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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

3 years

I have never in my life seen Ontario this angry. Ontario, which is never of one mind on anything, seething in unison. What a mess.

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10 months

If you run an illegal Airbnb ghost hotel network in Canada, as Mike Firmin did until we started asking questions this week, you should know two things. 1. We already have all your data. 2. We’re not done reporting.

Ricochet Media

@ricochet_en

10 months

EXCLUSIVE: We identified one of the largest AirBnB ghost hotel networks in Montreal, and spoke to all parties for this exposé. It’s a case study in a popular new property scam making owners and entrepreneurs rich — and leaving long-term tenants homeless.

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10 months

Toronto, you’re next. We already have the data. The team is working it now. If you run an illegal Airbnb ghost hotel network, or are involved in running one, we can offer you anonymity in exchange for new information. It’s not too late to get ahead of this thing. Reach out.

Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

10 months

If you run an illegal Airbnb ghost hotel network in Canada, as Mike Firmin did until we started asking questions this week, you should know two things. 1. We already have all your data. 2. We’re not done reporting.

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Ethan Cox

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1 year

This guy ( @FoodProfessor ) is all over the media, and has one message: stop blaming grocers for high prices. Turns out he takes funding from Galen Weston & makes $220k/year to lecture the public about how grocers aren’t responsible for high prices — amid record profits. #cdnpoli

Jeremy Appel - @jeremyappel.bsky.social

@JeremyAppel1025

1 year

The Orchard: Who the hell is the Food Professor?

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Ethan Cox

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9 months

The housing crisis in Canada was not caused by immigration, and it will not be solved by reducing it.

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

8 months

Currently outside of an allegedly illegal airbnb in Montreal. Our team are shadowing members of a brand new squad of inspectors dedicated to cracking down on illegal short-term rentals. Stories coming in both languages, and video as well as text. Stay tuned!

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2 years

So it's... 113 actual truck drivers... out of roughly 300,000 licensed commercial truck drivers in the country. That's 0.0376 per cent. #cdnpoli

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

At around 8 p.m. Atlantic time RCMP officers in Red Bank, New Brunswick shot and killed a Mi’kmaq man, identified by friends on social media as Rodney Levi. According to the police account he was tased repeatedly and then shot. Quebec’s BEI to investigate.

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

God damn Montreal police couldn’t keep their racist peckers in their stupid pants for one day. Our police force is so bad. Such a long track record of racism and violence, and they think it’s their god-given right to fuck up anyone who protests. Shameful.

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@SirKvsper

4 years

THEY SHOOTING !!!!!

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Ethan Cox

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4 years

Two things: 1. Rebel Media is leaning hard into their explicit racism lately, particularly with Keean Bexte. 2. Rebel Media is threatening to sue anyone who points out their racism. But their threats must not scare us from speaking the truth: Rebel Media is racist. #cdnpoli

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Ethan Cox

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2 years

🧵 Legacy outlets have dropped the ball in their reporting on the role and authority of band councils vs. hereditary leadership at #Wetsuweten . The result has been rampant misunderstanding of core facts of this conflict, fueled by vested interests pushing bad info. 🧵 #bcpoli

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Ethan Cox

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4 years

Remember when Keean Bexte put ‘award-winning journalist’ in his Twitter bio and then had to take it out after everyone made fun of him for making it up? I have now won two more national journalism awards for exposing him than he has ever won for anything. Suck it, Rebel. 😛

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4 years

The #WetsuwetenSolidarity blockades have the support of 39-44% of Canadians depending on the poll. In 2012, the Quebec student movement’s support hovered in the same range. It took down a government. You can’t send in the army on over 40% of the country. Change has to happen.

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Ethan Cox

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4 years

Love watching Quebec politicians explain that toppling the statue is unacceptable, but it was fine, actually, when members of the sovereigntist movement repeatedly defaced this same statue of John A. in the 70s. The guy did a genocide, everyone hates him here, why’s it still up?

