A result of 1.5 years of reporting, this piece traced the stories of two Canadian survivors of genital cutting who had no choice but to look to the U.S. for healthcare. Reported for @prismreports.org prismreports.org/2025/10/29/f...

Canadian women harmed by genital mutilation find help in the U.S., Kena Shah reports. An estimated 125,000 immigrant girls & women in Canada are at risk of female genital mutilation, but health care systems don’t view reconstructive surgery as “necessary.”

With the UCP government invoking the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work and a general strike looming, I wanted to re-up a story I reported this summer on the Better Here campaign. #ABpolitics #Alberta

Exclusive: Cindy Cohn, longtime director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is leaving the group after 25 years. The decision was announced at a meeting this afternoon. I sat down w/ Cohn to discuss her victories, unfinished battles, and the future of privacy, encryption, and corporate power.

For @prismreports.org, I covered a controversial hydrogen fuel bill in California. It’s sponsored by a hydrogen coalition made up of leading oil and gas companies seeking tax exemptions. Per the DOE, 95% of hydrogen in the US is produced using fossil fuels. prismreports.org/2025/09/08/h...

NEW: “Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise. By @abrahm.bsky.social

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

💡 Who pays the price for the green energy transition? At @ire.org's #IRE25, investigative journalists revealed how to dig into the dark side of renewables — from mining impacts to labor abuses in the Global South. 🌱 Tools & tips: https://twp.ai/9PTQIz

Alberta leads the continent in measles cases thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

+ one more thing, if you want an issue impacting you to be covered, one way to increase that happening is to email a journalist offering to be a source.

An add: If you see journalists doing good work, share their stories, don't just "dunk" on stories you don't like, which also gets more people to read the not-so-good stories.

Late last year, the Government of Alberta ran an ad campaign called “Better Here,” to attract public sector workers to the province. The campaign, spending at least $42,000 on Meta platforms alone, touted better pay in Alberta for workers such as #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Late last year, the Government of Alberta ran an ad campaign called “Better Here,” to attract public sector workers to the province. The campaign, spending at least $42,000 on Meta platforms alone, touted better pay in Alberta for workers such as #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

I was looking forward to @healthjournalism.org HJ25’s session on financial statements all week and it did not disappoint. Absolutely worth the cramped hand from taking notes at lightning speed.

The news media is crowded with people who aren’t here to newsgather. They make no research or investigative contributions; just personalities whose job is comparable to pumping out youtube reaction videos. They’re entertainers, not journalists, and they’re paid 5x what decent reporters pull in.

Our latest investigation, with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reveals the real identity of the man behind Mr Deepfake, the notorious site where non-consensual deepfake pornography is published www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

I'm going to be honest this is really killing my faith in humanity (not that I had much left). Don't you want to know why? Don't you want to find out interesting things about the world? Maybe it's not science, but maybe it's literature or fashion or sports!

💫 NEW! With legacy media stepping back from the space, three veteran reporters decided to create a new outlet dedicated to wildlife investigations. Rachael Bale, one of the co-founders of WIRE, explains why. https://twp.ai/1V9klh

Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...

“I’m not going to stand by and see potential corruption exist within government and be a part of that” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

After Alberta’s Covid-19 report was deemed misinformation by leading medical bodies, the Premier dismantles AHS board. Meanwhile, this week a cancer patient in a Lethbridge hospital was moved to a storage room because of lack of space, suggesting a lack of results from the frequent reorganizations.

Excited to be a part of this cohort

Adverts selling an opioid up to 500 times stronger than heroin are all over the internet, from social media platforms to trade sites. Bellingcat and partner Postimees investigate how this deadly drug is infiltrating Europe and beyond… www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/01...

GIJN member @MongabayOrg is leading the way in environmental journalism with an innovative global-plus-local approach to watchdog reporting. Here's how: https://twp.ai/1QQCvV

Apple is putting inaccurate headlines on curated news articles, Meta is planning to flood its networks with AI bots mimicking humans, Google is pushing AI-driven search that often throws up false results ... Generative AI is the next big thing – but what does this mean for us?

Listening into today's hearing in NYT v. Microsoft/OpenAI — the judge is currently going over how the training process works with the NYT lawyer. "The information is stored in packets?"

How do you find a stolen piece of art? On Thursday 5pm CET/11am EST we explore the world of thieves, forgers and fraudsters with @sauterne.bsky.social, CEO of The Association for Research into Crimes against Art in the first Stage Talk of 2025. Join us: discord.gg/r88a4zcX?eve...

not the bots here too

Only 0.4 percent of national cancer research funding in Canada goes to studies on young adults. With cancer growing more aggressive in this age group, journalist Sanam Islam believes it’s far from enough: thewalrus.ca/why-are-more-you...

I was on holiday when this dropped, as many of us were. So in case you missed it, I was on last month's episode of Bellingchat Premium talking about another one of my investigations into, you guessed it, AI non-consensual content. And some of the worst kind, content of children.

A group of retired Black women in Philly gather weekly to sew period pads for girls in Africa. Along the way, they've also built a community here "We believe in each other and have faith in ourselves, and we have faith others are going to support us”

The orthopedic surgery disruption at the RAH that began six months ago has not been fully resolved. I learned that AHS rejected a $240K proposal to resume surgeries because they wanted a 'revenue neutral' solution. Doctors estimate 1,000+ patients have been affected. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This festive season I’m sharing a video every day for the next 24 days showing useful OSINT tools & techniques. Creating this OSINT Advent Series has been a lot of fun and I hope it’s helpful for the ever-growing OSINT community! 🎄👇

NEW: “Eat What You Kill” Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. @davidmcswane.bsky.social

I'm at the Halifax International Security Forum this weekend. It's the first big meeting of NATO (and like-minded) countries since the U.S. election. Everyone is asking, like they were eight years ago: How the hell do we manage Trump? I'm going to add some takeaways in this thread.

I’ve been on Bluesky all of 5 minutes and my first major interaction is a journalist who trains people to do mobile journalism deciding to direct sexism my way, and imply I’m not a journalist.

People struggling with addiction in B.C. have to endure long wait times for treatment, getting stuck on wait-lists for weeks, according to newly released documents. Read our latest: theijf.org/bc-addiction-treatment-wait-times #Canada #News #cdnpoli

GLP-1s are blocking people's cravings for ultraprocessed foods - so the food industry is racing to develop new UPFs for weight loss drug users Fascinating look at how Big Food and Big Pharma play Spy vs Spy to influence how we fill our shopping carts www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Biden for first time authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles for strikes inside Russia.

What better first post than to share that my reporting on female genital mutilation/cutting in Canada was recognized by the Amnesty International Media Award this year.