S., hiring in health care is propping up otherwise sluggish job numbers

Health care is Canada’s prime job creator – and not only because of an aging population. For both Canada and the U.S., hiring in health care is propping up otherwise sluggish job numbers, by @mattlundy.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... via @theglobeandmail.com

ProPublica Adds Ownership Search to Nursing Home Inspect Database Our database helps you find issues that inspectors identified in more than 14,000 U.S. nursing homes. Now you can search by owner, manager or officer name.

To give the public more insight into American nursing homes, ProPublica has added the ability to search by owner, manager or officer name to Nursing Home Inspect, our database that helps you find issues that federal inspectors have identified in more than 14,000 facilities.

Check it out 👇

This video is spreading across social media, falsely claimed to show fed-up Los Angeles residents attacking and chasing away ICE agents.

It actually shows a brawl involving workers and state police at a wholesale market in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

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Circle as big as how much your account gets interacted with on X, and Elon Musk is a huge dot in the middle dwarfing everything else like the sun

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

An Iranian’s Dispatch From the Digital Darkness A labor activist and former Evin Prison detainee compares the war’s internet blackouts to solitary confinement

“No one comes out of solitary confinement the same person they were before.”
@ntabrizy.bsky.social shares an essay by “Bijan,” an Iranian labor activist and former political prisoner.

Letter: New MCFD disability funding model is 'disappointing' - Freshet News There are so many statements in your column that leave things unanswered, states this Port Moody letter writer

Check out 'Letter: New MCFD disability funding model is 'disappointing' - Freshet News': www.freshetnews.ca/letter-new-m...

Haiti: Drone Strikes Put Residents at Risk Haitian security forces and private contractors working with them have conducted extensive and apparently unlawful lethal drone strikes.

At least 1,243 people have been killed by drone strikes in Haiti as of January 21.

Drone strikes.

In Haiti.

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