Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Re-upping this piece from June 2025 — shortly after Israel launched an air strike on Iran, and just before the U.S. did the same. 🎁🔗
Very strange reply to my request for comment from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
“To put it simply, the faster the ocean floor warms, the faster we lose fish,” said Shahar Chaikin, a marine ecologist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Spain and the study’s lead author. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Dams have blocked salmon from making their traditional migration through the Columbia River Basin, so these First Nations are sharing fish eggs across the colonial border to help the salmon on their journey. From our friends at @indiginews.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/syilx-salmon...
“Pointing the finger at Ottawa is nothing new, but the Premier has decided in this case, one week away from a budget that will likely show a massive deficit, it is the number of people moving to the province who are the problem.”
Minister of Scapegoating was not available for comment.
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Big Genesis energy in Alberta
Last week, I learned an adjudicator had sided with me in 5 inquiries re: the province refusing to release results of its Alberta Next surveys
GOA published the multiple choice results in Dec but has been ordered to give me 213 pages of open-answer replies that haven't yet been shared
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At least 10 people, including a four-year-old girl, killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza overnight.
Union letters claim civilian Edmonton police staff facing workplace sexual assault, harassment #yeg edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/01/22/c...
A photo of Janet Brown and Kathleen Petty in a CBC studio.
I am biased but today’s episode of CBC’s West of Centre is going to be interesting, and includes a great one-on-one @kathleenpetty.bsky.social did with Alberta separatist leader Mitch Sylvestre that really should be heard.
"I learn things."
Alberta doctors say leadership lacking amid crisis of overcrowding in hospitals: www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Israeli forces raided a Palestinian wedding ceremony in occupied East Jerusalem, firing live ammunition and stun grenades at attendees. Several men, including the groom, were detained.
Fourth Palestinian baby freezes to death in Gaza since November
Fourth Palestinian baby freezes to death in Gaza since November https://aje.news/1ryphy
Screenshot of my Bsky bio. I'm am now an investigative reporter. Focusing on misinformation, politics and culture.
🕵️♀️Minor job update. Send me stuff!
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“Adam noted that when the RCMP came to their house in October to execute a search warrant, they simply knocked on the door and his wife let them in.”
“(Cpl. Mathew) Howell of the RCMP said he can’t speak to ‘what pushed the breaking down of the door’ in this specific instance, but said in general ‘there’s a few different aspects that can come into play,’ including ‘officer safety’ and the ‘need to secure evidence.’”
Today's my last workday of 2025.
Before the year wraps up, here's my 10 favourite files from the Alberta legislature for @edmontonjournal.com over the past 12 months.
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Jenn Vanderlaan, senior communications advisor for Acute Care Alberta, said "there is no legal requirement for public reporting of acute-care outbreaks."
United Nurses of Alberta President Heather Smith said health officials are “morally obligated as supposed trustees of our public health.”
“The way the (Mine Financial Security Program) is set up means that the government will come asking companies for a security deposit well into the future, (said U of A prof. Andrew Leach), ‘when they get much closer to bankruptcy.
‘That should raise red flags.’”
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Edmonton double homicide victims identified #yeg edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1...
“Auditor-General Doug Wylie made his assessment in a report..,that found data used to validate the early success of Ms. Smith’s plan to improve the province’s health care system were inconsistent and were selected to make ‘performance look better than it actually was.’” #ableg #abpoli
It’s been frustrating as a journalist, and a member of the public, to watch as publicly available data on the health-care system has dwindled over the years.
The auditor general now says the Alberta government is changing internal metrics and selectively using data to hide problems:
As someone who has experienced both Peterson Academy (one week) and an accredited Alberta university (5 years, oops) it is striking to me that Albertan officials were discussing "transferability." The most rigorous testing PA did is an AI-generated multiple choice quiz. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Grouped column chart showing average income for men in Canada, by age group, in 1976 vs. 2023 in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars. Every age group under 45 had less income in 2023 than in 1976, while every age group 45 and above had more income in 2023 than in 1976. The 65+ age group saw the biggest increase.
"In 1977, the average 25-34 year old man earned over twice that of a man aged 65+.
In 2023, for the first time in recorded history, senior men now earn more, on average, than their 25-34 year old counterparts."
Via @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social:
🔗: www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/what-happe...
