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investigative journalist & documentary producer | contributing writer @thewalrus.ca | former VICE News | LET US PLAY for @beaconpress.bsky.social, out now! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780979/let-us-play-by-harrison-browne-and-rachel-browne/
NEW FROM ME:
While US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran this weekend, Global News' The West Block host Ben Mulroney reposted video of fighter jets that had been miscaptioned as American F-15s attacking Iran
I double-checked. Ben was actually sharing footage from a video game
100 accounts are behind majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n...
"...analyzed over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada, and found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from influencers."
Those on "X were the biggest culprits."
a key feature of this is there is no public benefit to it at all. it is legislature designed to harm a specific group, nothing more.
Senior editor @melwoods.me breaks down the implications of last week's B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision ordering former school trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 for his posts sharing anti-LGBTQ2S+ discrimination and hate speech
The Epstein documents released weeks ago are full of university administrators, professors, and trustees. With students demanding transparency and accountability from their schools, academia faces a nationwide reckoning over how it courts and indulges deep-pocketed benefactors.
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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Breaking News: Facing threats of losing federal funding, a major Manhattan hospital has closed its program for treating transgender youth.
I spoke with an extremism expert who examined the online footprint of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. Steven Rai found that Van Rootselaar had an account on a website that posts extremely violent videos. 🧵 thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada.
Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced
“.. reading about the excesses of the Palm Beach cops, I had to drop you a line of support,” Pottinger wrote in a note forwarded to Epstein in September 2006. “The small minded of the world don’t like thinkers and doers, especially when they succeed.”
@wsj.com
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On the left: a photograph of the exterior of a single-story building in the snow. On the right: text that reads “Inside the only supervised consumption site in Canada’s North. The Whitehorse facility has reversed hundreds of overdoses while navigating politics, burnout, and fragile funding.”
Ring a doorbell. Pick a code name. Choose a booth. Receive critical care.
At Canada’s only supervised consumption site in the North, people come in alive, and they leave that way. Rhiannon Russell takes us to the front lines of Whitehorse’s overdose crisis: https://ow.ly/VoVU50Y7SPU
THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.
They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
They are going down the list of amendments now. And the entire ICE action is the most obvious violation of the Fourth Amendment this country has ever seen.
Hannah has been a top, top reporter on all things DOGE and the federal government. Hard to see this other than anything but an attempt to chill journalism and the First Amendment protected right to a free press. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
Politicians are hoping to not just ban trans kids from playing sports with their friends but also open the door to all sorts of discrimination against transgender and other LGBTQ people.
We'll be at the Supreme Court tomorrow to stop them.
This is probably the greatest threat to Canada. That we concede so much to the US to avoid further threats, that we’re effectively a vassal state
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A group of European countries, led by the UK and Germany, is discussing plans to boost their military presence in Greenland to show US President Donald Trump that they are serious about Arctic security and tamp down American threats to take over the self-ruling Danish territory.
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
"...But the fact that hockey players are watching the show? The fact that the failing NHL is using us to bring people in?"
I wrote about Heated Rivalry and the conversation to be had about its effect on hockey culture for the LGBTQ+ community. @theathletic.com
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This case is an important one to watch if you care about your own right to know. If the police are free to arrest, detain and block journalists while acting on industry's behalf, our whole information ecosystem gets eroded.
They have no intention of stopping with Venezuela.
Canada's National Observer is looking for a reporter in Ottawa to cover the federal government and its relationship with Vancouver, BC, for a Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) position. This is a full-time, 8-month contract (backfill) position.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/31/n...
Congratulations to The Walrus contributing writer @rachelbrowne.ca for her nomination in the Best Investigative Article (Media) category at the 2025 Canadian Online Publishing Awards! Read her nominated story here: thewalrus.ca/is-your-blood-cl...
With @rachelbrowne.ca, Harrison Browne wrote LET US PLAY to dismantle the false argument that trans people are a threat to sports. So proud to see @torontolifemag.bsky.social recognize him as a rising star! 🤩
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
In the wake of our AI freelancer investigation, The Walrus editor-in-chief @cstarnino.bsky.social got the Local’s @nickhunebrown.bsky.social on Zoom to talk about the future of journalism in a world of “Victoria Goldiees.”
So proud that my brother, Harrison, has been named one of @torontolifemag.bsky.social’s Rising Stars this year!
Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.
