At 1:40 in this video MLA Tara Amstrong uses the Nazi phrase "blood and soil" when speaking against the K'omoks Treaty. From social media influencers on the fringe, to mainstream media and now to politicians, white supremacist ideology is surfacing at the highest levels of Canadian society.

When Canadians talk about affordability, the discussion often revolves around the cost of fuel. While we pay for gasoline and diesel with our credit cards, in study after study, scientists have shown we also pay with our health. We should talk about it more. thenarwhal.ca/climate-chan...

Federal prosecutors have closed their foreign-interference case against former RCMP officer William Majcher just three days into a B.C. Supreme Court trial initially scheduled for three weeks, @mikehager.bsky.social reports www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

“We have no idea where they went and we had to put safeguards in place at the border and at the airports because there’s certain individuals in Vancouver that we were concerned about being returned to the PRC,” one-time RCMP Beijing Liaison Officer Superintendent Peter Tsui testified.

An excerpt from the part of our book where we mustered all of our self-control and … took the category of “woke mind virus“ seriously. Turns out it’s kind of revealing about how Musk and his brethren in the Silicon Valley leadership class see politics.

This hearing is about to start in Ontario, Colin will have an update soon.

"... Experts speculate that Canada appears to be trying to keep hidden the ways in which its intelligence agencies, such as CSIS, spied on Indian consulates and the High Commission. That information, they say, would have been used by the RCMP with the understanding that it could never be revealed.."

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Worth noting that after years of meeting eight times a year (including during the 2022 election year), the Vancouver Police Board moved it down to seven last year, and this election year will only meet four times

I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about. Gift link:

Here’s some good journalism news (for once).

200+ people are gathered at Victoria legislature today to mark a dark anniversary: 10 years of the toxic drug crisis as a public health emergency this year. 18,000+ deaths. Lots of frustration w/ provincial government. Article to come for @pressprogress.ca. #bcnews #toxicdrugcrisis

✨ Cover reveal! 📕 "Very Vancouver" will be out in August. It's a non-fiction storybook by me, a kaleidoscopic odyssey through backyard gardens, alley bottle hoards, SROs, Duffin's at midnight, and east-side family life — tales that take you beyond our pretty skylines. ecwpress.com/products/ver...

An event I'll be participating in this Wednesday - we'll be talking about renewing democracy in a POSITIVE and LIFE AFFIRMING way. You can sign up here for this FREE VPL event here: vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/69aa1...

Minister Joseph Schow was referencing this story, about Justice Minister Mickey Amery and Sam Mraiche --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Several Republican politicians, including Texas Governor Greg Abbott, shared an AI-generated image depicting the rescue of the US airman whose fighter jet was shot down over Iran. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

I knew the #Twitter search functionality was already pooched but now just searching the URL of your news story pulls up different stories from other outlets and even an official Russian government link to a Telegram post?

New from me: the son of Yaroslav Hunka, the Ukrainian SS veteran whose recognition in Canada's House of Commons caused an international scandal, is in an Edmonton court this week fighting the University of Alberta's decision to terminate an endowment in his name. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Someone just caught Artemis from their flight. Cool view of little piece of history!

Minnesota photojournalist Rob Levine is suing the FAA over a a drone no fly zone which is designed to stop people filming ICE. www.404media.co/journalist-s...

New from me! Townhomes have become a desirable option for many young families in Calgary. An influx of investor buyers, however, caused home prices to rise beyond the reach of first-time buyers, creating a glut of unsold inventory as investor demand dwindles.

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

These numbers are eye-popping Even with top of the line everything, I’m flabbergasted www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Health care is Canada’s prime job creator – and not only because of an aging population. For both Canada and the U.S., hiring in health care is propping up otherwise sluggish job numbers, by @mattlundy.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... via @theglobeandmail.com

To give the public more insight into American nursing homes, ProPublica has added the ability to search by owner, manager or officer name to Nursing Home Inspect, our database that helps you find issues that federal inspectors have identified in more than 14,000 facilities. Check it out 👇

This video is spreading across social media, falsely claimed to show fed-up Los Angeles residents attacking and chasing away ICE agents. It actually shows a brawl involving workers and state police at a wholesale market in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

“No one comes out of solitary confinement the same person they were before.” @ntabrizy.bsky.social shares an essay by “Bijan,” an Iranian labor activist and former political prisoner.

Check out 'Letter: New MCFD disability funding model is 'disappointing' - Freshet News': www.freshetnews.ca/letter-new-m...

At least 1,243 people have been killed by drone strikes in Haiti as of January 21. Drone strikes. In Haiti. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

Academics will begin testifying today before a committee of federal politicians who are studying the contentious issue of medical assistance in dying for patients with the sole underlying condition of mental illness, @kkirkup.bsky.social reports: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Federal agents used cell phone data to place her near the protest (she was picking something up nearby), compared her d.l. photo to footage from the demonstration and concluded she resembled a participant and, 6 weeks later, stopped her car, cuffed and detained her for hours in a federal building.

Pregnant women who have been swept up in President Trump’s immigration crackdown have been held in detention centers as late as eight months into their pregnancies without adequate food or medical care, a New York Times examination found. nyti.ms/40QJ7wD

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section. A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.

Damn you're telling me that if you cut two hours of commuting out of people's days, that they suddenly have time to reallocate to childcare and leisure and thus are more willing to have children, the world's largest and more adorable time suck?

Spot on from @ereguly.bsky.social Our economies and lives would not be so vulnerable to faraway events in the Strait of Hormuz if we had stuck with policies that would have had us driving vehicles and heating our homes from a non-hydrocarbon grid by now. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

interesting to see one of vancouver’s more prominent online digital publications lean fully into anonymously written government propaganda

"His (. . .)2015 campaign speech, casting Mexican immigrants as a horde of rapist, drug-dealing criminals sent by Mexico (. . .)fit perfectly within the framework of hard right Great Replacement Theory, a European import which is now doing a much better job of weaving things together than fusionism"

Reporting this story brought some much-needed levity during a dark year:

Alberta government to close Calgary’s only supervised drug-use site. Lethbridge mobile unit also shuttered, but sites in Edmonton and Grande Prairie remain open for now, by @alannasmith.bsky.social, Jennifer Yang www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

What would you do if a facility permitted to handle toxic waste moved in next to your rural home. Then you started getting wafts of foul chemical smells when the wind blew? Smells that gave you headaches, irritated your mouth and nose For some residents of Rolla, it's been happening for years