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Reporter with the Investigative Journalism Bureau; Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person; Nosy questions, mostly. anna.mehler.paperny@gmail.com / amehlerpaperny@ijbureau.org Bookstagramming/dogstagrammimg @mehlerpaperny
For more than 150 years, Canada has benefited from migrants.
For more than 150 years, to greater or lesser degrees, Canada has regarded migrants xenophobically.
For the past couple of years, it has been to a greater degree.
"There has been an erosion of a public cultural agreement in this country that we were a nation built on immigrants and refugees."
Here @shawnmicallef.bsky.social says judiciously what I've been saying effluviously: Toronto's snow clearing, or lack thereof, is a big middle finger to everyone in this city who isn't into frozen parkour. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Migrants pay taxes. They pay more taxes if good health and a safe, stable place to sleep allow them to earn more.
Know who doesn't pay taxes? Children.
Feds are foisting migrant costs on municipalies. Brace for the kind of blame we saw when Toronto left asylum-seekers sleeping on the street. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
ok i'm sorry i know there's a lot going on but "demand for list of Jews" sets off every alarm bell. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
Eager to hear what the Anti-Defamation League has to say about this. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
.@aclu.org has reached 90 of the ~137 Venezuelans sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, then prisoner-swapped to VZ. 90 of 91 want to challenge their Tren de Aragua designation: 22 by coming back to USA (tho they’ll be detained) & 68 in written petitions.
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It's light out and I'm biking home. Second Winter can't take this away from me.
Required reading from Angela Dong and @blairbigham.bsky.social: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
The moments of perfect snow and sun are divine but fleeting. Dark mornings, impassable pavements are every day for months.
Yes
"This rejection of empiricism makes selling falsehoods easier and contradicting them harder, which creates a fertile environment for anyone with something to sell" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... via @adamserwer.bsky.social
"ICE policy requires that detainees be allowed to meet privately with their lawyers, but there is no dedicated space for this in the plan."
When you need to say this...
Didn't even need gloves!
Please do not send press releases in all-caps. Nerves are frayed as it is.
Did not miss 7 a.m. darkness.
Would you take it over sunrise before 7?
Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.
People are eating ice-cream bars outside. Toronto, you are drunk.
seriously the whole place is melting
High-Liquidity Park
