Ricochet wins a record FOUR national awards for journalism in 2026. Outlet earns record six nominations and four wins across two major awards galas this year. ‘Ricochet routinely wins nominations and prizes for our work, but 2026 was a high water mark.’ ricochet.media/media/ricoch...

Ricochet wins a record FOUR national awards for journalism in 2026

Outlet earns record six nominations and four wins across two major awards galas

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On the latest #IBWTE, host @caradrianh.bsky.social speaks to #trans journalist @trevellanderson.bsky.social. “Now we’ve seen conservative interests... twist it into this expressly political campaign to erase trans people, ultimately, from public life.” EPISODE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TW7...

On In Bed with the Elephant, David Suzuki reflects on why #climate catastrophe can no longer be avoided, and explains why preparing our communities for the worst is now far more urgent than promising people hope. New from Desiree Nikfardjam: ricochet.media/climate/davi... @caradrianh.bsky.social

David Suzuki refuses to give young people ‘hopium’ about the future

On In Bed with the Elephant, the legendary environmentalist reflects on his legacy, why he believes climate catastrophe can no longer be avoided, and why preparing our communities is now more urgent t...

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Communication is one of big failures of the Ontario government. Communication should be a two way street, but Ford gov. doesn't listen to people, doesn't consult in any meaningful way Abandoned on the road to the Ring of Fire: ricochet.media/indigenous/a...

Abandoned on the road to the Ring of Fire

Eabametoong First Nations leaders say poor communication with the Ontario government is putting their communities at risk

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Imagine if a superpower regularly threatened to annex your country. Now imagine that your largest newspaper chain was owned by a hedge-fund that was closely aligned with the party running that superpower. That would be crazy, right?

Jeremy Appel 🍉@readtheorchard.org · 4w ago

NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

BREAKING: Only five days after being repatriated from a forest fire evacuation, Neskantaga First Nation is flying out again, this time due to a contractor causing a sewage backup in the health centre basement. ricochet.media/indigenous/f... Just as summer festival was to begin...

From wildfire to sewage crisis: Neskantaga's nightmare isn't over

Just days after returning from a wildfire evacuation, the northwestern Ontario fly-in First Nation has declared another state of emergency after a sewage disaster has forced residents to leave their c...

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From wildfire to sewage crisis: Neskantaga’s nightmare isn’t over Just days after a wildfire evacuation, the fly-in Ontario First Nation has declared another state of emergency forcing residents to leave their community again. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/f...

From wildfire to sewage crisis: Neskantaga's nightmare isn't over

ust days after returning from a wildfire evacuation, the northwestern Ontario fly-in First Nation has declared another state of emergency after a sewage disaster has forced residents to leave their co...

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Trans Lives in An Age of Erasure: My @ricochetmedia.bsky.social podcast conversation w/ @trevellanderson.bsky.social about representation, resistance & resilience. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

Trans Lives in an Age of Erasure w/ Tre'vell Anderson

Podcast Episode · In Bed with the Elephant · August 4 · 47m

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NEW: Ford government won’t commit to forest fire inquiry, as chiefs demand change. ‘Ontario is burning and there’s no end in sight,’ say First Nation leaders. But ‘we have a treaty partner that refuses to listen’ Latest from Jon Thompson in Northern Ontario. ricochet.media/indigenous/f...

Ford government won’t commit to forest fire inquiry, as chiefs demand change

‘Ontario is burning and there’s no end in sight,’ say First Nation chiefs. But ‘we have a treaty partner that refuses to listen’

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Canada’s safety net is collapsing. Working Canadians squeezed by high rents, unstable employment, and inadequate public supports are increasingly turning to food banks. The growing crisis is fuelling calls for permanent EI reform. New by Juan Suarez: ricochet.media/politics/can...

Canada’s safety net is collapsing

Working Canadians squeezed by high rents, unstable employment, and inadequate public supports are increasingly turning to food banks. The growing crisis is fuelling calls for permanent EI reform

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As mandatory forest fire evacuations continue in northwestern Ontario, I spoke to the few people who are being threatened with huge fines and even jail time for blowing blockades, as well as police & chiefs who say those people need to get out now. ricochet.media/indigenous/r...

Running the blockade: evacuation orders challenged in northern First Nations

Elders left behind, speedboats used to get around checkpoints as wildfires loom over northern Ontario communities

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Running the blockade: evacuation orders challenged in northern First Nations. NEW report from Jon Thompson: Elders left behind, speedboats used to get around checkpoints as wildfires loom over northern Ontario communities. ricochet.media/indigenous/r...

Shame on you Canada The last stand for old growth: As the chainsaws close in, land defenders refuse to look away Ancient trees, hundreds of years old to be chopped down with wildlife and entire ecosystem written off as ‘collateral damage’ ricochet.media/indigenous/t...

The last stand for old growth: As the chainsaws close in, land defenders refuse to look away

First Nations elders are once again on the front lines. With the last ancient forests facing imminent destruction, they say industry has written off the trees, wildlife and entire ecosystem as ‘collat...

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“The system converts a minority of a minority into a majority of seats, and then the language converts a majority of seats back into “the people.” That is not a description of democracy. This is a carnival trick.”

