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 🧵

MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d a... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Our expose on the unsolved killing spree in Dawson Creek has been updated with the identity of the latest victim, the 15th homicide in four years in the small town. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

David Barrick, of fame from the late 2010s Niagara Region scandals, has a new job. CAO of the Township of South Stormont. @grantrants.bsky.social extensively covered Barrick's behaviour, and recently reported that Barrick had left the employ of Thames Centre www.southstormont.ca/news/posts/t...

Read out latest investigation into the killing spree in Dawson Creek.

NEW: The fifth estate takes you inside one of Canada's most dangerous towns, where more than a dozen people have been murdered in two years, with little sign there will be an end to the killing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzvS...

Coming up next on CBC's the fifth estate: www.cbc.ca/news/fifthes...

Some great reporting by my colleague at the St. Catharines Standard, Bill Sawchuk, who looks at how the horrible sexual assault of a minor was seized upon by a Hitler-quoting, white nationalist in Welland, Ontario with ties to Second Sons named Rob Primo. www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara...

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maine, apologized for having a tattoo that resembles a Nazi symbol and said he would have it removed. He also sought to distance himself from his Reddit posts on sexual assault in the military and white Americans living in rural areas.

My colleagues in CBC's visual investigations unit show their homework about how they were able to identify where Second Sons, a white nationalist active club, staged events during the August long weekend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWha...

Well, there goes the neighborhood. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

A new Fifth Estate investigations finds Canadian charities are funding the settlement movement in the West Bank, which continues to displace people. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A new CBC investigation reveals that Canadian charities continue to fund organizations, including the Israeli military, that support the ever-expanding settlements in the West Bank. “We are financing war criminality through our charitable system." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New from @alexboyd.bsky.social and me: A 'jaw-dropper' new survey from pollster Cardinal Research last month showed surging support for the Alberta Republican Party. But neither the firm nor the party disclosed they have common DNA: party leader Cam Davies. www.thestar.com/news/investi...

A wee metal coil around your neck doesn't actually prevent concussion. Who would have guessed? www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt: “It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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Fascism is back in style. Forget the old symbols: swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags, skinheads’ shaved heads and combat boots. Extremism has a new look, and it is as fashionable as ever. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The truth of autism will continue to be found in science, not myth. Canadian research needs to lead the world forward, by Stephen Scherer and Evdokia Anagnostou www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

An important read for Hamilton/Niagara residents: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

We're back! The new season of Canada's premier investigative news program, the fifth estate, starts next week. Here is a sneak peak at what we have been working on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYS...

I hate AI with a passion. It’s a culmination of so much that is wrong with the world. A theft-machine that puts profit and product over people. It turns out… I can hate it more.

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Noam Chomsky on freedom of speech.

An independent United Nations commission said that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. The commission found indications of intentions to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group — which it said amount to genocide.

BREAKING: Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor, director and godfather for independent cinema as Sundance founder, dies at 89.

Listen to my chat with Brent Bambury, host of CBC's Day 6 about the public coming out party of the white nationalist group Second Sons over the Labour Day weekend: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

"A handful of new websites launched in BC recently purporting to be the "independent voice" of news in their regions, but the paths trace back to a longtime conservative strategist from Kelowna." ... "posting stories that appear to be entirely generated by artificial intelligence."