I’ve spent the last few months cooking up a podcast miniseries with the amazing team at The Big Story Podcast, and we’re so excited to share it with you!

Here’s the trailer for Paydirt, the inside story of Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal:
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Here's one of the most interesting job posts I've ever shared: easyapply.co/a/89787f9b-4ef…

Village Media is launching its own social media platform, and it's looking for someone to manage its founding community.

Keeps happening

Did you know the FOI Act doesn't just apply to government departments? You can also request docs from public bodies — transit commissions, lottery corps, coroners service, and more:
Here's the full list for BC:

I was complaining to my friend about how awful things feel and how hard it all is at the minute, and he said 'it's a period of deep moral injury for anyone with a thinking mind and a working heart,' and if that doesn't just hit the nail on the head I don't know what does.

$2.2 million house? Or brake pads import/export warehouse in an industrial park? We'll never know.

RBC Another week. RBC is still 'looking into' where the $10,000 in desperately needed Gaza donations went on its watch — while another $13,000 languishes in my account, waiting to be sent when I know it'll actually arrive.

Find your true calling like Roger

This is very good news in the 'play stupid games, win stupid prizes' genre:
'[Overstory Media] has been ordered to pay $270,819.02 in unpaid wages.'
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European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction bbc.in/3TUfoz1

If this motivated private citizen can find illegally operating Airbnbs and get them shut down, presumably the city staff who are paid to do this all day could also do the same

Honestly can't put into words how much this means to me - huge thanks to the CJF-FJC and Edward Burtynsky for funding an award like this.

Important takeaway from this (genuinely stunning, extremely important) reporting is that the value of military 'AI' systems like this doesn't lie in decision-making, but in the ability to use the sheen of computerized 'intelligence' to justify the actions you already wanted

submitted a draft I've been working on since November, please clap

GOOD NEWS ON THE BEE FRONT and we have Texas to thank for it Andrew Van Dam reports wapo.st/3TDPfnP

Here are the major steps in the 'citizens agenda' model for election coverage, which puts at the center not the machinations of the candidates or who's ahead in the horse race, but the concerns of voters and what they want the campaign to be about. Hat tip Allan Hoving

I really want to get this in front of people it could help. Please share around.