Lauren Boothby
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Municipal politics / Edmonton city hall reporter @edmontonjournal & Sun in 🐀 -free Alberta via B.C. & Ontario ❤Animal stories😻• ADHD • she/her • RT≠agree
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Can’t believe it’s been two years already on the Edmonton city hall beat 😃
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I lost 40 lbs during a global pandemic by eating healthy & exercising (after gaining weight because of medical problems), been nominated for & won journalism awards, and never worked at a white supremacist web store hbu?
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Also, I look amazing in that photo (and this one) and no troll is going to convince me otherwise 😍🌸😍🌸😍
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#BREAKING
: Mounties have arrested a man and laid 2 charges of second degree murder in relation to the deaths of Jake Sansom and Morris Cardinal this weekend. They were shot to death.
@Edmontonsun
@edmontonjournal
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Some real gems harassed myself and my colleagues outside GraceLife Church where I was just standing off the property and looking to see what was happened as people left the service.
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.
@TransitPolice
is investigating this now. I know this because I reported this as a crime and they interviewed me about it. More updates here:
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Me reporting that something is happening doesn't mean:
1) I caused the news event
2) I am part of a group/cause mentioned
3) I am the taking a side of the group you like/hate
It means: news happened & here's my best effort to explain the facts in a fair way
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Here is video I took of the attack. Again this was intentional and aggressive because she told her friend she was going to attack her before she exited. 3/
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This is my happy face: I booked my vaccine appointment for next Friday! That means I’ll have some protection from COVID-19 two weeks from then — May 28, which is my birthday. The best gift I could ask for! 🎁💉
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If you see something like this happening on transit in Metro Vancouver, you can text
@TransitPolice
at 877-777.
I have to say I was very impressed with how quickly
@TransitPolice
sprang into action after the racist bus incident today. They responded to my text in under a minute, and texted back and forth for a few minutes as they got more details. An officer called me within 30 minutes.
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The five teens — 15 and 17 years old — were really shaken up after the attack. They were crying, saying they felt afraid and angry. 5/
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Waiting until Monday to tell Albertans where a ‘significant’ outbreak of the Brazil COVID-19 variant is happening is unacceptable. People deserve to know so they can keep themselves safe. I asked for more details, let’s see if they respond.
#covid19ab
#covid19
#abhealth
#yeg
COVID-19: Alberta reports 'significant' outbreak of Brazil variant, investigation underway
#yeg
#abhealth
#covid19ab
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A jab in the arm works perfectly fine, Roger. No need to get creative with needle placement.
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A woman was so shook by my *question* to Dr. Hinshaw about whether Alberta's religious gathering rules were sufficient that she looked me & emailed me to say it was "shameful" & that she was "terribly embarrassed." I don't find asking decision-makers hard questions embarrassing.
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Up until this happened there was nothing for me to do other than what I do best as a reporter: observe. I listened, watched, and recorded. I reported this to police and gave them video evidence. I was afraid of her. My adrenaline was going and I did my best.
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Here is when I first got on the bus. The white woman was yelling at a group of 5 teens from Brazil for speaking in English, saying they are making “snickering comments.” And another man speaks up and says: “she doesn’t speak for the majority (of Canadians.” 4/
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Right before she got off the bus, I heard her tell the woman she was with: “I’m going to grab her by the hair and throw her off the fucking bus.” She was mad at a group of teens for speaking Portuguese. They are visiting Canada from Brazil. 2/
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Ok one of the protest leaders, from United We Roll, has a fire truck and got stuck under the access point to the High Level Bridge causing a backup.
@Edmontonsun
@edmontonjournal
#yeg
#ableg
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Let's not make this worse by adding fat phobia to the mix. Please withhold the body-shaming comments from my mentions, thanks.
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I didn’t know what she was going to do. People talk big but are usually smart enough not to do anything criminal. Also, my heart was racing and I was afraid of her too. It was shocking. I went and talked to the kids immediately after and gave them the number for police.
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Quite a few people asking why I didn’t ‘do anything.’ I did. I got closer, monitored the situation, and was in the middle of drafting a text to Transit Police as I realized she was about to get off the bus, so I paused and recorded.
