Anna Mehler Paperny
@mehlerpaperny.bsky.social
Reporter in Toronto;
Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person;
Nosy questions, mostly.
anna.mehler.paperny@gmail.com or anna.mehlerpaperny@tr.com
Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person;
Nosy questions, mostly.
anna.mehler.paperny@gmail.com or anna.mehlerpaperny@tr.com
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Despite Trudeau promises, more Indigenous people being jailed in Canada
Like a growing number of formerly incarcerated Indigenous people, Marvin Starblanket's life is still governed by Correctional Service Canada rules.
www.reuters.com
Canada's mass incarceration of Indigenous people is worsening and an insidious driver is the stickiness of Canada's carceral system - when people should get a shot at freedom, but often don't. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Floors me every time.
Honestly, one of the great parts of journalism is that really smart people are willing to take the time to explain things to you
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Floors me every time.
Reposted by Anna Mehler Paperny
Here is a working link to the original Poppy File map, which shows about 3,300 of Toronto's Second World War war dead at the household level. Click on a home to see details. The First World War map follows in the thread /1 t.co/4P9GUkl8m0
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Here is a working link to the original Poppy File map, which shows about 3,300 of Toronto's Second World War war dead at the household level. Click on a home to see details. The First World War map follows in the thread /1 t.co/4P9GUkl8m0
Canada has lost its measles elimination status - a harbinger, public health experts say, of outbreaks to come as vaccination rates slip. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Canada poised to lose measles elimination status, a possible harbinger of more disease outbreaks
Canada is poised to lose its measles elimination status after nearly three decades, and public health experts fear outbreaks of other preventable diseases as vaccination rates fall.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Canada has lost its measles elimination status - a harbinger, public health experts say, of outbreaks to come as vaccination rates slip. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Thrilled to be joining @ijbstories.bsky.social. Investigative journalism, active journalism, is more important than ever. Cannot wait to make some trouble with this small, mighty team.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thrilled to be joining @ijbstories.bsky.social. Investigative journalism, active journalism, is more important than ever. Cannot wait to make some trouble with this small, mighty team.
It's that time of year when the biggest city in the country tells residents with limited mobility to just stay home for six months.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It's that time of year when the biggest city in the country tells residents with limited mobility to just stay home for six months.
This is Canada's temporary foreign worker system in a nutshell. But making temporary residents pay more for health care really drives the sentiment home.
It says much about a society that is willing to profit from a group's labour, but unwilling provide them same dignity and support accorded to others.
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is Canada's temporary foreign worker system in a nutshell. But making temporary residents pay more for health care really drives the sentiment home.
First snow snuffle
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
First snow snuffle
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, journalists at West Bank olive harvest, witnesses say - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, journalists at West Bank olive harvest, witnesses say - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
We fail suicidal people in so many ways it is almost fitting we are driving them into the thrall of robots who urge on their self-inflicted death.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We fail suicidal people in so many ways it is almost fitting we are driving them into the thrall of robots who urge on their self-inflicted death.
True to form I am killing my rosemary plant. What should I cook with it before it all browns?
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
True to form I am killing my rosemary plant. What should I cook with it before it all browns?
Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians reach record number in October, U.N. says www.reuters.com/world/middle... via @michellenichols.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians reach record number in October, U.N. says www.reuters.com/world/middle... via @michellenichols.bsky.social
Reposted by Anna Mehler Paperny
It’s hard to overstate the scale of death in Darfur. “These are people being shot in the back and shot while they’re trying to escape. It’s as bad as it could possibly get,” a former Africa analyst for the C.I.A. said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qVoDbI
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It’s hard to overstate the scale of death in Darfur. “These are people being shot in the back and shot while they’re trying to escape. It’s as bad as it could possibly get,” a former Africa analyst for the C.I.A. said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qVoDbI
Can hear a cheese wrapper from a dozen metres away.
Is gonna need you to repeat "Come" another seven times.
Is gonna need you to repeat "Come" another seven times.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Can hear a cheese wrapper from a dozen metres away.
Is gonna need you to repeat "Come" another seven times.
Is gonna need you to repeat "Come" another seven times.
Reposted by Anna Mehler Paperny
Founders of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalinin have just been found guilty of drug trafficking.
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Founders of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalinin have just been found guilty of drug trafficking.
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes www.reuters.com/world/us/us-... via Erin Banco, @jonathanlanday.bsky.social, @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes www.reuters.com/world/us/us-... via Erin Banco, @jonathanlanday.bsky.social, @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social
Reposted by Anna Mehler Paperny
Breaking: Alberta's police watchdog has cleared two RCMP officers who shot and killed a 15-year-old Indigenous boy in Wetaskiwin last year. ASIRT says Hoss Lightning was pointing a backpack at the officers, which they believed to contain a gun. It did not. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...
Alberta police watchdog clears officers who fatally shot 15-year-old Indigenous boy
Alberta's police watchdog has found the pair of RCMP officers who fatally shot an Indigenous teenager in Wetaskiwin did not commit a criminal offence.
edmontonjournal.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Breaking: Alberta's police watchdog has cleared two RCMP officers who shot and killed a 15-year-old Indigenous boy in Wetaskiwin last year. ASIRT says Hoss Lightning was pointing a backpack at the officers, which they believed to contain a gun. It did not. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...
This whole time I've been going to the wrong barbershop.
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This whole time I've been going to the wrong barbershop.
Finally got my iron levels high enough for Canadian Blood Services and I feel like a craftily doping Olympian.
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Finally got my iron levels high enough for Canadian Blood Services and I feel like a craftily doping Olympian.
Reposted by Anna Mehler Paperny
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
19thnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
For years Canada pointed to private refugee sponsorship as the future of resettlement - a model to be emulated elsewhere. Canada is cutting private refugee sponsorship by about 30%: www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
Supplementary Information for the 2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan - Canada.ca
Supplementary Information for the 2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan
www.canada.ca
November 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
For years Canada pointed to private refugee sponsorship as the future of resettlement - a model to be emulated elsewhere. Canada is cutting private refugee sponsorship by about 30%: www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
form a callus against the dark.
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
form a callus against the dark.