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Tara Jeffrey

@tarajeffrey.bsky.social
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Award winning journalist in Sarnia, ON. Advocating for media literacy and quality local journalism. Currently freelancing. Email: tarajeffrey84@gmail.com

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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“Good journalism holds politicians to account. It reports as events happen, including when complaints or charges are laid. And it reports the outcome of those charges, whether the person is condemned or cleared.” An important read in this week’s @petroliaindie.bsky.social:
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"At a press conference in a near-empty parking lot in Sault Ste. Marie on Tuesday, reporters said they were confined to a small, fenced area about 25 metres from where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was speaking."
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Ministry says Suncor spilled up to 5,000 litres of crude oil into the St. Clair River yesterday: petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/03/28/s...
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The Independent of Petrolia and Central Lambton @petroliaindie.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Lambton beef producers looking for new pastures Read this via petroliaindie.bsky.social petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/03/10/l...
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#NEW: Aamjiwnaang First Nation, federal government, launch groundbreaking initiative to address environmental racism. petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/03/07/a...
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SarniaNewsToday @sarnianewstoday.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Progressive Conservative incumbent Bob Bailey will serve a sixth term as Sarnia-Lambton's MPP after being re-elected during the 44th Ontario general election. sarnianewstoday.ca/sarnia/news/...
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Bailey re-elected in Sarnia-Lambton
Progressive Conservative incumbent Bob Bailey will serve a sixth term as Sarnia-Lambton's MPP after being re-elected during the 44th Ontario general election.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“We need more treatment, more facilities because people get addictions, they lose their jobs and they lose their homes. “We need to have compassion for them and learn from what happened in Rainbow Park.”
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Six of nine candidates made their case Tuesday for why they should be elected the next Sarnia-Lambton MPP. Noticeably absent was incumbent PC Bob Bailey. Election coverage from @petroliaindie.bsky.social and @cdobsonnewsnviews.bsky.social: petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/02/18/s... #ONpoli
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Great post from broadcast journalist Seyram Abdallah, in an age where it seems anyone can claim to be a journalist or a news organization:
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Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There seems to be some kind of pattern emerging. #OnPoli
Screenshots of articles from across Ontario about how Ontario PC candidates are skipping debates.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
POV: the girls from Mooretown take on the PWHL. #believe @pwhlsceptres.bsky.social @pwhlpa.bsky.social @pwhlfleet.bsky.social @iankennedyck.bsky.social
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is great to see and well deserved.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Well deserved!!!
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12/02/2025
"More journalists were killed in 2024 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed last year, nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israel."
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2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel - Committee to Protect Journalists
Introduction More journalists were killed in 2024 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 124 journalists and medi...
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the federal government will work together on a pilot project to address environmental racism. Important story by @emmamci.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/aamjiwnaang-...
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In Chemical Valley, Aamjiwnaang First Nation and Canada tackle environmental racism | The Narwhal
Aamjiwnaang First Nation, has fought for decades to stop pollution from Sarnia’s Chemical Valley. Now it’s carving a path forward with Canada
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
#NEW: from @cdobsonnewsnviews.bsky.social - Sarnia-Lambton incumbent MPP Bob Bailey is not attending a single all-candidates meeting this campaign. petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/02/11/b...
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The Independent of Petrolia and Central Lambton @petroliaindie.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Aamjiwnaang’s Chief files complaint against Sarnia councillor’s “untrue, reckless, offensive, disparaging and abusive” remarks Councillor calls Chief's remarks "a threat against me doing my job." Read this via petroliaindie.bsky.social petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/02/06/a...
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SarniaNewsToday @sarnianewstoday.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The chief of Aamjiwnaang First Nation says formal complaints have been submitted to the County of Lambton and City of Sarnia's integrity commissioners following remarks made by city/county councillor Bill Dennis last November.
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Aamjiwnaang chief files formal complaints over remarks made by Bill Dennis
In an 11 page letter to Lambton County Warden Kevin Marriott and Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley, Janelle Nahmabin said she wanted to express her "deep concern and disappointment.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“It does feel like a calling…It feels divinely guided.” I sat down with SW Ontario’s four female First Nations Chiefs to talk about their roles as leaders, mothers, and protectors of the water. Read the full story here: petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/01/29/b...
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Excellent reporting. "The data the White House has cited to say Canada is responsible for a 'massive” increase in fentanyl flowing across the northern border include a large drug bust that, according to the U.S. border agency, has no known connection to Canada." #cdnpoli
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The Independent of Petrolia and Central Lambton @petroliaindie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Sarnia non-profit LTC manager alarmed by cost of dementia housing project in Petrolia Read this via petroliaindie.bsky.social petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/02/03/s...
