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Inori Roy

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Not here much! Toronto journalist, editor at @thelocal.to, reach me at inori@thelocal.to. she/her

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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We just wrapped our sports issue at @thelocal.to with this excellent profile of one of Canada's best wheelchair rugby players. This story avoids all the clichés you've heard about para athletes and instead presents you with a complex image of a young man at a crossroads—don't miss it.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 15/07/2026
“He has to keep winning, keep winning, keep winning.” Team Canada's youngest wheelchair rugby player is driven by a need to dominate. It's also what seems to bring him the most grief, writes @wencyleung.bsky.social in the final story from our sports issue: thelocal.to/wheelchair-r...
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Wheelchair Athlete Rio Kanda Kovac Wants to Win | The Local
His thirst for victory has gotten Team Canada's youngest player this far in wheelchair rugby. But in this fast-paced, aggressive, yet remarkably inclusive sport, getting ahead also means learning to p...
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 09/07/2026
Fuelled by waves of South Asian immigration, cricket has become one of Canada's fastest-growing sports, writes Vikram Nijhawan. But overcrowded fields, failing businesses, and allegations of corruption are threatening the game from within. thelocal.to/cricket-popu...
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Cricket in the GTA Is Booming. Now Comes the Hard Part. } The Local
Fuelled by waves of South Asian immigration, cricket has become one of Canada's fastest-growing sports. But overcrowded fields, failing businesses, and allegations of corruption are threatening the ga...
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 02/07/2026
Womens sports are booming in Canada right now. But without female coaches at the helm, a generation of young athletes may miss out on the opportunity to learn a new way to play, writes @curiouslana.bsky.social. New from our sports issue: thelocal.to/womens-sport...
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Where Are All the Female Coaches? | The Local
Canada is in a moment of unprecedented expansion in women’s sports. But structural barriers and unclear pathways into coaching mean that women are being deprived of opportunities to lead the next gene...
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Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I wrote about my beloved baseball Maple Leafs signing Yasiel Puig. thelocal.to/yasiel-puig-...
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Yasiel Puig at Christie Pits | The Local
A free Maple Leafs baseball game at my local playground has long been the best community event in the city. Then the team signed a former Major League Baseball star awaiting sentencing.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 25/06/2026
Trans-inclusive health care is already hard to find in Ontario. Now, growing anti-trans rhetoric is making physicians more hesitant to get trained in gender-affirming care, experts tell @ziyajones.bsky.social. A new feature published in partnership with @script.health: thelocal.to/trans-health...
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The New Chill Facing Trans Health Care Providers | The Local
As anti-trans rhetoric intensifies at home and abroad, the organizations providing training in trans-inclusive healthcare say they’re seeing less uptake from physicians across Ontario.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 19/06/2026
Kids aren’t moving or playing enough. Part of the problem, argues Rachel Giese, is the rise of the massive competitive youth sports industry. thelocal.to/youth-sports...
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Kids Aren’t Active Enough. Youth Sports Are Part of the Problem. | The Local
As competitive, specialized athletics dominate gyms and community fields, the children who need physical activity most are the ones being left out.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 12/06/2026
Making it pro as a soccer referee in Canada is in many ways harder than making it pro as a player, writes Sam Rosati Martin. That doesn’t stop this corps of ambitious, self-serious officials from trying. thelocal.to/soccer-refer...
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The Grand Ambitions and Grubby Indignities of the Aspiring Soccer Referee | The Local
Making it pro as a referee in Canada is in many ways harder than making it pro as a player. That doesn’t stop this corps of exacting, self-serious officials from trying.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 10/06/2026
Wait, how much are we spending on reusable cups? @michaeldeforge.bsky.social and @wencyleung.bsky.social make sense of the costs and payoffs of hosting the World Cup in seven illustrations. thelocal.to/fifa-world-c...
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An Illustrated Guide to the FIFA World Cup in Toronto | The Local
How many private jets could this pay for? Seven illustrations to make sense of the costs and payoffs of hosting the World Cup.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 10/06/2026
Today we launch our latest issue, “Sports and the City.” The World Cup is a reminder of the massive influence sports can have over a place like Toronto—reshaping our geography, sparking celebration or mourning, and remaking our experience of the city. thelocal.to/summer-2026/
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Sports and the City | The Local
How we play sports is tied to policy and politics, culture and business. As the larger-than-life FIFA World Cup kicks off in Toronto, we look at sports from the ground, from minor-league baseball to c...
