In May's Show & Tell, @craigsilverman.bsky.social and I are joined by Amnesty International's Barbara Marcolini.
Barbara spoke about her role as a journalist in a human rights org. and walked us through how she documented the Israeli military's destruction of civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.
A CBC investigation into Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous identity claims uncovered a birth certificate showing Sainte-Marie was born in Massachusetts to Italian-American parents, contradicting decades of biographies & press describing her as Algonquin, Mi’kmaw and later Cree. pagesix.com/2026/05/15/c...
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The University of Toronto announced it has rescinded the singer-songwriter’s honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Breaking: U.S. health officials are monitoring 16 additional people across the country for symptoms of hantavirus whom the CDC has not previously mentioned.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/h...
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Trump Says Americans’ Economic Pain Is Not a Consideration for the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...
Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late. Connie Walker to get help from law and journalism students to gather and preserve records. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... via @cbcnews.ca @conniewalker.bsky.social #reconciliation #journalism
"Irresponsible use [of AI in journalism] needs to be treated as seriously as any other act of fabrication. If it isn’t, it’s a tacit admission that these professional ethics are meaningless." - @michellecyca.com on 🔥 about the NYT's not-small AI hallucination whoopsie thewalrus.ca/the-new-york...
Apoorva Mandavilli
In 2025, @hannarosin.bsky.social spoke with Stacey Abrams and Vann Newkirk to examine what an era without the Voting Rights Act could mean for Black voters, democracy, and control of Congress.
Revisit this episode of "Radio Atlantic":
A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.
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Despite how the newspaper downplayed it, this is—in fact—a big deal
Large datacenters, some the size of small towns, can require up to 5m gallons of water a day, equivalent to the water use of up to 50,000 people, in order to provide cooling to arrays of humming networked computers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI
I have questions regarding Rogers's dismissal of Tina Yazdani
Toronto Mike
Breaking from @policornerca.bsky.social: CityNews has cut ties with Queen’s Park reporter Tina Yazdani, while at least two of her stories about the Ford government have quietly vanished from the web without explanation. www.policorner.ca/p/scoop-the-... #topoli #onpoli
