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‘My life is at stake’: BC senior forced to choose between housing or medication
(via Global News)

The now-72-year-old ended up living in her car for a year and since last May she’s been living in the Travelodge in North Vancouver.

Yesterday

‘It’s all Haida land’: Nation’s title to be officially recognized over the entirety of Haida Gwaii
(via IndigiNews)

A new draft agreement with the province lays out the groundwork to transition governance and jurisdiction over more than 10,000 square km of territory.

Yesterday

Saskatoon police using bicycle bylaw as ‘a ruse’ to stop, search and catalogue Indigenous men, lawyer says
(via CBC)

A Saskatoon defence lawyer says internal police records show officers are using the city's bicycle bylaw 'as a ruse' to stop and search Indigenous men in the downtown.

27 Mar 2024

Feds recently hit cargo giant in Baltimore disaster for silencing whistleblowers
(via the Lever)

Regulators cited Maersk for its “illegal policy” blocking employees from reporting safety concerns to the Coast Guard.

27 Mar 2024

Gazans drown trying to retrieve airdropped aid, authorities say
(via the New York Times)

People entered the water from a beach in northern Gaza, and around a dozen drowned, according to a local researcher who spoke to witnesses.

27 Mar 2024

First Nations group condemns BC United statement on Haida land agreement
(via Haida Gwaii Observer)

Opposition Leader Kevin Falcon said the agreement puts private property rights at risk.

27 Mar 2024

A digital twin might just save your life
(via NOEMA)

Digital twins offer humankind the ability to command virtual replicas of forests, oil fields, cities, supply chains — and even, maybe one day, our very bodies.

27 Mar 2024

The delivery rider who took on his faceless boss
(via Financial Times)

A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms that controlled his day. So he decided to fight back.

27 Mar 2024

Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion
(via Washington Post)

Misinformation about birth control has exploded because of algorithms that feed young women a stream of videos reinforcing messages divorced from scientific evidence.

27 Mar 2024

Governments commit $40 million to Winnipeg landfill search for remains of First Nations women
(via the Globe and Mail)

The funding from Manitoba and Ottawa marks the first step toward locating the remains of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and an unidentified woman that police believe were disposed at the privately-owned Prairie Green Landfill.

27 Mar 2024