The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.
US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, requests an apology from The Globe and Mail for a column by Cathal Kelly about the US men’s Olympic hockey team at the State of the Union.
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"Bulk of the misinformation about the conflict with Iran ... came from monetized Verified accounts" on X, which get paid by views regardless of accuracy.
Media need to boycott X, it's beyond irresponsible at this point to provide it any sheen of legitimacy: www.garbageday.email/p/sorry-babe...
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...
Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3
It will not surprise you to hear we lived up to at least one national cliche: 8 out of 10 of the most-watched moments were of hockey games.
CBC announces 8.7-million Canadians watched the winning OT goal for the men’s gold medal hockey game yesterday. But in a change from longstanding practice, it doesn’t release average-minute-audience figures for the Milan Cortina broadcasts - only snapshots for the 10 “most-watched moments.”
Wow. And when National Observer declares this filmmaker antisemitic, they link to a video where dude literally blames Jews for societal decay and begins listing wealth Canadian Jewish men.
A doctor friend says they should make a special beta blocker for national moments like this. They could call it Canadolol.
My mother was a nine year old refugee when she came to this country. She and her sister spoke no English. There were no ESL classes then. But good teachers in the small town of Barrhead where they lived taught them, and taught them well. They all became voracious readers with beautiful diction.
Walking through the snowy park with the dog, watching the game on my phone and cheering to the open air because no one else is here. I’m like a goddamn ad for. CBC Gem.
Great column, as always from Cathal. (I genuinely don’t know how he turns around something like this in no time.)
You’ve got to read to the end to fully appreciate the point he’s making.
Great ad for the PWHL, though.
If it’s not already, all Canadian government investment in digital sovereignty should count toward our defence spending.
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The @thestar.com editorial board on the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
Good just-the-facts work here from @chrisknightfilm.bsky.social
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There's a lot going on, but also Cuba being crushed by the Trump regime's sanctions. Planes will no longer be able to refuel there. People without food. Blackouts.
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On the bright side, the patriots won the halftime show.
Yes. But it was a little obscured. Lower angle shot.
Really enjoying CBC’s biennial Olympic Opening Ceremony Ad Show. Gold medal performances from AirBNB, Audible, RBC, Scotties, Intact Insurance, Turbotax, Ozempic, and Nintendo. Too bad they have to interrupt it with occasional stuff from Milan.
Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
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“The West is feeling its betrayal turn into rage. The world is waking up to both its vulnerability and its value. But better late than never: We’re all Canadian now.”
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New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced
"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
I was also targeted by Honest Reporting Canada for a column about the killing of journalists in Gaza. A badge of honour, I guess.
"As part of this push for relevance, xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy AI companions, rolling back guardrails on sexual material and ignoring internal warnings about the potentially serious legal and ethical risks of such content."
Canadian officials are still on X
RIP Catherine O’Hara. I do not accept this.
The AGO is disbanding the committee that decided not to go ahead with the Nan Goldin acquisition. @joshokane.bsky.social has been leading and breaking this story for the past week and a bit. A huge amount of work has gone into reporting this story.
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