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SarniaNewsToday @sarnianewstoday.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Mayor Mike Bradley wants the county to allocate most -- if not all, provincial funding geared toward "winding down" homeless encampments to the City of Sarnia. sarnianewstoday.ca/sarnia/news/...
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Sarnia's mayor wants to be reimbursed for costs incurred at Rainbow Park
Mayor Mike Bradley wants the county to allocate most -- if not all -- provincial funding recently received, to the City of Sarnia.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Local news outlets should clearly label opinion pieces. From @trustingnews.bsky.social: “In our dream world, opinion content all begins with the word ‘opinion,’ a colon and then the headline, just to make it absolutely clear. It’s the only clear word to use.” Read more: lnkd.in/gxkcrwbC
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SarniaNewsToday @sarnianewstoday.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Over $70,000 has been spent so far, in relation to a workplace harassment matter at Sarnia City Hall.
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Over $70K spent on workplace harassment matter at Sarnia City Hall
The results of an independent investigation were released following a special meeting of Sarnia council on Monday.
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The Independent of Petrolia and Central Lambton @petroliaindie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
More addiction recovery beds, one-stop centre for help coming to Lambton County Read this via petroliaindie.bsky.social petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/01/27/m...
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SarniaNewsToday @sarnianewstoday.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A Sarnia city councillor has been banned from city hall, except in limited circumstances, and won't be able to attend in-person meetings once they're reinstated.
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Coun. Dennis barred from in-person meetings
The city said an independent investigation has found Bill Dennis contravened the city’s Workplace Harassment and Violence Policy and Program.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Are your local news outlets clearly labeling OPINION pieces? From @trustingnews.bsky.social founder & director Joy Mayer: “In our dream world, opinion content all begins with the word ‘opinion,’ a colon and then the headline, just to make it absolutely clear. It’s the only clear word to use."
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SarniaNewsToday @sarnianewstoday.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Human remains discovered last week in the area of Highway 40 and Lasalle Line have been identified as Bradley Ogilvie, who was reported missing in November 2023.
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BREAKING: Human remains identified as Brad Ogilvie
In September 2024, Ogilvie's disappearance was ruled a homicide and three people were charged with first-degree murder.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"It may baffle you and me, but there are some people who feel safer and more secure staying outdoors." Important reporting on how Sarnia's unhoused are surviving the cold, and what frontline workers are doing to help: petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/01/23/c...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Outlets can publish credible, fact-checked, evidence based pieces on climate change, vaccinations, the carbon tax, extremism, etc. and it will always lose out to a photoshopped screengrab someone's aunt posted on Facebook because the screengrab is allowed but the link to the article is not.
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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 23/01/2025
“People, even more than they did before, need to be their own gatekeepers & fact-checkers & editors when it comes to their information diet." - NLP's @peteradams.bsky.social in this @mattvas.bsky.social @stateline.org piece #NewsLiteracy stateline.org/2025/01/23/i...
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In times of crisis, states have few tools to fight misinformation • Stateline
While officials in Southern California fought fire and falsehoods, Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — announced it would eliminate its fact-checking program in the name of free expr...
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Bracing for Poilievre: Canada’s likely next prime minister threatens to gut the country’s press. www.cjr.org/analysis/can...
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Bracing for Poilievre
Canada’s likely next prime minister threatens to gut the country’s press.
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Jack Moulton @jackatlfpress.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Sarnia city council hasn't met in-person for eight months amid conflicts involving one politician. Can a solution be found? #swont lfpress.com/feature/sarn...
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8 months, zero live meetings: Inside the tension hobbling Sarnia's strained city council
Sarnia city council hasn't met in-person for eight months amid conflicts involving one politician. Can a solution be found?
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Alan Duke, Fact Checker @alanduke.com · 13/01/2025
CNN’s @donie.bsky.social just published my perspective on what’s happening with Meta: “Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/t...
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Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories | CNN Business
Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A community food pantry recently opened in Brigden, Ontario, where 200 local students lineup up to form a ‘chain of caring’ to deliver much-needed food and hygiene items last week. My story here: petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2024/12/19/s...
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The Independent of Petrolia and Central Lambton @petroliaindie.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A story of grief, books and a stranger's kindness. Read this via petroliaindie.bsky.social petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2024/12/17/a...
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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 12/12/2024
As @poynterinstitute.bsky.social explains ⤵️, standards-based #journalism means rigorously confirming facts - & reaching out to subjects of a story for comment. It also means changing or scrapping a story when new info is learned. ➕ 7 standards of quality journalism: bit.ly/7StandardsJo...
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Seven standards of quality journalism
This resource outlines seven primary standards of quality journalism and their descriptions.
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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 12/12/2024
🤣 Memes can be funny! But they aren't news... 👍 The number of likes a post has doesn't mean it's legit. Here are 7 basic tips for staying sharp as you scroll ⤵️ 🔗 Download the infographic: bit.ly/7tipsNLP #MediaLiteracy #TlSky
An infographic with 7 boxes. 
Headline: Seven Steps for Staying Sharp Online
Each box has a box with a tip. The tips are:
1. Pause
2. Memes aren't news
3. Likes and shares ≠ credibility
4. Take time to assess sources
5. Get to the experts
6. Don't feed the trolls
7. Steer clear of conspiratorial thinking
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Lambton County workers have convinced dozens of Rainbow Park inhabitants to move into shelter or have helped them find alternate living situations. But there are a couple dozen souls unwilling to move. from Cathy Dobson for The Independent: petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2024/12/11/o...
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Only the hardiest remain at Rainbow Park say Sarnia officials | The IndependentAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative ContrastLight BackgroundLinks UnderlineReadab...
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Please do your part to support quality local journalism in Sarnia-Lambton: subscribe, buy an ad, visit their website and pick up a paper copy. P.S. A local newspaper subscription makes a great holiday gift!
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The Independent of Petrolia and Central Lambton @petroliaindie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Flare from NOVA Corunna flaring seen as far south as Dresden. Read this via petroliaindie.bsky.social petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2024/12/06/f...
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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 05/12/2024
🚨 When you receive a breaking news alert, it's easy to react immediately without getting the full picture. That can add to the spread of unverified info. Start by clicking on the rest of the story, not just the headline. Here are 6️⃣ more tips. 🔗 Download: bit.ly/BreakingNews... #NewsLiteracy
Text-heavy and colorful infographic titled BREAKING NEWS CHECKLIST with 6 tips on "What to do when information is scarce, falsehoods are rampant and the story is still unfolding" 1 Mind the gap: Keep in mind that there’s often a gap between what the public wants to know and the verified information available. Unconfirmed or completely bogus content often rushes in to fill that gap. 2 Beware bad actors: Remember that bad actors often capitalize on breaking news situations to spread falsehoods for easy likes and shares. 3 Do a quick search: This is often your best defense against misinformation. 4 Look for evidence: Claims that make bold assertions but provide no links or other evidence should always be approached with caution. 5 Seek credible sources: Be intentional about looking for credible news and not relying on social media algorithms to bring you updates. 6 Practice patience: Quality journalism and verification take time. Be ready to follow news developments over time.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A candlelight vigil is set for Saturday from 3-5p.m. at London and Murphy roads, one of the busiest intersections in the city: www.theobserver.ca/news/vigil-o...
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Vigil on Saturday in Sarnia for stabbed Lambton College international student
The mother of the international Lambton College student police say was stabbed to death was so upset she had a hard time talking.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Oligarch times, and the oligarchs suck
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“We don’t use A.I. to write articles, and journalists are ultimately responsible for everything that we publish.” www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/r...
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How The New York Times Uses A.I. for Journalism
We don’t use A.I. to write articles, and journalists are ultimately responsible for everything that we publish.
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SarniaNewsToday @sarnianewstoday.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Imperial reported a spill to the St. Clair River that required downriver notification Tuesday afternoon. sarnianewstoday.ca/sarnia/news/...
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Imperial reports biomass spill to St. Clair River
Sarnia Police Dispatch first relayed a message from the company just after 1 p.m.
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“We drive from Grand Bend to Port Lambton for work and are meeting the heart and soul of Canada. I really feel like I am family.” Beautiful story about a Ukrainian family who now call Petrolia home (from Cathy Dobson via @petroliaindie.bsky.social) petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2024/12/01/m...
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/12/2024
A reminder, if you're a #cdnmedia freelancer or other person who interacts with editors on purpose, there's a starter pack of editors at Canadian publications here: go.bsky.app/SJgutHX
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Tara Jeffrey @tarajeffrey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
(1/2) A member of Sarnia's Dunlop Central United Church – where Coun. Adam Kilner serves as minister – spoke up at Sunday's service about a recent council meeting where Kilner was berated by fellow councillor Bill Dennis. "When bad things like that happen... we need to name them."
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