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 07/06/2026
“It feels hyperbolic, it feels morbid, but I'm very concerned that my day-to-day life is gonna require stepping over dead bodies.” Don't miss @emmapaling.bsky.social's stunning feature on the impending closure of Moss Park's safe consumption site, your Sunday #longread. thelocal.to/moss-park-sa...
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The Long Last Days of Toronto’s First Safe Consumption Site | The Local
Nick says he’ll go back to Manitoulin. Texas can’t even think about the closure. Inside Moss Park in the final days of a nine-year era of safe consumption.
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I've been thinking of The Local's sports issue as 'sports from the margins'—every Toronto sports story you won't have heard about during FIFA, but ought to know. The issue just wrapped this week. If you missed it, now's your chance to take a look: thelocal.to/summer-2026/
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Sports and the City | The Local
How we play sports is tied to policy and politics, culture and business. As the larger-than-life FIFA World Cup kicks off in Toronto, we look at sports from the ground, from minor-league baseball to c...
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm so happy to share that my 2025 feature on Ontario's worm industry won gold at the Canadian Association of Journalists awards and silver at the National Magazine Awards! What an honour. Thanks to the judges, my sources, the worms, and my wonderful team for allowing me to pursue this wacky story.
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Impressive new series on the lack of oversight and resource shortages plaguing Ontario’s long-term care system, meticulously reported by @royinori.bsky.social in @thelocal.to
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Inspecting Long-Term Care | The Local
Five years after a pandemic that revealed the disastrous conditions in Ontario’s long-term care homes, we investigate the state of oversight in the sector. Rolling out over the next two weeks, our “In...
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 06/06/2026
Last night, our Wild Wild City issue won Best Editorial Package at the National Magazine Awards! @nickhunebrown.bsky.social also won gold for his story from the issue, Breakdown at the Racetrack, and @royinori.bsky.social silver for hers, The Worm Hunters of Southern Ontario. Congratulations! 🎉
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
So much great work to celebrate from last night's NMAs... Big love to the whole team @cangeo.bsky.social for awards in feature writing and photo essays!! And huge congrats to pals including @nickhunebrown.bsky.social, @royinori.bsky.social, @arnokopecky.bsky.social, and @patkanephoto.bsky.social!
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2026 Winners
We are pleased to reveal the Canadian creators who won Gold and Silver medals at this year’s National Magazine Awards. The gala was held at Arcadian Court in Toronto on June 5, 2026, and was co-hos…
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 14/06/2026
Congratulations @royinori.bsky.social! 🎉
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Chloë Ellingson @chloeellingson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@thelocal.to's first audio story! Listent to the great @royinori.bsky.social read this powerful piece.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
He Complained About His Mother’s Care. The Long-Term Care Home Restricted Him From Seeing Her. Five years after Ontario banned the practice, families still being punishment for complaining about inadequate care, by @royinori.bsky.social thelocal.to/ontario-long... via @thelocal.to
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He Complained About His Mother’s Care. The Home Restricted Him From Seeing Her | The Local
Five years after Queen’s Park unanimously voted to end the practice, families say they’re still being kept from their loved ones as punishment for complaining about care—with no clear legal recourse.
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you've ever wished you had more time to read our work at The Local, we've now made it easier for you, debuting a new audio version of our latest story today - with ✨ no AI! ✨ Just hours of hard work from our team and me getting slightly dizzy staring at thousands of words on the page!
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This story is the kind of work that made me want to become a journalist - to be able to bring to light an intimate, human story, something that few know about but that may in time affect all of us. I'm very grateful to my sources in this piece, who made room for me in the midst of their grief:
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
My latest, for the weekend crowd:
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
At a time when governments are withholding data and information at every level, building an algorithm to scrape data from 17,500+ documents—with no AI—is an unparalleled skill. It's something not a lot of journalists in Canada can do. A privilege to team up with Xavi for a project of this scale!
