David P Ball
@davidpball.bsky.social
Freelance reporter, podcaster, photog & editor ¶ Co-founder: Debrief Communications ¶ Formerly CBC, TorStar, AFP, Tyee ¶ CAJ+Webster awards ¶ Bylines: Globe & Mail, Le Monde, Guardian, National Post etc ¶ Tips: [email protected]
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David P Ball
@davidpball.bsky.social
· Nov 24
My first @indiginews.bsky.social newsletter
Wrote about Indigenous folks from here who traveled to #COP30 UN climate talks in Brazil—such as Indigenous Climate Action (indigenousclimateaction.com) & a former B.C. Wildfire fighter-turned-Secwepemc firekeeper
Read it here: mailchi.mp/indiginews/e...
Wrote about Indigenous folks from here who traveled to #COP30 UN climate talks in Brazil—such as Indigenous Climate Action (indigenousclimateaction.com) & a former B.C. Wildfire fighter-turned-Secwepemc firekeeper
Read it here: mailchi.mp/indiginews/e...
This story by @crystalgreene.bsky.social is an important angle on what’s happening south of the border now…and how it links together and impacts so many communities
proud to have edited this talented reporter & s/o to photog Chad Davis (@daviss.org)
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proud to have edited this talented reporter & s/o to photog Chad Davis (@daviss.org)
indiginews.com/features/ice...
Across the border, Indigenous fears spike amidst ‘U.S.’ immigration crackdown
With ICE operations, multiple First Nations warn members about travel risks — despite treaty rights. Why Indigenous communities are on the frontlines defending rights for all
indiginews.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
This story by @crystalgreene.bsky.social is an important angle on what’s happening south of the border now…and how it links together and impacts so many communities
proud to have edited this talented reporter & s/o to photog Chad Davis (@daviss.org)
indiginews.com/features/ice...
proud to have edited this talented reporter & s/o to photog Chad Davis (@daviss.org)
indiginews.com/features/ice...
I experienced this pressure constantly in any reporting related to Gaza. Relentless hounding to downplay the medical records as "Hamas-controlled"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Israeli military accepts that 71,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza for first time’
The Israeli government has spent years dismissing the Gaza health ministry’s death toll as ‘misleading and unreliable’
www.independent.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I experienced this pressure constantly in any reporting related to Gaza. Relentless hounding to downplay the medical records as "Hamas-controlled"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
A good start would be to stop gunning down ordinary people you simply disagree with and dehumanize in cold blood. Also... the ... mission itself?
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Live Updates: Trump’s Border Chief Says ‘Improvements Could and Should Be Made’ in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:56 PM
A good start would be to stop gunning down ordinary people you simply disagree with and dehumanize in cold blood. Also... the ... mission itself?
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
“The hospital became a mass casualty zone. We did not have enough of anything … The volume of casualties far exceeded the capacity …
“What took place was far beyond anything the public has been told. And most of it happened in the dark”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
“What took place was far beyond anything the public has been told. And most of it happened in the dark”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous
I’ve worked as a surgeon in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmare I saw in Iran’s hospitals when the state started shooting protesters
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:03 PM
“The hospital became a mass casualty zone. We did not have enough of anything … The volume of casualties far exceeded the capacity …
“What took place was far beyond anything the public has been told. And most of it happened in the dark”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
“What took place was far beyond anything the public has been told. And most of it happened in the dark”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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A US lawyer reveals the sounds coming out of the regime’s concentration camps, where women and children have been kidnapped to, their health and safety status largely unknown. You can hear them begging for help. #3E #GoodvsEvil
January 25, 2026 at 8:39 PM
A US lawyer reveals the sounds coming out of the regime’s concentration camps, where women and children have been kidnapped to, their health and safety status largely unknown. You can hear them begging for help. #3E #GoodvsEvil
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Could it be that assassinating noncompliant progressive protesters is in ICE’s mission?
Hence sending them to Dem-run cities where they know masses will protest
Seems playbook brownshirts-to-SS transition moment (or Proud Boys>ICE). There’s always some “justification“ that in hindsight was lies
Hence sending them to Dem-run cities where they know masses will protest
Seems playbook brownshirts-to-SS transition moment (or Proud Boys>ICE). There’s always some “justification“ that in hindsight was lies
Federal agents had barred state investigators from the scene of Saturday’s shooting in Minneapolis, the head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said, despite the agency taking the rare step of obtaining a search warrant. “We’re in uncharted territory here,” he said. Follow updates.
Minneapolis Live Updates: Videos of Shooting Appear to Contradict Federal Officials
An I.C.U. nurse shot by federal agents was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said. A New York Times video analysis shows he was holding a phone, not a gun.
nyti.ms
January 25, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Could it be that assassinating noncompliant progressive protesters is in ICE’s mission?
Hence sending them to Dem-run cities where they know masses will protest
Seems playbook brownshirts-to-SS transition moment (or Proud Boys>ICE). There’s always some “justification“ that in hindsight was lies
Hence sending them to Dem-run cities where they know masses will protest
Seems playbook brownshirts-to-SS transition moment (or Proud Boys>ICE). There’s always some “justification“ that in hindsight was lies
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America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
January 25, 2026 at 12:22 AM
America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
Videos show Pretti filming federal agents, his right hand holding up his phone, his left hand empty. He was wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers before being shot several times. He was repeatedly shot point-blank in the back
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Man killed in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse Alex Pretti: ‘He wanted to help people’
Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Videos show Pretti filming federal agents, his right hand holding up his phone, his left hand empty. He was wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers before being shot several times. He was repeatedly shot point-blank in the back
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
On not even INVESTIGATING a mom's on-video murder:
Deputy AG: “We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate. And that is not the case here. It was not the case when it happened and is not the case today"
His dept instead investigating victim's partner
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Deputy AG: “We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate. And that is not the case here. It was not the case when it happened and is not the case today"
His dept instead investigating victim's partner
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:32 AM
On not even INVESTIGATING a mom's on-video murder:
Deputy AG: “We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate. And that is not the case here. It was not the case when it happened and is not the case today"
His dept instead investigating victim's partner
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Deputy AG: “We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate. And that is not the case here. It was not the case when it happened and is not the case today"
His dept instead investigating victim's partner
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I gathered 12 of our most inspiring/impactful stories from 2025 at @indiginews.bsky.social
Will you help support this incredible, hard-hitting newsroom led & run by Indigenous women?
There’s one day left in our $20,000 Firekeepers campaign, and we’re 75% there! It’s not too late…but ends tomorrow!
Will you help support this incredible, hard-hitting newsroom led & run by Indigenous women?
There’s one day left in our $20,000 Firekeepers campaign, and we’re 75% there! It’s not too late…but ends tomorrow!
The Academy Awards. Reporting at the UN. Healing horses. Three generations of salmon-protectors. Multiple awards. IndigiNews reflects on our biggest stories of the year.
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Looking back at 2025: A year of powerful Indigenous storytelling
The Academy Awards. Reporting at the UN. Healing horses. Three generations of salmon-protectors. Multiple awards. IndigiNews reflects on our biggest stories of the year
indiginews.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I gathered 12 of our most inspiring/impactful stories from 2025 at @indiginews.bsky.social
Will you help support this incredible, hard-hitting newsroom led & run by Indigenous women?
There’s one day left in our $20,000 Firekeepers campaign, and we’re 75% there! It’s not too late…but ends tomorrow!
Will you help support this incredible, hard-hitting newsroom led & run by Indigenous women?
There’s one day left in our $20,000 Firekeepers campaign, and we’re 75% there! It’s not too late…but ends tomorrow!
