Anna Mehler Paperny
@mehlerpaperny.bsky.social
Reporter with the Investigative Journalism Bureau; Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person; Nosy questions, mostly. anna.mehler.paperny@gmail.com / amehlerpaperny@ijbureau.org Bookstagramming/dogstagrammimg @mehlerpaperny
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
Alberta's addiction treatment projects are behind schedule and court filings say government money has dried up, @carrietait.bsky.social and @tomcardoso.bsky.social report: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Contractors say Alberta recovery centres face unpaid bills as Premier stands by budget
The construction of addiction treatment centres in three Indigenous communities has been mired in lawsuits
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This was a worthwhile chat to wake up to.
Jason Markusoff@markusoff.bsky.social · yesterdayI’m hosting CBC’s Front Burner for the next two weeks. They were nice enough to start my fill-in stint on a topic I’m rather familiar with: Alberta separatism. My chat with the great @rwarnica.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
The summer camp near me is blasting a Pink Pony Club singalong.
This is only a gotcha if extrajudicial assassinations are ok.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
August rule: Three out-of-office replies and you get the rest of the day off.
Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it
President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government censor...
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It is August and it is dark and I am not ready for this.
Breaking News: A Salvadoran immigrant who was being held at a troubled federal detention center in Newark has died, the mayor said.
Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say
The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.
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Shout-out to the motorist on Bloor blasting Your Daddy Don't Know and warming the cockles of my old-lady heart.
Rain makes the most delicious sound when you're warm and dry. This is a parable.
Today we observe Porajmos (Roma Holocaust) Remembrance Day. on the night of 2–3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma were murdered at the Zigeunerfamilienlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember them and the half a million Sinti and Roma murdered by Nazi Germany and fascist collaborators. Na Bistaren.
"Israeli strikes overnight and into Sunday evening killed at least 17 people, including children, in Gaza." www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Israel raises ‘serious security concerns’ regarding Hamas deal, strikes on Gaza continue
Israeli strikes overnight and into Sunday evening killed at least 17 people, including children, in Gaza
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Every time you think Toronto excels at something, NYC comes in with the one-upmanship. www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
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Israel Bombards Gaza, Days After Trump Announced Deal to Advance Cease-Fire
Palestinian officials said at least two people were killed. The deal announced by President Trump calls in part for Hamas to give up its weapons and Israel to stop its attacks in Gaza.
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"You have great veins." Compliment of the day.
The private sector doesn't want more pipeline. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Canada's Enbridge postpones plans for second phase of Mainline oil pipeline expansion
Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge has postponed the 250,000-barrel-per-day second phase of its Mainline crude pipeline network, it said on Friday, partly because Canadian oil producers have not com...
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I know there's a lot going on but authorities are beating desperate migrants with batons and shooting them (spraying them?) with tear gas.
Moroccan forces beat back crowds with batons and tear gas at the gates of the Spanish city of Ceuta, seeking to prevent more from storming into the territory that juts into the Mediterranean from Morocco on a spit of sandy land reut.rs/4fxFQKW
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Israeli military cracks down on West Bank village as settlers march in
Israeli forces shot and wounded at least one Palestinian, arrested at least three, and closed entrances to the village of Tal in the occupied West Bank on Friday as more than 100 Israeli settlers marched towards the village, residents said.
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AI's use may be deterred not by concerns around art or ethics but by copyright issues. deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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"allowing more testing doesn’t magically create more health professionals to deal with the results." - @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Alberta is allowing patients to self-refer for some diagnostic tests. What’s the end game?
Canadians who care about public health care should ask: What are the limits of medicare?
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I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Bike lanes are not drop-off zones and pylons are a menace. (How was your commute?)