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Wency Leung @wencyleung.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
@royinori.bsky.social started talking about this incredibly ambitious project months and months ago. Today, @thelocal.to is launching its Inspecting Long-Term Care issue, which she single-handedly wrote. It is phenomenal data journalism. thelocal.to/spring-2026/
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Inspecting Long-Term Care | The Local
Five years after a pandemic that revealed the disastrous conditions in Ontario’s long-term care homes, we investigate the state of oversight in the sector. Rolling out over the next two weeks, our “In...
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Erin 🍍 @maclebass.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Local does this thing where they'll publish an investigation and I'll be like "is this the most crucial work I've read this year?", and then they'll publish another and I'm like "is THIS the most crucial work I've read this year?" and so on until the sun explodes. LOOK at the work they did here!
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 28/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the pandemic, the Ford government set the target of one proactive inspection a year at every long-term care home. But our analysis of thousands of inspection reports reveals less than 40% of LTC homes received a proactive inspection in 2025. thelocal.to/ontario-long...
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The Ford Government Is Failing to Meet Its Own Long-Term Care Inspection Goals | The Local
Exclusive analysis of more than 17,500 long-term care home inspection reports reveals a provincial inspection regime failing to meet its own accountability goals, with seniors who lack family advocate...
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Tens of thousands of Ontarians are on #longtermcare waitlists. Gathering never-before-seen data on performance indicators, @xavierrichervis.bsky.social, Ilyass Moffadel, and I have created a tool to help people make informed choices about where to place their loved ones: thelocal.to/long-term-ca...
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Inspection Results for Every Long-Term Care Home in Ontario
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
With data from 17,500 inspection reports, five months of work, and dozens of sources—families, health care workers, experts, policy makers—our new investigation on the state of long-term care reveals broken promises, and seniors being left behind by an inequal system. thelocal.to/ontario-long...
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The Ford Government Is Failing to Meet Its Own Long-Term Care Inspection Goals | The Local
Exclusive analysis of more than 17,500 long-term care home inspection reports reveals a provincial inspection regime failing to meet its own accountability goals, with seniors who lack family advocate...
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 14/05/2026
From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.
Line chart showing vehicles exceeding 60 km/h on Parkside Drive from January to April, comparing enforcement periods with and without speed cameras. The data shows a dramatic increase in speeding violations after the camera ban in November 2025
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 14/05/2026
The Local is expanding! After seven years focusing on hyper-local reporting from Toronto, we're going (very slightly) west. We're thrilled to introduce our first Peel Reporter, @prarthanapathak.bsky.social! thelocal.to/the-local-ex...
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The Local Expands Into Peel | The Local
Introducing Prarthana Pathak, our new Peel Reporter
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned.  The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 28/04/2026
Best Feature Article (Long): “Why Did a Group of Teenage Girls Kill a Man in a Downtown Toronto Parkette?” by @royinori.bsky.social. Editor: Dafna Izenberg; fact checker: Amarah Hasham-Steele; and illustrator: Alexandra Newbould. thewalrus.ca/why-did-a-gr...
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Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Love that our issue about urban wildlife got so many nominations. Especially glad to see this story, in which @royinori.bsky.social hangs out in a field in the middle of the night picking worms, get the respect it deserves
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Wency Leung @wencyleung.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
So happy for @thelocal.to! Congrats to my amazing colleagues and our excellent contributors! 🎉 Especially to @royinori.bsky.social, @nickhunebrown.bsky.social, @kunalchaudhary.bsky.social, and the whole team behind our Wild Wild City issue
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Every day with this team is a marvel, especially when you get to celebrate the work of your amazing colleagues and contributors. Check out our stories that received national nods last week, and congratulations to all the nominees 🥳
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I've been offline on a deadline the past week so I'm only now getting to express how thrilled I am at being nominated for two National Magazine Awards, for stories in @thelocal.to and @thewalrus.ca. Honoured to be named alongside so many brilliant people. Unreal! magazine-awards.com/en/2026nomin...
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2026 National Magazine Awards: Celebrating Excellence in Canadian Publishing
Discover the nominees for the 49th Annual National Magazine Awards, celebrating excellence in Canadian print and digital media. Join the gala!
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Another year, another wonderful roundup of talent in the NMAs noms. @nickhunebrown.bsky.social! @royinori.bsky.social! @arnokopecky.bsky.social! @marcellodicintio.bsky.social! @alisonmotluk.bsky.social! @tajjaisen.bsky.social! @juliesobowale.bsky.social! @patkanephoto.bsky.social! + so many more...
