This. Indy markets, stuff you found on your travels, small artisan shops: A little basket of delicious things is always a hit.

The LGBTQ2S+ community is not a bunch of different coloured houses on a block, one for each letter, where we lend each other sugar once in a while.

We all live in the same big communal lodge. A lot of us are a few different letters. We are fluid. We are intersectional. And we are in this together.

👋 new followers … I’ve been helping lead this project at ProPublica about preventable maternal deaths in states that ban abortion: Amber Thurman and Candi Miller in Georgia. Josseli Barnica, Nevaeh Crain and Porsha Ngumezi in Texas. Here’s our coverage so far … www.propublica.org/series/life-...

It's fascinating reading - enjoy!

It lives here: litigate.com/assets/uploa...

I'll, of course, be watching this one evolve very closely.

The part of this case that makes me nervous is shifting that benefit of the doubt on Terms of Use violations in favour of site owners, which could make some forms of data journalism in Canada more legally difficult. Certainly some of my past reporting was done in violation of those Terms.

But the bulk of the statement of claim focuses on a violation of the terms of use of the websites for commercial gain. Canadian courts have been hesitant to come rule against terms of use claims in the past, to the benefit of journalism organizations that use website data for research in reporting.