A public servant texted Doug Ford's number to express concern with his government's return-to-office mandate. They received a voicemail suggesting they "go get another job." pressprogress.ca/public-serva...

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International students say they were misled by private colleges in Canada. Now they can’t get a refund. International students say they can’t get refunds from Granville College in Vancouver after recruiters made misleading promises

For @pressprogress.ca I spoke to Nada El-Falou from Palestinian Students and Scholars at Risk about the 100+ students accepted to Canadian Universities still waiting for a visa. pressprogress.ca/why-wont-can...

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

New, from me: BC Officials Know That Private Career Colleges Don’t Always Meet Standards. Advocates Say Little Is Being Done. pressprogress.ca/private-coll...

I'm looking to speak to people who have received extortion related calls/letters living in BC or know someone who has. I'm willing to keep you entirely anonymous!

NEWS: Postmedia suspends Toronto Sun parliamentary bureau chief after tweet applauding ICE killing of Minneapolis woman Postmedia says Bryan Passifiume’s tweet about ICE killing of Renee Good was ‘regrettable and insensitive’

"It makes sense that she finds herself in the thrall of MAGAism, a movement that, discounting the obvious superficial qualities, in many ways resembles her: vacuous, blustering, obsessed with dominance."

Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted. ‘Add blood, forced smile’: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Amid all the backlash about sexualized AI-generated images of minors, why the actual F is X running ads for Grok as "the most fun image and creation tool in the world" ???

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

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New, from me on the implosion of BC's newest far-right party, OneBC. pressprogress.ca/dallas-brodi...

BREAKING: Over the last hour floodwaters have inundated Sumas, Wash. Flooding will soon be starting in Sumas Prairie.

A great story by dogged reporter @emmaarkell.bsky.social

The DULF constitutional challenge will continue tomorrow at 9:30am. Lisa Lapointe will continue her testimony. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Barf Bag: Apparently, being a career-driven female in Manhattan becomes spiritually corrupt only after you’ve successfully leveraged it. www.jezebel.com/woman-with-2...

Maybe this is a controversial take but I would love it if we were able to do our jobs and ask questions of elected officials.

TFW you hand your baby random objects to keep them entertained for an hour while you listen in on a presser and wait to ask questions and then they end it by taking only one question from the phones

this is who you denied taking questions from this morning @davidebybc.bsky.social 😤

Me: I have to join a press conference so ill just put the baby down early so she's sleeping through it and I can listen and ask questions My baby as soon as the presser starts:

Quebec's government has presented or passed legislation targeting the right to strike and unions' ability to launch legal cases and support social movements. I dig into why 50,000 Quebecers rallied in front of François Legault's Montreal office this past weekend for @pressprogress.ca

Uh.... what

tfw you're professionally incapacitated

Just pure unadulterated evil

One BC is promoting the "legislative premiere" of their residential school denialism film with a media advisory It says the caucus is "honoured to debut this film inside the Legislative Precinct—the symbolic centre where matters of public interest are debated" this evening

What is OneBC, the far-right party making headlines in British Columbia? Its two MLAs were originally elected as Conservatives, and their constituents are not happy. pressprogress.ca/onebc-far-ri...

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Shelter runs out of naloxone as B.C. community sees 80 toxic drug poisonings in 24 hours: CMHA https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/naloxone-runs-out-bc-shelter-9.6992470 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Canada’s drug laws are facing a constitutional challenge from the founders of a Vancouver compassion club. In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified. pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...

A friend of mine is looking to speak to an immigration lawyer or consultant for a story she is working on. If you have any leads plz feel free to DM me! Thnx in advance!

I want to be clear, Rumneek is a wonderful editor and I am not mad.

*me editing one of our reporter's work & cutting out/shortening some sections* "hey are you mad at me?"

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hell on earth? oh you mean listening back to an interview in Punjabi and hearing myself struggle with certain terminology

Generative AI causes so many demonstrable harms, from counseling kids into suicide, stealing creative work and destroying the market for it, perverting education, and this predictable horror. Any other product like this would be regulated into the smallest possible box by a responsible society.

Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy: “One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”

“[Our] community is being actively targeted on an ongoing basis by a foreign government ... and our government ignores all of that and says, ‘Ah well, we’re going to start rebuilding ties.’”

While the Sikh community is sounding the alarm and trying to push for accountability, the federal government is rebuilding ties with India. pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...

There’s a wave of violence targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the government seems powerless to stop it. "It’s a feeling of helplessness." pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...

Our editor @rumneeek.bsky.social is back with a big story that has been massively underreported. pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...

There have been hundreds of cases of extortion and violent crimes against Canadian Sikhs over the last few months, yet the story isn't front page news across the country. Why do you think that is? New, from me: pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

As more and more studies expose fossil-fuel health harms, Mark Carney is doubling down First Nations and frontline workers are leading the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion

You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires

So many questions, so little time.

Union Presidents Say Federal Government is “Scapegoating” Public Servants For the Deficit “This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president pressprogress.ca/union-presid...