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Ethan Cox

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4 years

Important point: Trudeau has barred companies that have been *convicted* of tax evasion from government support. Zero companies have been convicted. This applies to no one. Trudeau has refused to bar companies registered in tax havens from support. That applies to many. #cdnpoli

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

5 years

Cancel. The. Contract. And. Stop. Arming. Murderers.

CBC Politics

@CBCPolitics

5 years

Saudi Arabia is $3.4B behind on its payments for Canadian LAVs #hw #cdnpoli

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

2 years

This is an outrage. The courts have told the RCMP repeatedly that interfering with journalists is unlawful. Instead of listening, the RCMP are escalating. This is the first known case of a journalist being jailed until a bail hearing. An unprecedented assault on press freedom.

Carol Linnitt (she | her)

@carollinnitt

2 years

Current word is that @photobracken will be transported from Houston to Smithers to Prince George to face a bail hearing on Monday. My deepest gratitude to @writermjs for driving from Smithers to Houston tonight to argue for Amber's release. Matt was sent away without Amber.

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Ethan Cox

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10 months

How landlords profit from Airbnb, a 🧵about what @ZacharyKamel and our 🔥 team have learned over months of investigating. While reporting on the Airbnb ghost hotel that burned in Old Montreal this spring, killing 7, we had one question: how does the landlord profit? 1/ #cdnpoli

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5 months

The only direct allegation against @ShreeParadkar in this article is she sent & then deleted this tweet urging people to wait for independent investigators to confirm details — something every journalist is taught. This is a Jon Kay Twitter beef. Now amplified by Canadaland???

CANADALAND

@CANADALAND

5 months

Amid Anti-Jewish bias complaints inside the Toronto Star, Internal Ombud role “untenable,” says Editor in Chief

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@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

So John Ivison just blocked me. Might have something to do with this scathing piece I just published calling him the worst person on the internet.

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@EthanCoxMtl

9 months

RCMP: This is a media exclusion zone… Brandi: wait, the courts said you can’t use exclusion zones for the media! RCMP: Uh huh. So, as I was saying… Higher courts in two provinces and the RCMP’s own oversight body have described what’s happening in this video as “unlawful.”

Brandi Morin

@Songstress28

9 months

RCMP created media exclusion zones during their raid and arrests of the Savage Patch camp protecting old growth forest this morn, which they’re not supposed to be doing. Pardon my language during these exchanges. I did inform them of my rights as a journalist when they threatened…

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How we discovered a secretive surveillance firm was collecting intelligence on journalist Brandi Morin, and sharing it with clients that include the government of Alberta. 🧵 A Thread 🧵 FULL STORY:

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1 year

God, I love how happy people always are when they unionize. Makes my day to see labour power in action.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

1 year

Trader Joe’s workers at the Essex Crossing store in NYC are joining the union wave. They delivered this letter to management this morning. (Stay for the end, it’s worth it)

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2 years

I have spent the last hours trying to reach someone at @mikefarnworthbc ’s office for comment on the arrest and ongoing detention of journalists by the RCMP at #Wetsuweten . The only response so far? “It’s the weekend.” Farnworth is responsible for RCMP oversight. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

5 years

Any time you’re tempted to complain about the postal strike, recall it was a CUPW strike in 1981 that brought maternity leave to this country. Strikes & powerful unions raise standards for everyone. Canadian postal workers are fighting for a better future. Support them. #cdnpoli

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

3 years

His fine is less than one-third of the amount Montreal police are fining homeless people for “breaking” curfew.

Angela Sterritt 📘

@AngelaSterritt

3 years

Canadian mogul fined after getting Covid vaccine meant for Indigenous residents | Canada | The Guardian

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

3 years

This is how the Minneapolis police initially described George Floyd’s death. Remember this when assessing police statements.

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

3 years

Seriously, read it again knowing what we know:

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

8 months

Today I’m going on a ride-along with Montreal’s brand new, dedicated squad of short-term rental inspectors. Their job: start enforcing the rules and crack down on illegal Airbnbs. Got questions for Montreal’s first Airbnb inspectors? Drop them below! I’ll ask the best ones.

