Great cultural reporting from @andreawoo.bsky.social + Jesse Winter, who covered wildfires Down Under and are up on "budgie smugglers" +"shoey." What I don't get about the latter is after chugging you have to walk around in wet shoes, a sensation I remember as miserable from my time in construction.

Fue chido hablando con Mexicanos en Vancouver ayer durante del primer partido del Copa Mundial. Sergio Esparza, pareces como un jefe genial! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

An ATIP officer emailed me at 6:32 p.m. Thursday June 11 regarding a request filed May 8 and said if I didn't reply by June 12 they would deem my request abandoned.

fyi this is the last of like 40 reps (though they’re terrible reps), edited for clickbait purposes

Wracked by the Fenix Flexin AI question…

NEW from @ms.now + @themarshallproject.org: ICE has detained *over 500 babies and toddlers* during Trump's second term. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

big day

Climate change may be a classic latent issue. Not top-of-mind for most voters today, but capable of becoming politically powerful after a major wildfire season, flooding event, or policy controversy. Concern is rising. Salience is not. abacusdata.ca/climate-con...

McGuinty to lead defence trade mission pitching Japan on Canadian military tech www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

“Philip Mathew (Cree) on the Black Duck River, part of his extended family hunting/trapping territory, in 1953. Needing five ducks for our supper, he pocketed five shotgun rounds and soon returned with five ducks and one unused cartridge. True story. Philip is also said to have walked 300 km from

In the past year alone, I have commissioned and written on-the-ground stories on behalf of @thexylom.com from South Sudan to South Texas, from Ukraine to Mozambique, from Kashmir to Hong Kong. If you're like me and you're curious about the world, you should subscribe to our free weekly newsletter:

Let’s do some discourse. Who has the best breakfasts? My vote is Mexico: huevos rancheros/divorciados, chilaquiles, molletes, tetelas, papas con chorizo, churros, migas… plus café de olla I dunno, I think they figured it out?

Five years ago today, three generations of the Afzaal family were deliberately struck and killed in an Islamophobic truck attack in London, Ontario. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My grandmother passed in Jan 2024. Survived one of the devastating wave one where they lost over a 1/3 of seniors. Bodies being carried out by PSWs cause the morgue didn’t want to come into the LTC. The same LTC homes that failed to care for seniors are getting 25-30 years license expansions.

Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

"On my first day back from vacation, I was called into a meeting with the Police Board and informed that my employment was being terminated without cause,” former chief Norm Lipinski wrote in the note to officers this morning obtained by @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

The Canadian government has spent more than $44 million on a secret contract with controversial American tech company Palantir. zurl.co/QTK6g

“Faith, family and freedom, that’s what it’s all about." New BC Conservative Party leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay promises to imprint party w/ a clear conservative brand after two years of muddling through an identity crisis, @justinehunter.bsky.social reports: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Canada's trucking industry is essential and exploitative. Well worth a read via @saramojtehedz.bsky.social and @mahima-singh.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Journalist Maria Teresa Montaño Delgado has for years been under attack by the State of México government simply for doing her job. Forced to leave the country because of threats against her life, she's now under cyber attack. See our story from 2023 👇🏾👇🏽 www.theguardian.com/world/2023/m...

Five teen girls were targeted by AI-generated child sexual abuse material at a Pennsylvania high school. What happened next shows how unprepared schools and police are with AI CSAM material. www.404media.co/radnor-high-...

"... while long-haul trucking is the largest source of workplace complaints in federally regulated industries, the federal government has penalized just a handful of employers and collected a sliver of the millions of dollars of unpaid wages it ordered trucking firms to pay drivers."

Indepth investigation into Canada's trucking industry. "... this essential sector is riddled with accusations of wage theft, exploitation and safety lapses, despite persistent warnings from industry experts and drivers themselves." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440... gift link

If you told me my most popular social media content to date would be a video of me talking about grass growing, I would have called you a crazy person. But here we are. www.instagram.com/reel/DY2zNnj...

The total cost of hosting the World Cup is expected to be in the range of $685-million to $729-million, B.C. officials said Friday From @mikehager.bsky.social: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Albertans fighting on a lot of fronts www.theenergymix.com/hundreds-of-...

An Alberta conservationist says he was fired after he raised concerns about the loss of native grassland. zurl.co/I3D4E

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

For the first time, Kenneth Law has admitted to criminal wrongdoing in relation to his pandemic-era business selling poison online, reports the indefatigable Colin Freeze: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

New: Health Minister Josie Osborne nixes overdose prevention site planned for 900 Helmcken St. in downtown Vancouver, citing concerns raised. Says province and Vancouver Coastal Health will "fully engage with stakeholders and community ahead of any new site opening."

We already have term limits but might be good to set screen time limits for our politicians too.

Hey Toronto pals, the folks from The Hatchet (one fo the best investigative journalism podcasts in Canada) are teaming up with some folks from Bsky for a tech + journalism pub night. I likely won't be able to make it but you should go! luma.com/bdfykdfj

Grim but true...👇 "If there were a dictator of the internet who intentionally set out to destroy your ability to get accurate information, the result would look a lot like what’s already on your screen." You couldn’t create a more anti-news internet if you tried www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/you-...

High Commissioner Patnaik also said his government can't find #VikashYadav, a former intelligence officer charged with kidnapping in India shortly after his indictment by US for plot to murder NYC-based @sfjgencounsel.bsky.social. Yadav also accused of orchestrating #Nijjar's 2023 killing in B.C.

someone has invented the nap.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Incredible enterprise story here via @rorywh.bsky.social. Alberta voter data found on website of US company linked to Centurion Project www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/i...

Workers at Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium vow to go on strike if ICE agents are deployed at the venue when it hosts World Cup matches next month u.afp.com/SR2e

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The owner of Nieuport Aviation, the J.P. Morgan-affiliated IIF, is registered in the Cayman Islands. A former J.P. Morgan banker, Hai-Gi Li, sits on the board of Nieuport Aviation. A 2023 document from J.P. Morgan also lists Nieuport Aviation under its portfolio/operating companies roster.

Reuters's Ottawa bureau chief was laid off, forcing him to move back to the US. Now driving for Uber "In Canada, I made about $130k/yr. In America, driving for Uber, I’m unlikely to exceed the $38,680/yr that is the federal poverty guideline for a family of five" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Vilifying "socialist" medicine. A good explainer on why the U.S. does not have universal health insurance, by Emily K. Abel andreasankar1.substack.com/p/vilifying-...

A committee of MLAs that reviewed British Columbia’s lobbying rules has recommended removing limits on wining and dining public office holders and allowing it to be kept secret when they are promised gifts. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli