📰 @michelleshephard.bsky.social accepted Gold for Long-Form Feature Writing at the 49th NMAs for "Zakaria Amara's Second Chance" in @thewalrus.ca — her first piece for the magazine. Watch: zurl.co/h3OZn #NMA26 #CanadianJournalism
Michelle Shephard
@michelleshephard.bsky.social
Journalist, NYT best-selling author, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Podcast host and producer. Co-president of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (@CJFE.) May post photos of adorable dogs. www.michelleshephard.ca
Our relationship with our pets is so hard to put in words.. I tried in this short essay for @thewalrus.ca about our beloved Parker and what dogs teach us about loss and living. thewalrus.ca/the-trouble-...
The Trouble with Loving a Dog | The Walrus
They will eventually leave you facing a grief few people know how to measure
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Now that’s how you clear our @aircanada.bsky.social flight for take off! 🫡 to you sir …
In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Happy National Canadian Film Day! Are you going to see a FREE movie today? 😃🍿 canfilmday.ca
National Canadian Film Day
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New media alert! Editor Alison Uncles 💛 at the helm. @be-giant.bsky.social 👇🏻👇🏻
Be Giant@be-giant.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday, we’re launching Be Giant to report on the ideas that may offer solutions to Canada’s biggest challenges. A non-profit, non-partisan media outlet, we'll work with some of Canada's best journalists to bring our stories to life: https://www.begiant.ca
Such a great piece @cwarzel.bsky.social. “There is something disorienting, horrible, and somehow fitting in the timing of all of this. That one man with the means to do it would threaten destruction of a part of our planet at the same moment its beauty and fragility are on full display.”
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 4mo agoDecided to write about this very strange, very scary, very existential moment www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Canada's procurement watchdog says he's never seen anything as bad as the federal government's management of Indigenous procurement. His report has some shocking details: globalnews.ca/news/1174619...
Watchdog finds little oversight over multi-billion-dollar Indigenous procurement program - National | Globalnews.ca
Procurement watchdog’s probe says Canada can’t 'credibly demonstrate' that Indigenous businesses are benefitting from multi-billion dollar procurement program.
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Looks like The Base is not dismantled as once believed.. Good @nytimes.com story here from @lizziedearden.bsky.social & Adam Goldman ...
Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Metropolitan Police has released the call transcript of Morgan McSweeney's report of his phone being snatched in October It shows he gave his name and said it was a "government phone", but said the wrong location and gave no details of his role in No10 or the sensitive information on the device
An excerpt from the episode of my podcast in which I speak to @michelleshephard.bsky.social about Trump, reporting from difficult places, feeling rage in a Starbucks, and more, has been published as a Q&A by @thewalrus.ca.
“The Cruelty Right Now Is Horrific”: A Veteran Reporter Recalls Her Most Challenging Assignments | The Walrus
Michelle Shephard has written from Guantánamo, Somalia, and Sudan. How does she cope with the violence she uncovers?
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Following weeks of frequent blackouts, Cuba’s electricity grid suffered a “complete disconnection” on Monday, according to the energy ministry. Here is a closer look at the ripple effects of the energy crisis. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Latest: The new Southcom commander just punted a question on the Pentagon's cost of the ICE operation at Guantanamo Bay. Gen. Francis Donovan told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines) pay the military's share. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...
U.S. Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at Guantánamo
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Across Canada, politicians are betting you don't care about restricting access to information. Prove them wrong. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/reflect...
Reflection: What's at stake in Canadian transparency tussles - Investigative Journalism Bureau
One of the best ways to lose friends at a party is to bring up freedom-of-information legislation. Try it the next time you want to escape an awkward social interaction. “Oh, that is so interesting. ...
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“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran … Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...
