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Brooks DeCillia
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Journalist, assistant professor at Mount Royal University, skier, mountain biker. Need help sorting fact from fiction, check out this online misinformation disinformation resource: https://www.mrumisinfo.ca
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 22h
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Liam Johnston died on the job at 27. His loved ones want to see change and accountability | CBC News
The family of a 27-year-old who died on a plumbing job in Calgary say they want to see the company he worked for charged criminally. Advocates have been asking for more prosecutions in workplace death...
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 1d
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Liam Johnston died on the job at 27. His loved ones want to see change and accountability | CBC News
The family of a 27-year-old who died on a plumbing job in Calgary say they want to see the company he worked for charged criminally. Advocates have been asking for more prosecutions in workplace death...
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 2d
“If today we know what is happening in Gaza, Ukraine and every other land bloodied by bombs, we largely owe it to them,” Leo said of journalists.

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 3d
7+ questions for mayoral candidate Jyoti Gondek calgaryjournal.ca/2025/10/11/7...
7+ questions for mayoral candidate Jyoti Gondek
Incumbent mayoral candidate Jyoti Gondek wants to see a new council and a new Calgary through a second term.  Gondek is putting her faith in Calgary’s future and emphasizing the importance of …
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 3d
7 questions for Calgary mayoral candidate Jeromy Farkas calgaryjournal.ca/2025/10/11/7...
7 questions for Calgary mayoral candidate Jeromy Farkas
After serving as Ward 11’s city councillor from 2017 to 2021 and running for mayor in 2021, Jeromy Farkas has once again set his eyes on Calgary’s top job. Farkas says he wants to bring…
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 4d
'Shovel Superman’: Alberta man uses vacation to help clean up floods in Taiwan calgaryjournal.ca/2025/10/11/s...
‘Shovel Superman’: Alberta man uses vacation to help clean up floods in Taiwan
By Nono Shen in Hualien City While many people like to spend their vacations on the beach or at resorts, Jaron Rosso Wiigs of Edmonton used some of his days off to shovel mud after a typhoon in Tai…
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 5d
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Third of Calgarians still undecided as tight race emerges among mayoral front-runners: poll | CBC News
With a little more than a week until election day, the race to become Calgary’s next mayor is wide open, according to a poll done for CBC News.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 5d
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Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says
For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 6d
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2 years into the war, these figures illustrate the scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza | CBC News
For two years, Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have faced unrelenting bombardment, mass hunger and recurring displacement as Israeli fighting continues in the desolate territory.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 7d
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ANALYSIS | Trump's tone shifts on Canada. What does that signal for tariffs? | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke more positively about Canada on Tuesday than he has at any time since winning the election last November, but whether that signals any imminent relief to punishing ta...
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 7d
Our Calgary Journal reporters are covering the civic election. Here’s 7 questions for Calgary mayoral candidate Jeff Davison calgaryjournal.ca/2025/10/08/7...
7 questions for Calgary mayoral candidate Jeff Davison
A born-and-raised Calgarian with a deep-rooted belief in the city’s world-class potential, Jeff Davison’s second run for Calgary’s top job focuses on four key priorities: economic…
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 8d
Advance voting opens for Calgary municipal election calgaryjournal.ca/2025/10/06/a...
Advance voting opens for Calgary municipal election
Advance voting begins for the Calgary municipal election on Monday and Calgarians who are ready to cast their ballot or are unable to vote on Oct. 20 have the opportunity to vote until advance voti…
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 9d
51,000 educators walk off the job across Alberta in historc strike calgaryjournal.ca/2025/10/06/5...
51,000 educators walk off the job across Alberta in historc strike
Schools are empty across Alberta this morning as a province-wide teachers’ strike begins. About 51,000 members of the Alberta Teachers Association (ATA) are on strike. The labour-management d…
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 12d
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Sextorters are targeting young boys online — and flaunting how rich the scam is making them | CBC News
There's a network of overseas scammers targeting and blackmailing teens, and in some cases driving them to suicide within hours of falling into a trap known as sextortion. CBC's Marketplace created fa...
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 12d
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ANALYSIS | Is Mark Carney going to get tied up in pipeline politics? | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's preferred framing for the issue of a new pipline creates a challenge and a potential trap for Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 12d
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The fast and sometimes furious reaction to Alberta's latest push for a pipeline through B.C. | CBC News
After Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced on Wednesday her government's intention to champion an application to the federal Major Projects Office for a new oil pipeline to the northwest coast of ...
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 13d
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Alberta to apply to Major Projects Office for new bitumen pipeline to northern B.C. coast | CBC News
The Alberta government plans to develop and submit a formal application to the federal Major Projects Office for a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest coast of British Columbia.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 13d
Exploring Alberta's larch season at the Arethusa Cirque Route in Kananaskis calgaryjournal.ca/2025/10/01/e...
Exploring Alberta’s larch season at the Arethusa Cirque Route in Kananaskis
As summer air cools down with autumn breath, people from Alberta and beyond explore the Canadian Rocky Mountains in their full gleaming glory.  It’s brief yet beautiful, and a viral environmen…
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 14d
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Jane Goodall, conservationist and chimpanzee researcher, dead at 91 | CBC News
Jane Goodall, the British conservationist and researcher renowned for her work with chimpanzees, has died at age 91.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 14d
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Alberta premier blames Ottawa for Imperial Oil job cuts, but experts say it's a global trend | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Imperial Oil's plan to lay off roughly 20 per cent of its workforce by 2027 is “very disappointing," laying the blame on Ottawa and reinforcing the need to build pi...
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 14d
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Premier's office staffer apologizes for remark he made to teen at Alberta Next panel | CBC News
The moderator of the province's Alberta Next panel has publicly apologized for a remark Premier Danielle Smith has called offensive. Smith now says she considers the matter closed.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 14d
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Nigel Wright, former Harper chief of staff, dead at 62 | CBC News
Nigel Wright, the former chief of staff to ex-prime minister Stephen Harper, has died at 62, his employer said in a press release on Tuesday.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 15d
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Alberta teacher strike likely as ATA members vote down tentative agreement | CBC News
Alberta Teachers' Association members started voting on the tentative deal on Saturday.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 16d
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ANALYSIS | Under Trump 2.0, this looming U.S. government shutdown looks different | CBC News
A shutdown of the U.S. government is looking all but inevitable and there’s growing concern the Trump administration is poised to use it as an opportunity to launch mass firings of federal employees.
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Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social · 17d
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In the High Arctic, Canada's military is preparing for an ice-free reality | CBC News
More than 3,000 kilometres north of the nation’s capital, soldiers, ships and aircraft of Canada’s Armed Forces gathered this week in one of the most remote areas of the country to answer one question...
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