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Alberta Health still hasn't given us the location of the P.1 variant outbreak.
I will keep calling everyone I think might know something until I find out or run out of ideas.
If you know what's going on please get in my DMs!
#abhealth
#covid19ab
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A protest supporting the fight against TC Energy’s Coastal Gaslink pipeline on Wet’suwet’en land is marching along Jasper Ave right now from Beaver Hills House Park.
#yeg
@edmontonjournal
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Some personal news:
I’ll be joining
@edmontonjournal
&
@Edmontonsun
as a reporter in January. So excited!
#yeg
Hello snow, goodbye sky-high rents! ❄️
Truly going to miss the
@NEWS1130
crew 😢 & working in radio 📻. Grateful for the last 3+ years I’ve spent in B.C. 🏔 🌊 ❤️
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Significant implications for Alberta local democracies:
If passed, province can:
- remove any councillor for "public interest"
- amend / repeal any municipal bylaws
Also:
- municipal political parties allowed
- union/corporate donations allowed
#yeg
#yegcc
#ableg
#cdnpoli
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Here's the story
@NEWS1130
FULL STORY: A shocking confrontation on a bus heading out of Vancouver was caught on camera this evening
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That was Kevin J Johnston. He’s previously been charged with criminal hate speech and lost a $2.5(?) million defamation lawsuit for hate speech before.
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Alberta’s “significant” COVID-19 variant outbreak mentioned over the weekend is at multiple PTW Energy Services locations: Drayton Valley, Edson and Hinton. Here’s the statement COO Kerri Beuk sent me.
@JunkerAnna
has the story below.
#covid19ab
#abhealth
#yeg
#ableg
Postmedia has confirmed the P.1 variant outbreak occurred at PTW Energy Services. Employees at the Drayton Valley, Edson and Hinton offices tested positive for the variant.
#COVID19AB
#abhealth
#ableg
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@TehseenLadha
Hello! I’m a reporter with the Edmonton Journal. Could you send me a DM? Or anyone else who has information about this? :)
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I walked along Alberta Avenue with the Bear Clan Patrol on Wednesday night as they handed out soup and bannock, warm clothes & other necessities. (The group police kicked out of Central LRT during the extreme cold snap). Here’s what I learned and saw.
#yeg
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We got on to this because of a tip from the public. We need your tips, especially when the powers that be do not provide information. DMs always open for your news tips — notice the tipster was not identified. Thank you readers and followers!
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Here’s the story I did today.
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“A 15-minute district is not a plot to imprison you. It is simply shorthand to describe a way of planning our city to accommodate future growth in a human-scale way.”
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Pick up some milk, eggs, bread …and a life-saving vaccine at the grocery store nbd!! Double vaxxed 💉💉, — get bent COVID-19 🎉 🎉
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Take a shot every time someone writes “why isn’t the media covering this” in the comments section of a news article covering this
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I’m seeing people saying COVID-19 isn’t a big deal because of how few cases we have. The reason we don’t have as many is literally because we shut things down and maintained our distance and stayed home. What we did has worked— that’s why it’s not as bad as it could have been.
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Yes it’s real. No I didn’t buy it.
Alberta is a wild place.
Made by a St. Albert distillery (same name on the label)
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It would be great if
@yegwave
stopped stealing from journalists. They have plagiarized me, took my work and added a sensational & false headline for good measure.
Stop stealing and stick with what you know: K-Days teen fight videos.
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The post below is false.
The mayor is quoted in my story as calling for a ceasefire and “a release of all hostages taken in the conflict.”
The full letter wasn’t included in the article but it refers to the “terror attack by Hamas on Oct. 7”. Read here.
#yeg
#yegcc
We are disturbed & concerned by Mayor
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
’s call for prolonged ceasefire in
#Israel
’s war against
#Hamas
terrorists which fails to call for a release of all 240 hostages immediately. 1/4
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Police brutality continually treated like a 'one-off' in Canada, says Desmond Cole
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Journalists don't need permission to access public property.
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New: AHS warned the nurses’ union staff will be recalled from vacation to help overtaxed ICUs & ER in Edmonton and the South Zone as hospitalizations for COVID-19 surpassed 200 in Alberta on Friday.
