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Savannah Stewart

@savannahstewart.bsky.social
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Journaliste montréalaise | Managing editor @therovermedia.bsky.social | community reporting, language, QC politics, indie media ✨

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The Rover @therovermedia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"We’d love to say that we don’t care about awards, but we’d be lying. The truth is, we desperately hope each year that at least one of our submissions will be nominated, because it gives us proof that we are legitimate, that we do good work." @savannahstewart.bsky.social on why awards matter to us
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Editor’s Note: Haters Be Damned, it’s Awards Season at The Rover – The Rover
With more nominations in our name, Savannah writes about why industry awards matter to an indie outlet like ours.
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Savannah Stewart @savannahstewart.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Thrilled to be nominated for a CAJ award alongside my colleague and friend, Justin Khan, for Palestine on Campus!
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Unrigged @unrigged.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Yesterday's 2nd annual Independent Media Summit bringing together journalism, social economy and philanthropy was a big success! Thanks to @therovermedia.bsky.social @pivot.quebec @policyalternatives.ca + @laconverse.bsky.social and our conference organizing partners @chantieres.bsky.social 💕
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I don't understand this approach to public safety. Particularly when the STM has the personnel to mobilize dozens of officers for fare-jumper blitzes (which I had barely ever seen before this winter.) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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STM closing 3 Montreal Metro station entrances due to 'undesirable behaviour' | CBC News
Citing “undesirable behaviour,” Montreal’s public transit authority is indefinitely closing three Metro station entrances to “ensure the sense of safety for both customers and employees.”
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The Rover @therovermedia.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
In her latest column, Managing Editor @savannahstewart.bsky.social writes about our comment moderation concerns. How do we maintain a healthy environment on our platforms with our limited resources?
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Editor’s Note: When the Comments Section Gets Out of Hand – The Rover
As our Instagram follower count grows, so too does the number of problematic comments. What are we supposed to do about it?
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“When people were asked how many refugees were accepted in Canada in 2018 (during the Roxham Rd. surge), the median answer given by study participants was 256,000. The actual number of refugees accepted by Canada that year was … 49,504. The gap between perception and reality can be staggering.”
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Quebec’s Bill 21 is sold as “state neutrality,” but in practice it strips citizens of a fundamental liberty: the right to live and serve publicly without abandoning their faith. montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett...
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Letter of the day: Let's dial up the volume as Bill 21 ruling looms
I'm an EMSB commissioner. Merit and professional opportunity must not be conditional on hiding one's identity.
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Thomas Gerbet @thomasgerbet.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Le gouvernement Legault estime qu'il a perdu la moitié de son investissement dans l’A220 d’Airbus, soit 400 millions $. Dans les comptes publics 2024-2025, l'info était noyée parmi des pertes d’1,1 milliard $ dans des entreprises (Northvolt, Lion, etc). ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/219...
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Le gouvernement Legault estime avoir perdu 400M$ dans Airbus
Le gouvernement Legault estime qu'il a perdu la moitié de son investissement dans Airbus, soit 400 millions de dollars, a appris Radio-Canada.
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Tristan Capacchione @mountroyalaudio.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I think this is still an argument for better transit, personally. The piece gets into arguments for and against, but I think one aspect that isn’t talked about is how parking is just not good for city economics. Fewer homes, less tax revenue, utilities cost more per capita, etc.
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Melanie O’Brien, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars: “It is without a doubt that we are witnessing a genocide now in Gaza, and state parties to the Convention are failing in their obligation to prevent and punish it.” opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/i...
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Is Genocide Happening in Gaza?
[Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and Visiting Scholar with the H…
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The Rover @therovermedia.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🎙️ LISTEN: @savannahstewart.bsky.social joined CKUT’s Jules Bugiel to talk about The Rover’s first documentary, Palestine on Campus ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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New documentary says McGill used pro-Palestine encampment to ‘increase surveillance of students’
A new documentary tracks the pro-Palestine encampment at McGill, as well as how the student movement continued its fight for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), in the year following its…
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
It’s easy for the Legault government to claim they’re big fans of gender equality when it suits their narrative, but when women’s groups are begging them to fast-track construction of more women’s shelters, they refuse to allocate the money.” cultmtl.com/2025/07/the-...
