Alison Auld

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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Inside Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.

In March, the American government deported more than 200 Venezuelan men from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. The New York Times interviewed 40 of the men who were imprisoned. They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.

These U.S. National Guard members say they’ll defy order to deploy in Chicago  | CBC Radio Two Illinois National Guard members, both Democrats, say they will defy U.S. President Donald's Trump's order to deploy to the streets of Chicago.

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Lots of people rightly criticizing the gutter racism here but I also want to point out how contemptibly cowardly this idea is.

ICE is telling Dem lawmakers they can’t visit detention centers during the shutdown — citing no money or staff to support visits, says our @kyledcheney.bsky.social.


Read the exclusive story on how the Trump administration is using the shutdown to limit oversight: ow.ly/fL0b50XjLWv

Halifax research aquarium prepares to open to the public The Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity in Halifax officially opens its doors in December. Watch Amy Smith's interview with Boris Worm, one of the leads of the centre. He says the aquarium was 20 yea...

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Ambient noise can track dangerous ocean acidification Acoustic technique could make it easier to monitor threat to marine life stemming from rising carbon emissions

@dalhousieu.bsky.social researcher listens to ambient noise in the deep ocean to track dangerous ocean acidification | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Article excerpt with a section of the second paragraph highlighted: State social studies standards for years have included discussion of how white Tulsans murdered as many as 300 Black people. But once the 2021 state law that restricted teaching about race and gender passed, some teachers avoided the topic. The law prohibits teachers from singling out specific racial groups as responsible for past racism. It specifies that individuals of a certain race shouldn’t be portrayed as inherently racist, “whether consciously or unconsciously.” In addition to teachers’ licensure being on the line, repeated failure to comply would allow the state to revoke district accreditation, which could result in a state takeover. When educators questioned how to teach about a race massacre without running afoul of the law, state legislators and the Tulsa County chapter of the conservative parent group Moms for Liberty weighed in to say that white people today shouldn’t feel shame and that the massacre’s perpetrators shouldn’t be cast as racists. A Moms for Liberty chapter representative did not respond to questions from ProPublica.

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.

➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

Jury Awards $42 Million in Death of Inmate at Private Jail in Louisiana Erie Moore, a retired millworker and father of three, died in 2015, a month after guards slammed him headfirst to the floor at the Richwood Correctional Center, lawyers for his family said.

A federal jury this week found a private company that runs detention centers liable for the 2015 death of an inmate in Louisiana and awarded the man’s family $42.75 million in damages.

US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens The U.S. will expand the use of facial recognition technology to track non-citizens entering and leaving the country in order to combat visa overstays and passport fraud, according to a government document published on Friday.

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it's hard to Nazi what's going on here

During the Second World War, Jewish doctors—who were themselves going hungry—studied starving people in the Warsaw Ghetto. Their findings inform what doctors expect to see after starvation in Gaza. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza

Sign reading BIG LAW LITTLE BALLS, and then listing a bunch of lil ball'd firms: A&O Shearman Cadwalder, Wickersham Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Milbank Paul, Weiss Simpson Thatcher Skadden, Arpa Willkie Farr Then the sign ends with a Trump quote that should make these firms put their heads in the proverbial bag: "They gave me a lot of money considering they did nothing wrong"

👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice

The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump Trump is mad he didn't win. But by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe's MAGA groveling.

The White House is openly complaining that Trump didn't win a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a churlish response since they Nobel's just endorsed Trump's rush to war against Venezuela www.thenation.com/article/worl...

ANALYSIS | 'We don't have the time to cry': Besieged local reporters are still the only media with eyes on Gaza war | CBC News Two years on from the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Israel says Gaza's still too dangerous for outside journalists to be allowed in independently. As a result, the world's been left with few independ...

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Do you know your bird calls? This Halifax woman does A Halifax woman has become a TikTok sensation by matching bird noises with funny real-world sounds. She's known as The Girl in White Glasses online and recently turned her videos into a book. The CBC'...

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Orsted Sues Trump Administration in Fight to Restart Its Blocked Wind Farm The Danish company behind Revolution Wind, a $6 billion project off Rhode Island, said the federal government had unlawfully halted work on the wind farm.

Breaking News: The energy giant behind a nearly finished wind farm off Rhode Island sued the Trump administration for halting the $6 billion project.

ANALYSIS | As hunger grows in Gaza, warnings that starvation hits the most vulnerable first | CBC News Despite Israel’s denials of famine and a recent uptick in food delivery, starvation in Gaza is getting worse. Before his death, a 17-year-old described to CBC News how his body and life were shutting ...

A very difficult, but important, story to read
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As drug deaths hit a 5-year low, Trump continues to cite fentanyl as major threat Drug deaths in the U.S. are at their lowest level since March 2025, according to federal data. Trump continues to cite fentanyl as justification for policies ranging from tariffs to immigration.

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Postal services around the world prepare to stop sending packages to US.

As deadline nears to impose new charges on parcels valued at $800 or below, postal services, including in France, UK, Germany, India, Australia and Japan, say most US-bound packages will not be be accepted
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How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.

CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States The country’s largest pharmacy chain said it needed a C.D.C. panel to recommend the shots before it could offer them nationwide.

CVS is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states, including Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, even to people who meet newly restricted criteria from the FDA.

CVS said it needed a CDC panel to recommend the shots before it could offer them nationwide.

BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity.

The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.

Buoy oh buoy: Nova Scotians reclaim debris along coast Raised to believe that people should take care of their environment, Angela Riley and her family started picking up the tires, lobster traps, glass, water bottles and fishing gear they would come acro...

Buoy oh buoy: Nova Scotians reclaim debris along coast www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/18/n...

New article: Stepping up with (re)purpose by @aauld.bsky.social. One impressive Nova Scotian shows the huge impact one person can make as she and fellow volunteers collect garbage from Nova Scotia shorelines.

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EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails detailing that they had been assigned new positions within the EPA. "There is no action you need to take the ...

NEW from me: after EPA announced it would officially do away with its scientific research arm Friday, officials at the Office of Research and Development had few answers for employees on a Monday call about how many of them will be reassigned to other offices—and how many will lose their jobs