#weekendreading 🧵As delegates from around the world gather in Sharm el-Sheikh, for the UN’s 27th annual climate change conference #COP27 , here are a few New Lines Magazine stories and photo essays published about some of the communities who are most susceptible to climate disaster:

We’ve got big plans brewing for this years issue of the Review of Journalism that we think you’ll enjoy… Keep an eye out for more information over the next day or two 👀

We’re here at the RCC with free issues of last years’s issue, hot chocolate and popcorn! Find us in the lobby until 1 p.m. to find out more about the Review 🤩

It's the last day of our October campaign to raise $100,000. Subscribe today and together we'll build Canada's first databases of politicians' assets. It'll show the stocks & real estate owned by every MP, MPP and MLA. We can do this together!: theijf.org/accountability

Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqa has been killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a school in Gaza's Khan Younis. Medical teams were prevented by Israeli forces from reaching him after he was critically wounded ⤵️

When a 2,000-pound bomb detonates, it creates a blastwave that can harm people up to 3,000 feet away. Our Visual Investigation suggests Israel routinely dropped this bomb in the area south of Wadi Gaza - the place it had repeatedly told civilians in Gaza to move to for safety.

NEW DATA: Nearly 60 per cent of lobbyists Loblaw have hired have previously worked in the government, and more than half of their federal lobby registrations since 2006 have been made by former government insiders. theijf.org/loblaws-lobbyi…

📣📣 Big announcement from us today at Investigative Journalism Foundation ! We've just launched a new database of over 20k (& growing) completed access to information requests. Free for everyone to use. The largest repository of internal govt docs to EVER be made available to the public.

B.C. resident Kir Anvik is injected every month with a medicine she believes is doing more harm than good. But the B.C. government is forcing her to take it. theijf.org/against-her-wi…

When Simon Fraser University’s teaching assistants went on strike, the school’s executives were concerned about safety. Their solution? Hiring private investigators to secretly record striking workers. With The Tyee: theijf.org/inside-sfus-su…

Last Friday, Gerald Paulin made his first appearance in court as one of only six lobbyists ever charged with breaking federal laws governing the practice. Some believe that number vastly underestimates the amount of shadowy lobbying in the country. theijf.org/lobbyists-char…

Canada’s judicial watchdog is still investigating whether an Ontario Superior Court judge made up to three donations to the Liberal party while on the bench, eight months after it was informed of the apparent contributions. With National Post: theijf.org/judge-suspecte…

For low-income neighbourhoods, fires are more severe. Our investigation with CBC Toronto found that casualties from fire incidents in Toronto’s lowest-income ward were nearly five times greater than those in the highest-income ward. Read: theijf.org/fatal-fires

I was honoured to help out with Canadian Association of Journalists data stream at this year’s conference. Thanks to everyone on the team for trusting and supporting me. And extra special thanks to Valérie Ouellet for capturing it!

In Ottawa, it’s all about who you know. Luckily, we connected the dots for you. Long story short, many former government staffers have now become lobbyists. Here's a quick overview of just who knows whom on Parliament Hill: theijf.org/who-knows-whom…