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Tu Thanh Ha

@tuthanhha.bsky.social

Globe and Mail reporter based in Toronto after postings in Quebec City, Ottawa, Montreal. Tha@globeandmail.com

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Tu Thanh Ha@tuthanhha.bsky.social · 2d ago

'He also got a new tattoo of a Confederate flag, which the board said was widely linked to “racist ideologies.” Bushby, however, said he didn’t know what the tattoo artist was doing until the piece was done ...' www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

Man who threw trailer hitch at Indigenous woman, killing her, is granted full parole, First Nations group says

Decision to approve Bushby’s release comes as ‘devastating news’ for family of Barbara Kentner, says Nishnawbe Aski Nation

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Professor Nutella@jpnudell.bsky.social · last wk.

“We don’t do this because it’s be easy. We do this because the Roman crimes in Sicily can never be forgiven.” This project has been amazing to watch and I think this is my favorite installment to date.

Ralph Martin@ralphmartin.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A seafarer from Kenya has gone eight months without pay and needs to send money home to cover cost of an operation for his six-year-old son. A crew on one boat told him they were down to 1 meal a day. “This is modern slavery. This is systemic exploitation”" www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Crews on hundreds of ships in the Persian Gulf stuck at sea, many in dire conditions

Unable to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, many have gone without pay for months, and some are running out of food and medicine

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Tu Thanh Ha@tuthanhha.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reading about Byzantine history and it's absolutely ridiculous that one factor in the Schism of 1054 between Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox church was a dispute over the kind of bread to use at Communion.

Text says: Incited by a letter they falsely believed to have been written by the Constantinopolitan patriarch, the papal legates inserted themselves into an argument that Greek bishops were having with their Armenian counterparts about propriety of the Armenian (and Catholic) practice of using unleavened bread during Communion. Two days before they left for Italy in mid-July, the Catholic visitors excommunicated the the Constantinopolitan patriarch for his stance on unleavened bread and other errors. The excommunication had no legal validity, because Pope Leo, in whose name they issued it, was already dead, but this fit of pettiness began the Great Schism that has divided the Catholic and Orthodox churches to this day.
Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦@deonandan.bsky.social · 3w ago

“You were convicted because the warning lights were flashing brighter and brighter and you didn’t get him help and you didn’t remove his access to the guns." Same can be said for society as a whole. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Colin Gray, Father of Teenage Shooter in Georgia, Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

Prosecutors argued that Colin Gray bore responsibility for the 2024 shooting because he had given his son a gun and failed to act as the teen’s mental health deteriorated.

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Tu Thanh Ha@tuthanhha.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI-produced account on Facebook purports to teach English vocabulary. Invents words like 'driphan' and 'pherlotic’ (not to mention the questionable imagery for 'spinster'...)

Screengrab of a Facebook account called 'English Classes' teaching words such as spinster, bachelor, widow, widower, orphan. The words are accompanied by very clichéd illustrations, for example the spinster is an unhappy-looking woman with her arms crossed. Bafflingly, it includes what seems to be a hallucinated word, 'driphan,’ which is defined as 'a pherlotic' ... accompanying image shows a puzzled-looking young male.
Isaac Callan@isaaccallan.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Doug Ford railed against his own MPPs for claiming hotel stays in downtown Toronto, telling them they'd all have to pay it back. The thing is, it was actually the government that told them to use the perk in an email last year. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1197496...

Ford government advised its MPPs they could use hotel benefit for night sittings | Globalnews.ca

For more than a week, government MPPs have been facing scrutiny for charging downtown Toronto hotel stays to the taxpayer instead of commuting to and from Queen’s Park.

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Tu Thanh Ha@tuthanhha.bsky.social · last mo.

Ex-Toronto cop avoids jail, gets conditional sentence after admitting that he pilfered lost items left at station; allegedly he gave burner phone to another officer accused of more serious crimes in Project South police corruption probe www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Former Toronto police officer charged in Project South probe gets 10-month conditional sentence

Derek McCormick pleaded guilty to breach of trust and one count of theft under $5,000

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Tu Thanh Ha@tuthanhha.bsky.social · last mo.

Someone -- who presumably wasn't happy about Sorloth's failure to pass to Haaland -- changed Sorloth's Wikipedia page to say that he plays for England. Change was made this evening.

Wikipedia entry says: "Alexander Sørloth (born 5 December 1995) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the England national team."