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The CAQ vs. women: Gender equality is under attack in Quebec
Femonationalism has been a cornerstone of the CAQ's right-wing agenda, justifying legislation that undercuts gender equality in Quebec.
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Dave Kaufman @davekaufman.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My pals @therovermedia.bsky.social released a wide-ranging documentary on Palestinian protests on Montreal campuses and their fallout. It's 30 mins, in depth, & worth your time. As usual, the Rover goes where others fear to tread. Bravo, @savannahstewart.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvO7...
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Palestine on Campus: the Student Movement in Montreal Schools
YouTube video by The Rover
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The Rover @therovermedia.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The Rover exists with just about every traditional source of institutional funding closed off to us. How do we make it work, and what does that mean for our sustainability? @savannahstewart.bsky.social talks funding in the latest Editor's Note ⬇️
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Editor’s Note: Running an Independent Media, in This Economy?! – The Rover
Savannah reflects on the ups and downs of keeping The Rover alive with almost no institutional funding.
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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A Canadian has died in ICE custody, cause under investigation
A Canadian in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody has died, according to the government agency.
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Harbinger Media Network @harbingermedia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
On a new episode of @unrigged.bsky.social's 💬PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS💬 join @therovermedia.bsky.social's @savannahstewart.bsky.social, @emeliafournier.bsky.social + others for a conversation exploring the state of independent journalism in Canada today. www.spreaker.com/episode/mont... 🔶
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Christopher Curtis @titocurtis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is probably @savannahstewart.bsky.social’s best column detailing how we planned, executed and paid for our election coverage. At The Rover, we’re committed to showing you exactly how we do what we do.
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The Rover @therovermedia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
In case you didn’t notice, The Rover went pretty hard this election. Here's a recap of our hectic, hellish month of April. By @savannahstewart.bsky.social
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Editor’s Note: Covering the Federal Elections at The Rover – The Rover
Reporting, grants, and debate-night mayhem — a post-election debrief.
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Everybody knows it's Allez Montréal, Go Habs Go, or olé olé olé olé. Those are the choices. It's not Go Canadiens, not Allez Canadiens, there are no good Canadiens chants. Does not work. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hocke...
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Montreal buses remove ‘Go! Canadiens Go!’ after complaint to Quebec’s language watchdog
Montreal’s transit agency says it is now using the French expression ‘Allez! Canadiens Allez!’ to show support for the Montreal Canadiens’ playoff run, because the word ‘go’ is an anglicism
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Tristan Capacchione @mountroyalaudio.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Having lived here for 30 years, this was inevitable. But to me it also signals how these laws restrict the Québécois from their own freedom of expression. The busses have had that for about twenty years or so. The STM isn’t some bastion of Anglo culture. Francophones likely chose it originally…
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The Rover @therovermedia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We're going over the federal parties' platforms on some key issues that matter to Montrealers and Quebecers, starting with social programs: what are the leader promising for healthcare, dental care, childcare and more! By @savannahstewart.bsky.social therover.ca/what-social-...
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What Social Programs Are the Parties Promising? – The Rover
The Rover is looking at the federal party platforms issue by issue, starting with social programs: healthcare, child care, and (some) housing promises.
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Sam Harper @sharper.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🔥 Nous publions ce matin un étude effectuée par @agoratlas.com pour le compte de Pivot qui analyse l'écosystème TikTok entourant l'élection fédérale. Constat: des spammeurs, principalement pro-conservateurs, publient une quantité importante de commentaires. pivot.quebec/2025/04/23/d...
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Des spammeurs inondent TikTok de contenu pro-conservateur – Pivot
Une infime minorité de comptes, au message surtout pro-conservateur, est responsable de 15 % des commentaires sur les vidéos entourant les élections.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Watching Pierre Poilievre’s press conference in Hamilton right now, and his speech has devoted extended amounts of time to repeating two debunked claims: 1) that the Liberal platform was written for Trudeau (it wasn’t, Janyce McGregor already fact checked this)
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Philippe de Grosbois @metronomephil.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
«les créateurs de contenu comme lui n’ont pas à jouer le jeu de la neutralité. Cela les décrédibilise aux yeux de certains, mais d’autres y voient une marque d’honnêteté qui inspire la confiance.» Toujours pertinente @daphneb.bsky.social 👇 www.lapresse.ca/societe/chro...