Joe Kent, a Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official, Resigns Over the Iran War
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Canada’s #Oscars triumph means nothing if we don’t keep supporting our filmmakers. And right now, Mark Carney's social-media-easy support feels hollow. (And don't even start, Pierre Poilievre.) My morning-after Academy Awards take for @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Canada’s Oscars triumph means nothing if we don’t keep supporting our filmmakers
Homegrown artists triumphed in nearly every category in which they were nominated, for a total of four Oscar wins
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Canadian-Iranians sharply disagree on whether the U.S./Israeli strikes were justified, whether they will help ordinary Iranians and what Canada’s response should be. #IranWar www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @thestar.com @smohyeddin.bsky.social
Katharine Lake Berz: A tyrant is dead and a region is in flames. One Iranian Canadian says celebration is in order — another says not so fast
Shermineh Esmati-Novak, CEO and founder of NOVASHER Ventures, helped organize a Toronto rally celebrating the strikes. She says the attack represents an overdue reckoning. Samira Mohyeddin, journalist...
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A little late posting this, but: February was another great month for episodes of the WHAT HAPPENED NEXT podcast, where I talk to authors who are between books about being between books. thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
The genocide in Sudan hasn’t been ignored or overlooked, it has been willfully ignored. My dispatch from the region … @thewalrus.ca @msf.ca @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social
The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History | The Walrus
There was satellite imagery, survivor testimony, and mass graves. Still, the world looked away from Sudan
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“C.B.P. officials thought they were firing on a cartel drone, the people said, but it turned out to be a party balloon. Defense Department officials were present during the incident, one person said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser
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"I thought, 'Oh, my God. How am I going to write like this guy?' We are opposite in every way. I'm this lefty Canadian agnostic. I don't even like cops." Author and journalist @michelleshephard.bsky.social on her initial reaction to being chosen to co-write a book with former FBI agent Scott Payne.
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Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · 02/09/2026 · 30m
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Rupert Murdoch is now 94 and worth $23 billion. His empire continues to gaslight the world—but he’ll leave even his own kingdom darker than he found it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News
Today, the name represents a story of profit and power unlike any other. But tracing the genealogy of Murdoch sleaze requires a long memory.
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We’ve had three cats .. Woody, Bernie and DT (Woodward, Bernstein and uh, Deep Throat.) THAT’S the @washingtonpost.com legacy when you’re a journalism couple. But now, it’s this. (To @leloveluck.bsky.social & Lizzie Johnson ++ 💔 ) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
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Nearly every sentence of U.S. District Court Judge Ana C. Reyes' 83-page ruling is an indictment of the Trump administration's attempt to end a visa program for 350,000+ Haitians legally living in the U.S. But these last paragraphs ...
The political/governing systems in Minnesota have failed so profoundly that ordinary people are strengthening their own communities against a predatory official force. Perhaps it's time to think beyond the political compact known as the "United States of America." New at FOREVER WARS:
Your Leaders Were Lying. Now The People Are Driving
The depravity of ICE, the enthusiasm of Republicans and the cowardice of Democrats is breaking through hypernormalization
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The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News on Tuesday that President Trump would sue the news outlet if it did not air an interview with him in full.
White House Warns CBS: Air Trump Interview in Full, or ‘We’ll Sue’
In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” the news outlet if it did not air an interview unedited.
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"They went to the Midwest to fight a phantom war against imaginary enemies. They ended up, within days, as an occupying force. In his first address as president, in 2017, Trump spoke of 'American carnage.' In Minnesota, in 2026, the carnage is finally here." #Opinion from @rwarnica.bsky.social
Richard Warnica: I spent the week in Minnesota. The only thing I’m sure of now is that more people are going to die
As confrontations between ICE and protesters and activists grow more common, the tension only rises.
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“The man Toronto police won’t stop stopping.” @jleerankin.bsky.social on a proposed class-action lawsuit over historic and racially skewed police practice of “carding” in @thestar.com www.thestar.com/news/gta/why...
Why the legacy of ‘carding’ is now a massive class action lawsuit — and why this man wants Toronto police to ‘leave me alone, please’
Dale James is “the man Toronto police won’t stop stopping.” Even after “carding” was abolished, he says he’s still regularly being stopped.
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