#abhealth
#yeg
#covid19ab
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Thinking of my dad. Paul Boothby died 20 years ago today when he was 45 years old. I inherited my love of bad jokes, puns, Seinfeld and Monty Python from him. He was kind, goofy, and a good man. He was too young, I was too young. Love you, dad. ❤️
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News: Alberta won’t stop routine COVID-19 testing as planned Sept. 27, Alberta Health tells me. Also the province is ramping up the coronavirus wastewater/sewage monitoring program Oct. 1 to cover 70% of the province’s population.
#abhealth
#covid19ab
#yeg
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Also just want to acknowledge many had the opposite experience during the pandemic & gained weight, and that’s totally okay & understandable! Be kind to yourself just do what you need to do to be happy & healthy. No time for fatphobia & misogyny
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Super Value Liquor in Mill Woods, Edmonton
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“Former Toronto ambulance officer Paul Boothby never thought twice about risking his life to help people in trouble.”
My dad died when I was 11–lots I didn’t know about him. Like how he got an award for bravery after saving a woman from a burning car. Recently got this obit ❤️
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Heard about a young person who got covid but seems his family are conspiracy theorists. Mum treated him at home with ivermectin, vitamins & home remedies but symptoms wouldn’t let up. She brought him to hospital & now he’s in ICU. Misinformation is killing people 😢
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I don’t think I’ve liked any character playing Larry David’s love interest in Curb Your Enthusiasm as much as I love Irma the city councillor. Tracey Ullman is hilarious 😆
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I thought he was kidding but my friend who hosts a lot of parties reaallyy went and stocked up
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I convinced one of my best friends to get her COVID-19 vaccine, and I’m so happy! I found out why she was hesitant, and worked to help alleviate her specific worries and sent her some reliable, good info.
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Interesting. (from a story I did in Nov.):
Dr. Joe Vipond, a Calgary emergency room doctor who has been very vocal about the province's response to COVID-19, is now being criticized over alleged ties to the Alberta NDP.
@CTVMFranklin
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Like or dislike Alberta's COVID-19 restrictions and enforcement, but they are not my fault. I'm not responsible for the events that unfold in the news stories I write – don't shoot the messenger.
Literally, do not do that. Do not be this person. Not okay.
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My colleague who is a photographer got it worse than me. They barrelled toward him out of the church and surrounded him, calling him a pedophile and accusing him of taking photos of children. I was worried about him so I recorded this. Then they came over to me.
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Oh Rebel News is back to ask another question about … Rebel News. Hard-hitting journalism right there. 🤦🏻♀️
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.
@TransitPolice
told me they have sent out this woman’s description and are looking for her. I asked if they will consider this a hate crime and they said they will be looking into that. Here are stills from my video of this suspect. 3/
@NEWS1130
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Got my fav dress on for my birthday and some makeup. Gotta take a selfie tho before the lipstick comes off and the mask goes on.
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@TransitPolice
now looking to speak to the woman and other witnesses about what happened.
Transit police want to speak with the woman at the centre of an alleged hate crime that happened on a Vancouver bus yesterday evening. Investigators say they have heard from the victims and now want to the hear the other side
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Someone actually said this to me in a phone interview today: “You work for your boss, the devil, and I work for my God, and my God is a God of love and truth.” 👀
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What was happening*. I was just standing there and asked him to leave me alone as I’m trying to do my job.
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If these rage performance artists were actual journalists they wouldn’t waste everyone’s time during a leaders debate grandstanding and asking such a self-important question
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🧵Did you know you can find memos Edmonton city council receives online? It’s because
@edmontonjournal
won access for the public in 2017. City promised to publish them since.
But that stopped last year without notice. Until I asked questions
#yeg
#yegcc
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A few typos in this thread. Forgive me. I was rather shaken up myself having witnessed this.
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Serious flooding at the bottom of the hill around Rossdale Road and Bellamy Hill going south. Be careful out there!
#yeg
#yegtraffic
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For the anti-maskers mocking people trying to protect themselves & their community from a deadly disease, calling them “face diapers” — the people wearing masks aren’t the ones spewing 💩 out of their mouths.
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