“We hoped and believed such a thing could never happen here. It can”
So sickened to wake up to antisemitic horror on the 1st day of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights
“Ahmed el Ahmed…fruit shop owner, tackled [a gunman] from behind, pulling the gun” away
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
So sickened to wake up to antisemitic horror on the 1st day of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights
“Ahmed el Ahmed…fruit shop owner, tackled [a gunman] from behind, pulling the gun” away
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
‘This is not the Australia I know’: How brave victims saved those around them
As a pair of gunmen unleashed hell at Bondi Beach, brave Sydneysiders defended their loved ones and passing strangers.
www.smh.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“We hoped and believed such a thing could never happen here. It can”
So sickened to wake up to antisemitic horror on the 1st day of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights
“Ahmed el Ahmed…fruit shop owner, tackled [a gunman] from behind, pulling the gun” away
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
So sickened to wake up to antisemitic horror on the 1st day of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights
“Ahmed el Ahmed…fruit shop owner, tackled [a gunman] from behind, pulling the gun” away
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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SCOOP: Simon Fraser University insists that its new medical school, the first to open in Western Canada in 55 years, is so new and different that its collective agreement with the SFU Faculty Association doesn't apply.
Read more @pressprogress.ca
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Read more @pressprogress.ca
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SFU Wants Only Non-Union Faculty at New Medical School
Simon Fraser contends that the med school is so new and different that its existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply
pressprogress.ca
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
SCOOP: Simon Fraser University insists that its new medical school, the first to open in Western Canada in 55 years, is so new and different that its collective agreement with the SFU Faculty Association doesn't apply.
Read more @pressprogress.ca
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Read more @pressprogress.ca
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B.C. emergency management:
• Access between Lower Mainland and Interior closed
• Nooksack River topped its banks around 2pm, water going across border to Sumas prairie
• Rainfall in Fraser Valley now easing up
• Nooksack flows expected to peak ~10pm, hold til 4-6am, then decline
• Access between Lower Mainland and Interior closed
• Nooksack River topped its banks around 2pm, water going across border to Sumas prairie
• Rainfall in Fraser Valley now easing up
• Nooksack flows expected to peak ~10pm, hold til 4-6am, then decline
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
B.C. emergency management:
• Access between Lower Mainland and Interior closed
• Nooksack River topped its banks around 2pm, water going across border to Sumas prairie
• Rainfall in Fraser Valley now easing up
• Nooksack flows expected to peak ~10pm, hold til 4-6am, then decline
• Access between Lower Mainland and Interior closed
• Nooksack River topped its banks around 2pm, water going across border to Sumas prairie
• Rainfall in Fraser Valley now easing up
• Nooksack flows expected to peak ~10pm, hold til 4-6am, then decline
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BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford.
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Today on #GivingTuesday, we call on our Firekeepers to help us reach the goal of raising $20,000 by 11:59pm PST, December 31, 2025.
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Will you help us tend to the fire?
IndigiNews is launching a fundraising campaign to support our storytelling into 2026
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December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Today on #GivingTuesday, we call on our Firekeepers to help us reach the goal of raising $20,000 by 11:59pm PST, December 31, 2025.
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I've been so honoured to help the editing team at @indiginews.bsky.social since 2024
Today on #GivingTuesday, we call on our community of Firekeepers to help us reach the goal of raising $20,000.
THANK YOU for supporting Indigenous-owned and -run media!
Today on #GivingTuesday, we call on our community of Firekeepers to help us reach the goal of raising $20,000.
THANK YOU for supporting Indigenous-owned and -run media!
Will you help us tend to the fire?
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December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I've been so honoured to help the editing team at @indiginews.bsky.social since 2024
Today on #GivingTuesday, we call on our community of Firekeepers to help us reach the goal of raising $20,000.
THANK YOU for supporting Indigenous-owned and -run media!
Today on #GivingTuesday, we call on our community of Firekeepers to help us reach the goal of raising $20,000.
THANK YOU for supporting Indigenous-owned and -run media!
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
My first @indiginews.bsky.social newsletter
Wrote about Indigenous folks from here who traveled to #COP30 UN climate talks in Brazil—such as Indigenous Climate Action (indigenousclimateaction.com) & a former B.C. Wildfire fighter-turned-Secwepemc firekeeper
Read it here: mailchi.mp/indiginews/e...
