Reporter with @MissiNewsRoom & @BmptGuardian. Author of Invisible North and Up Ghost River; creative writing instructor at @UofTSCS
Toronto
Joined September 2009
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I was asked what I thought about @PierrePoilievre on @CFRAOttawa this morning. Here’s what I said. #cdnpoli #cpc #lpc #ndp
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Starting to think it's a bad idea for Canada to be three corporations in a trench coat
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On Friday, photojournalist Amber Bracken was arrested by the RCMP while on assignment for @thenarwhalca on Wet’suwet’en territory. As of Sunday, Amber is being held in a jail cell in Prince George along with filmmaker Michael Toledano. Sign this petition: protectpressfreedom.good.do/…
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I just learned that it’s Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. Here is an essay I wrote about miscarrying during the pandemic. thecut.com/2020/05/for-two-m… – at Prince Edward County, Ontario
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Several gay Afghans told Insider how they live in fear of their life after the Taliban's victory.
Under the previous Taliban rule, the militant group executed gay men.
businessinsider.com/afghanis…
ALT Image shows Najib Faizi, 21, who describes himself as the first drag queen of Afghan descent. The headline text overlaid reads: “Meet Afghanistan’s secret gay community: How gay Afghan men fear that the Taliban will execute them at any moment.”
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I don’t know what journalists of color need to hear this, but: Nominate your own work for awards. DO IT. Don’t wait on a white editor to recognize your work. Bitch, this is how the Pulitzers work! I didn’t know that until like, two months ago. Nominate yourself!
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IT TOOK ALL 50 STATES, THE AMISH, KPOP STANS, 13 OTHER COUNTRIES, WITCHES, ANONYMOUS, THE LGBT COMMUNITY, CELEBRITIES, STAN TWITTER, PEOPLE OF COLOR, WHITE ALLIES & BATMAN TO GET 2ND DEGREE MURDER AND THE THREE COPS ARRESTED AND WE HAD THE PRESIDENT & MILITARY AGAINST US, MY GOD
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While we're staying in, we're letting our gifs out, to celebrate GLA's new #StreetspaceLDN project.
#cleanair #londonforall #90days90gifs
Here's day 1 🚶♀️🏃👨🦽🚴♀️
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In Norway, Prime Minister Erna Solberg just held a press conference specifically for children.
For half an hour, she and her team answered questions submitted by kids across the country.
She told them it was normal to be scared but that everything would be okay.
#Leadership
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THIS IS BLATANT THEFT FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Even as a Native person I would never apply for a scholarship like this because I am not enrolled, nor live on a reservation and experience it’s potential hardships. This is so disrespectful and I hope she gets this taken away
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A new theory on #depression: It’s a disease caused by the body’s immune system. Q+A with @drdianemcintosh, a leading Canadian proponent of the theory. By @AlexandraShimo
via @Globe_Health #mentalhealth
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A new 900-page report, which compiles the findings from thousands of scientific studies, outlines the damage climate change has already done to the planet’s vast oceans and fragile ice sheets on.natgeo.com/2mF39dK
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"His deep analysis of great works of fiction is more like the study of, say, quantum physics..." An excellent review of THE EROTICS OF RESTRAINT by @dg_pro_se in @OrcaLiterary orcalit.com/2019/09/16/book-…