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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This deeply reported story refutes the city of Victoria's claims about what it does with the property it confiscates from unhoused people. Phenomenal work by @brishti.bsky.social and the De Facto Media team. Give it a read!

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Official databases of missing and murdered Indigenous people in the U.S. are fragmented, confusing, and often contradictory. So my colleague Pier Bozzano built an interactive map merging data from multiple agencies. We welcome community submissions. www.buffalosfire.com/buffalos-fir...

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Buffalo’s Fire built an interactive MMIP map; now we your help | Buffalo’s Fire

Vital information is often buried, hard to find. We’re asking our communities to send us tips and corrections.

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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 04/05/2026

EXCLUSIVE: In 2023, Vancouver Police Department calls to border enforcement for immigration status checks increased 80% compared to 2022. Even without a pandemic-related drop in 2020-22, the 476 calls in 2023 mark a 40% increase compared to 2014-19. www.defactomedia.ca/vpd-immigrat...

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Vancouver cops are calling border enforcement more than ever. Community members fear that puts them in danger

Migrant sex workers say they're ‘more afraid of police than perpetrators of a crime,’ as new data reveals VPD ‘immigration status checks’ spiked 80% to nearly 1,000 people in two years

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briancbull.bsky.social @briancbull.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This took a lot of time and energy, but thanks to some key sources and Tori’s guidance, it came together. Now it’s time to see what happens in the courts.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A Standing Rock boy emerged from an afterschool program with severe injuries. Student athletes were charged with assault. Our reporter @briancbull.bsky.social spent months on this story, exposing an act of bullying known as "bunning," which simulates sex. www.buffalosfire.com/standing-roc...

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Investigation: Standing Rock High School Student Assault | Buffalo’s Fire

A 14-year-old Standing Rock student was airlifted with severe injuries after an alleged hazing assault. Did school culture allow this abuse to happen?

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

What is up with the Trump administration denying people access to a government website?

Screenshot of DOI website that says "Access Denied"

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan told our reporter ICE is racially profiling Native Americans and needs to get out of Minneapolis. She calls the detention of four Oglala Sioux Tribe members "outrageous and unacceptable." @buffalosfire.bsky.social

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Oglala Sioux Tribe demands release of tribal members in ICE custody - Buffalo’s Fire

OST president warns federal officials of legal consequences for treaty violations, unlawful detention and deprivation of civil rights

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I’m a journalist who has written about policing & PTSD, so when I read that the ICE officer who killed Renee Good previously had been injured on the job, I wondered if ICE had required him to be evaluated for PTSD afterward to make sure he was fit for duty. (1/2)

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If you can, please support non-profit Native-led media.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My 82-year-old father sent me this from Pittsburgh. #NoKings

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My summer archives tour of alt-weekly literary journalism, aka immersion journalism, aka reported longform narrative, 1970s-2001, continues with this astonishment--14,000 unstoppable words from 1999 about brick scavengers by @torimarlan.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/news/brickya...

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Brickyard Blues - Chicago Reader

Numbed by cold, pelted by rain, enduring smashed fingers and toes, poorly paid brick salvagers keep coming back for more.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

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Ethan Cox @ethancox.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Good morning from the campaign trail here on the west coast! Today I’ll be catching up with Green leader Elizabeth May & spending time in her riding. Then tonight I’m hoping to catch up with Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Laurel Collins in Victoria. Stay tuned to @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for more!

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Thrilled to be providing editorial support to this dream team!

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Aren’t they supposed to also outline the steps they’ve taken, and will take, to facilitate his return?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/04/2025

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

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South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Residential street, Victoria, B.C.

Sign on residential street that says Sell Your Tesla While You Still Can

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This 🎯 article by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is one of the best recaps of the COVID reality, how we got here, and what it means for the present & the future: How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world (Mar 10, 2025) healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...

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How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate

Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

No tsunami expected after this morning’s earthquake because the conditions aren’t right? Or because the Trump admin fired the NOAA staff whose job it is to warn us? Genuinely don’t know.

Screenshot of NOAA site saying no tsunami warning

News article about NOAA Trump admin firings

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I've started in a new role as the Guest Managing Editor for Buffalo's Fire, an independent news outlet published by the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance. If you're a freelancer who writes about critical issues affecting Indigenous communities, let's talk. tori at imfreedomalliance dot org

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 24/02/2025

An update to this story, via @torimarlan.bsky.social: Tim Durkin, the Man Who Stole a Hotel, has lost all appeals and is being deported from Canada. A scam artist of epic proportions, a manipulator and liar, and now, a Brit. www.capitaldaily.ca/news/the-man...

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The man who stole a hotel: How Timothy Durkin took control of Sooke Harbour House

A fugitive from the US started fresh on Vancouver Island—then bilked new victims out of millions of dollars while law enforcement refused to act

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Avis Favaro @avisfavaro.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

There’s been so much interest in from US 🇺🇸health workers and jobs in Canada that I’m posting recruitment links for all 10 provinces and 3 territories: 🧵 #healthcarejobs🇨🇦

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

To understand what project 2025 really wants, it is worth understanding a little bit about the history of weather services in the US. Like a lot of US history, it runs through Detroit. 🧵

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

So happy to see this beautiful essay out in the world! I've been working with the author, Robert Lee Williams, through Empowerment Avenue, a nonprofit that helps incarcerated writers place their stories. It would mean a lot to him if you'd give it a read!

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Trumpet Man

A mystery man sporting a salt-and-pepper afro blew a golden trumpet in the prison yard. His tune took me back to the streets.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Okay, friends, here’s my first starter pack of greater Vancouver and Victoria bike, urbanism or otherwise good people go.bsky.app/4gCwdoT

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Great longform journalism on the right to be vaccinated with Novavax in Canada (some people can't tolerate, or prefer not to be vaccinated with, the mRNA vaccines. (free article with email address) theijf.org/no-good-opti...

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No good option: These Canadians want to be protected against COVID but are unhappy with the choice of vaccines this fall

With COVID again surging, the government has taken away the preferred vaccine for some with autoimmune diseases

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Prisoners are reporting physical and psychological effects from the heat. One cell gets so hot in an Alberta prison, the women there refer to it as "The Microwave." But a government policy prohibits the kind of relief they're seeking. My latest for @theijf.org theijf.org/canadian-pri...

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Incarcerated people say they’re boiling inside Canadian prisons. They want relief

A government policy prevents prisoners from having regular access to air conditioning. With extreme heat events becoming more frequent, does that policy need to change?

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Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Half a year after Melissa McDevitt vanished in the woods, her parents still don't know what happened to her. Not a single item of hers has been found. I spoke with them about the search for their daughter, the strangers who've banded together to help, and the new clue that could break open the case.

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New clues help the quest for answers about Melissa McDevitt’s disappearance

The 39-year-old has been missing since Dec. 9 after she embarked on a hike at Sea to Sea park in Sooke

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