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

3 years

Some *professional* news. Erin Seatter and I have won the 2021 Michener-Deacon Investigative Fellowship. We'll be leading a team of journalists with a big budget and a mandate to produce reporting that illuminates the state of police misconduct in Canada.

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2 years

After two journalists were arrested, I spent days trying to get a comment from the two ministers who oversee the national police force. What I learned is that our governments won't step in, even when the RCMP break the law. There is no oversight.

Trudeau, Horgan governments do nothing as RCMP arrest journalists

Neither courts nor governments appear able to rein in the force’s escalating excesses

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@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

This is huge news. The RCMP were forced to reverse course in the face of an avalanche of criticism. This is how we keep press freedoms strong in this country. #WetsuwetenStrong #Wetsuweten

Ricochet Media

@ricochet_en

4 years

JUST IN: RCMP have reversed course after a huge outcry over press freedom. Will not detain or remove embedded journalists. “For media personnel ahead of the advancing police line, they can continue to observe and report, but without interfering with police enforcement.” #bcpoli

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Ethan Cox

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3 years

Literally no one gets fired for being a conservative. People get fired for being racists, and it's a hilarious self-own that conservatives chant "one of us! one of us!" every time someone gets in trouble for explicit racism or anti-Semitism. Why would you claim that behaviour?

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

5 years

Is anyone in our government paying attention? Bloomberg says electric cars will be cheaper than gas in three years, leading to a major drop in demand for oil. #cdnpoli

Bloomberg Opinion

@opinion

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It took Norway about a decade to reach 6% electric vehicle sales, but only five years to go from 6% to 47%. Once an inflection point occurs, markets change very quickly

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2 years

Tl;dr According to the Supreme Court of Canada and the governments of BC and Canada, the Wet’suwet’en hereditary leadership hold rights and title to their unceded territory. Not the band councils, who the pipeline company has signed agreements with. This is as settled as it gets.

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Ethan Cox

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5 years

At this point there’s no excuse for any outlet to platform W. Brett Wilson. He has repeatedly called for people he disagrees with to be killed/deported/etc. I’m sure there’s more going on here, but it doesn’t change how unacceptable that is. So maybe stop putting him on TV?

Michael Bueckert

@mbueckert

5 years

Hi @CTV_PowerPlay @DonMartinCTV , please don't give a platform to W. Brett Wilson, he is calling for environmental activists to be deported and/or executed. His rhetoric is seriously dangerous, and there is no place for him on TV. #ctvpp #cdnpoli

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@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

@elonmusk This you?

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

9 months

This is really a jaw-dropping story. The similarities between the RCMP’s C-IRG unit and a military unit in a war zone don’t end at their clothes.

Ricochet Media

@ricochet_en

9 months

Training for RCMP’s Wet’suwet’en raids provided by former U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan. “They geared up for war against women, pregnant women and elders.” #cdnpoli #bcpoli

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

9 months

In which a lobbyist for the super-rich is given a prime platform in the paper of record to argue — against all evidence — that the super-rich pay too much in taxes. I wish the Globe understood how much this affects their credibility with younger generations.

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

9 months

High income earners in Canada are already paying their fair share of tax

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Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

This is the second Indigenous person killed by the RCMP in New Brunswick in eight days. I have no words.

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@EthanCoxMtl

5 years

They just announced an attendance of 500,000 for the Montreal #climatestrike from the stage. If correct, I think that would be the largest ever protest in a city with a long history of protests in the hundreds of thousands. #cdnpoli

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3 years

Pretty good representation of my TL right now.

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@EthanCoxMtl

8 months

Dear @FoodProfessor : I know you’re big mad at @JeremyAppel1025 , but you’re making a fool of yourself. OnlyFans models don’t obsessively tweet about the spat you’re having with a journalist. No one would. These might as well be going out on main, everyone knows it’s you.

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@EthanCoxMtl

3 years

Look at #2 on this chart. Canada is second only to the United States in police killings.

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5 years

I didn’t even realize the tactical significance of what @Emily_Leedham_ did at first. But of course, we all know videos with copyrighted music get flagged and removed. So it’s like culture jamming the Rebel’s videos. Very clever.