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Beachclub politique
Les politiciens doivent faire campagne dans un écosystème médiatique en pleine mutation. Si certains tendent à jouer les influenceurs, ces derniers tiennent de plus en plus un rôle politique.
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Philippe de Grosbois @metronomephil.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Selon Cardinal, @pressprogress.ca et @breachmedia.ca ont un biais «qui les disqualifie pour le titre de journalistes». Cardinal peut-il identifier une faute déontologique de ces médias? Une seule?
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Philippe de Grosbois @metronomephil.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Comme on s'y attendait, le militant d'extrême centre François Cardinal rejoint la conversation: www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
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Le retour du journalisme de combat
Ceux qui cherchaient du divertissement, des piques et des attaques de mauvaise foi lors du débat des chefs en français ont été déçus. Mais ils ont pu se rattraper avec les périodes de questions d’aprè...
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La Converse @laconverse.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Le poste frontalier de Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle accueille de plus en plus de demandeurs d’asile qui souhaitent quitter les États-Unis. En pleine élection fédérale, la crainte d’un nouveau chemin Roxham est au cœur des débats. Un reportage de @loubnachlaikhy.bsky.social
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Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle – À la rencontre de ces demandeurs d’asile qui fuient les États-Unis | Articles | La Converse
Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle accueille de plus en plus de demandeurs d’asile des États-Unis. Nous les rencontrons.
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The Rover @therovermedia.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The Rover’s Natalia Rivero Gómez was nominated for a CAJ for her piece on agricultural farm workers in Quebec as part of the temporary foreign worker program! Read the article here: therover.ca/without-our-...
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“Without Our Labour, Who Would Work?” – The Rover
Temporary foreign workers leave their families behind to fill essential jobs that keep farms in the country running. Experts argue Canada has unfairly benefited from their skills and experience withou...
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Diamond Yao 🌈 @graceofyul.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Pour @therovermedia.bsky.social, j’ai écrit sur mes expériences avec le multilinguisme au Québec. J’ai aussi interrogé le gouvernement québécois à ce sujet. Merci @savannahstewart.bsky.social et @titocurtis.bsky.social pour les révisions et l’opportunité! therover.ca/les-defis-et...
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Les défis et les déchirements du multilinguisme – The Rover
Il est temps que le Québec valorise ma langue et ma culture.
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Christopher Curtis @titocurtis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you’re curious about why and how we do what we do, @savannahstewart.bsky.social’s column lets you in on the process of running a chaotic newsroom. This week, we looked at the influence of neoliberalism on journalism
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Savannah Stewart @savannahstewart.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Neoliberalism is killing journalism and it’s killing us too. Independent media like The Rover are a place to challenge that status quo. Also, I’m obsessed with the column’s new graphic depicting our beloved office space 🥹
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La Converse @laconverse.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Tandis que 60 femmes ont été tuées par leur conjoint ou leur ex-partenaire depuis 2020 au Québec, dont 13 l’année dernière, le gouvernement provincial a mis fin à deux programmes d’aide aux victimes de violences conjugales. Un reportage de @jdaveigar.bsky.social et @loubnachlaikhy.bsky.social
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Québec supprime deux programmes de soutien aux femmes victimes de violences conjugales | Articles | La Converse
Le 31 mars marquera la fin officielle du service d’interprétariat pour les femmes immigrantes victimes de violences sexuelles et conjugales.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17/03/2025
'St. Paddy's Day' is usually preferred over 'St. Patty's Day.' 'Paddy' is the shortened form of the original Irish spelling of 'Patrick,' which is 'Pádraig.' 'Patty' is the shortened form of 'Patricia.'
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Savannah Stewart @savannahstewart.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Currently in Vermont and I can confirm that this is a widely-held sentiment here
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La Converse @laconverse.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Le 15 mars prochain, Montréal découvrira le successeur ou la successeure de Valérie Plante à la tête de Projet Montréal. La Converse a donc invité dans ses bureaux les cinq candidats à la chefferie pour discuter de leurs ambitions. www.laconverse.com/articles/por...
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Portrait des cinq candidats à la succession de Valérie Plante à la tête de Projet Montréal | Articles | La Converse
Le 15 mars prochain, Montréal découvrira le successeur ou la successeure de Valérie Plante à la tête de Projet Montréal.
