👋🏼 Hi, it’s Zak Vescera with Investigative Journalism Foundation and former Tyee labour reporter.

This week we revealed the inside story of how Simon Fraser University hired private investigators to surveil picketing workers.

Here’s how we did it, and what we found. 🧵 (1/9)

thetyee.ca/News/2024/04/0…

Balcony book season’s here! Finally reading The Tyee’s Points of Interest (launch party Apr 23 is.gd/DQsxgB)

Proud to have a chapter beside Jess H̓áust̓i…Harrison Mooney 🫥…Michelle Cyca…JB McKinnon…Andrew Nikiforuk…Christopher Cheung ✍️…Dorothy Woodend…Colleen Kimmett etc

B.C. communities stretch provincial funds to guard against climate-related emergencies cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

Experts warn B.C. needs to better track water use amid drought cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

After announcing the abolishment of tuition fees, the Iceland University of the arts has seen the number of applications double.
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hindawi.com/journals/tbed/… Our experience with SARS COV2 in mink. Only roughly half of infected farms were detected based on clinical surveillance, the rest through enhanced testing for antibodies.

theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/1…

I talked to CBC/Radio-Canada about the effects of Covid on brain health

Thanks to host Bob McDonald and producer Amanda Buckiewicz

Link to the news article and radio interview below

cbc.ca/radio/quirks/l…

Mysterious

This is an astonishing story, illustrating what happens to a political system when one party can rule without oversight.

The beating we took will sting for years to come. The international ostracism won't go away. And, of course, the dead won't be coming back. Nor will many of the hostages. We've lost. Truth must be told | Opinion | Chaim Levinson
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Face it: Russia has succeeded in its greatest & most audacious achievement ever: Buying the GOP.
What is the US going to do about it?

1/n Some good news, according to CDC we’re almost at the lowest number of new Covid hospitalizations in the U.S.since the beginning of the pandemic…

Good news:

Gift article: Why wildfire fighters are quitting. wapo.st/43X1UqF

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Turns out the Pathways Alliance - the 6 major oilsands companies - has purchased 100s of google keyword searches to direct those curious about climate change to their garbage misinformation content.

Oilsands disinformation is worse than you think nationalobserver.com/2024/04/12/opi…

Microplastics are not just in our arteries. Now found in blood clots thelancet.com/journals/ebiom… eBioMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science

I stopped shy of saying the entire bloody horrific crisis is the result of Israel’s ill-designed proportional-representation voting system (I focused on the man who manipulated that system). Too hyperbolic. But one could say that theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…