NEW from me today:
Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.
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Spent the week reporting from Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, which flipped red in 2024 on promises of border security and economic strength. It’s now seeing ICE job-site raids that are hurting the economy and stoking constant fears of families being torn apart.
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After a decade into Canada’s toxic drug crisis, recent data show death rates across the country are falling. But national averages can mask profound disparities, and experts caution that it’s too early to draw conclusions.
A look at the recent shift:
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Last Sunday, I led my first curatorial tour of The Suitcase Project at @museumofvan.bsky.social! While navigating the exhibit, we kept things fluid by leaving space for conversation and questions throughout.
This Saturday, Jan. 31, we're hosting our second tour: museumofvancouver.ca/suitcase-pro...
A suburban county in central Virginia is considering its legal options over a plan by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to purchase a warehouse property owned by Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments to use as a holding and processing centre
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The tenants of Park Beach have been fighting aggressive eviction threats for nearly two years.
Their landlord has painted them as criminals and thieves - and to their dismay, some Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrators have accepted that characterization. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
The Vancouver man accused of using his SUV to kill 11 people was under supervision by his local health authority and meant to be abiding by certain conditions after being released from a forced stint in hospital. Adam Lo, 30, was placed in a local psychiatric ward in ‘23 against his will.
We shouldn’t let this horrific attack at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival perpetuate the myth that all people with mental illness are violent. But it should remind us focusing on treatment is essential, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Betty Lepps stands behind a podium inside a program room at Collingwood Neighbourhood House. Behind Betty is a group of supporters urging the federal government to take action on increasing immigration services in Canada.
Just hours after #MarkCarney was sworn in as Canada's prime minister, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, along with a group of neighbourhood house organizations in Vancouver, called on federal parties to address rising anti-immigrant sentiment ahead of an imminent election.
