Alison Auld

Alison Auld

@aauld.bsky.social

Former CP journalist now writing about academic research and innovation; freelancer with special interest in marine life and climate

54 Followers 66 Following 54 Posts Joined Jan 2025
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Meet MOTHRA, the thousand-eyed telescope in search of the cosmic web

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‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

This sounds like hell. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan An interview with Sana Atef, a reporter with the Zan Times who covers the lives and work of women in Afghanistan.

Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan

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A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

ICYMI: A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

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🇦🇺 Australian farmer Tom Warren’s solar panels look like any other -- until you spot the dozens of sheep grazing and napping, helping the country transition to green energy and earning him a decent income while doing it.
➡️ u.afp.com/S6LZ

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Opinion | Pam Bondi and the MAGA Brand of Insult Politics Insult everyone. Answer for nothing.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Trump, his aides and many of his supporters haven’t purged contempt from our politics. They’ve mainstreamed it. Purified it. Industrialized it. It’s their push-a-button pushback against everyone who challenges them,” argues Frank Bruni.

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Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing

Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...

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These Trinidadian fishermen were killed in a U.S. boat strike. Now their families are suing | CBC Radio The U.S. government has said, without providing evidence, that the men killed on the boats were “narco-terrorists.” But Chad Joseph’s and Rishi Samroo’s families say they were just regular workers cat...

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Advocates fear Marineland whales, dolphins may end up in shows or bred if export to U.S. approved | CBC News Canada’s minister of fisheries says Marineland’s plan to ship 34 marine mammals to aquariums in the U.S. is "solid." Animal advocates, meanwhile, worry the beluga whales and dolphins at the shuttered ...

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Did Carney just signal a massive shift in Canada's foreign policy direction? | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney turned some heads in Switzerland on Tuesday with his stark assessment of the current state of global affairs.

"When we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness," Carney said. "We accept what's offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination."

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down Executives debated whether to allow the corporation to lie dormant after federal funding ended last year, but decided against it.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded NPR, PBS and hundreds of local radio and TV stations across the U.S. for more than a half-century, said on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization because Congress cut off its federal money.

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‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

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When the Trump administration froze foreign aid, AP reporter Mogomotsi Magome covered the consequences in South Africa where health facilities supporting the most vulnerable in society were getting closed down and patients were being turned away. bit.ly/4s2RMIJ

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Fact-Checking Trump’s Prime-Time Address on the Economy

Fact-Checking Trump’s Prime-Time Address on the Economy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

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Why did Donald Trump pardon a former president who was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine and taking millions of dollars in bribes?

Follow the tech bros.

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Killer Whales Find an ‘Unlikely Friend’ in Dolphins

@dalhousieu.bsky.social Research Suggests Killer Whales Find an ‘Unlikely Friend’ in Dolphins www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/s...

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Every story you help fund supports local climate journalism.

DONATE at: www.climatestoriesatlantic.ca/donate

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As newsrooms shutter and paywalls rise elsewhere, public media delivers critical, unbiased reporting without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy.

Click here to support the network of voices that keeps our public conversation honest and informed: n.pr/4pCcFIx

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Writer and photographer Stephen Thorne remembered as dogged, keen-eyed storyteller Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer. He was 66.

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... SxT 💔

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After Texas ruling, Trump and Republicans head to 2026 with a redistricting edge Trump has prompted a redistricting race as he tries to maintain Republican control of the House in the 2026 elections. Democrats have fewer options to counter, as the battle heads into next year.

Trump has prompted a redistricting race as he tries to maintain Republican control of the House in the 2026 elections. Democrats have fewer options to counter, as the battle heads into next year. n.pr/4oMnWW1

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In our latest article, Doing our dirty work by @aauld.bsky.social, we take a closer look at how this humble super filterer is helping to clean the contaminated waters of Boat Harbour, NS. Read it here: www.climatestoriesatlantic.ca/stories/doin... @dalhousieu.bsky.social @oceanfrontier.bsky.social

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Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE

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FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd “Peace Prize” With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up peace prize to the increasingly violent US president.

FIFA President Gianni Infantini used the World Cup draw to bestow a made-up award, the FIFA Peace Prize, to Donald Trump, a president inflicting violence both at home and abroad. @edgeofsports.bsky.social and @julesboykoff.bsky.social take a look at this absurd, risible act.
https://bit.ly/44ThjtN

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Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx

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What's next for St. Theresa's Church in Halifax The church, which stood in Halifax for nearly a century, is being torn down. John Stevens, the project lead, tells Amy Smith about future plans for the site.

Interesting idea
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaica's ambassador of reggae, dead at 81 | CBC News Jimmy Cliff, who was a presence at the birth of modern Jamaican music and helped spread the influence of reggae around the world through his albums and starring role in The Harder They Come, has died....

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A Cancer Diagnosis Brings a New Season of Grief to the Kennedy Family

A Cancer Diagnosis Brings a New Season of Grief to the Kennedy Family www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

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She lost 5 children during the war in Gaza and is now raising her 36 grandkids | CBC News Reda Aliwa, 60, is caring for her 36 grandchildren in Gaza City after five of her own children were killed this September. Statistics suggest there are some 40,000 children in Gaza who’ve lost one or ...

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Open work permits, better housing needed for temporary foreign workers in Canada: Report The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) has released a new report with recommendations for how Canada can improve the working conditions of temporary foreign workers in Ontario, Alberta and Queb...

@dalhousieu.bsky.social researcher Raluca Bejan releases new report on Canada's implementation of the international group's guidelines on decent working conditions for migrant workers
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