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Mattea Roach

@mattearoach.bsky.social

host of Bookends on CBC Radio/podcast platforms everywhere, former 23x Jeopardy champion, slowly also writing // everything that happens will happen today

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Michelle Cyca@michellecyca.com · 4mo ago

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026 This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
Mattea Roach@mattearoach.bsky.social · 5mo ago

At a friend’s parents’ cottage for the weekend and was absolutely delighted to discover that when I was last here eight months ago I left a coconut Lacroix in the fridge and a bottle of conditioner in the shower… if you don’t look after yourself then who will

Mattea Roach@mattearoach.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“Right now the focus should be on supporting the community in mourning, not weaponizing this event as hate against a vulnerable group at large.” I hate profoundly that articles like this need to be written when, like Mel says, the focus should be on community. But thank you Mel for writing ❤️

Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 7mo ago

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

Jen St. Denis@jenstden.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A few years ago, my colleague @amandafollett.bsky.social wrote this portrait of Tumbler Ridge, a former coal mining town. thetyee.ca/News/2020/11...

Tumbler Ridge: A Coal Mining Town’s Fight for Survival | The Tyee

From dinosaur discoveries to mountain biking to clean energy, this northeast BC community is looking to build a new future.

thetyee.ca

Jen St. Denis@jenstden.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is horrific. I was so hoping for a better outcome 10 dead, including 6 people found dead inside the high school www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 7mo ago

Media often appended it with “Hamas-run” as a way to subtly discredit its numbers. Many experts credibly argue those figures are in fact far lower than the real number today.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

nam kiwanuka@namshine.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“Serious voices in this country are sounding alarm, warning that this volatile start to 2026 means that Canadians need to stare down the reality that we no longer have the luxury of pretending it’s business as usual.” www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Susan Delacourt: Is it time to get alarmed about how Trump is kicking off 2026?

Serious voices are warning that Canadians need to stare down the reality that we no longer have the luxury of pretending it’s business as usual.

thestar.com

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

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Sabrina Fernandes@sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

Mattea Roach@mattearoach.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited for the cottage episode of Heated Rivalry bc in my experience going to the cottage with your gay love is all about getting too stoned at the beach and then crying to Adrienne Lenker but hey… what do I know