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5 years

Congratulations Montreal. We just had the largest protest in Canadian history with an estimated attendance of over 500,000. As @GretaThunberg said, “we are the future, and the future is coming.” #cdnpoli #climatestrike

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4 years

I wrote about why John Ivison is the worst person on the internet, and how his column yesterday advocating shutting down CERB would sacrifice lives to keep wages low. Ivison is proselytizing for a death cult, so why's it in a national paper? #cdnpoli

Postmedia’s John Ivison, the worst person on the internet

Billionaires and their bootlickers are happy to sacrifice our lives to boost their profits, but if we get mad about it they say we’re the problem

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@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

Working on a measured rebuttal to that John Ivison piece...

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1 year

A reminder: exclusion zones are unlawful in Canada, per the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal (Brake case) and the British Columbia Supreme Court (Press coalition v. RCMP). Media cannot be prevented for witnessing and reporting on police actions. @VancouverPD @KenSimCity

Harsha Walia

@HarshaWalia

1 year

Inside exclusion zone in dtes where cops have barricaded block. Block of main & hastings been completely decamped, belongings in storage and *no housing* offered so far, only *some possible* shelter beds for *one night*. Despite city press release claims, no BC housing here.

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4 years

The #WetsuwetenSolidarity blockades are supported by more Canadians than voted for any single party in our last federal election. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

The #WetsuwetenSolidarity blockades have the support of 39-44% of Canadians depending on the poll. In 2012, the Quebec student movement’s support hovered in the same range. It took down a government. You can’t send in the army on over 40% of the country. Change has to happen.

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4 years

Here's my full report on this story. After attempting to tase #RodneyLevi multiple times, RCMP officers shot and killed the Mi’kmaq man tonight. Anger is boiling over in his community, and on social media. “I'm so mad and sad, I don't know what to think.”

RCMP shoot, kill Mi’kmaq man in New Brunswick

Second time in eight days an Indigenous person has been killed by police in New Brunswick

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@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

Your franchisees fired employees to avoid giving them a $0.10 raise.

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@TimHortons

4 years

No pressure, Meghan and Harry, but if you do choose to move to Canada, free coffee for life. Think about it.

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6 years

So Sue Ann Levy thought this woman was an NDP candidate, wrote a whole attack column, and then had to hastily edit it when informed she isn’t actually running for anything. Priceless. #onpoli #cdnpoli #onvote

Toronto Sun

@TheTorontoSun

6 years

From @sueannlevy : #NotFord campaigner @gailvazoxlade in high dudgeon. #onpoli #onelxn

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I've spent two days getting to the bottom of the firings at Capital Daily. I've spoken to over a half dozen Overstory employees, a union spox and CEO @farhanmohamed . He and @awilkinson 's claims about the outlet's finances are misleading at best. READ:

Story, over: Billionaire blows up thriving local news outlet

Victoria’s Capital Daily was profitable, popular and a critical darling. Then the owners of Overstory Media Group fired most of its staff

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4 years

No oil sands company kills a project for PR reasons. There’s only one reason they kill projects: economics. The economics of these projects keep getting shakier. It’s why Canada already owns one pipeline we can’t unload.

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3 years

Ten people were killed in encounters with police officers in Canada in February. Six were killed in March, and three have been killed so far in April and we're six days into the month. This is the (seemingly) invisible crisis of policing in Canada. #cdnpoli

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1 year

Media request I sent to the VPD & City of Vancouver on exclusion zone and prevention of journalists from reporting on East Hastings operation. It is well established case law that exclusion zones are unlawful in Canada. Police flouting law with impunity here. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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4 years

Elizabeth May and the Green Party establishment just can't help but beclown themselves. It's like their goal is to alienate all voters under 45. The damage this Haddad expulsion has done to the Green brand seems incalculable. Young people deserve better. #cdnpoli

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3 years

An RCMP officer filed a sworn affidavit accusing Brandi of lying to them. Luckily, we had asked all our journalists to film their interactions with the RCMP, and so Brandi had footage that completely disproved the claim. The govt lawyer had to admit the affidavit was wrong.

