He Complained About His Mother’s Care. The Long-Term Care Home Restricted Him From Seeing Her. Five years after Ontario banned the practice, families still being punishment for complaining about inadequate care, by @royinori.bsky.social thelocal.to/ontario-long... via @thelocal.to

This story is the kind of work that made me want to become a journalist - to be able to bring to light an intimate, human story, something that few know about but that may in time affect all of us. I'm very grateful to my sources in this piece, who made room for me in the midst of their grief:

With data from 17,500 inspection reports, five months of work, and dozens of sources—families, health care workers, experts, policy makers—our new investigation on the state of long-term care reveals broken promises, and seniors being left behind by an inequal system. thelocal.to/ontario-long...

At a time when governments are withholding data and information at every level, building an algorithm to scrape data from 17,500+ documents—with no AI—is an unparalleled skill. It's something not a lot of journalists in Canada can do. A privilege to team up with Xavi for a project of this scale!

Tens of thousands of Ontarians are on #longtermcare waitlists. Gathering never-before-seen data on performance indicators, @xavierrichervis.bsky.social, Ilyass Moffadel, and I have created a tool to help people make informed choices about where to place their loved ones: thelocal.to/long-term-ca...

This is an important story but I wish it mentioned (not just included a buried hyperlink) the reporting done by @cloelogan.bsky.social on this nearly a month ago. This probably would have made me cranky if I had worked on this story. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/08/n...

Quick thread on the long-term care issue we launched today at @thelocal.to, spearheaded by the brilliant @royinori.bsky.social, and why it’s such vital public-interest journalism. 🧵 1/ thelocal.to/spring-2026/

After the pandemic, Ontario promised annual proactive inspections in every LTC home. Our investigation found that in 2025, the province inspected only a little over a third of them. New with @royinori.bsky.social for the @thelocal.to: thelocal.to/ontario-long...

Exclusive analysis of 17,500 long-term care home inspection reports reveals a provincial inspection regime that has failed to meet its own accountability goals. @royinori.bsky.social investigates how vulnerable seniors are being left behind: thelocal.to/ontario-long...

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the pandemic, the Ford government set the target of one proactive inspection a year at every long-term care home. But our analysis of thousands of inspection reports reveals less than 40% of LTC homes received a proactive inspection in 2025. thelocal.to/ontario-long...

The killing of 165+ students at a girls' school in Iran has also been largely ignored in Canadian media. As far as I can tell, neither the Toronto Star nor the Globe and Mail has run a standalone story on Saturday's attack.

They maybe have destroyed Ontario Place, but look what the animals have done to the green eaton centre

New story in The Grind. Amjad Ramadan, a 52-year-old Palestinian-Canadian, is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was abruptly terminated for speaking out for Palestine. "There is a campaign to silence us," he told me. @thegrindto.bsky.social

For @pressprogress.ca I spoke to Nada El-Falou from Palestinian Students and Scholars at Risk about the 100+ students accepted to Canadian Universities still waiting for a visa. pressprogress.ca/why-wont-can...

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

Canada is "20 years behind" on flood planning, experts say, and maps meant to show at-risk areas are severely outdated. That poses harm to people and property, but plans to update flood maps often anger homeowners, who worry about insurance costs and property values. thenarwhal.ca/outdated-flo...

Flooding is Canada’s most common climate risk — yet updating flood maps keeps sparking backlash over property values and insurance. For @thenarwhal.ca, I report on how Montreal’s fight reflects a national pattern. thenarwhal.ca/outdated-flo...

Struggling to follow the three-months ethics committee saga over PM Mark Carney’s stock holdings? I pulled together a clear explainer for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social, laying out how his 500+ company stake has become a test of Canada’s conflict-of-interest laws. ricochet.media/politics/car...

How rich can a prime minister be before it clashes with the job? It’s the question that is quickly dominating the debate over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s finances. New from @xavierrichervis.bsky.social: ricochet.media/politics/car... #cdnpoli #Brookfield #ethics

Here’s How Doug Ford’s Government Will Impact Public Services and Infrastructure in 2026 A look back on a jam-packed year of new legislation in Ontario. pressprogress.ca/heres-how-do...

