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Charter rights ‘not optional’ say MRU faculty and students protesting UCP legislation forcing striking Alberta teachers back to work Dozens of students and faculty protested at Calgary’s Mount Royal University on Tuesday afternoon in opposition to the governing United Conservative Party’s decision…

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca by June 22: World Refugee Day All donations will be matched up to $100,000. Double your impact.

Once a fringe podcast collective, Diagolon has grown into one of Canada’s most active white nationalist networks. Identified as a violent extremist threat. A new report from @antihate.ca breaks down its growth, ideology, and ties to global hate movements. Read more:

Protests are big news now. I'm calling for better reporting on them. presswatchers.org/2025/06/how-...

With 868 measles cases so far this year, Alberta has now exceeded its previous high mark set in 1986. 2025 now has the most cases since 1979. So I've had to expand this chart to include years prior to the modern-vaccine-program era:

Journalists carry a good deal of confidential information, including reporting materials and information about sources. It’s therefore important to prepare devices in advance before traveling. Our security team put together a checklist to help.

Holy shit. This is @padilla.senate.gov They just forcibly arrested a U.S. Senator.

This is A US SENATOR. An elected official!

Gaza is on the brink of an imposed famine. Sign the petition calling on PM Mark Carney to implement a full, two-way arms embargo on Israel to end the violence: leadnow.ca/campaigns/ca...

Danielle Smith swept into power with her long-time political ally Rob Anderson as her chief of staff. He co-wrote the Free Alberta Strategy — a plan to pull Alberta from confederation. In her public remarks of late, Smith has been quoting directly from that document.

A new documentary from @zeteo.com “Who Killed Shireen?” reveals that Israeli soldiers are using the face of slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh for target practice. Abu Akleh’s brother, Anton, calls it "absolutely barbaric."

Forced starvation. Streamed live.

Cancer drug Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, Revlimid costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply... Even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. New: @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @propublica.org

Listen up, CBS and other news media considering bowing to Trump: "In the real world...instead of rewarding those who capitulated early, the Trump administration pressured them even more."

Not a time to be silent. Consider signing this petition, call your MPs, raise your voices. Canada needs to stand up to the Israeli government's egregious acts of ferocious violence. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

Still a full hour before the earliest of polls close in Canada and there are thousands of people in this page at this moment. Interest in results is very, very high newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/fe...

”Academics who have “expressed negative opinions” about the Trump administration or “whose research could be seen as being critical of the current administration,” as well as travellers who are transgender, should be extra cautious, according to the advisory“

Some good news. Air pollution is a leading cause of illness, death, and poor quality of life, plus bikes and parks are awesome. wapo.st/42LaIRA

More from our community-centred journalism series:

Editorial: Poilievre: If Poilievre wants the country's top political job, he's going to have to start talking more to the national media and answering questions. buff.ly/rZ63Bto

Breaking barriers: Seniors learn to navigate AI with ChatGPT calgaryjournal.ca/2025/04/09/b... More from my students in community-centred journalism! See all the stories in the @calgaryjournal.bsky.social at calgaryjournal.ca/aging-in-cal...

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

This is digusting, unlawful, outrageous. I'm out of words. Rubio should know better than to become a supporter of the worst type of tactics that have inflicted so much pain and mayhem throughout our Latin American history. DO BETTER. And every L.American in the US better be standing up to this!

Not a time to stay silent.

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

An incarcerated journalist explains how journalists reporting from prisons nationwide face relentless retaliation for speaking truth to power and are systemically obstructed from seeking recourse from the courts.

EVERY time EVERYONE stand up to Trump, he caves Paging university presidents/chancellors

How do you even do the paperwork on tariffs that change so drastically, so often? Has anyone written about this? Would definitely read a feature story on the folks who have to administer these import taxes.

Former top legal executives at large companies including Microsoft, Intel and Eli Lilly submitted a legal brief on April 8 accusing US President Donald Trump of undermining the rule of law and threatening American businesses with his executive orders targeting law firms reut.rs/4cqj0Bt 1/6

noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-new-me... One of the brave ones delves into how we all stand to lose from what happened with @rachelgilmore.bsky.social and CTV @nolore.bsky.social

"Palestinians are now restricted from about two thirds of Gaza. And that's by design"

An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the US government a day to show evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be deported and said she would rule on the case on Friday, a month after his arrest and transfer to a rural Louisiana jail reut.rs/4i99XWO

It has been clear and shown to us in so many ways, it's an absolute travesty that we haven't been reporting it for what it is.

At a massive rally in Edmonton last night, a unique vulnerability for Pierre Poilievre's campaign emerged: his supporters know he shares some characteristics with Trump. And they love it. @arnokopecky.bsky.social's latest dispatch from the campaign trail.

It’s a sad day in America when student journalists must resign or write anonymously because they fear government reprisals. This is the opposite of free speech.

The Trans Journalist Association (@transjournalists.org) and MuckRock are partnering to help uncover, preserve and report on the Trump administration’s actions targeting trans communities. Learn more about this project and how you can get involved: www.muckrock.com/project/what...

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Graphic of the Day. #StockMarketCrash

In my community-centred journalism class, we focused on telling stories about and with older adults in our city. The second-year journalism students blew far past my expectations.

Watch our full interview with @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social here: www.democracynow.org/2025/4/2/tru...

Bruce MacKinnon: Welcome mat pulled back www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

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Can't say this LOUD enough

One dictator rises, another falls

Western values have never applied on the other side of the imaginary line that divides ✨ the West ✨ from the colonised and racialised. I just hope we understand what is making you nervous is not that this is a new line being crossed, but that the same line is being redrawn a little closer to home

The pictures say it all.

Is Columbia going to pretend this didn't happen and just continue being a "university"?

New from @jsource.bsky.social an important defence of Fact-checking at a time where our information ecosystem is under all-out attack. By @bdecillia.bsky.social j-source.ca/fact-checkin...

Trinity Western University has responded to allegations that the son of its president runs an influential white supremacist X account, reports @jenstden.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/03...