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Freelance reporter, podcaster, photog & editor ¶ Co-founder: Debrief Communications ¶ Formerly CBC, TorStar, AFP, Tyee ¶ CAJ+Webster awards ¶ Bylines: Globe & Mail, Le Monde, Guardian, National Post etc ¶ Tips: [email protected]
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It comes on the heels of this judge’s scathing ruling on an RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en land defenders just last week: indiginews.com/news/wetsuwe...

The RCMP's conduct towards Ricochet reporter Jerome Turner was "imperious, ill-considered, and arguably unlawful … a feature not a bug," of the operation's design — “a substantial and serious interference with the freedom of the press.” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

earthquake day means not having to answer emails for the rest of the day

Epicentre on Sunshine Coast

BREAKING NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing First Amendment.

I would say that emergency alert system seems to work pretty well, alert came literally 3 seconds after shake The Earth is incredible I’ve never felt one before and am left with awe

My latest story for @indiginews.bsky.social on Haida master carver Christian White

Vancouver Island's @docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social will be back outside Royal Jubilee Hospital today and tomorrow with pop-up overdose prevention sites. They will be joined by former BC Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, and have support letters from multiple groups eg BC Family Doctors and BC Nurses Union.

This is mind boggling censorship for reporting in Canada on government-corporate corruption. Beyond censorship… Imagine an entire media outlet being forced to close or be jailed? www.readtheorchard.org/p/muzzling-o...

Roses are red Violets are blue

In the past weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing white supremacist groups that had been listed among the most dangerous threats to national security. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

I’m so proud to launch Debrief Communications (@debriefcomms.bsky.social) — a journalist-owned communications collective I’m co-founding with @brishti.bsky.social & @godfrey.bsky.social Check our site (debriefcomms.ca) or email us ([email protected])!

BC human rights commissioner Kasari Govender criticizing Education Minister Lisa Bear's firing of the Greater Victoria school board She notes the firing "effectively makes school police liaison officer programs mandatory" in BC without evidence they are needed or effective #bcpoli

Eulogio arrived as a teenager in 2001, leaving behind his village in Guatemala. After 24 years … he went to hug his sleeping children. “See you in the afternoon,” he whispered to each of them. The truth was he might not be coming back. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

There are several historic words for this amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

Cypress Mountain summit timeline cleanse

Protesters gathered in downtown Los Angeles on 2 February in response to a recent increase in ICE raids and deportations under President Trump's immigration crackdown. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

“It was rooted in Jesus not a partisan agenda”—Bishop Budde “In God’s kingdom, immigrants and refugees, transgender people, the poor & the marginalized are not at the edges, fearful & alone. They are at the center of the gospel story”—Episcopal primate Rowe www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

Detroit v Vancouver … this weekend’s booing tradition continues I do feel bad like it must have been hard to be this great singer who didn’t ask for a trade war but

Reupping this 20yo Propagandhi banger 🎶A new iron curtain drawn across the 49th Parallel/Cut all diplomatic ties as we expel/All American dignitaries…Goodbye to such sad childish refrains…like/“You can have my guns when you pry them from my cold dead hands” m.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfv...

CDC erased much of its adult immunization guidance & its survey of high school students on mental health, violence & substance abuse "People will get sick … where you cannot lose a day to treat, babies will die”—head of National Coalition of STD Directors www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cdc...

The Inquiry Regarding the Treatment, Experiences, and Outcomes of Innu in the Child Protection System is set to wrap in 2025, amid efforts to reclaim jurisdiction indiginews.com/features/new...

Today, IndigiNews is thrilled to share an exciting announcement: as of January 1, we have moved to a new non-profit parent organization, tâpwêwin media. indiginews.com/first-person...

Is there some kind of ban on saying “crashed” or “crash landed” lol

Powerful “child welfare” story on a mom’s legal battle that @briellemimi.bsky.social has followed for years. In @indiginews.bsky.social indiginews.com/news/in-the-...

Kukpi7 Rhonda Phillips fears for at-risk caribou after B.C. approved a $1.1B gold mine nearby. Will future Secwépemc kids ever see a real caribou? “We’re going to show them pictures of what caribou look like—which is sad” My first story for @indiginews.bsky.social indiginews.com/features/car...

“When you shoot one man in the street it's murder. When you kill thousands of people in hospitals by taking away their ability to get treatment you're an entrepreneur” www.axios.com/2024/12/05/b...

Nice to be interviewed by @theguardian.com for this piece on women and the LGBTQ+ community seeking firearms and self-defense training after the election from groups like @theliberalgunclub.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Checked in on VICE News’ pivot to being absolutely fucking unhinged. It’s like when you creep an ex and are surprisingly sad at how poorly they’re doing

Foggy soggy dog, in four parts

“The words loosely echo a book title Delay, Deny, Defend, which describes tactics allegedly used by insurers to deny healthcare claims UnitedHealth was among the insurers slammed in a Senate report this year for using automated tools to increase claim denials” www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/com...

This is powerful as hell. Everyone should read it. Empathy. Everyone needs it.

YOU FOOLS. YOU LET MOOSE.

Wow, I have never seen this angle of it. Like initials carved into a tree

“A sense of panic took over … Honestly, I was scared at first. But seeing such confrontation, I thought, ‘I can’t stay silent’." —Ahn Gwi-ryeong, 35 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Winter wonderland up in Cypress park on the North Shore right now

I’m excited to announce that today is the launch of The Hatchet, a podcast and newsletter focused on power and money in Canada. Listen to our first episode, subscribe and support! open.substack.com/pub/hatchetm...

Good morrow all from Ms Willow, aka Snoot Doggy Dogg

Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday

AP: An @HRW.org investigation concluded an Israeli airstrike that killed 3 journalists in Lebanon was a deliberate attack on civilians with US guided bombs—likely a war crime 11 other journalists have been killed & 8 wounded since, among > 3,500 ppl killed in Lebanon apnews.com/article/leba...

Welcome everyone now joining this platform! I’ve been mostly quiet on all socials lately, but now really happy to see people choosing a healthier and happier one!

Health authority joins scientists to study health impacts of gas flaring from Woodfibre LNG plant near Squamish, B.C. My latest for @CBCNewsBC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The recent warm spell has been bad for South Coast skiers, and next week’s B.C. Games saw 3 snow sports cancelled. But it’s been a boon for golfers. Climate change is changing the fairway, but expectations have to change, experts told me www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Merry Christmas from us and a dog who hates hats. Recreated my mom’s annual Dec 25 Eggs “Holidays” which I only realized as an adult were just Hollandaise

“This is the problem of general society that's mistreating us and stereotyping us,” said Tania Dick. "It's not for Indigenous people to bear the weight and load of this." #TruthandReconciliation #OrangeShirtDay www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...