Wrote about Indigenous folks from here who traveled to #COP30 UN climate talks in Brazil—such as Indigenous Climate Action (indigenousclimateaction.com) & a former B.C. Wildfire fighter-turned-Secwepemc firekeeper
Read it here: mailchi.mp/indiginews/e...
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My first @indiginews.bsky.social newsletter
Wrote about Indigenous folks from here who traveled to #COP30 UN climate talks in Brazil—such as Indigenous Climate Action (indigenousclimateaction.com) & a former B.C. Wildfire fighter-turned-Secwepemc firekeeper
Read it here: mailchi.mp/indiginews/e...
Wrote about Indigenous folks from here who traveled to #COP30 UN climate talks in Brazil—such as Indigenous Climate Action (indigenousclimateaction.com) & a former B.C. Wildfire fighter-turned-Secwepemc firekeeper
Read it here: mailchi.mp/indiginews/e...
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I used to be a weekly listener to this show and I'm not sure why I stopped because every time I roadtrip I listen and it is still producing amazing stuff. This episode found a relatively benign yet overall far more devastating way to tell the story of how ICE is impacting families
In every house, behind every closed door, a private drama is unfolding. In the Rivera house, the drama comes in the form of a question: should they stay or should they go?
Under One Roof
What’s great about living in a family is that everyone sees everything differently. Also, that’s what’s awful about living in a family. We go behind closed doors with two families. Visit…
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I used to be a weekly listener to this show and I'm not sure why I stopped because every time I roadtrip I listen and it is still producing amazing stuff. This episode found a relatively benign yet overall far more devastating way to tell the story of how ICE is impacting families
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
May 16, 2023 at 10:51 PM
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
“indigenous territory is sacred. Enough of the invasion and disrespect“
“No to predatory tourism in the territory of the Munduruku people.”
“We don’t negotiate the lives of our children”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“No to predatory tourism in the territory of the Munduruku people.”
“We don’t negotiate the lives of our children”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop day 5 live: Indigenous activists blockade the summit centre as climate conference continues
As the climate conference goes into its fifth day, with huge amounts still unresolved, there were reports that activists had blockaded the entrance to the centre
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“indigenous territory is sacred. Enough of the invasion and disrespect“
“No to predatory tourism in the territory of the Munduruku people.”
“We don’t negotiate the lives of our children”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“No to predatory tourism in the territory of the Munduruku people.”
“We don’t negotiate the lives of our children”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Incredible digging by CBC’s Visual Investigations team. Uncovering todays white supremacist movement in Canada
And I recognize names in here from my own 2011-12 reporting on a violent fire assault on people of colour in East Van. Still nazis apparently
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
And I recognize names in here from my own 2011-12 reporting on a violent fire assault on people of colour in East Van. Still nazis apparently
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Incredible digging by CBC’s Visual Investigations team. Uncovering todays white supremacist movement in Canada
And I recognize names in here from my own 2011-12 reporting on a violent fire assault on people of colour in East Van. Still nazis apparently
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
And I recognize names in here from my own 2011-12 reporting on a violent fire assault on people of colour in East Van. Still nazis apparently
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
More "great" policing, even when victims are the Environment Minister they're dismissed - provincial Crown prosecutors decided no charges should be laid against Keon Woronuk, Derek Riddell and Joel Odorski
Now she's suing
Now she's suing
A Lethbridge police officer searched Shannon Phillips on database after overhearing the 'tail end' of a conversation
Provincial Crown prosecutors decided no charges should be laid.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Provincial Crown prosecutors decided no charges should be laid.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Lethbridge officer searched ex-Alberta MLA on database after overhearing 'tail end' of conversation: report | CBC News
After "completely unsatisfying" investigation outcome and no criminal charges, Shannon Phillips plans to continue with lawsuit against her city's police.
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
More "great" policing, even when victims are the Environment Minister they're dismissed - provincial Crown prosecutors decided no charges should be laid against Keon Woronuk, Derek Riddell and Joel Odorski
Now she's suing
Now she's suing