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The team at CBC is providing good timely updates on their page here. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Flooding in parts of B.C.’s Fraser Valley leads to state of emergency, evacuation alerts — and old anxieties | CBC
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The team at CBC is providing good timely updates on their page here. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Coquihalla closed between Merritt and Hope
December 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Coquihalla closed between Merritt and Hope
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It's been a few weeks since the Burnaby Now, Tri-City News and New Westminster Record shuttered. The lack of local reporting is already being felt.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
‘Nobody to tell those stories’: Concern over news deprivation after Metro Vancouver closures
A dearth in local reporting is being felt at a municipal level after the recent closure of three outlets.
www.ctvnews.ca
May 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's been a few weeks since the Burnaby Now, Tri-City News and New Westminster Record shuttered. The lack of local reporting is already being felt.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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STORY: Three years after flooding ravaged the Fraser Valley, the province says there's no money for planning work on how to avert a future disaster.
fvcurrent.com/p/floodplain...
fvcurrent.com/p/floodplain...
Lower Mainland flood prevention work must wait, province admits
A provincial spokesperson says 'competing priorities' mean there is no money for critical flood-planning work
fvcurrent.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
STORY: Three years after flooding ravaged the Fraser Valley, the province says there's no money for planning work on how to avert a future disaster.
fvcurrent.com/p/floodplain...
fvcurrent.com/p/floodplain...
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OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker
March 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker
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People are on Reddit are saying the IMLS office is being torn apart. It's a big deal for a lot of reasons.
One is IMLS also pays for/supplies some of the infrastructure for the internet for public libraries, especially in rural areas and for tribal communities.
One is IMLS also pays for/supplies some of the infrastructure for the internet for public libraries, especially in rural areas and for tribal communities.
There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
Screenshot in case the main post gets taken down
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
People are on Reddit are saying the IMLS office is being torn apart. It's a big deal for a lot of reasons.
One is IMLS also pays for/supplies some of the infrastructure for the internet for public libraries, especially in rural areas and for tribal communities.
One is IMLS also pays for/supplies some of the infrastructure for the internet for public libraries, especially in rural areas and for tribal communities.
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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powerful detailed account of ICE captivity
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"The tariff policy and the fentanyl fantasy both come from another place: the desire to annex Canada." Timothy Snyder argues that Trump really wants a war: Blame Canada open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Blame Canada
Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory
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March 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"The tariff policy and the fentanyl fantasy both come from another place: the desire to annex Canada." Timothy Snyder argues that Trump really wants a war: Blame Canada open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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A responsible call-in show could have had a panel of real experts present information on historical context (annexation of Hawaii, overthrow of Chile, Iran), international law (it's illegal!), social dynamics (CAN and US are different!) and allowed callers to ask questions. THAT'S informative.
10/?
10/?
February 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
A responsible call-in show could have had a panel of real experts present information on historical context (annexation of Hawaii, overthrow of Chile, Iran), international law (it's illegal!), social dynamics (CAN and US are different!) and allowed callers to ask questions. THAT'S informative.
10/?
10/?
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Town Hall, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Feb 2025.
YouTube video by JustAnotherJen
youtu.be
February 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
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From Brian Platt:
“As a reminder, here is what the US border agency's own stats show about fentanyl coming in from Canada and Mexico. Canada is the yellow line on this chart, you may need a magnifying glass to see it”
“As a reminder, here is what the US border agency's own stats show about fentanyl coming in from Canada and Mexico. Canada is the yellow line on this chart, you may need a magnifying glass to see it”
January 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
From Brian Platt:
“As a reminder, here is what the US border agency's own stats show about fentanyl coming in from Canada and Mexico. Canada is the yellow line on this chart, you may need a magnifying glass to see it”
“As a reminder, here is what the US border agency's own stats show about fentanyl coming in from Canada and Mexico. Canada is the yellow line on this chart, you may need a magnifying glass to see it”