Patrick White
@Nut_Graf
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Water Reporter for The Globe and Mail.
Joined April 2009
Evaluate this as water news… Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged Saturday that a future Trump administration would seek to remove fluoride from drinking water as a Day 1 goal, reversing a decades-old intervention widely credited for boosting public health. https://t.co/gGiPPUCvYY
washingtonpost.com
Reversing the decades-old public health intervention would be a Day 1 goal of a future Trump administration, Kennedy wrote on social media.
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Federal Indian boarding schools have impacted every Indigenous person I know. These were places where children - including my grandparents - were traumatized. I'm so grateful to @POTUS for acknowledging this terrible era of our nation's past.
washingtonpost.com
Joe Biden’s remarks would mark the first time a U.S. president formally apologized for the government’s role in separating Native children from their families.
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It’s the first time in a long time that we open up our feed to see good news. Mansour Shouman is alive after missing for 15 days. Praying for his safety as no where in Gaza is safe.
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For years, colleagues and I have complained about Canada's broken freedom of information systems. In 2021, @robyndoolittle and I set out to investigate, but we also knew we wanted to do more. Say hello to Secret Canada: https://t.co/QPHZiORetE
#cdnfoi #cdnpoli #SecretCanada
secretcanada.com
Secret Canada helps Canadians understand and use the access system through a database of completed FOI request summaries, guides on how to navigate the filing process and the latest news.
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Imaginary people are on the SCC docket tomorrow. @seanfineglobe explains.
theglobeandmail.com
Supreme Court to rule on use of hypothetical ‘invented scenarios’ - that if a sentence would be cruel and unusual punishment for one person, it cannot stand - in sentencing decisions
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It's the 50th anniversary of the '72 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviets, which means it's been 10 years since I worked on the most enjoyable project ever:
theglobeandmail.com
It was widely assumed that Canada’s pros would make short work of the Soviet upstarts. Instead, the 1972 Summit Series morphed into an epic struggle between rival philosophies, inside the rink and...
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BREAKING: RMCP say Myles Sanderson has been located and taken into police custody near Rosthern, SK
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Oh, the horror.
silverfox.style
The top 10 silver foxes in television, news, and entertainment.
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“It kind of sends some very mixed messages,” she said, not just for Indigenous people but non-Indigenous Canadians. “This person who is clearly outside of our culture and communities wearing such an item of such significance.” w/@_joyscm https://t.co/Du1Yr5abDG
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As Pope Francis prepares to visit Canada, he faces mounting pressure from the Assembly of First Nations to revoke the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal principle that Europeans acquired vast tracts of Indigenous land by making landfall. @Nut_Graf explains:
theglobeandmail.com
An abridged trip through 500 years of papal and legal history to understand why Pope Francis faces calls to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery, which underpins Europe’s heist of the Americas and a...
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Justice advocate BobbyLee Worm helped end a form of solitary confinement
theglobeandmail.com
After surviving 1,123 days in isolation, during which she had suicidal thoughts and hallucinations, BobbyLee Worm became one of the country’s most prominent and effective prison reformers
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A powerful summary of what BobbyLee achieved in today's Globe and Mail. Thank you, Patrick White. cc: @bccla @KPateontheHill #endsolitary
theglobeandmail.com
After surviving 1,123 days in isolation, during which she had suicidal thoughts and hallucinations, BobbyLee Worm became one of the country’s most prominent and effective prison reformers
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What an honour to share thoughts on Truth and Reconciliation w/the brilliant @jeffio n PatrickWhite on #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay @CollisionHQ Proud of your accomplishments I look forward to what's next Ekosi to all who came n @CBCManitoba for making it poss for me to be here
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It was an honour to join @christmasali, a longstanding advocate against gun violence and intimate partner violence, for today's historic announcement in Ottawa on gun control.
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It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that David Milgaard has passed away today at the age of 69. David lived a tough life, but he always lived to help others who were down and out.
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Take a moment today to re-read @jana_pruden on David Milgaard. https://t.co/8WgiEp7lEU
theglobeandmail.com
In 1969, he was arrested for a murder he didn’t commit, and spent 23 years in prison as an innocent man. In his most in-depth interview in decades, David Milgaard talks to Jana G. Pruden about living...
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Rule #1 in journalism school: always get the name of the dog. The advice finally came handy
theglobeandmail.com
Police in Ontario are tracing a growing share of seized guns to U.S. smuggling operations. Traffickers have been spiriting the firearms across the border in car bumpers, gas tanks, boats, semi-truck...
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Indigenous women now make up half the number of women in Canadian federal prisons. At 8:37, we'll speak with @NDN_dr_ruth who was in and out of jail for more than 20 years. She tells us what's changed since she was incarcerated. https://t.co/OAmXkyR6hs
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Radio One and CBC Music
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