Elbows up: A leaked Liberal caucus briefing note shows the Mark Carney government fears that regulating arms exports to the USA might upset the Americans. www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fea...

As Canada loses its measles elimination status, faith leaders are stepping up to help fight vaccine hesitancy in communities the government is struggling to communicate. My latest for @broadviewmedia.bsky.social: broadview.org/measles-cana...

Umar Zameer was acquitted in the death of a Toronto police officer more than 18 months ago. But the investigation into whether three of the officer’s colleagues coordinated their testimony during the trial remains unresolved. Story by @xavierrichervis.bsky.social

"I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to someone who I suspected was lying to me with each and every response. I also don’t know if I’ve interviewed anyone I so desperately wanted to hear the truth from." A truly bizarre story from @nickhunebrown.bsky.social you should read thelocal.to/investigatin...

I had the privilege of speaking with NDP MP Leah Gazan about her recent bill which would classify residential school denialism as inciting hatred under the Criminal Code—mirroring the existing provisions for Holocaust denial. My latest for @broadviewmedia.bsky.social broadview.org/leah-gazan-r...

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Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

If you care about journalism and press freedom, read this thread from Luke.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Toronto right now

Toronto, you will not taste victory until you sacrifice Drake

NEW in @thegrindto.bsky.social: Canada's largest international art fair is no longer sponsored by AXA Insurance. Art Toronto has long faced pressure to cut ties with AXA, a major investor in weapons manufacturing companies linked to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. www.thegrindmag.ca/art-toronto-...

I was using the same 2024 article in videos a lil while back to cite that wealth inequality in Canada had reached record highs in 2024. Fun update: there's now a 2025 article about how wealth inequality has reached record highs this year! Wheeeeeeeeee

So like I hear you but apparently we need 10,000 more data centres instead

blue jays win secured at 11pm honk shoo nation is thriving

"I hope this book stands as a refusal to stop imagining Palestine, to stop imagining a better world."

This was always my question

Municipalities across Ontario are (or are attempting) to clear local homeless encampments. These crackdowns come without an answer to the simple question, where are people supposed to go?

So…for the first time mosquitos have been seen in Iceland. We’re so cooked. Literally www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel's Knesset approves bill to annex the West Bank. The bill was initiated by Avi Maoz, deputy leader of the Noam, a far-right religious Zionist party known for its aggressive opposition to LGBTQ rights. www.i24news.tv/en/news/isra...

Do you hear that? That's the sound of knives sharpening with about 100 days to go until Pierre Poilievre's leadership review: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

You should know there's a new Canadian publication that presents "both sides" of a news story, and that no, it's not as bad as you think (it's worse).

This is a story in which the vulnerable hurt the vulnerable. It's about power, attention, and group violence. It's also a story of race, girlhood, substance use, and growing up during COVID. I wrote about the killing of Kenneth Lee by eight teenage girls in downtown Toronto. A thread:

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

Federal lobbying data shows that 60 per cent of Mark Carney’s lobbying meetings in his first 100 days were with oil, gas, mining and other industrial groups. Environmental organizations say they were shut out entirely. New investigation from me for @thenarwhal.ca: thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

Really great analysis by @xavierrichervis.bsky.social here:

Doug Ford has a new favorite saying — "Common-sense conservation". Environmentalists say the slogan is less about conservation than selling deregulation to the public, with little clarity on the consequences. My latest reporting for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social ricochet.media/climate/doug...

Doug Ford’s ‘common-sense conservation’ is a fast track to extinction, experts warn. The #Ontario government has gutted protections for endangered species to pave the way for a ‘wild west’ of unchecked development. New from @xavierrichervis.bsky.social: ricochet.media/climate/doug... #onpoli

For @torontolifemag.bsky.social, I got to cover the fascist boy wonder while he was in town for a crypto conference. torontolife.com/city/the-fiv...