Today we're launching a new, powerful tool for public accountability created by @rorywh.bsky.social. Civic Searchlight compiles hundreds of municipalities' public meetings and makes them searchable for the first time. It's free to use and we hope you journalists and researchers put it to work.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

CBC News was the first outlet to uncover the owner of Fairweather and International Clothiers is the likely operater of a new Zellers in North Edmonton. Yup! Zellers is back. AGAIN. At Londonderry Mall! (?) www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Canada will need powerful trade unions if we are to have any hope of staying strong & free as we face threats to truth, to peace & to equality for all, from both allies & enemies. The Air Canada flight attendant strike was illegal. It was also profoundly Canadian: ricochet.media/labour/the-a...

The difference in dark patterns between major online retailers and back alley torrent sites decreases by the day. If anything the torrent sites have become cleaner!

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Shout out to everyone who joined us this week at the 2025 CWA Convention! Safe travels home!

"Those are issues that can't be swept under the rug. They're really important," said Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Global Security think-tank.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Here’s the latest post in my ongoing series on comparative Canadian-US labor law on Harvard Law’s @OnLaborBlog blog: « How Three Simple Labor Laws Helped Unions Organize Amazon and Uber in Canada. » onlabor.org/how-three-simp…

Got to share my thoughts on the Steam/Itch censorship stuff on CBC 👀 I was very nervous because the topic is so important, and I hope I did it justice www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Important message from @cmglaguilde.bsky.social: cmg.ca/news/journal...

INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring: "Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."

I'm sorry, I remember being in university and being upset with $50 CAD per article rates -- a going rate at many a blog. Truly wild to me that people are trying to justify $30 US per article. No journalism is worth that little, even a blog post.

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we at the “at times, the model seems inexplicably intent on changing a user’s race” AI video tool era

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

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Great piece by @joshokane.bsky.social about a weird situation at the TSO www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2ffe647...

New from me: A family's desperate quest to flee Iran as missiles fall www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Generative AI is slowly degrading the internet. More alarming is that before long, the technology’s unreliability may go unnoticed, writes Matteo Wong:

I had the same reaction. Mamdani is such a threat in their view that they had to essentially reverse their non-endorsement policy. If Cuomo was cruising to victory, I doubt this piece would be written.

Plenty of legitimate room to criticize CNN’s coverage, but the video below edits out Burnett midsentence clearly identifying the blue rubber bullets as being fired by police Not sure what the “foam thing” she later references is, but sounds like some sort of firework? www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/p...

‘The death of creativity’? AI job fears stalk advertising industry

Without CP, we would not have a news industry. Even major outlets piggyback on the unending work of their journalists. Right now, some of their members are unable to afford to live in the communities they report on. I'm in solidarity with my union siblings at the Canadian Press in bargaining.

Reality continuing to disintegrate around the edges per @daveweigel.bsky.social @kadiagoba.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

some interesting historical context re: stories of "chatGPT-induced psychosis" is that when the radio and telephone were invented, there were similar reactions — some people believed they could tune their radio to the frequencies of heaven or received instructions from the dead via the telephone

BREAKING: CBC News Decision Desk projects Bruce Fanjoy as the winner in Carleton, defeating Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre

When anyone suggests having a “decentralized CBC where all local broadcasters prioritize their local communities” I get annoyed because that used to exist in the private sector. We called it CTV. It was affiliate run, with a collectively funded national newsroom. Then Bell bought it.

A Canadian moment from the book Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook exec. She's been barred from promoting the book because, according to Meta, she "avoided the industry’s standard fact-checking process" among other issues. Her publisher Macmillan is defending the book.

New posters in the back of the Canadian Tire - Is your customer DIVORCED? Learn to Read the Signs 1. He's posting on Instagram inside the Canadian Tire 2. Black plastic cooking implements 3. George Foreman grill 4. Jean jacket he has not worn in more than 10 years

Some photos taken over Christmas with some expired film. Shooting inside still hit and miss, but I love the texture in these

In an interview with @cnn.com, MSF's Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim describes the horrific violence against civilians in #Sudan, worrying levels of malnutrition, and barriers for aid organizations. The freezing of US aid in this situation is 'effectively a death sentence'. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/T...

to be clear the implications of this are far far far wider than temu and will probably destroy many etsy sellers/various boutiques/small businesses etc overnight

NEW: The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover from @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

I’m available to write or speak about the fentanyl border theater if any outlets are looking for someone. Have been covering fentanyl and drug policy for about a decade and have great sources

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Waiting in fear to see what hat the ONDP will come up with

We’re more than halfway to our goal of raising money for laid off TVOs works. Their entire department was laid off, and their last day was Christmas Day! Please donate!

@laurahelmuth.bsky.social I'm a producer with CBC Radio with the morning show The Current. I was wondering if you might be available to chat about your recent Slate column! My email is arman dot aghbali at cbc dot ca if you have a moment.

About those fake CBC ads on that other site: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Another rejects pardon. When he mentioned his husband I was angry in Queer. Then when he mentioned he's a recovering alcoholic who wasn't recovering at that time, I went 'Ohhhh'. It's a good read. And for the repentant, this is how you atone. You speak up and out.

The journalism industry must be in dire straits if my mum is asking me if I ever considered starting a YouTube channel

This is an amazing quote, from a Jan 6 prisoner who is refusing Trump’s pardon. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

one more from me for your weekend: I wrote about how the very politicians who've been pushing to ban TikTok for almost a half-decade now are reversing their stance ahead of the divestment deadline, and what it reveals about our deeply broken modes of governance: slate.com/technology/2...

giving youtube a shot youtu.be/ck_LblMibhM?...

New from me: The Brutalist is selling more the idea of a great movie, more than it has the ability be one www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Policy makers are frequently keen to say things when they no longer have capacity to make changes themselves www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

some thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg's recent announcements, last week's A.I. bot chaos, and what Zuck really stands to gain from Trump's technocracy: slate.com/technology/2...