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2026 National Magazine Awards: Celebrating Excellence in Canadian Publishing
Discover the nominees for the 49th Annual National Magazine Awards, celebrating excellence in Canadian print and digital media. Join the gala!
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Incredible story out in The Local today from @wencyleung.bsky.social and @chloeellingson.bsky.social about the human cost of cuts to refugee supports. The individual fallout of a decision like this is, for already marginalized refugees or asylum seekers, in the hundreds or thousands of dollars.
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Being trusted to do this story, which was unlike anything I'd done before, was a privilege, and I'm grateful to now be recognized among an amazing group of fellow nominees. Congrats all, and special thanks to my editor Dafna and fact-checker Amarah, both extraordinary individuals and collaborators ❤️
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 28/04/2026
Correction: that's five DPA nominations, not four, with our nomination for General Excellence for small publications (an award we've won four of the past five years!) Thanks to all the staff and contributors who make The Local generally excellent!
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 28/04/2026
And our summer animals issue, Wild Wild City, is nominated for best editorial package. Congrats to all the nominees! thelocal.to/summer-2025/
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Wild Wild City | The Local
In different corners of Toronto, human and animal worlds are colliding in unexpected ways. From divisive fights over cormorants and coyotes, to the rise and fall of niche industries, to Indigenous-led...
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 28/04/2026
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social's "Breakdown at the Racetrack" is nominated for Best Feature Article: Long. thelocal.to/breakdown-at...
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Breakdown at the Racetrack | The Local
Once a lucrative gambling business, Ontario's horse racing industry is now heavily subsidized by the government. As gamblers turn to online gaming, and ideas about animal welfare shift, a cluster of f...
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 28/04/2026
@wencyleung.bsky.social's "Bird Flu Comes For Toronto’s Wildlife" is nominated for Best Science and Technology Writing. thelocal.to/avian-flu-to...
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Bird Flu Comes For Toronto’s Wildlife | The Local
For humans, the virus has the potential to spark the next pandemic. But for wildlife, it's already causing devastation.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 28/04/2026
Quick 🧵 of the nominees: @kunalchaudhary.bsky.social is nominated in Best Feature Article for "How Ontario Sleepwalked into a Crisis in Higher Education" thelocal.to/ontario-post...
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How Ontario Sleepwalked into a Crisis in Higher Education | The Local
After years of underfunding, the province’s colleges and universities are now in financial free fall—slashing staff, cutting programs, and shuttering campuses.
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Amazing news to see the team celebrated in these DPA nominations, including work from the always smart @kunalchaudhary.bsky.social and my lovely colleagues @wencyleung.bsky.social @nickhunebrown.bsky.social ✨🎉
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Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) @cajournalists.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Finalists/Finalistes : Community written feature / Reportage écrit communautaire ⭐️Samantha Beattie - CBC Hamilton ⭐️Eve Cable - Eastern Door ⭐️Kathryn Mannie - TorontoToday ⭐️Inori Roy - The Local #CAJawards #prixACJ
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Tai Huynh @taimhuynh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Big congrats to @nickhunebrown.bsky.social @wencyleung.bsky.social @royinori.bsky.social for these stellar pieces of journalism and storytelling. I know how hard they worked to bring these stories to readers. Well deserved. 👏
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This feature was a delight and privilege to write, and I was so busy having fun that I had no idea it would resonate with so many people (even across oceans!) and be recognized by my peers. I'm very lucky to get to do this work, and grateful to my @thelocal.to team for letting me chase this story. 🪱
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Inori Roy @royinori.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
So pleased to see this recognition for my wonderful colleagues @nickhunebrown.bsky.social and @wencyleung.bsky.social, and grateful to be nominated!
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
On April 4, TPS entered the lobby of Comedy Bar moments before the start of a fundraising event for Gaza. That same night, cops entered a theatre at TIFF Lightbox midway through a screening of 'Palestine 36.' I dug into this concerning trend for @thegrindto.bsky.social.
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Cops keep showing up to arts events about Palestine. What can organizers do?
Toronto police showed up at a comedy fundraiser and at a film screening on the same night in April. Organizers describe how this fits into a broader pattern and what can be done to protect community…
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