Brandi Morin

@Songstress28

3 years

The @caj & others sued the RCMP in May after they restricted access to journalists covering Fairy Creek blockades. An RCMP officer filed an affidavit & slandered my name/reputation in accusing me of lying while on the ground. I had video proof I was not. Had to file an affidavit!

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This is the state of things. The good professor is outraged that starving people would shoplift, even as his own research, funded by a marketing firm that works for grocers, shows their desperation. Meanwhile, the mega grocers break the law with impunity.

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4 years

This right here is everything wrong with our world in a nutshell. Know your enemy.

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2 years

At a press conference today, B.C. solicitor general @mikefarnworthbc told the media that the two journalists arrested on Friday had been released. That was not true. The RCMP have now confirmed they remain in police custody. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #Wetsuweten #pressfreedom

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10 months

In the public interest of advancing our investigation, we can offer anonymity to certain sources who provide us with additional details on these illegal operations. So if the above is you, reach out. We can talk off the record, to start.

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This is just a perfect article about the arrest & ongoing detention of two journalists by the RCMP at #Wetsuweten , and why we should all care. ⁦ @amandajfollett ⁩ of ⁦ @TheTyee ⁩ has been working this story for years, and it shows. Read up. #bcpoli

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@EthanCoxMtl

10 months

Zack has identified one of the largest illegal Airbnb operations in Montreal, spoken to key players, and tomorrow morning we’re publishing it all. It’s a case study in a new ghost hotel scam, the same type Emile Benamor ran in the Old Port building that burned this spring.

Ricochet Media

@ricochet_en

10 months

As part of our Airbnb investigation, @ZacharyKamel has the scoop on one of Montreal’s largest operators of ghost hotels — and a hot new scam netting owners and entrepreneurs big bucks for evicting long-term tenants. Read all about it tomorrow morning on

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Brandi Morin ( @Songstress28 ) is doing amazing journalism in #Wetsuweten territory. She’s posted so many videos, it feels like you’re there. You can really get a sense of what the RCMP is doing. Go check her feed. And look out for her feature story, coming soon to @ricochet_en .

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5 years

Now journalists want to know if having two campaign airplanes instead of one makes Trudeau a hypocrite on climate. Not to put too fine a point on it, but wouldn’t a better question be whether buying a literal pipeline makes him a hypocrite on climate?!? #cdnpoli

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This cop, in this car, wouldn’t allow me into designated area for journalists to take pictures of old port fire. He demanded ID, and refused to accept a @caj card. He physically grabbed me and dragged me. @SPVM need refresher: there is no accreditation for media in Canada.

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4 years

Arundhati Roy is magic.

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Meanwhile, the former chief of staff for the federal NDP Nathan Rotman is Airbnb’s Canadian rep. How can the NDP be a serious voice for change with this sad revolving door? Meanwhile, they call it rude if we point out these jarring disconnects.

Althia Raj

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1 year

"Horgan is taking a job in the coal industry, and says he is not worried about the criticism the move may draw."

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3 years

This appears to have happened yesterday at Jean-Talon Metro. What’s particularly noteworthy are two bystanders physically intervening to pull the cops off. We’re going to see more of that. They did a good job of remaining non-threatening while physically restraining the officer.

Diimes

@deelonelyy

3 years

Comment sommes nous sensés se sentir en sécurité ?

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4 years

The RCMP are currently raiding the #Wetsuweten camps in northern B.C. The outlets we know of with journalists inside police lines at the camps are @ricochet_en , @TheTyee and @thenarwhalca . Independent, crowd-funded media leading the way on this story. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

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5 months

I’ve never seen a staff union at any media outlet issue a statement like this. It’s an unprecedented rebuke of the outlet’s owner.

Canadaland Union

@CanadalandUnion

5 months

A statement on behalf of the Canadaland Union as well as a number of our non-unionized colleagues:

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2 years

I don’t want to downplay the legitimate divisions in the community over this pipeline, or neglect to mention that the reserves the band councils control are where many Wet’suwet’en live. But according to Canadian *and* Wet’suwet’en law, hereditary chiefs control the territory.

