@jvipondmd.bsky.social on new research from Kick Big Polluters Out about fossil fuel influence at COP: "When 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists are allowed to influence our nations’ policies, these are no longer negotiations. It's an industry convention." loom.ly/OdRBWYc

My 82-year-old father sent me this from Pittsburgh. #NoKings

My summer archives tour of alt-weekly literary journalism, aka immersion journalism, aka reported longform narrative, 1970s-2001, continues with this astonishment--14,000 unstoppable words from 1999 about brick scavengers by @torimarlan.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/news/brickya...

Tsunami advisory canceled for BC

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

Good morning from the campaign trail here on the west coast! Today I’ll be catching up with Green leader Elizabeth May & spending time in her riding. Then tonight I’m hoping to catch up with Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Laurel Collins in Victoria. Stay tuned to @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for more!

Thrilled to be providing editorial support to this dream team!

Aren’t they supposed to also outline the steps they’ve taken, and will take, to facilitate his return?

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

Residential street, Victoria, B.C.

This 🎯 article by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is one of the best recaps of the COVID reality, how we got here, and what it means for the present & the future: How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world (Mar 10, 2025) healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...

No tsunami expected after this morning’s earthquake because the conditions aren’t right? Or because the Trump admin fired the NOAA staff whose job it is to warn us? Genuinely don’t know.

I've started in a new role as the Guest Managing Editor for Buffalo's Fire, an independent news outlet published by the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance. If you're a freelancer who writes about critical issues affecting Indigenous communities, let's talk. tori at imfreedomalliance dot org

An update to this story, via @torimarlan.bsky.social: Tim Durkin, the Man Who Stole a Hotel, has lost all appeals and is being deported from Canada. A scam artist of epic proportions, a manipulator and liar, and now, a Brit. www.capitaldaily.ca/news/the-man...

Good.

There’s been so much interest in from US 🇺🇸health workers and jobs in Canada that I’m posting recruitment links for all 10 provinces and 3 territories: 🧵 #healthcarejobs🇨🇦

Uh, really?

Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

To understand what project 2025 really wants, it is worth understanding a little bit about the history of weather services in the US. Like a lot of US history, it runs through Detroit. 🧵

So happy to see this beautiful essay out in the world! I've been working with the author, Robert Lee Williams, through Empowerment Avenue, a nonprofit that helps incarcerated writers place their stories. It would mean a lot to him if you'd give it a read!

Okay, friends, here’s my first starter pack of greater Vancouver and Victoria bike, urbanism or otherwise good people go.bsky.app/4gCwdoT

Great longform journalism on the right to be vaccinated with Novavax in Canada (some people can't tolerate, or prefer not to be vaccinated with, the mRNA vaccines. (free article with email address) theijf.org/no-good-opti...

Prisoners are reporting physical and psychological effects from the heat. One cell gets so hot in an Alberta prison, the women there refer to it as "The Microwave." But a government policy prohibits the kind of relief they're seeking. My latest for @theijf.org theijf.org/canadian-pri...

Half a year after Melissa McDevitt vanished in the woods, her parents still don't know what happened to her. Not a single item of hers has been found. I spoke with them about the search for their daughter, the strangers who've banded together to help, and the new clue that could break open the case.