Well. Now we know where Kevin Hall ended up: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/f...

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more. Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Fascinated by this reddit post on our local subreddit. Some users have accused it of being astroturf-y but I decided to respond anyways. Sometimes reporters just report on what they see and can't be an all-knowing eye in the sky.

www.timescolonist.com/local-news/t... The one time we were fast enough with breaking news coverage

Here's a screengrab of the incident in question (which unfortunately is obscured by a cell door). Head to the @theglobeandmail.com to watch the full video of the interaction Amber Bracken FOIed and received from the Prince George jail: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Amber Bracken's lawyer says she pushed a finger into the sheriff's chest. The sheriff told RCMP she “struck him in the left shoulder with an aggressive punching/pushing motion." He said that evening that his shoulder hurt but he declined medical attention. Crown never approved a charge. #cdnpoli

🧵 A couple of years ago I was interviewed by @thetyee.ca for a story about the legacy of the Sisters of St Ann. I was encountering resistance to identifying their convent in Victoria as a residential school… thetyee.ca/News/2022/07...

Expecting a substantial story to come out this Thursday... Stay tuned

Hearing that the cyclist who assaulted a bystander at the RBCM picket line on Sunday may previously harassed pickets at other sites. Please get in touch if you have any more information to share.

sobering stuff: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today. In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others. The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.

It's incredible I somehow made it 10 years in the news biz without being laid off but my luck ran out today. Sad to see a quality team torn apart. Spare a thought for your local journos who are ever being asked to do more with less, especially if you're tempted to dunk on the MSM.

This story was a lot of fun to report and write. It also had me sending wild requests to Toronto's mayor and a former premier of British Columbia to see if they too had eschewed "deadbeds" and wanted to sing the praises of flopping onto fluid furniture www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Just saw a vehicle run over a bird(geese?) on Douglas Street near fisgard.. good start to the week I suppose

'BREAKING' is almost always a tell

www.readtheorchard.org/p/former-mp-... Great work from @readtheorchard.org

It doesn't seem like any of the local outlets did much further reporting on the BCGEU strike beyond the official media avails and statements. Here's what I found out locally: /1

" generative-AI tools [...] are usually not helpful for the complicated, multi-step assignments in the technical writing and English classes that she and her colleagues teach at UVic." by @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/local-news/u...

This was fun to report and write on: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/l...

A reporter's personal experiences with the anti-vanlife sentiment in Squamish. www.squamishchief.com/local-news/s...

Great first hand account from the Globe's Ann Hui www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Being a NYC government official and trying to bribe Katie Honan is like being an affiliate of a Gotham crime syndicate and trying to bribe Batman. This is comically dumb as hell

There are so many Chinese people living around the world and I really want people to be more specific in describing what happened to @katiehonan.bsky.social because "a practice in Mainland China of giving bribes to a reporter for positive press" and "Chinese culture" do not mean the same thing!

www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/202... Fascinating story.

A Very cool visualization of change in Victoria from the City of Victoria "vicmap". This is a "slider" style map that compares arial views of Victoria in 1928 and today. #yyj #maps vicmap.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Storyte...

Report by @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social on pro-Palestine protest banner appearing on @bclegislature.bsky.social. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s...

thetyee.ca/News/2025/08... Great story by @tyolsen.bsky.social

Some great news!

Yes. This map showing how children’s right to roam free has been removed over four generations always makes me sad.

Breaking: the team investigating the Kuper Island Residential School in BC has confirmed 171 children deaths at the institution, 50 more than previously known. As a residential school historian and someone fighting residential school denialism, here's a 🧵 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...

A sneak peak of tomorrow's @timescolonist.bsky.social front page

I was working the Bike Valet tonight directly adjacent to where VicPD shot a person with less-lethal rounds. I was not present for the incident and know nothing, and am mentally and physically fine. That said. It was exhausting having people coming up in a steady stream to ask what happened.

ten years ago, it was different here. there were places to go. meetings. art shows. music. food. on Friday afternoon, stop in at every door and say hello, for hours. "we're going visiting," you'd say. and talk about everything. it was a bad situation but then everyone started dying & never stopped

Confessions of the Working Poor macleans.ca/society/conf...

aaaaaaaaaaaaah finally done with webster submissions. and yes, my last one was two minutes (and 12 seconds) before deadline.

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... This is a very cute story by the Globe's online culture reporter, Samantha Edwards

This business column took an excruciatingly long time to put together, partly because it took so long to confirm the identities of police board members who were appointed by the province. And yes - you read that right. The province accidentally appointed someone to the wrong board (fixed now).

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

It's very hard to pick winners and losers. But if you're in this industry, for a while, you can get a sense of things. One thing I believed in 2020 and still believe today: there is no particular honour or value in being the last one off the sinking ship. 14/

Personal news: In this morning's newsletter, I announced that I'm leaving FVC (and Overstory Media) at the end of the week. My reasons include general burnout, personal living circumstances, and the challenges that come with operating a publication, especially one part of a larger media business.