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During today’s raid at #FairyCreek Mounties once again tried to enforce a media exclusion zone, and threatened @Songstress28 with arrest, before an an Indigenous DLT officer stepped in. RCMP have no policy on media access, yet continue to disregard the courts & oversight advice.

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4 years

For those who don’t read French, a summary of the police account released by the BEI. Keep in mind police accounts are often found to be inaccurate. 1. RCMP officers notified of disturbed individual with knife. 2. Tracked him to building, used taser several times without success.

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Shout out to @sarahcox_bc who reported for @thenarwhalca on January 30 that CGL was missing a key approval and it could spell delays for the project. That was how I first found out about the report & the needed approval. Great journalism. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Coastal GasLink pipeline still lacks key environmental authorization in contested Wet’suwet’en...

Premier John Horgan said earlier this month that the fracked gas pipeline had obtained all necessary permits — but it turns out the project is missing a key authorization from B.C.’s environmental...

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Ethan Cox

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Want to build a winning coalition on the left in Canada? Don’t push centrist pablum, run against the Liberals on stuff that will change the country. Wealth taxes, for instance, have huge cross partisan appeal. Campaign on bleeding the billionaires, and helping the people.

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Not only is Toronto next for us, but some of our sources tell us a CBC crew is asking questions about some of the same networks we’re investigating. If you’re involved in running Airbnb ghost hotel networks in Toronto, your fifteen minutes are coming.

Ethan Cox

@EthanCoxMtl

10 months

Toronto, you’re next. We already have the data. The team is working it now. If you run an illegal Airbnb ghost hotel network, or are involved in running one, we can offer you anonymity in exchange for new information. It’s not too late to get ahead of this thing. Reach out.

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Keean Bexte’s practice of journalism, in case you’re unfamiliar, is best described as flying to where something is happening and trying to get someone better known to punch him in the face on a live webcast. Today at #Unistoten no one punched him, so he moved on.

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Very proud of the award-winning reporting that @514jon , Erin Seatter and I did on Fireforce Ventures. It exposed Bexte’s extremism, and is a large part of the reason two federal leaders have now refused to answer his questions. ICYMI: #cdnpoli

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7 months

Apartheid and occupation are words used by international human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. So Sarah Jama was expelled from caucus for echoing human rights orgs? Do I have that right?

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@jessiecatherine

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Here's our story, for subscribers. I'm told the NDP supported Jama in making a speech today — but then she read a different one. Words like "apartheid" and "occupation" weren't part of the original script. It was the final surprise that got her booted.

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Today we have an urgent situation: journalists have been unlawfully arrested and are currently in jail. The RCMP are disregarding the clear directions of the court. It’s a scandal. And this is the response, or lack thereof, from the highest levels of the BC government.

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Lula was set up, and has been exonerated. Morales won the election, and then there was a military coup. We know these things now, but many argued the opposite at the time. We need to remember how bad our media is at reporting on Latin America the next time this happens.

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Then, the company used these agreements to argue that they had consent. But they had the consent of the wrong parties. The governments tacitly encouraged this sleight of hand, until things came to a head in 2020. In the aftermath of the raid then, both governments signed an MOU.

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This is the same sentiment Sarah Jama was expelled for expressing, except she used the words “apartheid” and “occupation.” Words used by international and Israeli human rights organizations.

Marit Stiles

@MaritStiles

7 months

Yesterday was the deadliest in Gaza so far. 700 people killed. Half were children Neighbourhoods levelled. Families in mourning. We continue our call on the fed gov’t to support an end to the siege, urgent humanitarian aid, release of hostages & an immediate ceasefire.

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Have you ever, um, eaten there? They lowered the quality of the food substantially in the past decade, replacing in-store bakers with mass produced and preserved food that tastes terrible. This is like asking why millennials don't enjoy dining out of dumpsters.

