Rumneek Johal
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Shelter runs out of naloxone as B.C. community sees 80 toxic drug poisonings in 24 hours: CMHA https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/naloxone-runs-out-bc-shelter-9.6992470
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November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Shelter runs out of naloxone as B.C. community sees 80 toxic drug poisonings in 24 hours: CMHA https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/naloxone-runs-out-bc-shelter-9.6992470
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Canada’s drug laws are facing a constitutional challenge from the founders of a Vancouver compassion club.
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
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In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
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Canada’s Drug Laws Face Challenge from Founders of Vancouver Compassion Club
'You feel lost and powerless, because you are,' Drug User Liberation Front co-founder testifies on day one of weeks-long hearing
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November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Canada’s drug laws are facing a constitutional challenge from the founders of a Vancouver compassion club.
In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
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In trying to beat back a wave of toxic street drugs, "You feel lost and powerless, because you are," Jeremy Kalicum testified.
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A friend of mine is looking to speak to an immigration lawyer or consultant for a story she is working on. If you have any leads plz feel free to DM me! Thnx in advance!
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A friend of mine is looking to speak to an immigration lawyer or consultant for a story she is working on. If you have any leads plz feel free to DM me! Thnx in advance!
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I want to be clear, Rumneek is a wonderful editor and I am not mad.
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I want to be clear, Rumneek is a wonderful editor and I am not mad.
*me editing one of our reporter's work & cutting out/shortening some sections*
"hey are you mad at me?"
"hey are you mad at me?"
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
*me editing one of our reporter's work & cutting out/shortening some sections*
"hey are you mad at me?"
"hey are you mad at me?"
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November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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hell on earth? oh you mean listening back to an interview in Punjabi and hearing myself struggle with certain terminology
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
hell on earth? oh you mean listening back to an interview in Punjabi and hearing myself struggle with certain terminology
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Generative AI causes so many demonstrable harms, from counseling kids into suicide, stealing creative work and destroying the market for it, perverting education, and this predictable horror. Any other product like this would be regulated into the smallest possible box by a responsible society.
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Generative AI causes so many demonstrable harms, from counseling kids into suicide, stealing creative work and destroying the market for it, perverting education, and this predictable horror. Any other product like this would be regulated into the smallest possible box by a responsible society.
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Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy:
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
Alberta lawsuit is trying to silence the messenger
Former UCP candidate Caylan Ford's scattergun defamation lawsuit against the media and others sends a free press chill through Alberta
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November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy:
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
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“[Our] community is being actively targeted on an ongoing basis by a foreign government ... and our government ignores all of that and says, ‘Ah well, we’re going to start rebuilding ties.’”
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“[Our] community is being actively targeted on an ongoing basis by a foreign government ... and our government ignores all of that and says, ‘Ah well, we’re going to start rebuilding ties.’”
While the Sikh community is sounding the alarm and trying to push for accountability, the federal government is rebuilding ties with India.
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There’s a Wave of Violence Targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the Government Seems Powerless to Stop It
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November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
While the Sikh community is sounding the alarm and trying to push for accountability, the federal government is rebuilding ties with India.
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There’s a wave of violence targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the government seems powerless to stop it.
"It’s a feeling of helplessness."
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"It’s a feeling of helplessness."
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There’s a Wave of Violence Targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the Government Seems Powerless to Stop It
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November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
There’s a wave of violence targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the government seems powerless to stop it.
"It’s a feeling of helplessness."
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"It’s a feeling of helplessness."
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Our editor @rumneeek.bsky.social is back with a big story that has been massively underreported.
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There’s a Wave of Violence Targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the Government Seems Powerless to Stop It
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November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Our editor @rumneeek.bsky.social is back with a big story that has been massively underreported.
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There have been hundreds of cases of extortion and violent crimes against Canadian Sikhs over the last few months, yet the story isn't front page news across the country. Why do you think that is?
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There’s a Wave of Violence Targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the Government Seems Powerless to Stop It
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November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
There have been hundreds of cases of extortion and violent crimes against Canadian Sikhs over the last few months, yet the story isn't front page news across the country. Why do you think that is?
New, from me: pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...
New, from me: pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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As more and more studies expose fossil-fuel health harms, Mark Carney is doubling down
First Nations and frontline workers are leading the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
First Nations and frontline workers are leading the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
As More and More Studies Expose Fossil-fuel Health Harms, Mark Carney Doubles Down
First Nations and frontline workers lead the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
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November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As more and more studies expose fossil-fuel health harms, Mark Carney is doubling down
First Nations and frontline workers are leading the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
First Nations and frontline workers are leading the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
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You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires
James Van Der Beek Auctioning Off Dawson’s Creek Items Amid Cancer Journey
James Van Der Beek has put several Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues items up for auction as he continues to battle stage 3 colon cancer.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires
So many questions, so little time.
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So many questions, so little time.
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Union Presidents Say Federal Government is “Scapegoating” Public Servants For the Deficit
“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
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“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
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Union Presidents Say Federal Government is “Scapegoating” Public Servants For the Deficit
“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
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November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Union Presidents Say Federal Government is “Scapegoating” Public Servants For the Deficit
“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
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“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
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As Ms. Rachel slams the New York Times for its dehumanizing coverage of Palestinians, our editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan asks the questions that really matter.
“People try to make it controversial when you speak out for children that are facing immeasurable suffering.”
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“People try to make it controversial when you speak out for children that are facing immeasurable suffering.”
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November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
As Ms. Rachel slams the New York Times for its dehumanizing coverage of Palestinians, our editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan asks the questions that really matter.
“People try to make it controversial when you speak out for children that are facing immeasurable suffering.”
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“People try to make it controversial when you speak out for children that are facing immeasurable suffering.”
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The day pipeline security followed reporter @writermjs.bsky.social — and what he’s learned since about CSIS — has him asking a lot of questions. thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...
The deepening ties between CSIS and resource companies | The Narwhal
As the federal government earmarks resource extraction projects in the ‘national interest,’ the companies building them are deepening ties to CSIS
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November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The day pipeline security followed reporter @writermjs.bsky.social — and what he’s learned since about CSIS — has him asking a lot of questions. thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...
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B.C. MMA champion denounces gyms, coaches with ties to white supremacist groups
B.C. MMA champion Arjan Bhullar denounces gyms, coaches with ties to white supremacist groups | CBC News
An MMA champion and Olympian is speaking out against hate and racism after a CBC investigation found that certain martial arts gym owners, coaches and trainers were among the attendees of a secretive...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
B.C. MMA champion denounces gyms, coaches with ties to white supremacist groups
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Effectively immediately, B.C. employers "cannot ask for a sick note for a worker’s first two health-related, short-term absences of five consecutive days or fewer in a calendar year."
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New rules on sick notes eliminate unnecessary paperwork
Effective immediately, new rules limit when employers can ask for sick notes and will allow more time for health-care providers to spend with patients.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Effectively immediately, B.C. employers "cannot ask for a sick note for a worker’s first two health-related, short-term absences of five consecutive days or fewer in a calendar year."
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
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just used "they're not new to this, they're true to this" in a work meeting
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
just used "they're not new to this, they're true to this" in a work meeting
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November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We’re a small team of seven journalists who investigate stories wealthy and powerful people don’t want Canadians to know about
Now we need your help to defend our journalism and continue shining a light on information politicians want to keep secret
Help us out 👉 JournalismDefence.ca
Now we need your help to defend our journalism and continue shining a light on information politicians want to keep secret
Help us out 👉 JournalismDefence.ca