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La Converse @laconverse.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
« On ne fugue pas de chez nous, on fugue du centre » La Converse a pu confirmer qu’au moins trois des quatre jeunes filles portées disparues il y a quelques semaines sont placées au Centre jeunesse de Laval, dans l’unité réservée aux filles, Notre-Dame de Laval. www.laconverse.com/articles/fug...
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Fugueuses – un cri d'alarme lancé depuis le Centre jeunesse de Laval | Articles | La Converse
Au moins trois des quatres jeunes filles portées disparues au début février dans la région montréalaise sont placées au Centre jeunesse de Laval.
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Christopher Curtis @titocurtis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🚨Advertising Opportunity🚨 The Rover is about to launch a 6-episode investigative podcast into Quebec’s housing crisis. It is an unprecedented look at the crisis using a Serial/Slowburn style storytelling and I believe one of our journalists may have literally chased a cabinet minister (mic in hand).
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Rima Elkouri @rimaelkouri.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Le cours de français dont s’est mêlée la ministre Pascale Déry n’est pas de nature à jeter de l’huile sur le feu. C’est un cours de littérature faisant partie du Peace Certificate, créé après la tuerie à Dawson pour inviter les élèves à une réflexion critique sur la paix.👇🏽 lp.ca/mvd6XG?shari...
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Liberté, j’écris ton nom (quand ça me tente)
La liberté d’enseignement vaut-elle seulement pour les professeurs dont le contenu du cours est approuvé par le gouvernement caquiste ?
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
CSIS releases a report with info that any activist already knows -- that antisemitic threats are most dangerous and serious coming from the far right, and CBC inexplicably talks to a random cop who says actually, Muslims are still more dangerous. What in the fuck, CBC? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Violent extremists are using antisemitism to recruit in Canada: CSIS report | CBC News
Ideologically motivated violent extremist groups are using antisemitism in a bid to recruit followers and inspire violence, according to a report from Canada's spy agency.
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Savannah Stewart @savannahstewart.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I've been reporting on housing for a few years now and it's not always easy, but it's needed more than ever. I talk about some of the challenges in the latest installment of my column, Editor's Note.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27/01/2025
Wake up, kids. We got the dreamers disease.
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Christopher Curtis @titocurtis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Everyone has that chaotic friend they explicitly don’t invite to parties but he always ends up there anyway
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Savannah Stewart @savannahstewart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We journalists have failed to communicate how we do our job and why it's important — that's the role we've played in the loss of public trust in the media. In my column, we'll get into how journalism is made and explore ways to fix this struggling industry. therover.ca/editors-note...
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Editor’s Note: A New Column From The Rover – The Rover
Managing Editor Savannah Stewart takes you behind the scenes of The Rover in a monthly column.
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The Rover @therovermedia.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Sunday Read: @emeliafournier.bsky.social returns on the closure of Nouvel Établissement, La Tulipe and other music venues, and the City of Montreal's new nightlife policy. Will this policy save our struggling nightlife scene? It's complicated. therover.ca/the-closure-...
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The Closure of ‘Iconic’ Nouvel Établissement and the Uncertain Future of Nightlife – The Rover
The City of Montreal is promising a better future for nightlife venues, but bylaws impacting venues are left up to the boroughs.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
According to Pew Research, 86% of Canadians say that rich people having too much political influence leads to economy inequality in the country
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Bad + Bitchy Podcast @badandbitchy.com · 09/01/2025
Women are at high risk for intimate partner violence after a natural disaster “In all countries, violence against women and girls is a factor post-disaster. Sexual assaults, physical abuse and human trafficking increase after a disaster” disasterphilanthropy.org/resources/wo...
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Women and Girls in Disasters - Center for Disaster Philanthropy
Pre-existing, structural gender inequalities mean that disasters affect women and girls in different ways than they affect boys and men.
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Christopher Curtis @titocurtis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Some hope in times of despair: Mohawks in Kahnawake are restoring creeks that were wrecked by the federal government 70 years ago. Fish, muskrats and all manner of flora are thriving on Mohawk territory. Big article by @natirv.bsky.social for @therovermedia.bsky.social therover.ça/revitalizing...
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Revitalizing the Creeks in Kahnawake – The Rover
The creeks of the territory carry in their streams the memories of the community. Even though their waters flow slowly due to their deteriorated state, the Kahnawà:ke Environment Protection Office see...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/01/2025
Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Savannah Stewart @savannahstewart.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The collective exhale when he finally resigns will be so sweet
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