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Correspondant de @RadioCanadaInfo pour l'ouest du pays à Vancouver | French CBC reporter in Vancouver covering the West Coast | francis.plourde at cbc.ca
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Des leaders autochtones demandent le retrait du candidat conservateur Aaron Gunn sur l'île de Vancouver.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
First Nations leaders in B.C. call for Conservatives to drop candidate Aaron Gunn | CBC News
Social media comments made by North Island-Powell River Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn have resurfaced, sparking outrage from First Nations leaders.
www.cbc.ca
April 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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C'est maintenant confirmé: Mike de Jong, qui fut ministre des Finances en C.-B. et dont la candidature a été rejetée par le PCC, se présente comme indépendant dans Abbotsford-Langley-Sud www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/... #bcpoli
Service d'information à l'électeur - Qui sont les candidats dans ma circonscription?
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March 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Des journalistes britanniques signent une lettre ouverte pour expliquer leur départ de X et soutenir l’émergence de Bluesky :
« Nos efforts sont dédiés à construire ailleurs des espaces en ligne plus constructifs pour le dialogue politique et l'information. »
josiahmortimer.bsky.social Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · Nov 15
NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists"

UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over...

"We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience. And it has been a well of ideas and discourse. Unfortunately that well is now poisoned. All of us have seen X become more toxic and broken since Elon Musk took over in 2022. Feeds have become less useful. Engagement has plummeted, except for those who will pay. Replies gain traction not through merit, but through the corrupted blue-tick system. We have seen hate speech and abuse deliberately dialled up and amplified, boosted not just by the algorithm, but by the owner himself. And England’s racist summer riots were one of many factors suggesting to us that X is not a neutral platform, but a space that now seems to glorify misinformation at a great cost to our public sphere. Millions of people are ditching X, and we are doing so, too. We have taken the view that it is no longer a useful tool for objective reporting, but a weapon being wielded by a narrowing ideological set. A tipping point is coming. Perhaps we are already in it. After much consideration, we have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky. For some of us that means instantly deleting our X accounts, for others it is a more gradual process. But we are all putting the majority of our efforts into building more constructive online spaces elsewhere for political dialogue and reporting. Bluesky is becoming a new hub for political discussion, and we encourage other UK journalists to join and become active. We are already seeing far higher engagement on our posts there than we’ve seen recently on X. And importantly, the mechanisms to limit abuse actually work. We enjoyed Twitter while it lasted. It played an important role in shaping many of our careers. And it was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter
November 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM