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U.S.-Made Launcher Fired Missiles From Bahrain Toward Iran, Video Shows

Seems like the claim that the US is not using these bases to attack Iran were, as they obviously always were, false.

This is a massive problem. Information requests are a vital tool for journalists to hold the government accountable.

"Was This Iran War Planned 30 Years Ago?"

My piece today for Zeteo's First Draft morning newsletter on the 1996 'Clean Break' memo that explains so much of this neocon war that we're seeing in Iran today.

Read/share/subscribe: zeteo.com/p/was-this-i...

The problem with "culture war is a distraction from class war" is that "culture war" isn't an abstraction and the people harmed by institutional bigotry are every bit as real as the people harmed by wealth and income hoarding.

In fact, they're often the same people.

Culture war IS class war.

China’s BYD Open to Building Cars in Canada, Buying Out Rivals BYD Co., China’s largest car manufacturer, is actively considering building a plant in Canada while also keeping its options open to acquire a more established global automaker.

China's BYD is actively studying the Canadian market for a potential auto factory, a top executive tells Bloomberg. But BYD is less interested in the Carney's government plan that it be a joint venture with Canadian firms. “I don’t think a JV will work" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Not acceptable in a democracy. What does he want to hide?

The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada | The Tyee Journalist Rachel Gilmore published an investigation in The Tyee. The men she unmasked showed up to intimidate her in person.

READ THE FULL OP-ED: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

The cost of my reporting stared me in the face last week, when two Nazis showed up to try to intimidate me for my journalism on a private night out.

But that’s far from the only fallout of my latest investigation.

I took a few days, watching the reaction -- and now I’ve got much more to share:

there was someone last night who worked in broadcast and said fact checking the AI-aided scripts actually made their jobs harder. so. well.

what is the value in a computer executing a command that gives me news. what is the value in giving AI access to human knowledge. what makes the information I spend time and money on … human? what system am I contributing to and how does it make my community, my industry, better?

I also think it’s important for journalists like me to think deeply about this new tool and how it CAN help their work. having an evolving personal philosophy of the tech used at work is important. I’m always tweaking my own philosophy on digital news.

let’s see what happens in the next year. always open to learning and changing my mind. there are ppl smarter than me running newsrooms. just…AI has not helped my work atm and I’ve seen a lot of cautionary tales. So idk.

what I walked away with after the panel was broad statements on how we need to use AI to supercharge our work…and one very concrete example of how AI has made journalism today difficult and erected more barriers to entry. editors commissioning pitches can’t tell what’s real amidst the slop.

after attending an AI and journalism panel last night, I was left still unconvinced about the value of going full blast on AI in the newsroom. this will sound pessimistic ofc but i promise, pessimists lowkey save the world.

The Canadian Association of Journalists and other professional associations (including unions) must do more to protect journalists from harassment and threats of violence. This needs to stop.

To the extent that I remain sane and am able to remain sane it is by reminding myself that we will outlast them

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

Guys, I can’t do another one. I will retire to run a bar in Malta if this happens.

Recent U.S. Assessment Found an Attack on Iran Unlikely to Result in Regime Change

You don't say www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...

There are so many jaw-dropping passages in this piece it's hard to pick one to quote, but ...

‘A woman of her time, in the worst way’: Industry, Ghislaine Maxwell and the Epstein scandal An heiress helping to traffic young women to brutal billionaires: the finale of the banker drama used one of its characters to take on a huge real-life scandal

Feels like a minor miracle to get to write a culture piece. This is me www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

U.S. ambassador to Canada requests apology for Globe and Mail column In a letter to The Globe and Mail, Pete Hoekstra said he was ‘disappointed and outraged’ over Cathal Kelly’s column on U.S. men’s hockey team

Pete Hoesktra is such a loser. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

this is why I got into Black feminist theory. the research on sexual violence was VERY white when I first started researching like 15-20 years ago. in the West, gender is VERY racialized

CNN’s Cosplaying Correspondent Scott Jennings pushed a dubious White House talking point on Iran to millions, only for CNN’s actual reporters to knock it down—an episode that drew blowback inside the network, Status has learned.

Scott Jennings pushed a dubious White House talking point on Iran to millions, only for CNN’s actual reporters to knock it down—an episode that drew blowback inside the network, Status has learned.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/scott-jenn...

it’s also a labour story, a failing of capitalism. a reporter who felt pressured to not call in sick so…here we are 😕

sigh.

nobody can convince me trying out AI tools without serious institutional guardrails is worth this 😭

Advocates call for public inquiry into alleged corruption within Toronto Police Service Project South police corruption probe led to arrests of seven Toronto officers and a retired constable

Sewell rare voice in police accountability. For 45yrs since a homophobic police coalition worked to thwart his mayoral reelection. Police board is nothing. No comment. Mayor is nothing. Can't count on any of them. The police themselves, in this piece, acting in secret & trying to limit probes.

‘I know things about you’: Just weeks before an attempted hit on Ontario jail official, an inmate allegedly threatened his life The target of the Project South murder plot was a 'workhorse' known for his tough enforcement. Some claim it at times veered into cruelty.

Journalists still on it though. New story at the Star.

www.thestar.com/news/investi...

Nothing. I truly believe the establishment in this country is weak, spineless & feckless. It feels a bit lonely to do it -- especially as a low paid freelancer w zero security. So why take the personal risk if none of the bigger players in civil society will even say a word? It's depressing. 3/3