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‘Nobody to tell those stories’: Concern over news deprivation after Metro Vancouver closures A dearth in local reporting is being felt at a municipal level after the recent closure of three outlets.

It's been a few weeks since the Burnaby Now, Tri-City News and New Westminster Record shuttered. The lack of local reporting is already being felt.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Lower Mainland flood prevention work must wait, province admits A provincial spokesperson says 'competing priorities' mean there is no money for critical flood-planning work

STORY: Three years after flooding ravaged the Fraser Valley, the province says there's no money for planning work on how to avert a future disaster.

fvcurrent.com/p/floodplain...

OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker

People are on Reddit are saying the IMLS office is being torn apart. It's a big deal for a lot of reasons.

One is IMLS also pays for/supplies some of the infrastructure for the internet for public libraries, especially in rural areas and for tribal communities.

U.S. Unilaterally Closes Haskell Library’s Canadian Access STANSTEAD, QUEThe Town of Stanstead and the Haskell Free Library and Opera House are pushing back against the U.S. government's decision to close the main Canadian access to the historic

How ironic.

Library closed by people who can’t read

#cdnpoli

www.newportvermontdailyexpress.com/news/u-s-uni...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

powerful detailed account of ICE captivity

"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Blame Canada Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory

"The tariff policy and the fentanyl fantasy both come from another place: the desire to annex Canada." Timothy Snyder argues that Trump really wants a war: Blame Canada open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

A responsible call-in show could have had a panel of real experts present information on historical context (annexation of Hawaii, overthrow of Chile, Iran), international law (it's illegal!), social dynamics (CAN and US are different!) and allowed callers to ask questions. THAT'S informative.

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YouTube video by JustAnotherJen Town Hall, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Feb 2025.

Coeur D’Alene, Idaho town hall:
One more reason to not eat Idaho potatoes

youtu.be/D76YwM9eg8E?...

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

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From Brian Platt:

“As a reminder, here is what the US border agency's own stats show about fentanyl coming in from Canada and Mexico. Canada is the yellow line on this chart, you may need a magnifying glass to see it”