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Luke LeBrun
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Investigative journalist | Editor, @pressprogress.ca | Send tips & story ideas: llebrun@pressprogress.ca
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Honoured to be recognized for my journalism covering right-wing politics and far-right extremism by being named the recipient of CJFE’s 2024 Arnold Amber Award for Investigative Journalism

Appreciated everyone’s kind words and support
$20 says this guy is already having a romantic relationship with a chatbot:

“…these models were designed to be nonjudgmental, nondirectional … which is to be even-handed, have reflective listening, to be empathetic, to be respectful, it turned out to be something that the world needs”
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Christmas Eve in downtown Ottawa:

Man wearing a giant syringe with the word “bioweapons” written on it stages a lonely protest against digital IDs and international pedophile cabals
December 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Given how many absolutely bland and utilitarian pedestrian spaces there are in Ottawa that can't seem to be properly maintained (or maintained at all), I think the problem is the attitude toward maintenance, not the design of this space.
December 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The newly opened Kìwekì Point panoramic viewpoint overlooking the Ottawa River behind the National Art Gallery has apparently been damaged by a snow plow
December 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
tl;dr version:

David Wallace and James Di Fiore
Bonkers story from @matthewblack.ca: Lawyers for a former AHS board member claim a self-described political fixer, along with an indy publisher, have been paid to smear their client in an effort to discredit & dissuade him from testifying in the wrongful dismissal suit from the agency’s former CEO.
Former AHS board member claims podcasters paid to smear him ahead of Mentzelopoulos testimony
Lawyers for a former Alberta Health Services board member claim a political fixer and a publisher have been paid to smear their client.
edmontonjournal.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Deeply troubling.
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sounds like Pierre is on the Jordan Peterson diet
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Weather Network is forecasting that every single day will be getting sunnier and sunnier and even sunnier for the foreseeable future
Winter solstice longer days, colder weather ahead in Canada - The Weather Network
The shortest day of the year marks a turning point in daylight, but winter's coldest days are yet to come.
www.theweathernetwork.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I am calling on the Minister to summon the Israeli Ambassador and demand a formal written explanation. Anything less risks normalizing the mistreatment of Canadian parliamentarians and citizens abroad.
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Worth noting National Post Editor-in-Chief Rob Roberts did not put out a similar statement defending National Post columnist Adam Zivo when I asked Roberts about Zivo’s public statements alleging he worked for a foreign spy agency while he was writing for the National Post

Didn’t deny it either
December 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Statement from Postmedia standing behind David Pugliese in response to this @theglobeandmail.com story:

“The documents tied to these allegations have been independently discredited by multiple major media organizations”

@davidpugliese.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
DOJ’s Epstein Files include a “manager’s report” from the Broward Center for the Performing Arts for a 2005 David Copperfield performance

Audience complained the magic show was “sophomoric” and “amateur”

One woman complained because she couldn’t find her husband after the “final disappearing act”
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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The story of how a Canadian intelligence operator ended up charged with spying for Ukraine has its roots in another saga - that of a Canadian journalist accused of being a Russian asset (something the journalist vociferously denies).

Reporting by me, @stevenchase.bsky.social and Robert Fife
CAF espionage case linked to allegation that Postmedia journalist has ties to Russia
MWO Robar, charged with leaking government secrets, was assigned to assess concerns in 2023 that reporter David Pugliese was allegedly serving Russian interests
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I don't doubt Russia would (and does) threaten people for all kinds of reasons, but I don't get why they'd break into houses or level death threats at people who received 40-year-old KGB documents about David Pugliese that are riddled with factual errors?

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
December 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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We're thrilled to be joining forces with University of the King’s College and the Canadian Media Lawyers Association to launch Lawyers for Reporters Canada!

HT @lionpubs.bsky.social @vancecenternyc.bsky.social

caj.ca/launch-of-la...
December 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Parliament hasn’t resumed a study into Indian interference:

“For that study to essentially now just evaporate as though it never happened is a problem … Sikh activists who [testified] for that committee were doing so after putting themselves at great risk and publicly speaking about these issues”
Sikh Federation Canada Calls Out Carney Government For Failing to Hold India Accountable for Foreign Interference

Sikh community calls for “accountability and transparency” as federal government looks to restart relationship with India
pressprogress.ca/sikh-federat...
Sikh Federation Canada Calls Out Carney Government For Failing to Hold India Accountable for Foreign Interference
Sikh community calls for “accountability and transparency” as federal government looks to restart relationship with India
pressprogress.ca
December 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Sikh Federation Canada Calls Out Carney Government For Failing to Hold India Accountable for Foreign Interference

Sikh community calls for “accountability and transparency” as federal government looks to restart relationship with India
pressprogress.ca/sikh-federat...
Sikh Federation Canada Calls Out Carney Government For Failing to Hold India Accountable for Foreign Interference
Sikh community calls for “accountability and transparency” as federal government looks to restart relationship with India
pressprogress.ca
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Gaur að leita að Ísfirðingi, einhver ykkar að hlusta á hann?
exactly one person from Ísafjörður in Iceland listened to an episode of PressProgress Sources.

If this was you, and not someone using a VPN, please get in touch.
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If anyone has any contacts in Iceland, please let them know that Eric needs their help to do some investigative journalism:
exactly one person from Ísafjörður in Iceland listened to an episode of PressProgress Sources.

If this was you, and not someone using a VPN, please get in touch.
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Canada Needs More Non-Market Housing to Address Housing Insecurity, Experts Say

The Federal Housing Advocate’s new report reaffirms what housing advocates have been pushing for years
pressprogress.ca/canada-needs...
Canada Needs More Non-Market Housing to Address Housing Insecurity, Experts Say
The Federal Housing Advocate’s new report reaffirms what housing advocates have been pushing for years
pressprogress.ca
December 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez to resign amid ongoing crisis nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/17/c...
Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez to resign amid ongoing crisis
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a searchable database of "criminal aliens" it has arrested, which it calls the "Worst of the Worst." You can filter by country and learn that a number of them are Canadians: www.dhs.gov/wow?combine=...
Arrested: Worst of the Worst | Homeland Security
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is highlighting the worst of worst criminal aliens arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
www.dhs.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM