Salt Spring Island really living up to its reputation. H/t Jesse Woodward 🚲📻🎧.

Gaza hospitals have run out of supplies due to the full blockade, and constant Israeli airstrikes have killed/injured healthcare workers, hit ambulances, hospitals, and clinics.

Latest: cbc.ca/news/world/hea…

Football star Travis Kelce -- best known for romance with Taylor Swift -- uses newfound fame to promote #vaccination , telling public they can get #COVID19 and #influenza vaccines at same time usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatodayhealth

NEWS: the Crown has stayed Pacey Dumas's attempt to privately prosecute Edmonton Police Const. Ben Todd for kicking him in the head. This comes after the Crown refused to prosecute Todd despite a scathing opinion from ASIRT edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/edm…

On #NDTR2023 , resharing this essay for The Walrus & asking settlers to resist the comforting sanitization of residential schools. thewalrus.ca/residential-sc…

Who’s responsible for the safety of workers who rebuild American cities after natural disasters? The $150-billion disaster restoration industry is a web of contractors, so it’s a complicated answer. NEW from me and Maria Ines Zamudio for The Center for Public Integrity:

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As climate change leads to increasing disasters, the restoration industry is booming.

But the whole system capitalizes on the labor of immigrant workers, who are getting sick from the lethal toxins they're exposed to on the job, our investigation found: publicintegrity.org/environment/to…

Poland's education minister says he has 'taken steps' to effect the extradition of Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian, to Poland after it emerged that the veteran had served in the Nazi SS Galizien formation during the Second World War. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

I'm on Front Burner today talking about Wednesday's protests and counter protests, how we got here, and what comes next in the fight for LGBTQ2S+ inclusion in Canada right now.

Take a listen!

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Prescribed safer supply is reaching fewer people in B.C. than it was last December, but it's not clear why.

A great data-driven story by Akshay Kulkarni CBC British Columbia
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#NEW : Multiple acute/long term care facilities in BC have or have had COVID-19 spread recently, with no public outbreak declared.

According to health ministry, 'non-outbreak circumstances' include increase in COVID and more severe cases among vaxxed.

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No words to describe the loss of KuljeetKaila. She was so strong and optimistic. Last time I saw her she talked of renting a stretch limo to celebrate once she beat cancer. She loved her nephews/nieces, her family, living by the water, she loved NYC. To know her was a joy. 💔

Big congrats to all my talented colleagues and to all the B.C. journalists nominated this year. The full list of nominations is here: jackwebster.com/2023-webster-a…

Garry Pashe Jr.'s family is grieving after Revelstoke RCMP shot + killed the 23yo father from Long Plain First Nation last month.

Indigenous people are more likely to be killed by police, says to B.C.'s police watchdog, which is investigating the death.
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Dani Cooper died at 27 after being shot by police during an episode of psychosis. Cooper’s father says the family was given very little info about the interaction.

Jen St. Denis’s and Moira Wyton’s report, nominated for Excellence in Legal Journalism.

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Shortage of public fertility tests delaying efforts to conceive, says North Vancouver woman

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from Moira Wyton via CBC British Columbia

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