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...

Toronto #police move to upgrade facial recognition technology despite concerns of racial bias, surveillance overreach, and misuse at protests. “Torontonians should see this as a real threat." Journalist Xavier Richer Vis obtained new documents about the companies: ricochet.media/justice/poli...

#NEW: Toronto police want to obtain facial recognition tech that can "continuously compare" suspect images against new images added to its booking database. I got hold of some of the documents companies sent in. My investigation for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social ricochet.media/justice/poli...

Meet Eric Wickham, @pressprogress.ca’s new Ontario Reporter For @ericwickham.ca, journalism is all about helping other people: “Good journalism is a public service.”

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So the RCMP can absolutely, incontrovertibly, lie and mischaracterize what evidence they collected, and when you request that evidence, they can then say "well you didn't request the right evidence." And the whole time, the event they're lying about gets more distant, fading in people's minds.

Hustle culture but for saving the news industry from collapsing

Please welcome @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social - the director of Harbinger, my coworker at @unrigged.bsky.social, and truly the kindest man in Canadian media to Bluesky!

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is calling for the end of Canada’s public postal service because its workers have gone on strike. The company’s leaders are increasingly pushing extreme right-wing positions in Canada. Gutting Canada Post would effectively end delivery in many rural and remote communities.

“Among the concerns that were raised was the danger of the report being abused by Russia’s propaganda machine to undermine Ukraine.” As if Russia isn’t going to use Canada’s refusal to release the names for propaganda. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

they’re calling the second trump term the most “reddit” administration in history

Palestinian journalists and media outlets aren't on BlueSky — and might not move here — so pleading this platform to not let a genocide become background noise amid the fun-new-club vibes www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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