National Post

@nationalpost

5 years

Has Tim Hortons become uncool? Why the iconic chain doesn't appeal to younger generation

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If you’re concerned about the impact of Airbnb on the housing crisis, this is a must-read. We uncovered two networks of illegal Airbnbs and tracked the specifics of a new scam netting them way more money, but leaving tenants homeless. Investigative journalism at work.

Ricochet Media

@ricochet_en

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The Montreal shuffle: Inside the Airbnb hustle taking homes off the market. Our journalists have discovered a new short-term rental scheme earning big money for entrepreneurs and property owners — and leaving renters homeless. #cdnpoli #Airbnb #polqc

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This is true. Years of steady improvements have delivered a remarkable network, which is now being expanded even faster with express bike lanes on major arteries. Plus Bixi! Clear win other cities can and should copy.

Tom Flood

@tomflood1

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Montreal’s cycling network is incredible. So simple, intuitive and safe. Every municipal decision maker should see and experience it.

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Are you a journalist who was reporting on the VPD sweep on Hastings between Columbia and Main yesterday? Was your access to the area restricted by the police? Please DM. I’m working on a story about the use of an exclusion zone, which courts have found unlawful. #bcpoli #vanpoli

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This is great. Would be amazing if other universities followed suit.

University of Waterloo

@UWaterloo

1 year

#UWaterloo is proud to announce that a full tuition waiver will be offered to all qualifying students from two First Nation communities on whose traditional territory the University is situated. More: | #UWaterlooNews

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B.C. NDP could lose not only the next election but a generation of furious young activists. My latest, on the awful unforced error of @AnjaliApp 's disqualification from the BC NDP leadership race. A move made to protect @Dave_Eby , not uphold the rules.

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@EthanCoxMtl

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If Seattle can ban tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets, so can Montreal. And so can every damn city in Canada.

Kshama Sawant

@cmkshama

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Yesterday, our movement won a historic victory, making Seattle the nation's FIRST city with a ban against police use or purchase of Chemical weapons Kinetic impact projectiles acoustic weapons directed energy weapons water cannons disorientation devices ultrasonic cannons.

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CGL can argue the band councils are more representative of the people, but they can’t argue that the band councils have legal authority to consent. They don’t, according to every relevant authority.

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@EthanCoxMtl

3 years

While Joe Biden is declaring himself a "union president" and radically improving labour rights in the U.S., Canada's Trudeau government is preparing back-to-work legislation to prevent a strike at the Port of Montreal. Where workers haven't had a contract since 2018. Sigh.

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🚨Illegal Airbnbs 🚨 FIRST LOOK: Today @ricochet_en , @TheRealNews & @PivotQc sent a multimedia, multilingual team of journalists to ride-along w a brand new squad of inspectors in Montreal, dedicated to cracking down on illegal short term rentals. Stay tuned for the reporting!

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@EthanCoxMtl

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Here’s the situation: RCMP have egregiously violated the press freedom of journalists with @vicecanada & @ricochet_en . They’ve been denounced by @pressfreedom , @RSF_en , @amnesty , @caj , etc. Now journalists from @thenarwhalca and @TheTyee are in the path of their next raid. 1/

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4 years

Similar progression in Canada. We need to tax the rich, now.

Nick Kapur

@nick_kapur

4 years

Watch how the ultra-wealthy in America gradually raised the taxes of the poor and eventually bent the curve downward until they paid the lowest tax rate of all

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A final thought on legitimacy. Hereditary chiefs are not kings. They are given their titles by the community in their feast system, and they can be stripped of them. Supporters argue it is a more democratic and representative system than band council elections with low turnout.

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@EthanCoxMtl

4 years

Singh was right. If the Bloc wants to cape for the RCMP (who are barely even present in Quebec) to curry favour with Legault (who says systemic racism doesn't exist), they should be prepared to face the consequences. What the hell was Therrien thinking?

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

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People have asked what happened in the House today. Here are my thoughts.

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The tweet above is entirely factual, and he confirmed those details himself. Yet he blocks me. Someone getting nervous? Seems like the tip of the iceberg.

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