Scott Piatkowski@scottpiatkowski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Whenever Ford’s power looks like it might be threatened, he changes the rules of the game. It’s short-term, it’s frankly childish, and he won’t be Premier forever — but he’s laid the groundwork for whoever governs next to play on his rigged board." ricochet.media/politics/the...

I just donated to The Grind’s legal defence. Lawsuits like this are about shutting down journalism, not rectifying mistakes. We can’t let subjects of accurate reporting bully outlets into removing coverage.

The Grind@thegrindto.bsky.social · last wk.

The Grind is being sued for defamation. We intend to defending our reporting. We need your support to be able to fight this case and to continue publishing essential journalism in Toronto. See the full announcement for more info.

The Grind is being sued for defamation. We intend to defending our reporting. We need your support to be able to fight this case and to continue publishing essential journalism in Toronto. See the full announcement for more info.

The Grind Is Being Sued By an IDF Reservist Soldier

This defamation case could sink one of the only publications closely covering the Palestine solidarity movement in Toronto and the repression it has faced. We need your help…

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Quote: "Postmedia has seen a revolving door of senior staff and board members who previously worked in Alberta’s UCP government or Ontario’s Conservative Doug Ford government."

Jeremy Appel 🍉@readtheorchard.org · 4w ago

NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

On #IBWTE, sports journalist and soccer expert @shireenahmed.bsky.social talks with @caradrianh.bsky.social to unpack the politics, and corruption, of the 2026 #WorldCup. "There are systems of fraud. There are cover-ups of abuse. So many pernicious things." Episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R87B...

Q&A: Fighting wildfires, and Doug Ford, with NDP leader Marit Stiles. Opposition leader calls for public inquiry into Ontario government’s response to wildfires. Ricochet’s Jon Thompson caught up with Stiles yesterday in Thunder Bay as part of ongoing fire coverage. ricochet.media/indigenous/q...

Q&A: Fighting wildfires, and Doug Ford, with NDP leader Marit Stiles

Opposition leader calls for public inquiry into Ontario government’s response to wildfires

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EXCLUSIVE: First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with him. Kevin Holland, an associate minister in the Ford government, told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened. @jonthompson.bsky.social reports. ricochet.media/indigenous/f...

First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with him

PC representative Kevin Holland told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened.

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Canada’s safety net is collapsing. Working Canadians squeezed by high rents, unstable employment, and inadequate public supports are increasingly turning to food banks. The growing crisis is fuelling calls for permanent EI reform. New by Juan Suarez: ricochet.media/politics/can...

Canada’s safety net is collapsing

Working Canadians squeezed by high rents, unstable employment, and inadequate public supports are increasingly turning to food banks. The growing crisis is fuelling calls for permanent EI reform

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How have Donald Trump's annexation threats landed with the people of #Greenland? On a recent episode of #IBWTE, we chat with journalist Brett Popplewell about his recent cover story for @thewalrus.ca. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIzu... And please subscribe to our YouTube channel!

EXCLUSIVE: First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with him. Kevin Holland, an associate minister in the Ford government, told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened. @jonthompson.bsky.social reports. ricochet.media/indigenous/f...

First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with him

PC representative Kevin Holland told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened.

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Superb, in-depth reporting on maga Post media's radical agenda, supported by our tax dollars. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right

Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape

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"Whenever Ford’s power looks like it might be threatened, he changes the rules of the game. It’s short-term, it’s frankly childish, and he won’t be Premier forever — but he’s laid the groundwork for whoever governs next to play on his rigged board." ricochet.media/politics/the...

The carnival trick that keeps Doug Ford in power

Ford’s Conservatives keep winning majorities with the backing of only a small fraction of Ontario’s voters, in a political system increasingly shaped by wealth. The answer isn't resignation — it's reb...

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Ontario & Canada want a $40B mining project in northern Ontario they call the Ring of Fire. But First Nations leaders who live there have spent days under fire smoke and what they call unacceptable communication & service. "Protect Ontario? What is that?" ricochet.media/indigenous/a...

Abandoned on the road to the Ring of Fire

In the path of raging forest fires, First Nations leaders say poor communication with the Ontario government is putting their communities at risk

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On the latest episode of #IBWTE, journalist and soccer expert @shireenahmed.bsky.social is our guest to discuss the corruption and political interference at the 2026 FIFA #WorldCup. Check out the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R87B... And if you like what you hear, please subscribe!

My @ricochetmedia.bsky.social podcast interview with @shireenahmed.bsky.social on “Corruption, Hypocrisy and Joy: The 2026 FIFA World Cup” _ youtu.be/R87BSEhImTc?si…

Corruption, Hypocrisy & Joy: The FIFA World Cup w/ Shireen Ahmed

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As #wildfires spread across northern Ontario, First Nations say they were abandoned without warning by a provincial government that ignores climate science while prioritizing extraction and profit over #Indigenous lives. New analysis from Fiona Moar: ricochet.media/indigenous/d...

Doug Ford left First Nations in Ontario to burn

As wildfires spread across the north, First Nation communities say they were abandoned without warning, support or evacuation plans. The catastrophe was years in the making, driven by a government tha...

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On #IBWTE, host @caradrianh.bsky.social talks with journalist Brett Popplewell about his recent @thewalrus.ca cover story on Greenland. How are people responding to Trump’s threats to annex their country, and what does it mean for Canada? Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIzu...